Pine Bluffs Post - Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908

Since the founding of the United States of America our government agencies and departments have remained largely apolitical. That means they haven’t been used by the political party currently in power as a weapon against another political party or against political adversaries. That doesn’t mean that individuals haven’t engaged in criminal activities in the name of politics, only that the agencies and departments have not. The Watergate scandal under President Nixon is a relatively recent and often referred to example. But that was not government agencies.

That all changed under the...