There are a couple choices today given the Auditor General’s findings, but the absolutely FEMA like organization of the CPA is stunning.
The Death of Policy
One former CPA employee who had an office near O’Beirne’s wrote an e-mail to a friend describing the recruitment process: “I watched r?sum?s of immensely talented individuals who had sought out CPA to help the country thrown in the trash because their adherence to ‘the President’s vision for Iraq’ (a frequently heard phrase at CPA) was ‘uncertain.’ I saw senior civil servants from agencies like Treasury, Energy . . . and Commerce denied advisory positions in Baghdad that were instead handed to prominent RNC (Republican National Committee) contributors.”
We’ve seen it at Treasury with Paul O’Neil. We’ve seen it with Faith Based Initiatives with DiIulio . We’ve seen it at FEMA. We’ve seen it with Zoellick. We saw it at the CIA.
Yet, we get the Whitehouse and personnel treated as serious people. Why?