Oversight Committee Announces Second Hearing on Tillman

[babylonsister]

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=586

Oversight Committee Announces Second Hearing on Tillman
July 16th, 2007 by Jesse Lee

As noted on Friday, Chairman Henry Waxman and Ranking Republican Tom Davis of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee wrote letters to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and RNC Chairman Mike Duncan requesting further documents regarding the handling of information surrouding the death of Army Ranger Specialist Patrick Tillman.

Today the Committee announced a hearing scheduled for August 1, 2007:

Oversight Committee Announces Hearing on The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew

WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing entitled “The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew.” The hearing will examine what senior Defense Department officials knew about U.S. Army Corporal Patrick Tillman’s death by fratricide.

On Friday, July 13, Chairman Waxman and Ranking Minority Member Tom Davis sent letters to the White House and the Department of Defense objecting to the withholding of documents related to the death of Corporal Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004. Chairman Waxman also wrote the Republican National Committee to request communications about Corporal Tillman’s death by White House officials using e-mail accounts controlled by the RNC.

WHO: The following witnesses are invited to testify:

· The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld
Former Secretary of Defense

· Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired)
Former Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff

· Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired)
Former Commander, U.S. Central Command

· Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired)
Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

· Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger, Jr. (Retired)
Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

· Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal
Commander, Joint Special Operations Command

WHEN: 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 1

WHERE: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

[gratuitous]

1. The witnesses are "invited" to testify, are they?

Gee, I'll bet Rumsfeld has to wash his hair on August 1 rather than face any questioning that he doesn't personally dictate: "Were mistakes made? Sure! Did I make any of them? Goodness, no! Would I have done anything differently? Mercy, but it's easy to second guess. Has every last scrap of my humanity vanished forever in service to this evil administration? Oh my, yes!"

[babylonsister]

2. Isn't that just the polite way to say, 'show up'? Then they can

stamp their feet and pout when/if no one does. But I'm glad they're going forward with this; no grass growing under their feet. I bet they were pretty steamed.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Tom Davis has been pretty helpful to folks across the aisle. nt

[babylonsister]

4. When he wants to be. He was a real prick during the Plame

hearing.

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/03/tom_davis_revea.html

[Captain Hilts]

6. Very true. But he's been a good advocate for DC. nt

[Richard Steele]

5. K&R