Quoted from the House Committee on Homeland Security: July 9, 2007 - Committee on Homeland Security, identified in a staff report that nearly one quarter of the senior leadership positions located in the Department of Homeland Security are vacant. The overall senior leadership vacancies, termed "executive resources," total 24%, and refer to positions in the highest salary bands (including political appointments) of the Federal government. In addition to the critical leadership vacancies, the report finds that an unusually high number of critical national security jobs at the Department of Homeland Security are filled by political appointees. This identifies an enormous...