US Air Force secretary resigns - Democratic Underground

Moloch

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Wed Nov-17-04 10:19 AM
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US Air Force secretary resigns

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Air Force Secretary James Roche submitted his resignation, completing a four year term marred by controversy over a deal to lease tanker planes from Boeing and a related procurement scandal that sent a former senior air force official to prison.

Roche resigned voluntarily and was "not pressured by anyone to resign," said Colonel Jay DeFrank, an air force spokesman.

"He leaves the air force now so that his resignation may free-up nominations of air force general officers that have been on hold in Congress," DeFrank said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=3&u=/afp/20041117/pl_afp/us_military_roche_041117062654

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byronm

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Wed Nov-17-04 10:20 AM
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1. I thought he retired a while back...

been hearing about his f'ups for too long.

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Wed Nov-17-04 10:33 AM
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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=996326

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