**Posted by Phineas
Presented without further comment:
The PJ Tatler has obtained documents [1] from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have “psychiatric disabilities [2]” or “severe intellectual disabilities.” On May 31, 2012, Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez issued a directive to affirmatively recruit people with these “targeted disabilities.”
This DOJ policy [1] does not merely involve prohibitions against discrimination, but rather the documents reveal deliberate recruitment efforts to hire as attorneys and staff for the Department of Justice people suffering from psychiatric disorders and intellectual disabilities. Moreover, applicants can “self-identify” their disability by means of the “Standard Form 256, Self Identification Disability.”
Those with “targeted disabilities” may be hired through a “non-competitive” appointment. That means they don’t have to endure the regular civil service competition among applicants, but can be plucked from the stack of resumes and hired immediately instead.
So much starts to make sense, now… 
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Read the rest at PJMedia [4].
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [5])