[Freedom is eternally right]

It is amazing how many analysts and attorneys Clinton granted civil service designation.

GAO Report on change of Status to Political Appointments

[kabar]

Interesting link and good catch on the GAO report. The political appointee positions are listed in the Plum Book

It is quite revealing that the Justice Department had 13 of the 57 career positions that were filled by political appointees who converted to career employees. Most were done in 1999 and 2000. It would be interesting to conmpare this with other Presidents.

Positions that arouse some curiousity: Deputy Director of Counterintelligence in DOE; Immigration Judge, DOJ; Assistant U.S. Attorney U. S. Attorney’s Office – Eastern Division, New York, DOJ; Senior Advisor to the Director Executive Office for Immigration Review, Office of the Director, DOJ; Director, Office of Environmental Justice Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance, EPA; Director of Defense Procurement, Acquisition & Technology Office of the Under Secretary of Defenseand Chief, DOD; and State/USIA Branch, OMB.

The scandals at DOE including the Wen Ho Lee case, the fact that Gore was getting immigrants naturalized so they could vote, and the fact that the US Attorney's Office in New York was involved in investigating Clinton scandals could be linked to the reason why these appointements were made. Some of the other SES positions would provide an excellent source of information on what the Bush administration was doing.

It would be a useful exercise to see how many of these people are still in place.

[betty boop]

It is amazing how many analysts and attorneys Clinton granted civil service designation.

Oh my oh my oh my, JaneAustin. Talk about feathering one's nest on leaving office (aside from stealing the White House silver), for the purpose of ensuring that one's perfidies performed in office are not exposed to the public. Fifty-seven career appointments is a very large number of political appointees to be smuggled into career service by E.O. of an outgoing president, whose status is binding on the next administration....

But then the guy was, is, and always will be a crook seeking to exploit the system to his own advantage.... It's a game with him, you see, a challenge to be "won."...

Thanks for this shocking news. Am going to bed now. Thank you, Jane Austin! [Who is, BTW, one of my favorite authors of all time.... I'll think of Elizabeth and Darcy before I go to sleep tonight, just to stay in touch with reality/sanity....)

[Just mythoughts]

Great link and appears that there were at least a couple of Republicans concerned with the Clintons leaving their prints. I suspect that these were to help 'algore' when he won that 2000 election as much as curse President Bush when it was he that won.