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staffing, bush style

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David Niewart questions L’ Jean Lewis’s appointment as Chief of Staff of the Defense Department’s inspectors general office as follows:

It should be clear that any normative candidates for top staffing positions at any Inspector General’s office should be persons with spotless records and unquestionable reputations for professionalism, ethical behavior and personal integrity. That someone like L. Jean Lewis even made it past the door raises serious questions about just what standards were used. This goes well beyond mere cronyism.
Second: At no point in her career as a low-level RTC investigator did Lewis exhibit any level of managerial capability. Nowhere in her resume is there even an inkling that she possesses any personnel-management skills. What in God’s name could have qualified her to, out of the blue, rise through the ranks to suddenly oversee a staff of 1,240 people?
The only real quality that L. Jean Lewis exhibited at the RTC was her naked, almost psychotic eagerness to participate in partisan skulduggery.

David, in his usual thorough style, has multiple posts and lots of detail. See more at Atrios, Seeing the Forest, and many others.
If you aren’t already up on this story it will not make your day.
Via The Sideshow.

Where is America Headed?

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As a follow up to last night’s Late Night Reading take a look at Doug Giebel’s article Ending America as We Know It which opens:

The neo-conservative Bush Administration “plan” to remake our American nation intends to alter forever the relationship between government, business and the people.

In the summation to his arguments Giebel asserts:

Americans are being played for suckers by a carnival of macho scam artists, the likes of which this nation has never before experienced.

You read it, you judge.
Via Talkleft.

Late Night Reading

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I’m tired and not doing much reading tonight but I did read through some 9/11 material. Mostly the stuff that conspiracy theory fans would like. Check them out…it appears that there are a few open questions:
Part 3 of Keith Quinnels Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented.
Tom Gevaert’s A Comedy of Errors — Airspace Security on 9/11.
Skippy and Spadehammer ask questions about 9/11.
September 11: Minute by Minute.
Good Night!