Mark E. R. Kleiman Quotes

Compare this quotation with {632899}. Most members of Congress had limited management experience and the only solution to an organizational problem was to fire people. The referenced quotation has people fired for the purpose of inspiring public trust; in this quotation, it is to trigger reform and change. Ironically, there is no evidence in the management literature that suggests that firing for either of these reasons will have the desired objective.

The Congress was in a hyper-partisan gridelock and was unable to pass most legislation.

Dulles was a master of fending off calls for CIA reform. In this case he pretended to look for another agency to take over covert operations, but found in each case that they could not keep secrets well enough. In the 21st century, the CIA was still handling covert operations and have relinquished nothing.

In retrospect Eisenhower may have been responsible for not firing Alan Dulles early in his first administration as was recommended—{634616}

Silberman-Robb WMD Commission

We shall have a system where When Roosevelt became Police Commissioner, virtually every appointment, promotion, and disciplinary action was controlled politically. Nothing could be more shocking to the police and the politicians than Roosevelt’s statement. But he implemented that policy and the result developed into the finest urban police department in the country. The political influence however returned a few decades later.

This was one of the worst Congresses in American History and had the worst productivity record—passing very few bills, and none of any significance. The anti-government, Tea Party hyper-conservative Wing of the Republican Party intimidated the Speaker of the House and they were opposed to any compromise at all on anything.

At the time, the public was learning much about the behavior of police officers in terms of police brutality, irresponsible use of lethal force, racism with a spate of unarmed black males shot dead by police officers across the country. There were national calls for reform—better training, change of police culture, more accountability, body and video cameras, college education required for police officers, and civilian review boards. This particular policy union took the position that these were just a few bad apples that should be dealt with but there was no need for reform of the police profession in general they claimed, Other police unions, and just about every other component of society was demanding reform. Despite objections from the largest single police union, reforms were made, but they slowed done the process in many common cities.

He was referring to the fact that President Elect, Donald Trump, who argued against the findings of the CIA and the FBIK who in separate analyses had stated that Russia had hacked into the computers of the DemocraticNatonal Committee and released the private e-mails in the midst of the 2016 Presidential election. Trump, who had a track record of rejecting scientific and professional studies and research in favor of his own perception and intuation, was one of teh few leading politicans, computer security experts, and business leaders who opposed a Congressional investigation of the details.

The National Park Service had traditionally estimated the crowd sizes of Washington DC events and protests and mad them public, After the Donald Tump Inaguration, they followed the usual procedure using the Internet and tweeting the size of the crowd. Howevert, the resultrs showed that the crowd for the Trump inaguaration crowd size was smaller than that of Barak Obama and even George W. Bush. Trump, very sinsitive to any thing that he believed diminished him, then as one of his early adminsiotrative acts as Chief Executive, ordered the the Park Service to stop doing any indpendent tweeting or other public statemetns about crowd size, He was particualry worried that the Women's March the Next Day would show the protesting women outdrawing his inaguaration. Baltz was specualting with other political journalists and pundits on how the Park Service bureaucracy would react to the heavy censorship over relative trivia imposed by the new president.

Commenting on the lack of coordination of information and intelligence between and among the different law enforcement agencies in the Parkland, Florida school shooting case.