A Well-Deserved Bonus for Finding bin Laden
Containing TRICARE Hikes
USPS Changes Consolidation Schedule
Summer Jobs With the Government
Mental Illness Hospitalizing Troops
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
Fedblog
Hatch Act: Not Front Page News
Yesterday wasn't one of the great days in the history of political-career relations, was it? The revelation that the Office of Special Counsel has concluded that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act didn't even make the front-pages. It got pushed off by the testimony of Monica Goodling, a senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who told the House Judiciary Committee that she had used political criteria in evaluating applicants for career Justice Department positions. Best quote from the Washington Post account of her appearance: "I do acknowledge that I may have gone too far in asking political questions of applicants for career positions and may have taken inappropriate political considerations into account on some occasions. I regret these mistakes."
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
