[Lazamataz]

If Ziglar was speaking to the ACLU, it is obvious he was a Clinton holdover. If he wasn't, Bush has more problems than I originally thought.

[L,TOWM]

commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from August 2001 to November 2002

That time frame suggests against Mr. Zigler being a holdover...

[Miss Marple]

Stealth Clintonista, Laz. Here is his biography, from his nomination (and let's remember this nomination was done before 9/11 and while Daschle had just become majority leader through weasel tactics):

Ziglar was elected as the 35th Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in October 1998. Prior to his election, he served as Managing Director of Paine Webber Incorporated in the firm's Municipal Securities Group. He was a member of the Paine Webber Operating Committee, the Municipal Securities Group Executive Committee and served as the Chairman of the Municipal Securities Group Operating Committee. During that time, Mr. Ziglar had responsibility for the National Infrastructure Finance Group and the West Coast General Markets Group.

In addition to his 23 years in the public sector finance industry, he has worked in various capacities of the federal government. He served as Assistant Secretary of Interior for Water and Science from 1987 to 1988, where he directed the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines. He served a member of the Senior Advisory Group on Water Governance of the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and was the joint recipient of the Water Statesman of the Year Award from the National Water Resources Association in 1988.

Looks to me like he is a career guy and perpetual bureaucrat.

[robowombat]

Ziglar was virtually a spokesman for 'open borders' immigration. He had zero background for INS Commissioner but was selected to pander to the Hispanic lobby and demonstrate the administration's disinterest in doing anything to control the border. This was back when Bush was contemplating another 'amnesty' for illegals. 9-11 made Ziglar a liability and led to his removal. The administration is still comitted to doing little to stop the flow of illegals and instead just figures all of us are terrorist suspects (no profiling of Arabs now that would offend the 'Religion of peace' and the Bush family's Saudi friends.) The same out of control situation prevails on the Tx-Ariz-Ca border and the flood of illegals pretty much unabated. Ziglar just had to big a mouth and was to attached to libertarian sloganeering on immigration to last.

[Guillermo]

Is he from the same INS that issued a visa renewal to Mohhamed Atta 6 months to the day after the attack?

[Spook86]

Ziglar is an absolute incompetent; if I'm not mistaken, his last job before INS commissioner was Sergeant at Arms for the U.S. Senate, a cushy, political appointee position with a nice salary and no real responsibility, other than calling a car for Senator Kennedy when has a little too much Dewar's.

Under Ziglar's "leadership," INS did little to close the loopholes exposed after 9-11. His resignation as INS director was demanded, and rightfully so. At least he found the "right" audience as a speaker; I can't think of any organization--aside from the ACLU--that would actually applaud his drivel.