I AM UTTERLY STUNNED - AT 7:14 A.M. ET:  In doing my research sweep this morning, I came across this:

This will be my last column for the L.A. Times. After four years, I'll soon be starting a stint at the Pentagon as an advisor to the undersecretary of Defense for policy.

The passage was written by Rosa Brooks, hard leftist columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and daughter of leftist author Barbara Ehrenreich.  Brooks has been a standout on the left, a lawyer/journalist, professional Bush basher, far to the left of most liberals.  She is director of Georgetown Law School's Human Rights Center.  She used to work for a George Soros organization.  She also worked for Harold Koh, the Yale Law School dean, currently nominated to be State Department legal adviser, who believes we should subordinate ourselves to international law. 

She will be in the Pentagon?  Don't you feel safer?

A wise observer said, when Obama started naming Cabinet officials, that those people didn't matter.  It was the troops at the mid-level who carried out policy.  So far this administration has appointed the most extreme mid-level staff in memory, especially in the Justice Department. 

I just hope Brook's appointment is just a political payoff for work done during the campaign, and that she will be ignored.

April 10, 2009