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It is called *burrowing*: outgoing presidents can make political appointees into civil servants if the transition is going to include a party change. Then, the burrowers, who are at minimum middle managers, hire more of the same, who are then also civil servants.

IMO, we can't do anything about it and neither could W.

While every administration does this and it was done under Reagan, as well, I read in *American Evita* that Hillary's 36,000 FBI files were mostly on people from the Bush41 and Reagan administrations. That means the research reached down pretty far. I suppose one has to look at the high and zero-profile government workers who resigned under Clinton to get an idea of how many of ours were gotten rid of and then look at the same in the past 4 years to see what we managed to get rid of. Easier to look at theirs, since if anyone over department manager level resigns under an R administration, it is used as a weapon against the administration and the one resigning is portrayed as having had their principles (LOL) violated.

The person spamming me w/*inside info* is relying on low level employees w/tenure from little-known or discussed departments at State: there is a department that is in charge of the properties owned by foreign governments, for example and probably others I have no clue about.

Since I am not answering this individual, they are becoming rather desperate and I keep hoping they will have something at some point that is of real value. So far, that hasn't been the case, IMO. It has all seemed like contrived leaks, to me.