War Czar? We don’t need no stinking War Czar.
Because we already have one..actually two if you count the Decider-in-Chief and Robert Gates. In 1947, the Truman administration changed over from a Secretary of War to the Secretary of Defense. This law also saw the beginning of the Dept of Defense (DoD) and the creation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who’s friggin job it is to assist in the planning and execute the wishes of the Commander in Chief and the SoD in the combat arena when our country is ‘at war’.
Gates, as the SoD, is either too fuckwitted to DO HIS JOB..or the Joint Chiefs are falling down on theirs.
Which is it boys?
Add to this mix that three, count em three 4-star military minds have said thanks but no thanks..and the general assesment should be:
We are in a state of FUBAR..so its time to roll up the tents and get the hell out. Or make Gates and the Joint Chiefs do their damn jobs.
But we don’t need another layer of freaking bureaucracy in this hell-hole we call the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For a good read on this situation MSNBC has Jack Jacobs, a retired Army Colonel, who has more medals than Gates has common sense evidently, giving us his take on this retarded idea.
If tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, along with the Joint Chiefs, can’t figure it out..its time to get out.
Tags: Politics, War Czar, FUBAR, Federal Fuckwits at the Helm, Bureaucratic Bullshit
BushCo gets knuckles slapped by SCOTUS
Last summer, it was determined that SCOTUS would hear a case entitled Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 05-1120. The ruling was handed down this morning. Its not good for BushCo, but very good for the environment and individual states rights.
The lawsuit was filed by 12 states and 13 environmental groups that had grown frustrated by the Bush administration’s inaction on global warming. BushCo’s argument was that the EPA did NOT have to address vehicle emissions, in other words..it wasn’t their problem. There are several important decisions within this one case:
- Do states have the right to sue the EPA to challenge its decision?
- Does the Clean Air Act give EPA the authority to regulate tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases?
- Does EPA have the discretion not to regulate those emissions?
The court said yes to the first two questions. On the third, it ordered EPA to re-evaluate its contention it has the discretion not to regulate tailpipe emissions. The court said the agency has so far provided a “laundry list” of reasons that include foreign policy considerations.
The important vote, as per usual, was Justice Kennedy’s. He voted with the courts liberal faction on this case. Kennedy’s swing vote makes or breaks a case and this one was no exception.
For more on this ruling you can read the MSNBC article here or the Jurist writeup here.
Tags: Politics, Bush, EPA, SCOTUS, Greenhouse Gases
David Hicks must serve an additional 9 mos.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A U.S. military tribunal sentenced Australian David Hicks Friday to seven years in prison but he will only have to serve nine months of the sentence.
He already fucking did 5 years of it. They act like its a gift that he only has to serve 9 more months.
In the immortal words of John D. Hutson, the Navy’s top uniformed lawyer from 1997 to 2000:
“We know you’re guilty. We can’t tell you why, but there’s a guy, we can’t tell you who, who told us something. We can’t tell you what, but you’re guilty.”
”I honestly don’t have a recollection”
This was the response of Ms. Doan when asked about the powerpoint presentation that Scott Jennings, Rovers right hand man, held at the GSA in January that was about helping the Republicans win the next election .
She must be a Reaganite no? Doesn’t matter, its still a violation of the Hatch Act.
The hearing today from Waxman’s Oversight Committee was about allegations that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan failed to follow proper procedures for awarding federal contracts, attempted to intervene in contract negotiations, and engaged in partisan political activities on federal property.
The Sun Microsystems contract was discussed heavily..she didn’t remember much on that one either. The taxpayers got bilked out of $27 million according to testimony later in the hearing by the Inspector General.
Tags: Politics, Oversight Committee, GSA,
Let the pissing contest begin!
The Senate Republican’s said screw it..they let the Iraq Funding Bill go through without a filibuster. Either they are tired of supporting BushCo or they are thinking of their home districts and how they will explain that they keep propping up the President even after the majority of the people have spoken. From an MSNBC writeup:
WASHINGTON – Defying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March.
Republican attempts to scuttle the non-binding timeline failed on a vote of 50-48, largely along party lines. The roll call marked the Senate’s most forceful challenge to date of the administration’s handling of a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,200 U.S. troops.
Three months after Democrats took power in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the moment was at hand to “send a message to President Bush that the time has come to find a new way forward in this intractable war.”
