Pentagon to Congress: We’re above the law
Boston Globe
05/10/07
The Pentagon has placed unprecedented restrictions on who can testify before Congress, reserving the right [sic] to bar lower-ranking officers, enlisted soldiers, and career bureaucrats from appearing before oversight committees or having their remarks transcribed, according to Defense Department documents. Robert L. Wilkie, a former Bush administration national security official who left the White House to become assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs last year, has outlined a half-dozen guidelines that prohibit most officers below the rank of colonel from appearing in hearings, restricting testimony to high-ranking officers and civilians appointed by President Bush...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
05/10/07
The Pentagon has placed unprecedented restrictions on who can testify before Congress, reserving the right [sic] to bar lower-ranking officers, enlisted soldiers, and career bureaucrats from appearing before oversight committees or having their remarks transcribed, according to Defense Department documents. Robert L. Wilkie, a former Bush administration national security official who left the White House to become assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs last year, has outlined a half-dozen guidelines that prohibit most officers below the rank of colonel from appearing in hearings, restricting testimony to high-ranking officers and civilians appointed by President Bush...
http://tinyurl.com/2ecuzg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=above+the+law
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 11. Mai, 13:20
