Are you sitting down? The Specter staffer who inserted the clause into the Patriot Act giving the president new power to by-pass the Senate in appointing U.S. Attorneys ... was rewarded by becoming a U.S Attorney! Karen Tumulty has more here and here.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/03/the-case-of-brett-tolman/230233/
