Instead, he appointed a chief executive of a new Noms, whose role is identical to that of the commissioner of corrections, a post that existed from 2001 until the introduction of Noms in 2004 - namely the director of the prison and probation services.
The handful of full-time posts that exist are often, understandably, snapped up by internal candidates who are already familiar with the system – which, by the way, creates another pressure to stay in a job, on a zero-hours contract, where you can't pay your bills, because maybe, one day, it'll be you.
Holdren made little news, although he announced his intention to fill the four associate director posts that existed during the Clinton Administration before his predecessor, John Marburger, eliminated positions covering the environment, and national security, and international affairs.
Now, in Chris Grayling, we have a lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice whose main qualifications for a post that has existed for 1,400 years are that he is perceived to be right-wing and once shadowed prisons.
I think the real comparison is with the situation that existed earlier in the post-Soviet era.
The scenario is as improbable as Corbyn's supporters deciding they will vote for Owen Smith because Smith has said he would make their hero the party president, a post that does not exist.
Mr Sharpton was more interested in "riling up the masses" than in pondering the truth of her accusations.He is also competing for a post that no longer exists.
Is that a category that exists?
It's a reality that exists.
"There is a gaping hole that exists.
