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I'm way behind on my reading and not sure if this was posted yet
But here is a good find by Sam Hill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1620009/posts?page=29#29
To: MNJohnnie; Howlin; kcvl; Mo1
I’m wondering if McCarthy wasn’t a political appointee (short termer), who then got transformed into a permanent bureaucrat by Clinton, right before he left office?
It sure sounds like she might have been:
Her appointment by Berger:
News from the USIA Washington File
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/06/98061701_tpo.html
Article on the Clinton miracle:
Insight on the News: Hey, Orkin Man! - political appointees becoming part of the bureaucracy
http://www.looksmartbonds.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_39_16/ai_66356292
“Between October 1998 and June of this year, 57 people appointed to their high positions by the White House, usually because of their ideological affinity with the president, underwent sudden, seemingly miraculous, transformations into professional civil servants, according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) study. Although not unknown during other administration changeovers, the practice of “burrowing-in” is being watched closely by some on Capitol Hill who worry not only about whether it’s unfair to career civil servants and violates merit-system protections but whether the lingering presence of such moles might not leave an indelible ideological stamp on the supposedly nonpartisan machinery of government.”
29 posted on 04/23/2006 4:52:23 PM EDT by Sam Hill