This was a dispute about the facts of the case among career officials.

But some of those jobs will be filled by career officials at the department.

In the Swiss federal administration, secretaries of state are the most senior career officials.

As governor, Thompson took major steps to move decision making power from career officials to his political appointees.

These would be career officials and not political appointees.

These are usually led by political appointees or career officials at the Commerce Department.

The policy is causing rumblings of discontent from some career officials.

That is a view apparently shared by career officials in the Justice Department who deal with such issues.

Thus, career officials will take on much of the responsibility in the early days of the new Administration.

He was less popular among many of the Department's senior career officials, who saw him as brash.