Found on page 7, section 1 of my morning newspapter (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less experienced political operatives who share the White House and Pentagon's distrust of international negotiations and treaties.
The reorganizaton of the department's arms control and international security bureaus was intended to help it better deal with 21st century threats. Instead, it's thrown the agency into turmoil and produced an exodus of experts with decades of experience in nuclear arms, chemical weapons and related matters, according to 11 current and former officials and documents obtained by Knight Ridder
The reorganization was conducted largely in secret by a panel of four political appointees. A career expert was allowed to join the group only after most decisions had been made.
(The moral of this story is: Send a check to your favorite Democratic candidate. Send it now. Wear you shoe leather off in his/her behalf. Do it now.)