No one EVER IS. It's really high time for Congress to repeal all of our civil service laws, and give the Executive the power to purge all of the chaff out of their departments. It's quite obvious that we're hastening our own destruction with such blatant bureacracy and incompetence as our Federal government shows these days.
(Notice that none of the lynx biologists, nor the spotted owl researchers were fired for THEIR lies and deception either?)
:) ttt