Powell's ulterior motives

From Powell Leaves FCC Admonishing Uncivil America

FCC Chairman Michael Powell is stepping down. At his final board meeting, he remarked "It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat..."

This ranks up there with Tommy Thompson's remark that he can't think of a reason why terrorists haven't attacked our food supply, although I suppose Thompson was right about the chinks in our armour, but wrong to express it so crudely in public.

Powell is just being, well, naive; but surely he can't be that naive. Surely he must admit that once, just once, a bureaucrat has acted on an issue knowing it might, just maybe, perhaps will shed some positive light on his pet project in the future.