"Nature might abhor a vacuum, but so do many at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

There’s griping that the bureau’s eastern Oklahoma office has been leaderless for more than two years. Technically, Jeanette Hanna is the regional office’s director, but she has been “on detail” to the Washington headquarters since early 2010.

Local tribes have been complaining that the lack of a leader has hampered the office, and that they’re not getting the service they need, and we hear there’s internal frustration, too."

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Al Kamen / In the Loop: MIA at BIA [fourth item] (The Washington Post 3/28)

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