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...Interior Department has had a rape and pillage attitude over the past eight years," says Buccino. "Salazar will bring a different approach." Even critics of the new Secretary can agree on one thing about the cowboy-hat-wearing nominee: he can't possibly be worse...
...Salazar is a hat guy, and he donned his trademark Stetson on Wednesday during his introduction as Secretary of the Interior-designate. It was a sartorial gesture that seemed both an expression of his down-home persona and a reminder that he hails from the wide-open spaces he's now charged with managing. At Interior, Salazar, a first-term Democratic Senator from Colorado, will be charged with the critical role of mapping out policies that strike a balance between preserving America's natural resources and tapping them for energy and recreational purposes...
...tall task, and one he must accomplish without being dragged down by a department beset by scandal and dysfunction. "Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior," Earl Devaney, the department's inspector general, testified before Congress in September 2006. While Salazar drew praise from representatives of the oil and mining industries as well as some conservationists, his appointment disappointed a cadre of environmental groups and prominent scientists, more than 100 of whom had signed a petition urging President-elect Barack Obama to tap Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva. Salazar seemed...
...interested in the job, and why Obama was so willing to hand it to him, is something of a puzzler ... The Interior secretary has almost no national profile and the position is hardly one that an ambitious politician would aspire to. It's the perfect job for a politician who wants to live comfortably - and wouldn't mind being forgotten by the general public." -New York Observer...
...Iraq is a country with many problems, and the travails of one angry journalist can't distract people from government corruption, the absence of basic services and the continuing bombings and suicide attacks. The arrests of dozens of officials in the Interior and Defense ministries - allegedly for plotting the overthrow of Maliki's government - have already replaced Zeidi as the biggest story of the week. Baghdad is awash with rumors of an impending coup...