It seems no one is happy with the independent report commissioned by the Justice Department on its hiring practices and diversity initiatives. The Justice Department has censored most of it by blacking out huge portions, including the principal findings and all recommendations.

Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, who was in charge of the diversity initiative, didn't like the report:

There were some things in there that as an African-American that I maybe didn't agree with," said Thompson, who recently left Justice for the Brookings Institution. "And there were other things that I didn't think we could do from a legal standpoint."

People for the American Way and other civil rights advocacy groups were less than thrilled as well. It seems the initiative was flawed from the get-go when Ashcroft and Thompson decided to add two categories to the study--economic and geographic background. Rather than promoting ethnic and minority diversity, those categories ended up "extending attorney outreach to many others, including white men."