Resigned, Quit, Fired, Retired, Reassigned, Forced Out, Leaving or Gone

Slamming Dubya is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. But without making any comments or judgments, it seems to me an interesting idea to list all the "casualties" of the George W. Bush Administration. I'm just going with a simple list of name, position and how and when they left. Feel free to take this idea a run with it. Correct me, add to the list and comment. Maybe the whole idea is pointless. Maybe there have been other administrations with more?

• Richard Clarke: the president's chief adviser on terrorism on the National Security Council -- Quit, January 2003
• Paul O'Neil: Secretary of the Treasury -- Fired, December 6, 2002
• Flynt Leverett: A Senior Director for Middle East Affairs on President Bush's National Security Council (NSC) -- Resigned/Fired, 2003
• Ben Miller: CIA staffer and Iraq expert with the NSC -- Resigned/Fired, 2003
• Hillary Mann: foreign service officer on detail to the NSC as the Director for Iran and Persian Gulf Affairs -- Resigned/Fired, 2003
• Larry Lindsay: "top economic adviser" -- Fired, December 2002
• Ann Wright: A career diplomat in the Foreign Service and a colonel in the Army Reserves -- Resigned, March 19, 2003
• John Brady Kiesling: Political Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece -- Resigned, February 27, 2003
• John Brown: veteran of the Foreign Service, who served in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev and Belgrade -- Resigned March 10, 2003
• Rand Beer: National Security Council's senior director for combating terrorism -- Resigned, March 2003
• Anthony Zinni: special envoy to the Middle East (from November 2002 to March 2003) -- Failed to be reappointed, 2003
• Eric Shinseki: the Army's chief of staff -- Retired, June 2003
• Karen Kwiatkowski: A Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force who served in the Department of Defense's Near East and South Asia (NESA) Bureau -- Retired, July 2003
• Charles Jack Pritchard: the State Department's senior expert on North Korea and special envoy for negotiations with that country -- Resigned, August 2003
• Major (then Captain) John Carr and Major Robert Preston: Air Force prosecutors -- Requested and granted reassignment, 2004
• Captain Carrie Wolf: Air Force officer and also asked to leave the Office of Military Commissions -- Requested and granted reassignment, 2004
• Colonel Douglas Macgregor: U.S. Army officer -- Retired, June 2004
• Paul Redmond: Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security -- Resigned, June 2003
• John W. Carlin: Archivist of the United States -- Resigned, December 19, 2003
• Susan Wood: Food and Drug Administration's Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health and Director of the Office of Women's Health -- Resigned, August 31, 2005
• Frank Davidoff: internal medicine specialist on the FDA's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee -- Resigned, September 2005
• Thomas E Novotny: deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services -- Resigned, August 1, 2001
• Joanne Wilson: commissioner of the Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) -- Quit, February 8, 2005
• James Zahn: "nationally respected microbiologist with the Agriculture Department's (USDA) research service" -- Resigned, May 2002
• Teresa Chambers: U.S. Park Police Chief -- Fired, July 2004
• Martha Hahn: Idaho state director for the Bureau of Land Management -- Resigned, March 6, 2002

Note: There are 12 more names, mostly lower level jobs -- from the likes of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, the EPA, the Army Corp of Engineers and the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee -- that are going to be omitted. For more meaning and context see Nick Turse's detailed article "Casualties of the Bush Administration". Let the list continue.

• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby: Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney -- Resigned, October 28, 2005
• Dan Bartlett: Counselor to the President -- Announced resignation, June 1, 2007
• Andrew H. Card, Jr.: the President's first Chief of Staff -- Resigned, March 28, 2006
• Jack D. Crouch II: Assistant to President and Deputy National Security Advisor on the National Security Council -- Departed (to spend more time with family), May 2007
• William K. (Bill) Kelley: Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President in the Office of Counsel for the President -- "will return to his teaching job at Notre Dame at the end of [June 2007]."
• Scott McClellan: White House Press Secretary -- Resigned, April 19, 2006
• Ari Fleischer: White House Press Secretary -- Resigned, May 2003
• Harriet Ellen Miers: White House Counsel -- submitted resignation, January 5, 2007
• Robert J. Portman: Director of the Office of Management and Budget -- Resigned, June 19, 2007
• Megan O'Sullivan: Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan -- announced resignation, April 2, 2007
• Paul Wolfowitz: President of the World Bank -- Resignation effective June 30, 2007
• Sara Taylor: Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs -- Resigned, 2007
• Claude A. Allen: Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy -- Resigned, February 9, 2006
• Donald Rumsfeld: Defense Secretary -- Resigned, December 18, 2006
• Porter Goss: CIA Director -- Resigned, May 5, 2006
• Jay M. Garner: Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq -- Replaced by L. Paul Bremer, 2003
• George Tenet: CIA Director -- Resigned, June 3, 2004
• Tom Ridge: Secretary of Homeland Security -- Submitted resignation, November 30, 2004
• John Danforth: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- Resigned, January 2005
• John Bolton: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- Resigned, December 9, 2006
• Walter Scheib III: White House Chef -- Fired, February 2005
• Jim Nicholson: Secretary of Veterans Affairs -- Submitted resignation, July 17, 2007
• David Wurmser: Cheney’s chief adviser on Middle East affairs -- Announced resignation, July 24, 2007
• Karl Rove: Deputy Chief of Staff -- Resignation effective August 31, 2007
• Wan J. Kim: head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division -- Announced resignation, August 23, 2007
• Peter Pace: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- expected to step down on September 30, 2007
• Alberto Gonzales: Attorney General -- Resignation effective September 17, 2007
• Tony Snow: White House Press Secretary -- Resignation effective September 14, 2007
• Jack Goldsmith: Assistant United States Attorney General -- Resigned July, 2004
• Mike Johanns: Agriculture Secretary -- Resigned September 20, 2007
• J. Scott Jennings: Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs -- Resignation announced, October 2007
• Karen Hughes: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State -- Announced resignation, October 31, 2007; effective December 2007
• John Kneuer: Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration -- Resignation announced, November 9, 2007
• Frances Townsend: Homeland Security Advisor -- Announced resignation, November 19, 2007
• Al Hubbard: National Economic Council chairman -- Announced resignation, November 2007
• Michael Guest: Ambassador to Romania, appointed by President Bush -- (On December 4, 2007 the New York Times reported that Guest had retired from the State Department)
• Howard J. "Cookie" Krongard: Head of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State -- resignation effective January 15, 2008
• Candida Perotti Wolff: Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs -- Resigned December 28, 2007
• Deborah Platt Majoras: Federal Trade Commission Chairman -- Resigned late March 2008
• Admiral William Fallon: Commander of the U.S. Central Command -- Announced Resignation, March 11, 2008
• Alphonso Jackson: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development -- Announced Resignation, March 31 2008
• Lurita Alexis Doan: Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration -- Resigned April 29, 2008
  

[Main Sources: TomDispatch.com and SourceWatch.org]

-Dippold

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