By Paul Kiel December 31, 2007, 11:20AM
Boy, was it time for an update.
Late last year we decided to take stock of all the Bush Administration officials who'd been accused of corruption and/or resigned in the face of scandal. Although we had fun doing it, we altruistically started the project in order to help our friends at
Powerline, who professed an inability to think of any Bush officials beset by scandal.
This year´s result, which built on Justin Rood´s
original gem, is, like
our catalog of the administration´s efforts to disappear information, a staggering monument to the Bush Administration. And it wouldn't have been possible without TPM's research hounds, Adrianne Jeffries, Andrew Berger, and Peter Sheehy.
A quick note on methodology. Since a complete catalog of administration officials who've been accused of some form of corruption or abuse of power would be endless, we tried to maintain a high standard for inclusion. Most of those below were the subjects of criminal probes, but we also included officials who were credibly accused of acts that, if not criminal, were a corruption of office (like the U.S. attorney scandal). And even then, such officials were only included if their accusers had them dead to rights (which is why Karl Rove didn't make the cut). We also limited ourselves to officials who were either political appointees or whose actions were so political that they were effectively political appointees (like John Tanner).
Enjoy:
Indicted / Convicted/ Pled Guilty* Eric G. Andell - deputy undersecretary in charge of newly created Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (previously senior adviser to Secretary of Education Rod Paige) <...>
* Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy <...>
* Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA <...>
* Brian Doyle- Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Homeland Security <...>
* Steven Griles - Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department <...>
* John T. Korsmo – Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board from 2002 to 2004 <...>
* Scooter Libby - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff <...>
* David Safavian - former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget <...>
* Robert Stein - former comptroller and funding officer for the now disbanded Coalition Provisional Authority, Southern Central Region in Al-Hillah, Iraq <...>
* Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department <...>
Resigned Due to Investigation, Pending Investigation or Allegations of Impropriety* Philip Cooney - chief of staff, White House Council on Environmental Quality<...>
* George Deutsch - press aide, NASA <...>
* Michael Elston - chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty - <...>
* Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo - appointed executive director of the CIA, the agency’s third-highest post, in October 2004 <...>
* Alberto Gonzales - former Attorney General <...>
* Monica Goodling - former Justice Department liaison to the White House and senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales <...>
* Michelle Larson Korsmo - deputy chief of staff, Department of Labor - <...>
* Howard "Cookie" Krongard - former State Department inspector general<...>
* Julie Macdonald - former deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks at the Interior Department <...>
* Paul McNulty - Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice<...>
* Richard Perle - Chairman, Defense Policy Board <...>
* Susan Ralston< - assistant, White House <...>
* Janet Rehnquist - inspector general, Department of Health and Human Services <...>
* James Roche - secretary, U.S. Air Force <...>
* Kyle Sampson -former chief of staff for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales - <...>
* Joseph Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense <...>.
* Bradley Schlozman - resigned from his third and final post with the Justice Department after accusations of actively politicizing the department.<...>
* Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - <...>
* David Smith - deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks, Interior Department <...>
* John Tanner - Voting Rights Section Chief, Justice Department <...>
* Sara Taylor - Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs at the White House, where she was Karl Rove´s top aide <...>
* Ken Tomlinson- Board Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; member, Broadcasting Board of Governors <...>
* Carl Truscott - Director, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau - resigned. <...>
* Paul Wolfowitz - World Bank President <...>
Nomination Failed Due to Scandal* Linda Chavez - nominated, Secretary of Labor <...>
* Timothy Flanigan - nominated, Deputy Attorney General (also Alberto Gonzales’ top deputy at the White House) <...>
* Bernard Kerik - nominated, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security <...>
* William Mercer - the former associate deputy attorney general and US Attorney for Montana <...>
* Hans von Spakovsky - Commissioner, FEC <...>
Under Investigation But Still in Office* Stuart Bowen - Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) <...>
* Lurita Doan - Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration <...>
* Alfonso Jackson- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development <...>
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