The President-Elect means business:
Facing two wars and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Obama will have to hit the ground running when he takes office, amid global and domestic expectations that he will swiftly institute a slew of landmark changes.
Obama's transition team announced Wednesday that former Clinton administration officials, ambassadors, top business leaders and lawyers would head up the teams setting up in the Treasury, State Department and Pentagon.
No stone will be left overturned [sic], and even the nooks and crannies of the White House will be probed with the 450-strong transition team set to scour more than 100 departments and agencies, his team vowed...
The teams will be in place by the end of the week, and will gather enough data to ensure that from day one, when Obama takes over from President George W. Bush, his cabinet picks can "begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in." --AFP
This is what it looks like when the adults are in charge. What a difference an election makes.
I can only shudder at all the atrocious policies and directives the Review Team will uncover which will need immediate revision/reversal, given that the Bush Administration oversaw the biggest governmental catastrofrak and abuse of power ever.
Oh, and Review Team? Don't forget to scour those "missing" White House e-mails:
With two-and-a-half months remaining before the Bush administration leaves office, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that two private groups may pursue their case as they press the government to recover millions of possibly missing electronic messages...
CREW and the National Security Archive want a court order directing the archivist of the United States to initiate action through the attorney general to restore deleted e-mails...
Meredith Fuchs, the National Security Archive's general counsel, said that because of the ruling, a court order directing the White House to preserve 65,000 computer backup tapes remains in place.
A White House document obtained by The Associated Press in August says the White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating to 2003.
Sheila Shadmand, a Washington lawyer representing the National Security Archive, said the ruling enables protection of records "before they get carted off or destroyed as the current administration packs its bags to leave." --MSNBC
Update: Digg here.