Re: Wow -- eye-opening

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Brock N. Meeks" <bmeeks () cox net>
Date: November 13, 2008 11:41:38 PM EST
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] WORTH READING  Wow -- eye-opening

Well, if Rahm Emanuel had to fill out that questionnaire I’ll kiss  
your butt in the town square and give you an hour to draw a crowd.   
Rahm may have sat down with a couple lawyers and verbally answered  
some questions, but there’s no file folder holding all his electronic  
correspondence.

It’s my guess that these applications are aimed at under-secretary  
jobs, jobs that are just important enough that if some dirt were  
kicked up it could reflect back on the White House; these are jobs  
Obama will be counting on others to make recommendations for.  He  
probably won’t even met half the people that fill these jobs.

And it’s not just these high level jobs that run a candidate through  
the ringer.  During the gap between my leaving my job at MSNBC and  
taking my current position with the Center for Democracy and  
Technology, I applied for a job as a State Dept. to be a Public  
Diplomacy Officer in Iraq, I had to fill out two questionnaires with a  
hundred questions apiece.  They didn’t ask for diaries or online  
communication, but just about anything was fair game.





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