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Unproductive, unfair, unfortunate': Pentagon official scolds House Benghazi committee
A top Defense Department official is criticizing the House Benghazi committees investigation as wasteful and inefficient, while questioning whether the panels final report will be based in fact.
In a letter to the committee Thursday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Stephen Hedger charged Republican investigators with employing a variety of unproductive tactics, including continuous threats to subpoena Pentagon employees, multiple and changing requests to the department and interviews that prompt speculation by witnesses.
While I understand your stated intent is to conduct the most comprehensive review of the attack and response, Congress has as much an obligation as the Executive Branch to use federal resources and taxpayer dollars effectively and efficiently, Hedger wrote.
The Department is working diligently to accommodate your staffs multiple and changing requests; however, we are concerned by the continuous threats from your staff to subpoena witnesses because we are not able to move quickly enough to accommodate these new requests, Hedger wrote. Subpoenaing our service members, when the Department is working diligently to accommodate your requests and when no service member has refused to appear voluntarily, is unfair to our uniformed men and women.
In a letter to the committee Thursday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Stephen Hedger charged Republican investigators with employing a variety of unproductive tactics, including continuous threats to subpoena Pentagon employees, multiple and changing requests to the department and interviews that prompt speculation by witnesses.
While I understand your stated intent is to conduct the most comprehensive review of the attack and response, Congress has as much an obligation as the Executive Branch to use federal resources and taxpayer dollars effectively and efficiently, Hedger wrote.
The Department is working diligently to accommodate your staffs multiple and changing requests; however, we are concerned by the continuous threats from your staff to subpoena witnesses because we are not able to move quickly enough to accommodate these new requests, Hedger wrote. Subpoenaing our service members, when the Department is working diligently to accommodate your requests and when no service member has refused to appear voluntarily, is unfair to our uniformed men and women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/29/unproductive-unfair-unfortunate-pentagon-official-scolds-house-benghazi-committee/
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spanone
Apr 2016
OP
Depends what day it is. This crackpot changes his hairstyle every other day.
TrollBuster9090
Apr 2016
#8
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)1. I think he is using just a tad too much lard in his hair.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)8. Depends what day it is. This crackpot changes his hairstyle every other day.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)2. Obama's presidency created these morons.
malaise
(269,049 posts)3. Off to the greatest page
Rec
spanone
(135,844 posts)5. bwhahahahahahaaa
malaise
(269,049 posts)7. He's a two-bit loser
and a fugging duncec to boot -Hillary whipped him
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)4. In other words, "stuff it up your ass Gowdy"
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)6. I would certainly cross the street
if I saw that on the sidewalk ahead of me.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)9. Trey Gowdy: The Man Who Fell To Earth
"I'll divert the attention of these earthling rubes with a Benghazi Select Committee while I'm stealing their water..."
spanone
(135,844 posts)10. aye!
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)14. Did ya'll take an X-ray photo of me!?
Ah can see an X-ray flash. It's blinding....
ReRe
(10,597 posts)11. That...
... is what you would call "smarmy." He looks reptilian.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)13. He'd definitely get sorted into Slytherin. n/t
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)12. Which Malfoy is that? n/t
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)15. He needs to go back to planet Slytherin where he came from
spanone
(135,844 posts)16. wow....crazy close