Kennedy in Vanity Fair
Robert Kennedy, Jr. has an article in this month's Vanity Fair on my favorite subject, corruptionand cronyism in the Executive Departments. Here's the teaser:
Texas Chainsaw Management
Spinning the revolving door between government and business as never before, the White House has handed more than 100 top environmental posts to representatives of polluting industries. The author provides a biographical sampler -- and describes a devastating rollback of three decades of progress.
In Kennedy's analysis, he lists a "dirty dozen", his assertion of the twelve worst top Administration officials. Not surprisinly, he lists some of my favorites from Interior and Justice: Steve Griles, Gale Norton, Bill Myers, Lynn Scarlett, Rebecca Watson and Tom Sansonetti. However, he left out the man I consider to be the most dangerous official most people have never heard of: James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior. The position never existed prior to 2001, and Cason, despite being the number 3 man at Interior for the last six years, was never confirmed by the Senate.
I've been planning on writing up Cason for some time now. In light of Johnnie Burton's "retirement", I guess I'll get down to it today.
