AND IN OTHER NEWS FROM YOUR NATION’S CAPITAL: Federal civil service managers aren’t supposed to use “administrative leave” – aka paying bureaucrats not to come to work – as a tool for inducing poor performers to quit. But the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Luke Rosiak finds solid evidence that agreeing to administrative leave for as much as two years in return for the letter of resignation is common in the federal bureaucracy. Why? Because such informal settlements are far easier than enduring the endless paperwork required to fire a bureaucrat and federal employee unions are sure to appeal, appeal, appeal.