https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/politics/michael-ellis-resignation-nsa/index.htmlMichael Ellis was appointed to be the top NSA lawyer right before Trump left office. It was a blatantly partisan move done at a sufficiently unusual time as to raise eyebrows, but sufficiently common that there is a name for the practice:
burrowing.
He was placed on administrative leave on the first day of the Biden administration, pending completion of a DoD investigation and has been on that same leave for 90 days, now, without any discussion or direct involvement in the investigation, he says.
He's resigned.
I hate the ability of an outgoing president to appoint people to such positions in that way. I think it's wrong and any appointments to civil service positions after one has lost an election should automatically be temporary.
That said, I think this freezing of a man's life by an incoming administration without apparent cause other than politics for an ostensibly non-political position is at least equally problematic.
Not that my opinion matters a can of beans.
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