Truss also sat on powerful cabinet bodies including the national security committee and the "razor gang" that shapes budgets.
The researchers were particularly shocked to discover that the apparent top evictor has a seat on Mayor Libby Schaaf's "housing cabinet", a body dedicated to promoting equity and affordable housing in an increasingly unaffordable city.
Mr Johnson, the London Mayor, is expecting to be given a full briefing of the finalised deal at a meeting of the "political cabinet" – a body specially created for him to attend while he remains outside the full cabinet – on 23 February, following the EU summit the week before.
These rules literally mean that a person could hang on as Labor leader and as prime minister even if every member of cabinet, the body that should be the most powerful and collegiate in the country, has decided that person was no longer capable of functioning as prime minister.
The Bush administration pushed aggressively for passage of the Law and in February 2007, it passed Iraq's cabinet (a body appointed under what is viewed as a process highly influenced by the Bush administration and which includes the Oil Ministry), only to be rejected by an Iraqi Parliament elected by a public vehemently opposed to the occupation.
One officer on the trip described Hillary Clinton, then the Secretary of State, as the most strategic thinker, "by a factor of ten," on Obama's Principals Committee, the main cabinet-level body that deliberated on foreign policy.
The most likely explanation is that President Obama never carefully discussed or specifically approved the E.U. bugging, and that no cabinet-level body ever reviewed, on the President's behalf, the operation's potential costs in the event of exposure.
Approval by a cabinet-level body is required for every international staff member to be posted in Myanmar.
And advertisments for the latest addition to the well-groomed male's medicine cabinet -- deodorant body sprays -- are about to begin bombarding consumers.