The Prez will of course veto and piss and moan and threaten the Democrats. They need to send him the same damn bill every week until he figures it out. Thats my story and I am sticking to it.
Words to live by: I’D RATHER HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO SCREWED HIS INTERN THAN ONE WHO SCREWED HIS COUNTRY
Tags: Politics, Bush, Iraq War spending, Bureaucratic Bullshit
The history of executive officials testifying before Congressional committees
I know it’s a long title. But its the title of a very valuable tool that congress can use if they have to take BushCo to court in order to get Harriet and Rover to testify. The report was prepared by the Congressional Research Service. This report was last updated October 6th 2004. Just a little about the CRS:
The Congressional Research Service is the public policy research arm of the United States Congress. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.
Congress created CRS in order to have its own source of nonpartisan, objective analysis and research on all legislative issues. Indeed, the sole mission of CRS is to serve the United States Congress. CRS has been carrying out this mission since 1914, when it was first established as the Legislative Reference Service. Renamed the Congressional Research Service by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, CRS is committed to providing the Congress, throughout the legislative process, comprehensive and reliable analysis, research and information services that are timely, objective, nonpartisan, and confidential, thereby contributing to an informed national legislature.
The short of it is..the CRS is the legal research brain of Congress. They have provided Congress with a fairly good oral argument, imho, they can use when Bush’s latest bullshit move is taken through the court’s. But on to their report.
Since 1944, 74 members of the Presidents inner circle have testified before congress or their committee’s. Only 8 have refused or weren’t compelled to testify. Thats a LOT of friggin precedence sportsfans…lots of it. Guess who the guy is that currently is playing advisor to the Prez on this topic…go ahead..guess already.
Fred Fielding. Freddy was a legal counsel to Nixon. During WaterGate. We know how that turned out..nuff said. But I digress…
Don’t buy Tony Snow’s latest round of horseshit that Congress has no oversight when it comes to the President. Mr. Snowjob used the words ‘unprecedented’ and ‘highly unusual’. We are calling bullshit on that right here and now.
Tony Snow had the audacity to state in a press conference last week that if Harriet and Rove went into the lions den known as Congress, under the terms set by Congress, it would set a precedence. His exact words were:
Q If it’s behind closed doors, what’s the problem?
MR. SNOW: The thing that we have said all along is, we think that you ought to have the ability for members of Congress to get information in a way that also does not create precedence, and is going to have a chilling effect for presidential advisors to be able to give their full and fair advice to the President of the United States. We think that the compromise we shaped enables us to fulfill that obligation to the President, and to the public in terms of first-rate advice from the White House and the people working in the White House, and at the same time, allows Congress to do what it has to do, which is conduct oversight. There is nothing that says Congress has to have television; it says that Congress does have oversight responsibilities and needs to get at the facts.
In his next breath..he said this:
Q They get to be in public, but you want your guys behind closed doors.
MR. SNOW: There are — in this particular case, the Department of Justice — the Congress does have legitimate oversight responsibility for the Department of Justice. It created the Department of Justice. It does not have constitutional oversight responsibility over the White House, which is why by our reaching out, we’re doing something that we’re not compelled to do by the Constitution, but we think common sense suggests that we ought to get the whole story out, which is what we’re doing.(emphasis mine)
If Congress thinks the executive branch is pulling a fast one or lying their asses off, you bet your left nut(or tit) they have oversight responsibility over the White House. I don’t give a shit what Tony Snow says. Yes, they could have a Special Prosecutor..but why waste time? Do it yourself Congress, cut out the damn middle man ok? Thanks, now stick to your guns please.
Another question everyone should be asking is why in the blue hell did BushCo slip in that little amendment to the fucking Patriot Act that said they could appoint who ever they friggin wanted without Congressional approval? You know they backed their asses down from that one as soon as everyone on the Hill thought about it. But a bigger question is..
Why would they put a mindless fuckwit like Tim Griffin in one of the USA’s post? This man has never done a fucking thing that mattered unless you count being a Republican operative and a good bud of Karl Rove. Thats part of the job description for US Attorney now? No shit?
I doubt it. But Rove thought he was perfect for Bud Cummins job in Arkansas. And guess what? Timmy got it..without being confirmed by the Congress, thanks to that g-d Patriot Act provision I mentioned earlier.
