Duties of the #3 at DoJ

[underpants]

-Hiring and firing of US Attorneys and noncareer senior executive service candidates
-basic liaison between DoJ and the White House
-E-mailing and coordinating morale boosters (not known to include picking up the cake).

Tax money well spent, no?

My basic job responsibilities fell into three categories.

The first was hiring of political appointees.I spent a lot of time doing interviews for what we call Schedule C, for noncareer senior executive service candidates.

And I wasn't the only one that would do those.Obviously, the component head that would be ultimately hiring the person would also interview.They would have interviews at the White House, and in some cases with Mr. Sampson as well.

So I was one of maybe three or four people evaluating everybody coming in, or considering coming into the department.And so that personnel work took a lot of time.

I also served a basic liaison function that related to information.You know, for example, The president's going to be on travel here, or we would pass over, The attorney general's going to be on travel here -- just information requests that would go back and forth relating to what the White House had going on or what we had going on -- report-type things along those lines.

And then the third thing -- which took a fair amount of time, actually -- was a lot of what we would call morale-boosting for employees, and, kind of, internal communications.

Oftentimes, the White House would have bill signings, or Marine One would be landing or taking off or there would be an opportunity to see the champions of the Stanley Cup come to the White House.And so I would spend -- I mean, several times a week send an e-mail to appointees and say, Hey, who would like to go to the White House and see X, Y and Z?And we would gather their names and Social Security numbers and dates of birth and transmit that down to the White House so that appointees could have the opportunity to do those sorts of things.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/goodling_testimony_052307.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. So, that's where they get those crowds of cheering people for

his photo op sessions. And now we know who Bush is waving at everytime we see him getting on or off the helicopter. They are all getting their regular morale boost.

Now, if these are government employees and they are doing this type of activity during their regular work hours, does this mean that the taxpayers are picking up the tab for Bush to have a fan club?

[underpants]

2. There is also the part about writing op-eds

I have looked through that transcript twice now but can't find it.

Goodling said that one of the duties that US Attorney had or had done was to write good op-eds and to coordinate when the AG shows up at an office. You know set out the napkins and such.