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The main problem I see is that determining qualification would itself become politicised (you yourself said how you feel the FBI, an agency that in theory is dedicated to fighting crime, is to politicised). Also, how do you determine qualification for many of these posts? Or determine which posts need to go before a review board? And how would you apponint the board itself? For OBM, you can pretty much get off filling it with economists, but a board to review potential appointees would be a trickier thing all together. And also, many people who fill elected positions aren't seemingly qualified, and many qualified-seeming people end up totally incompetant.
I understand this reaction after the FEMA mess, but I don't see any way of fixing it without going more toward a meritocracy and taking away appointment power altogether, which would severely cripple the executive branch. I think that anyone could have screwed up the hurricane relief just as much even going through a approval process.
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