The incompetent, the corrupt, and the criminally negligent

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and disgraced FEMA head Michael Brown are starting to look like the lucky ones in this administration. They might have been thrust into the national spotlight only to be exposed as complete nimrods, but they don't appear to be facing any charges.

Not so with the latest vanishing appointee-- Ken Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation foor Public Broadcasting on a mission of introducing right-wing shows is apparently going to have an encounter with the law. Kinda like Libby, Frist, DeLay, and who knows who else.

WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting broke federal law and repeatedly violated the organization's rules and code of ethics in his efforts to promote conservatives in the system, an endeavor that included consultation with White House officials, according to the findings of an internal investigation made public Tuesday.

The 67-page report — the culmination of a six-month investigation by Kenneth A. Konz, the corporation's inspector general — portrays former Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as a rogue appointee who often exceeded his authority in his determination to address what he viewed as a liberal tilt in public broadcasting.