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Bush defies Congress with new appointees

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES The US president's recess appointments placed a number of controversial allies in key positions, thereby avoiding potential problems in the Senate

AFP , WASHINGTON

Little experience

The 36-year-old lawyer from Kansas lacks significant management experience, her critics said, but has the distinction of being a niece of the former chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Richard Myers, who retired from the Pentagon last year.

Even The National Review, a leading conservative mouthpiece that infrequently disagrees with Bush, claimed last September that Myers' appointment "smacks of cronyism."

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