Douglas Frantz, Editor of the Washington Post national security, licensed to consider work in Government

NEW YORK--Douglas Frantz, the editor of national security for the Washington Post, is considering the possibility of taking a job with the State Department and is currently on leave from the paper, according to sources in the room.

A Post spokesman confirmed that Frantz on leave, but declined to comment more. Frantz did not respond to requests for The Huffington Post's comments in his Office, cell phone and home phone numbers. He did not respond to several e-mail requests.

This would not be the first journalism of Frantz left time for Government work.

After more than three decades as an editor and investigative reporter of high rank in publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, Frantz took a position as a researcher for the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate, chaired by then Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.).

In that position, duties of Frantz-- how to work in a public report on the nuclear program of Iran-- not too dissimilar from his job as an investigative journalist. Then he spent nine months consulting firm Kroll.

Frantz returned to journalism last year as editor of national security post.

"I don't think as the other side," Frantz told HuffPost last year about his work in the Government. "I thought of it as two and half years of public service. I was happy and honored to work for the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It was not political. It was an honorable job. I was glad to do that, but I am absolutely passionate about this."

At least an another leading journalist has already taken a job in the Government this year. Editor of the Boston Globe Glen Johnson took a position of senior officials at the State Department following appointment of Kerry as Secretary of State.

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