Carmona's term expired over the weekend with no announcement from the Health and Human Services Department. The department did send out an internal memo from Assistant Health Secretary John Agwunobi saying he regretted Carmona's term was up, and on Monday a letter Carmona wrote to his fellow officers of the U.S. Public Health Service began to circulate on Capitol Hill.
More smoke and mirrors.
It is a four year term: 2002 +4 ='s 2006
Senate Confirms Carmona as Surgeon General
NewsMax.com Wires
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
WASHINGTON By a vote of 98-0, the full Senate Tuesday confirmed Richard H. Carmona as U.S. surgeon general.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/23/144124.shtml