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Clinton refused to let the FBI vet most of his appointments. Most of them refused drug testing as well.
On the other hand, my hypothetical resume - qualified IAW N/S 0989-028-5000 - is meaningless. Which is the greater injustice?
Respect is due only from peers and earned. On the 'net, no one knows you're just another @$$h0!e. See my dot.sig.
Interesting article. I wonder how she got that first job at the White House under Clinton. Was she connected to an FOB (Friend of Bill's)?
Thank God for whistleblowers like Wainwright. This investigation was long overdue.
I finished a med school in Mexico. It was a tuff week.
I can tell you from personal experience it takes years of hard work, doing required research papers and then a formal thesis to get a Masters' Degree from an accredited university. There is no shortcut to academic excellence. People who claim they can do it in two or three years are kidding. It took me the full seven years, plus a granted one semester extension, to complete the requirements. I don't claim to be a Doctor but I can claim to have legitimate academic credentials. The question naturally arises: why can't government employees?
Good Grief...This is OUTRAGEOUS!
scary! I wonder how this Mrs. Calahan got her job in the first place? Political spoils from someone?
It's all Bush's fault - he should have check up on this as soon as he stepped into that oval office! I'm sure he must have known about this!
Great find and very interesting.
Fraud by the incompetent. Who'd a thought!
And a coverup by the bureaucracy. Another huge surprise. I'm sure "national security" and Political Correctness will ensure that this crook, not only gets away with her crimes, but gets to keep all the money she stole over the last couple of years.
It's easy to expose these people, as the article describes.
Similarly, it's easy to debunk people who claim degrees from actual institutions. Call the registrar at that school and ask. They will tell you whether someone graduated or not.
It's easy, but I don't know if employers or supervisors ever do it. Same thing with a DD 214. Either in my resume or at an interview I offer to make it available; no one's wanted to see it since I got it (12 years ago).
Fascinating stuff. This is a good example of why I visit Freep every day.
Thank you.
One problem for the honest people working for the government (and there are honest people there) is that the management decisions made by these charletons are never reviewed after they are caught.
That means that each and every fellow idiot they promoted remains in place, frequently in a sensitive position, the budget continues to go down, and any regulations they approved continue to harrass the taxpaying public.
It's not enough to catch these guys ~ more has to be done. Denny Hastert and George Bush have to start giving a d*mn*d. A nice executive order that requires a thorough review of crooked careers would be a good start.
Oh, yes, one more item ~ it's frequently the case in the federal government that a job standard will include the phrase "has a college level understanding" of something or other. This has never been enforced, and probably can't be. All it takes is an executive order to state "has graduated with a degree in so-and-so from a school which has accredation recognized by the such and so department". Then, begin removing all the folks who DON'T have such degrees from those jobs.
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Excellent post!
Time to dump Civil Service completely and go back to patronage. It was more honest and competent.
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