Question

During George W. Bush's first term, several staffers at the Department of Defense that remained from the Clinton administration openly criticized Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's new policies regarding military transparency with China and nuclear disarmament. What is the best description of this situation

Answer 1

'Coalitional drift' would be the best description of the situation described.

Explanation:

A coalition drift is simply the change in how the newly elected government wants the executive agencies to function. A newly elected government made by a party other than the previous one naturally has a different ideology about how the government needs to be run.

When the new government directs the executive agencies to function in a certain way (the non-conventional way), there are chances that a coalitional drift would occur.