[Travis McGee]

Top federal executives from the president on down enjoy using underlings who are "Peter Principled" yes men with lots of skeletons in their closets. They can be depended on to follow orders blindly, no matter how absurd or dangerous.

A 9-11 may happen because of the proliferation of these numbskulls in key positions, (see the Minnesota memo, I refer to the unnamed FBI HQ Supervisory Special Agent who repeatedly spiked the computer search warrant), but the more important factor to their bosses is their bulldog loyalty and zeal to follow orders, even to march off of a cliff. (Or order others to march off a cliff.)

This "leadership" trait of placing blindly loyal idiots in key firewall positions is a central part of my novel.

[goldstategop]

Here's the killer question for Freepers: why would President Bush appoint a Clinton apparatchik like John "No Draw" Magaw to head the Transportation Security Administration? Inquiring minds want to know.

[jokar]

This "leadership" trait of placing blindly loyal idiots in key firewall positions is a central part of my novel.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Meet the new boss same as the old boss. You know if I close one eye and look real close at the target bush looks a hell of a lot like klinton.