Gary Frazer, the Interior Department [3]'s "senior career official in the Endangered Species Office, which has produced several scientific findings angering his political superiors in the Fish and Wildlife Service, was reassigned last week to a newly created post as his division's liaison to the United States Geological Survey." Frazer's perhaps least admiring superior, Julie MacDonald, has been accused [4] of creating "an overly cozy relationship between regulator and regulated" after she provided information helpful to the California Farm Bureau [5]'s effort to end endangered species protections for the delta smelt fish.