Category: Executive Branch

Using the Clinton administration as a benchmark, how is the Obama administration doing in terms of the number of donors and bundlers appointed to ambassadorships?  Al Kamen reports. Clinton tended to pick people with experience in public policy — if not international policy — for the important embassies.

This morning’s Post examines how Pentagon employees accepted travel from foreign governments and companies. Rome, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Las Vegas were among the destinations. Travelers ranged from four-star officers – one was then-Adm. Dennis Blair, now the Obama administration’s director of national intelligence – to junior enlisted troops. The Defense Department is allowed […]