Bush used recess appointment to install crony as head of Immigration

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/politics/08myers.html?ex=1294376400&en=86803cdf70e14226&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Democrats Criticize Appointment at Immigration Agency

By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Published: January 8, 2006

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Senate Democrats this week sharply criticized President Bush's decision to install Julie L. Myers, a White House official, as head of the nation's immigration enforcement agency despite concerns on the part of some about her qualifications for the job.

Julie L. Myers before the Senate Judiciary Committee in October.
Ms. Myers, a 36-year-old lawyer, will be sworn in on Monday. She currently serves as the president's special assistant for personnel and previously worked as an assistant secretary at the Department of Commerce. She has never managed a large department or dealt extensively with immigration issues.

When Mr. Bush nominated Ms. Myers last year, Democratic and Republican senators raised concerns about her lack of experience, and her Senate confirmation appeared to be in doubt. Some critics said they feared that her political connections, rather than her qualifications, had driven the decision to select her to lead the bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has 15,000 employees and a budget of about $4 billion.

On Wednesday, Mr. Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and used his power of recess appointment to install Ms. Myers as director of the bureau, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. The department's secretary, Michael Chertoff, praised Ms. Myers, saying that she possessed "the experience, judgment and determination" necessary for the job.

how long before the bureau has its first major scandal because she's at the helm? Let's just hope it's not something that gets people killed.

they learned their lesson... ah, nevermind they never will.

idiotic, inept, DEADLY, person involved in the * cabal. I had 'inconsequential' as an adjective, but that didn't work. He got lots of people killed.

I don't want to hear anymore blaming of the "left" when illegal immigration rockets out of control.

This Myers bitch is going to be another Michael "Brownie" Brown

from SourceWatch:

"Her qualifications for running an agency with more than 20,000 employees and a $4 billion budget include serving as an associate counsel under Kenneth W. Starr; in that job, she helped mastermind the costly and doomed prosecution of Susan McDougal, and was outwitted at every turn by the defense lawyer Mark Geragos..."

"'It appears she's got a tremendous amount of experience in money laundering, in banking and the financial areas,' said Charles Showalter, president of the National Homeland Security Council, a union that represents 7,800 ICE agents, officers and support staff. 'My question is: Who the hell is going to enforce the immigration laws?'," the Washington Post reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901930_2.html).


more at link ...


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Julie_L._Myers

"She is a niece of Gen. Richard B. Myers, who recently stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the wife of John Wood, Mr. Chertoff's chief of staff."