The Wrong Questions

Sometime GovExec contributor and longtime public service expert Paul Light had a nice column in Newsday Sunday on the John Bolton situation. On the form Bolton had to fill out before he was nominated, Light notes, "none of the more than 200 questions asked about Bolton's definition of leadership, his approach to managing people, problems he might have had with subordinates, his commitment to public service, his definition of ethical conduct, or his own supervisory behavior."