[AndyJackson]

No they didn't change formats. This is how a superior always provides direction to a subordinate in a specific instance. Now, if you are thinking about standing ordes, operating procedures and departmental directives, that is a different matter, but that does not generally apply to a specific case like this.

It is not unsigned. There is a formal process for obtaining release authority for something like this, and believe me it would have been done. This was not just some flunky writing a memo and sending it around.

[XBob]

157 - We are getting no where over an insignificant point, however, this is a MAJOR policy decision, and I see no standard references for any authority or direction at all in this format.

"It is not unsigned. There is a formal process for obtaining release authority for something like this, and believe me it would have been done. This was not just some flunky writing a memo and sending it around."

Ah, but that is what I see - a flunky, writing a memo, with no referenced authority, creating major policy changes which killed thousands of people and ruined our best lines of defense against terrorism.

I see no approvals from higher authority, citations of law, directions from higher authority, or anything, just a flunky memo.

And that's my point - where did she get the authority to do this? The format provides no standard for that, and apparently doesn't.

and "and believe me it would have been done" doesn't hack it. We had a bunch of incompetents running our government, and this is good evidence of it.