Another point of fact. Rove is known for using the RNC email system instead of the government email system. Perhaps part of the missing email trail is there. Its worth a look, its worth asking him about. As Froomkin points out here, It’s against the law to use the RNC email system while your working for the executive branch. Its something about accountability. That pesky accountability thing..damn I just know Bush and Rove hate that.
As Salon writer Joe Conason points out, Rove is a liar. He calls him a proven liar, but I won’t go that far. Four trips to the Grand Jury say he wasn’t sharing recipes and frankly I do believe Conason when he says the reason Rover had 4 trips to the GJ is because he narrowly skirted an indictment his OWN self and finally fessed up that he was involved in outing Valerie Plame.
I have laid out enough reasons that Harriet and Rove should testify in front of Congressional committees. They should testify under oath and with a transcript of the hearing. Nothing less should be accepted. I would also like to see it on Cspan, but I will sit and read the transcript if I have to.
You can bet your sweet ass that I will read the transcript. Bush hasn’t seen the last of Congressional oversight. Fuck that bastard, the shit hasn’t even started to be flung. Get those raincoats and rubber boots on boys..your ass and your bullshit are about to be exposed.
Tags: Politics, Bush, Rove, Executive Privilege, Congressional Oversight, GonzoGate
Bush thinks he is the Godfather..watch the video of the "Bad offer"
This is short, but VERY sweet. The folks at Bring it On! Made it..specifically my beloved “Cranky” did it this morning over his breakfast cereal! Stop by BIO and give them a shout out for doing this for us to enjoy ok?
Tags: Politics, Bush, GonzoGate, Executive Privilege My Ass, US Attorneys, USAs
The Hill is alive, with the sound of hearings…
I did not make that GREAT line..I got it from this article over on Foreign Affairs.com which has this lovely, and I do mean lovely fact:
“As the Democrats approach their 100th day in control of Congress, one thing has already set them apart from their Republican predecessors: the large number of oversight hearings on issues relating to foreign and national security policy.”
Isn’t it like a breath of fresh air after having inhaled nothing but stale smoke filled air for 12 freaking years? Its a good read, if you want to be enlightened..please check it out my dear reader. It looks at whats been happening regarding the precious Oversight duties of our legislative branch and if we should expect any real changes. Take this for instance:
“Whether this surge in congressional oversight ultimately produces wiser policies and more effective implementation remains to be seen. While the constitutional arsenal of Congress is powerful, it has a limited ability to quickly reverse the course set upon by a determined president. Steps taken through the power of the purse and legislation are both blunt and subject to a presidential veto. But over time, an equally determined Congress can leverage public and expert opinion, initially through committee hearings but eventually through ever-stronger legislative steps, to bring about a change in course. Oversight, even more than direct legislation, is key to movement. Oversight keeps an administration on its toes; the lack of oversight, and the expectation that there will be none, leads to complacency, arrogance, and maladministration.”
So..at least we got one thing going for our side..this administration can’t sit on its arse and expect all their bullshit laws and sleazy amendments to go marching right through the halls of Congress. Not while the Dems are in charge anway.
Tags: Politics, Bush, Democrats, Congressional Hearings
The Gonzo-gone pool starts NOW!
Seems Uncle Al is in some deep caca..he is getting hit from all sides now. First it was the firing of the ‘great 8′ USA’s..then it was the FBI lying about their numbers. Now..we hear that BushCo shut down an investigation by the Justice Departments Office of Professional Responsibility into Bush’s domestic wiretapping without warrants. Uncle Al was going to be investigated during this process and what did the Shrub do to save Uncle Al’s ass?
He denied the investigators security clearances that they needed in order to conduct the investigation. Once he did that..he killed the investigation, thereby saving Uncle Al the embarrassment of being investigated.
Wotta guy!
The link above goes to a National Journal article on the subject of the OPR investigation. After the NJ article broke..there was a letter sent to Uncle Al about his role in this newest of “fresh hells” for the Bush White House by John Conyers.
The National Journal raises the question..did the Shrub know that Uncle Al was going to most likely be investigated when he killed the investigation? Another point is, did Uncle Al know it and thereby advise the Shrub to kill the investigation. A couple of short blurbs from the NJ piece:
Sources familiar with the halted inquiry said that if the probe had been allowed to continue, it would have examined Gonzales’s role in authorizing the eavesdropping program while he was White House counsel, as well as his subsequent oversight of the program as attorney general.
