by Paul Richter
Douglas Frantz, a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been chosen to be chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as it reorganizes under its new chairman, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.)
Frantz was the managing editor of the Times from 2005 to 2007, and has also been an investigative reporter for the Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and that paper's Istanbul bureau chief.
The committee, the focus of the Senate's foreign affairs deliberations, will have as its chief of staff David McKean. McKean has been chief of staff in Kerry's personal office since 1999, and helped lay the groundwork for Kerry's presidential run in 2004.
Frederick L. Jones, a career foreign service officer and White House official in the Bush and Clinton administrations, will be the committee's communications director.
The committee's chairmanship came open when former chairman Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) became vice president.
Comments
Gee,what a NON surprise that another mainstream "journalist" has gone to work for the party they actually work for: Democrats. Newsweek editor goes to work for Biden, a Boston Globe editor goes to work for the Obama administration, a CNN doctor goes to work for Obama and now this "journalist" goes to work for Kerry.
Posted by: John D | January 7, 2009 4:12 PM