Daniel Pipes corrects 'Bush Fails to Renominate Pipes to Institute of Peace"
www.danielpipes.org/blog/166

Reappointment to the U.S. Institute of Peace? The Forward carries a
decidedly strange piece about me today, "Bush Fails to Renominate Pipes to
Institute of Peace." The writer, E.J. Kessler, labors under the illusion
that someone recess appointed by the president is then normally re-appointed
to that same position; and she finds something interesting in the fact that
I was not reappointed. But this is hardly the case at all; so far as I know,
not a single member of the USIP board has ever been renominated to the
board. She is, in other words, making an issue out of what is simply
standard practice.

Further, she quotes me saying, "My time there is finished," but fails to add
that I expressed no interest to the Bush administration in being
reappointed. I tried to be helpful at U.S. Institute of Peace but it is no
secret that I had my frustrations there.

Finally, Kessler missed another detail: had I been Senate confirmed, my full
appointment, as announced by the White House, would have gone to Jan. 19,
2005. In contrast, the recess appointment I actually had ended on Jan. 3,
2005, the day that the new session of Congress began. By my count, that's a
total of 16 days difference, hardly enough to warrant Kessler's heaving and
puffing. (January 14, 2005)