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DHS overflowing with political appointees.

Job openings at the Department of Homeland Security “have increasingly been filled by ‘GOP fundraisers or apparatchiks…sent to pad their resumes or cool their heels,” a new National Journal report finds. According to a “2006 survey of more than 10,000 DHS employees, two-thirds would not agree with the statement that ‘arbitrary action, personal favoritism and coercion for partisan political purposes are not tolerated’ at the department.”

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