[bvw]

This is just the apex of tenured "Civil Service" -- that Clinton/Reno et alia were involved is coincidental. If not them it would have been some other administrators so allowing the waters of tenure to seek their lowest point.

Now, Mr. Bush has in his Homeland Security proposal, in that new agency, as I understand, some exemption from such tenure, to be able to remove civil service employees. If that is so, and can get passed, it is perhaps worth the whole new department.

[Reo]

".....that Clinton/Reno et al were involved is coincidental."

To me the article seems to indicate more than coincidental involvement. Why do the great intelligence collection downgraders like Frank Church, Stansfield Turner, John Deutsch, Reno, & Freeh, all occur under Dem auspices? It's part institutional, but also part Dem emphasis and ignorance.

[meenie]

There are political employees that have no civil security tenure that have mismanaged their affairs with no consequences. Don't expect too much from the newer model of Homeland Offense.