Center for American Progress, April 21, 2010 by Anne Joseph O’Connell
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/04/waiting_for_leadership.html

This report offers politically feasible recommendations for both the White House and Senate, though these recommendations will take some real effort by the political branches. The White House and the Senate will have to make compromises—potentially more careerists in political positions and fewer holds on agency nominees, respectively, for example. But compromises are necessary to have a functioning and accountable modern bureaucracy.

KPIX, CBS5, January 9, 200 by Hank Plante
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=44302@kpix.dayport.com

“They have their work cut out for them,” says UC Berkeley Law School’s Anne Joseph O’Connell, who has written extensively on the intelligence community. “I think it definitely is a time for a new direction after this administration’s actions. The county’s reputation has suffered in terms of world opinion.”

NPR, News & Notes, Nov. 20, 2008 by Farai Chideya
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97260899

“I think every outgoing president—Republican or Democrat—wants to extend his administration’s reach, so in the final months we see an attempt at locking in controversial policy decisions. Even if some of these decisions can be undone, the effort that the new administration has to put into undoing them prevents the new administration from starting their own regulatory agendas.”