Part of the problem with government work prestige is that for every FAA engineer, for every NTSB investigator, you get three or four - for the lack of a better

Part of the problem with government work prestige is that for every FAA engineer, for every NTSB investigator, you get three or four - for the lack of a better word - political commissars these days, whose job is to blindly carry whatever the higher-ups deem "important" at the time down the ranks. Something about rotten apples spoiling the bunch.