This admin has a "director for lessons learned" earning $100,000/yr.

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DUer Contrary1 posted this yesterday, but my mind boggled over this so thought it should receive wider viewing... Is this Orwellian or what?
And what, pray tell, lessons will we see have been learned for the approaching hurricane season?

Newsweek: "Gifts: Thanks So Much!"

"July 24, 2006 issue - President George W. Bush's top aides got $4,200 raises last year, according to a list of staff salaries just released by the White House. Seventeen senior aides, including chief of staff Josh Bolten, political guru Karl Rove, spokesman Tony Snow and counsel Harriet Miers, now command $165,200 a year. Bush himself makes $400,000. The bottom of the pay scale: $30,000 a year for aides who catalog gifts and handle mail. The list includes some vague titles like "confidential assistant" and "supervisor of search and file." Records show Stuart Baker, a policy chief at the Homeland Security department, was paid $100,000 as "director for lessons learned." A White House spokesman told NEWSWEEK the title refers to the administration's study of its handling of Hurricane Katrina. (On the House floor, Democrat Rahm Emanuel called on Bush to hire a "director of irony.")

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13880042/site/newsweek /