![]() ![]() ![]() Culpable too are “political leaders of both parties” for their “longstanding failure … to guide agency decision making in accordance with the law and to hold civil service members accountable for their job performance.” Bernhardt doubts the bureaucrat read the law she was charged with implementing, but she alone is not blameworthy. ![]() Bernhardt’s greatest concern regarding civil service: “employees who advocate for their own pet cause rather than serving as neutral, technically competent administrators … faithfully executing the authority that Congress … granted to the secretary of the interior.” Bernhardt, who regularly engaged department employees at headquarters and in the field, when he asked what she did. “I speak for the mice,” one bureaucrat answered Mr. ![]()
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