Since we were recently on the topic of the judiciary, it may be interesting to readers to note that one of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees, Henry W. Saad, is an Arab-American. President Bush selected Saad to serve on the spite ("Levin and Stabenow... were angered because Hatch refused to consider two of President Clinton’s Michigan nominations to federal courts") and an FBI inquiry ("All you need to do is... look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there").