(Also unclear why he would have been released)
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-education-chief-linda-mcmahon-rep...
More seriously, I have worked for a few years as a consultant in upper government and here's how it works: the upper levels of government know what they're doing. But there is a level where it switches from career bureaucrats to appointees and elected officials. You can CLEARLY tell exactly where this line is without having to look anything up). You can also clearly tell by the pay. The difference between levels is like 10-30% per level, then the level where it switches to mostly appointees there's a 200% jump and then a 500% jump where it switches to elected officials. Or that's how it works in the EU.
Did you know that most governments have strict pay levels? Which suck for any position other than parliamentarian or government minister, and even there ... Which has the funny consequence that as a EU safety inspector, the director level (which is an appointed position) you make more than the German chancellor. Not too far from the French president either (not including side benefits, like the housing). Which I guess it what leads to people like the current French president, because the idea that he wants that position for the prestige, or out of patriottism is just completely absurd. One can wonder what the guy does want. But, I guess the same is true of Trump ...
And this high level of pay have _no_ impact on corruption. Zero. None. In my experience, it's the opposite even.
Bureaucrats keep saying 'i don't think that's a good idea, let's ask the experts we hired what they think' and the elected/appointed official say 'lets do it anyway, my friend as SAP/Atos say we're good'.
French are the worst also, but maybe because I feel like Atos is the worst company that ever existed and appointed officials call them for everything. You want some subvention? Use 85% of it to buy their bullion shit, as well as their service contract (which is them basically sending mails to redhat because they're incompetent fucks). They hire incompetent at all levels. The few who aren't probably leave early.
> He has since evidently been released from custody and returned to Israel.
That is a terrifying level of criminal impunity. If I was an Israeli citizen, I wouldn't feel very safe knowing these sorts of people are protected by the government.
So this guy was involved in the investigation with someone aged 15 or younger
Neither flagged but also not returned by search. Unclear why.
