The Office of the Special Council (OSC) has drafted a report concluding that Lurita Doan, the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), the government agency responsible for service, supply and real estate contracts, violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits certain government officials from entering into partisan political activity.
In other words, she broke the law.
OSC confirmed Doan asked other GSA employees to think how their agency could help "our candidates," following a 2006 PowerPoint presentation by the White House political office on Republicans in tight congressional races, sources told ABC News.
If you think you've been seeing an awful lot of stories lately about Bush Administration appointees being investigated, prosecuted, or jailed...well, you're right. Associated Press has released a list of Bush appointees who have left office in disgrace and/or are under investigation.
Below I've listed just the names and positions of the Fishy Fifteen. Take a look at the article for complete descriptions of each appointee's personal scandal. Some of them you've definitely heard of - others might come as new information.
- Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to VP Dick Cheney
- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
- Paul Wolfowitz, current president of the World Bank and former deputy Defense Secretary
- J. Steven Griles, former deputy Interior Secretary (Abramoff alert!)
- David Safavian, former OMB administrator
- Roger Stillwell, former Interior Department official who worked on Marianas Islands issues (Abramoff alert!)
- Sue Ellen Wooldridge, former Justice Department prosecutor
- Matteo Fontana, Department of Education official
- Claude Allen, former domestic policy adviser to the President
- Philip Cooney, former chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality
- Darleen Druyun, former Air Force procurement officer
- Eric Keroack, Deputy Assistant Secretary at HHS
- Lurita Doan, General Services Administration head
- Robert Cobb, NASA Inspector General
- Julie MacDonald, Fish and Wildlife Service head