*snip*
Current and former Justice Department officials, as well as experts in legal ethics, question the propriety of Gonzales’s continuing to advise Bush about the investigation after learning that it might examine his own actions. The attorney general, they say, was remiss if he did not disclose that information to the president. But if Gonzales did inform Bush about the possibility and the president responded by stymieing the probe, that would raise even more-serious questions as to whether Bush acted to protect Gonzales, they said.
Oh, my dear reader..it gets curiouser and curiouser doesn’t it?
I say Uncle Al will be gone before the end of the month..place your bets now! But, before you do..make sure to read the National Journal article and the Dear Al letter ok?
Tags: Politics, Alberto Gonzalez, National Journal, Bush
Crossposted at Bring it On!
Senate Judiciary Set To Vote On Subpoenas For Rove And Miers
From Politico:
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Politics, Karl Rove, US AttorneysUncle Alberto holds a news conference..sort of..
Since the revelation that the Bush WH added a little power play to the Patriot Act which would allow him to appoint US Atty’s instead of going through the normal congressional approval process,Uncle Al Gonzalez has been taking some heat. Add to that the FBI screwup which is also splattering on Uncle Al, and you have a news conference scheduled within the hour..
Uncle Al even canceled a trip to enlighten the nation today..should be a goodie.
From Uncle Al’s lips today we hear the following..
Alberto is ‘going to look into it’ regarding the whys and wherefor’s of why the 8 US Atty’s were fired. His Chief of Staff has resigned over this ‘issue’…Uncle Al doesn’t know what exactly, was the criteria for deciding who should stay and who should go.
Uncle Al said he supports wholeheartedly the process of approving US Atty’s by the Congress..then one might ask..why did the WH push through that little addition to the Patriot Act which removed the oversight of Congress..hmmmm.
He wasn’t directly involved in the firing of the “Great 8″..he had delegated that duty to an underling..meaning his COS I assume. His COS was to drive the process..Uncle Al did use the word ‘mistake’ in describing the procedure for determing who was going to get the axe in the US Atty’s office.
He is fielding questions now..
Al is back pedaling his ass of now..stating there is a lack of communication between the Justice dept and the US Atty’s offices. There was a mistake in providing the fired Atty’s with the rationale for firing them.
Then Uncle Al said he stands by the decision to fire them all.
And hot footed it out of there….
The whole thing lasted less than 5 minutes..lots of info given out there Al..ya fuckwit.
From MSNBC, we get this:
“I acknowledge that mistakes were made here. I accept that responsibility,”
“Obviously I am concerned about the fact that information — incomplete information was communicated or may have been communicated to the Congress,” Gonzales said. “I believe very strongly in our obligation to ensure that when we provide information to the Congress, it is accurate and it is complete. And I very dismayed that that may not have occurred here.”
“I stand by that decision and I think it was the right decision. Thank you very much,” he said at the end of the news conference, turned and briskly walked away.
I told ya..he damn near ran out of the place…
PS..that pic really screams for a photoshop don’t ya think?
Tags; Politics, Alberto Gonzalez, Federal Fuckwits at the helm
Kiley canned and other Walter Reed news.
Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, the Army’s surgeon general jumped before someone tossed him under the bus. Can I get an amen? The Army has appointed Kiley’s deputy, Maj. Gen. Gale S. Pollock, as the acting surgeon general while an advisory board is formed to evaluate candidates for Kiley’s replacement. Army officials said today that the board is likely to meet for the first time in April and will then choose an officer from within the Army Medical Command. President Bush would then have to approve the officer, and the Senate would hold confirmation hearings.
The Army has figured out it needs to check ALL it’s hospitals and outpatient services at other locations:
The VA is ordering its 1,400 hospitals and clinics to report on the quality of their facilities to determine if squalid conditions found at Walter Reed exist elsewhere.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson issued the directive in an internal memorandum sent last week to the VA’s medical center directors. He said “recent events” compelled him to redouble efforts to improve the physical environment at outpatient center and medical facilities.
Depleted Uranium-The gift that keeps on giving.
When it comes to supporting our troops and veterans, there are many bloggers who walk the walk as they talk their talk. Charlie, Tammara and REB 84 are three who I have the pleasure of knowing, if only on the ‘internets’ through emails and their blogs. These are individuals that spend much of their lives educating the public and our elected officials about the human cost of the wars our country wages. Tony Snow might call dead soldiers ‘just a number’ and Bush may call them ‘a comma’ , but I choose to believe that most people inherently care about the human cost of war and human suffering. I might be deluded and god knows that is entirely possible, but I just couldn’t go through life thinking people are cold, calculating, unfeeling individuals by nature. If I wanted to feel that way, I would watch the local TV News.
