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Finally someone is talking of making the various bureaucratic departments of the Executive Branch more accountable to the Presidential Administration rather than the innate culture that tends to make the Executive Branch Departments a fiefdom in which the career Civil Servants may undermine Administration Policy.
This has plagued President Bush particularly in the State Department and the CIA. If they don’t like the boss’ political agenda they merely defy it by throwing a monkey wrench into the political cogs to thwart the Policy in some way.
Unfortunately that “someone” is a member of a think tank rather than the government powers that actually can bring reform. Helle C. Dale writes of a Commission that was set up just for this purpose; however the Commission’s only power is that of the ink and quill of recommendations.
JRH 12/21/07
This has plagued President Bush particularly in the State Department and the CIA. If they don’t like the boss’ political agenda they merely defy it by throwing a monkey wrench into the political cogs to thwart the Policy in some way.
Unfortunately that “someone” is a member of a think tank rather than the government powers that actually can bring reform. Helle C. Dale writes of a Commission that was set up just for this purpose; however the Commission’s only power is that of the ink and quill of recommendations.
JRH 12/21/07
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