Utne: A Dirty Dozen: Sub-cabinet policy operatives actually run government

"Wheeze! Hack! Gasp! Gag! Bleeeeecch!
If America's air, water, global warming, and other enviro policies seem to you like they're coming right out of a corporate smokestack, that's because they are.
Bush has not merely put our government in service to polluters and plunderers, he has put it directly into their hands. It's not just a matter of the corporate-hugging, cabinet-level sparklies at the top of Washington's environmental pyramid -- Gale Norton (Interior), Mike Leavitt (EPA), Spencer Abraham (Energy), Ann Veneman (Ag). Rather, the daily dirty work is being done by dozens of industry no-names, trusted lobbyists, and ideological hacks whom Bush has installed in key positions deep inside the innards of the pyramid, where they quietly but zealously are re-engineering the flow of national policy from pure public protection to poisonous private profits."