No, uncaring and warmongering are learned emotions and responses. Unless of course you happen to be Dick Cheney, but I digress.
Tammara and the two gents I named have raised my awareness of DU-Depleted Uranium. It’s something our military has labeled a ‘necessary evil.’
Well, Depleted Uranium is outright fucking evil if you listen to scientists who know what this nasty shit really does. The United States government sent Dr. Doug Rokke to the Middle East during and after the first Gulf War. He was sent to investigate the effects and amounts of DU left there by our military.
Upon returning home, Dr. Rokke became sick from the very substance he was sent to investigate. He was put on 40% disability due to his hazardous service. His reward, our government keeps putting him back into action checking the latest DU rounds are troops are exploding all over Iraq. At least he is supporting our troops. The problem is, he submits his reports and the federal government does nothing with them.
Doug Rokke now lectures on Depleted Uranium and its tragic effects, one of which is available here as a podcast to download. The podcast is a lecture from last year. His lecture is very blunt. Dr. Rokke doesn’t mince words. He says that war’s objective is to kill, and that DU weapons are the cream of the ever-lovin crop…he doesn’t deny that fact. What he tells us is…DU is the “gift that keeps on giving”….years and decades after the War is won or lost, casualties continue to mount up long after the tanks have left and the soldiers are back home…safe in their own beds.
By the way, the only way to remove the hazards of DU is to totally encase the ‘thing’ blown up and the surrounding topsoil. To wrap it up like a ‘huge hershey’s kiss’. Then you dig down 6 inches at least and remove the topsoil for roughly 1000 feet around. It’s a process the military isn’t willing to do. Seriously, they removed 25 blown up vehicles from the Gulf War I…shipped them back to the states…and it took them 3 years to figure out how to totally destroy the vehicles and remove all trace of DU.
What did our government do after this? They decided not to do THAT again. It is too expensive and too messy to think about, or deal with. How does our government plan to deal with the health problems of the Iraqi citizen’s that have been exposed to DU in Iraq? I mean, think about it..we used those ‘bunker busters’ in the cities.
Officially, the US Government does not recognize overexposure to Depleted Uranium as a medical illness. They won’t treat our men for it…because basically they say it doesn’t exist. Its not on the books, sorry…come back later after you have developed cancer or another of the side effects of DU overexposure.
We have left a toxic wasteland all over the world. DU has been used in one form or another since the 40’s. The level of use during the 1st Gulf War was the highest…before the current one anyway…
Dr. Michael Kilpatrick is the medical man for the military. This guy is the one who states overexposure to Depleted Uranium isn’t on the books, therefore it must not exist. It would be prudent to note that US Military does have a training film about exposure to DU. The problem is, much of the equipment issued to deal with an instance of exposure to DU is faulty. It is old. It is outdated, like so much of the equipment we sent our soldiers off to this war with. Most of the time, our soldiers are exposed to DU without their knowledge. Many have actually picked up pieces of contaminated, melted equipment and fashioned jewelry and other memorabilia out of it.
There are hundreds of miles of blown-up-shit all over Iraq. The Depleted Uranium won’t go away and neither will the costs of dealing with its victims. The military’s healthcare budget is off the charts. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. But cutting corners on this issue and burying our head in the sand is fuckwittery at its worst my dear reader. If they governments makes our troops use these weapons of mass destruction, they have the obligation to take care of them when they get sick.
Truth is hard to find if it’s not on the books, and it just wouldn’t do, to tell on yourself if you’re the U.S. military. But the following statistics from the VA tell us part of the story:
“At the completion of the Gulf War, when we came back to the United States in the fall of 1991, we had a total casualty count of 760: 294 dead, a little over 400 wounded or ill. But the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002.”
It is not that complicated. It isn’t friggin rocket science. If you were/are in the military in Iraq and breathed in the desert air, you were breathing in radioactive bullshit, especially in the combat theatre. The question about your health is how often and for how long you were exposed. The great your exposure, the more likely DU will take lasting effects on a your body. The government however…does not even care enough to publish the findings of Dr. Doug Rokke and other experts. This problem is not a question for either the republicans or democrats. They both share the blame. All administrations, including both the Bush administrations have been complicit in hiding the problems and illnesses associated with Depleted Uranium by refusing to admit they exist in any appreciable numbers.
