You obviously need to find a better avenue to spend your time. This particular law is a great prosecution tool and without it I can tell you from experience there would be a lot more drug dealers roaming the streets.
The ex-White House aid is a guy named John Dilulio> he ran the Faith Based and Community Initiatives office, there is no indication in the article why he was canned, but it all reads as sour grapes and him wanting to grasp the limelight