According to the organization's official website, some of these early founders are now senior appointees in the Bush Administration.

And Mr. Clinton's other senior appointees have the know-how to put it into practice.

The article notes that the lawyers' position was overruled by senior political appointees in the Justice Department.

President Bush today asked for the resignation of all Cabinet members, agency heads and senior political appointees immediately after the election.

The announcement will be made officially after the routine and time-consuming process of formally vetting senior appointees is completed.

White House personnel officials said they did not yet see a trend in which senior political appointees were procrastinating over their departures.

We are told that Presidents can no longer be trusted to insure that their senior appointees obey the criminal laws.

They report to senior political appointees at the Treasury Department, and rarely make major decisions without high-level consultations.

If the White House's figure of 360 is used, about two-thirds of the senior appointees have not been confirmed.

Although Brooklyn has made some progress since those embarrassments of last year, longtime senior appointees still stand in the way of reform.