Ain’t that a shitty way to support the troops?
If your interested in learning more, please visit GulfWarVets and APFN
Tags: Politics, Depleted Uranium, Gulf War, Veterans Administration, Doug Rokke, Michael Kilpatrick
Crossposted at TheBlueRepublic, Progressive Blogwire, Question It Now and Bring it On!
Saturday wingnut roundup..
Uncle Al is in some deep shit these days..couldn’t happen to a nicer guy imho. First he gets reamed a new one over the US Atty firings..then..he has to go visit the Dem’s with his hat in his hand..according to this article up at CNN:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Slapped even by GOP allies, the Bush administration is beating an abrupt retreat on eight federal prosecutors it fired and then publicly pilloried.
Just hours after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the hubbub as an “overblown personnel matter,” a Republican senator Thursday mused that Gonzales might soon suffer the same fate as the canned U.S. attorneys.
A short time later, Gonzales and his security detail shuttled to the Capitol for a private meeting on Democratic turf, bearing two offerings:
Screw the fuckwits good gents. Take Uncle Al down if you can over this bs.
Then…we have the FBI flap..lol..its almost sad how bad Uncle Al and his minions look lately…but then I wake up and smell the reality of it all.
Uncle Al and the boys at the Justice Dept, and the FBI are crooks and liars..supposing to go after the crooks and liars..oh..the irony. Of course the following quote from the WaPo article just jacked my jaw:
WASHINGTON — The nation’s top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left open the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against FBI agents or lawyers who improperly used the USA Patriot Act in pursuit of suspected terrorists and spies.
GIVE ME A FRIGGIN’ BREAK!!! They apologized and promised never to do that again?
And people believe them? Possible criminal charges my ass. If they do go after these assholes, then I might buy them turning over a new leaf..until then..
Its all bullshit rhetoric.
Then we have the wingnuts at the CPAC convention of wingnuts..Coultergeist and Cpl. Matt Sanchez, the ..ahem..gay male prostitute. But please..enjoy the video below of a lefty that actually went to the CPAC ball and interviewed Malkin, among others..hilarious!
tags: Politics, Matt Sanchez, Ann Coultergeist, FBI, Alberto Gonzalez, CPAC, Michelle Malkin
Walter Reed Hearings start today. Kiley’s on the hotseat
As well he should be. Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley ran W.R.A.H. before he was kicked upstairs in 2004.
As this WaPo article out today states:
“Kiley, the commander of Walter Reed from 2002 to 2004, has been accused of being brash and indifferent to concerns raised about problems there. After a series of Washington Post articles described the outpatient conditions at Walter Reed, Kiley said the problems “weren’t serious and there weren’t a lot of them,” and that they were not “emblematic of a process of Walter Reed that has abandoned soldiers and their families.”
Kiley will be dancing with the devil today, trying to cover his ass. He should of been fired first and formost. He is a worthless scumbag, it was on his watch the outpatient mess began and by many accounts, he ignored it. Kiley is a climber..and he reached the top pinnacle in 04. Why didn’t he see the problems start when the war wounded started coming in droves. Surely staff complained about the mounting problems.
As this former Doctor who worked with Kiley states:
“His last concern was his concern for the patient,” said retired Col. Robert M. Tabachnikoff, chief of obstetrics and gynecology under Kiley at Landstuhl in the mid-1990s. Tabachnikoff said Kiley wanted to discharge new mothers within 24 hours of delivery to keep beds free and counted phone calls as office visits. “He was more concerned for meeting requirements and advancing his own career. . . . At last, it’s catching up with him. His leadership style is being exposed.”
Another federal fuckwit kicked up the ladder. I hope the hearings point the fickle finger of fate at Kiley. The higher up they are..the harder they fall. This about care of our wounded soldiers. Its not about saving money or ignoring the warning signs and handing off the problem to Weightman.
Oh,yeah..another gem of info..Kiley also had a hand in prisoner healthcare at Gitmo and Abu-Ghraib. He whitewashed that report and problems too. Wotta guy.
Tags: Politics, Kiley, Walter Reed
About Moi
I am a pissed-off, political brat. I have raged against the political machine since the Vietnam War. I will continue to rail against the Repubes until the bastards are all dead or drummed out of office…which ever comes first.
