NPR is pointing out that a number of highup apptees at State Dept

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attrition due to not wanting to be a part of the admin? Or yet another purge (to get more toadies in and/or to further weaken the State Dept)?

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1. as Jonathan Alter pointed out on Imus just now---the WH is inoculating

itself from prosecution.-----getting rid of people. replacing with loyalists and cronies.

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2. By pushing out folks who can testify against them? They are fools

and desperate.

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3. They may be planning more crimes and need untainted perps

I'm with most of America. I wish the Bush Mis-Administration was over already.

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4. Seems like they are trying really, really hard

to do as much damage as possible to our system of govt - before they are inevitably stopped.