Obama’s Other Audacious Stealth Appointment

Conn Carroll / July 07, 2010

Health care rationing czar Dr. Donald Berwick may be stealing all the headlines, but he is not the only bureaucrat President Barack Obama is forcing on the American people without proper Senate review. Unlike Dr. Berwick, at least the Senate got the opportunity to question President Obama’s new associate director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, Phillip Coyle.

Coyle’s new title may have the word “science” in it, but he is in fact the “high priest” of missile defense denialism. At National Review Online, Foreign Policy Initiative executive director Jamie Fly wrote back in March: “Coyle made a name for himself by questioning whether missile defense is technically possible, contradicting a proven track record of repeated successes by the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency.” (more…)