Facebook doesn’t care if its highest execs are die-hard republicans or hard-core democrats, as long as they hold a degree from Harvard.

The L.A. Times’ tech blog reported Monday that the Palo Alto, California-based start-up had hired Ted Ullyot as its top legal advisor.

Mr. Ullyot served as chief of staff to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and as clerk to extra-conservative Justive Antonin Scalia before being hired by Kenneth Starr at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis--Mr. Starr is notorious for his “Starr Report,” which nearly led to President Clinton’s impeachment.

In his new role at Facebook Mr. Ullyot will be joining Elliott Schrage, Facebook’s vice president of communications and public policy

“Ted has extremely strong connections with the Republican party, and we think that’s a good thing,” Mr. Schrage told the L.A. Times.

Mr. Schrage’s remark could strike as banal wasn’t it for his humanitarian work along such groups as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the Human Rights Watch, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial to investigate allegations of human rights abuses around the world, among other humanitarian efforts.

All of which tend to place Mr. Schrage more on the left, than on the right on the political spectrum.

At Facebook, Mr. Ullyott will also rub shoulders with Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer, a former chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton, the same President that Mr. Ullyott’s mentor, Mr. Starr, tried to get ride of at all costs.

Despite their political differences, the three Facebook execs might still be able to connect and make small talks about their time at Harvard University.

Five weeks and a day before D-Day, it is hard to tell whether the social-networking giant, who counts over 100 million users, is blatantly apolitical or if it is making a deliberate bipartisan claim. One thing though is certain, and it is the startup’s allegiance to Harvard University.

Republicans or Democrats who cares, seems to say Facebook, as long as you are a Harvard Alumnus. A consensus maybe explained by the fact that both Facebook’s founder and co-founder briefly attended the Ivy League school before moving to the Silicon Valley to pursue their idea.

A good move, which proves that one doesn't always need a pompous degree to do well.