Yesterday I wrote a post noting an item in the Washington Whispers column discussing likely candidates to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. You may have noticed that the Republican list did not include the current Deputy Attorney General, James Comey. Why? Well, Orin Kerr has a post on the Volokh Conspiracy today that I think says all you need to know about how people rise to the top of the Bush administration - it's not competence (given who holds senior posts in the DOD it's CLEARLY not competence), it's loyalty. And it seems that Comey has "erred to much on the side of neutrality".
Posted by armand at October 19, 2004 03:59 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics