Posted on 01/25/2002 11:28:01 PM PST by JohnHuang2
The most likely out come is that the white house agrees with the small proviso that information that is about national security will be redacted from the documents.
Then the justice Deparmtent will send over 15,322 solid black pages. However one of them will have the word "the" and two periods clearly visible.
He is playing games. Ashcroft and Cheney have the cops. There is nothing illegal about the federal cops investigating the GAO. A little sting operation for the GAO staff would work wonders. There are lots of low level people in the GAO that could be set up for a bribery sting. That always gets the top guy fired. The GAO works for congress. It is time for a nice GAO scandal. Can we have some fun with some GAO guys and Barney Frank?
David M. Walker became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and began his 15-year term when he took his oath of office on November 9, 1998. As Comptroller General, Mr. Walker is the nation's chief accountability officer and the head of the General Accounting Office (GAO), a legislative branch agency founded in 1921. The GAO helps the Congress maximize the performance and assure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.
Immediately prior to his appointment as Comptroller General, Mr. Walker was a partner and global managing director of Arthur Andersen LLP's human capital services practice and a member of the board of Arthur Andersen Financial Advisors, a registered investment advisor. He also served as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 1990 to 1995 while he was a partner with Arthur Andersen. Prior to joining Arthur Andersen, Mr. Walker was Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs and Acting Executive Director for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. His earlier technical, professional and business experience was gained with Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand, and Source Services Corporation.
Mr. Walker is a certified public accountant. He has a BS in accounting from Jacksonville University and a Senior Management in Government (SMG) Certificate in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Thanks for this VERY pertinent bit of information! Good work!
Isn't it wonderful to see how quickly the press and the GAO can swing into action when there might be a corrupt Republican? Did anyone hear a peep out of the GAO about Hillary Healthcare?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I beleive Hillary's task force was found to be illegal and the administration was fined.
Our guys can BEAT up their guys...lol!
The Enron people were interviewed for their opinions. As were various conservation groups, coal companies, nuclear power experts, oil and gas companies, electrical generating companies, and Lord knows who else.
This is similar to conducting a meeting about education and inviting top educators to give their opinions. If educational policy is going to change, perhaps some of the educators would not wish to have their comments (e.g. "I could do so much more if the NEA didn't get in the way")made public. That is why Cheney doesn't want to release the information...because the next time a President does something like this, people won't speak freely.
As the Washington Post reported Dec. 24: "U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth last week fined the government $285,000 and bluntly denounced the White House and Justice Department for what he called 'dishonest' and 'reprehensible' failures to provide him information about the membership of the health care task force headed by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. He singled out [Ira] Magaziner as responsible for the deception."
That all started when a doctor's group sued to enforce the open meetings act for Hillary's health care task force. Hillary wanted to effect her socialist scheme in secret. The doctor's group wanted the meetings open to the public so they could see who was participating and what was being discussed.
Hillary and co-conspirators told the judge, repeatedly, and under oath, that all participants were executive branch employees. That was an out and out, very intentional, lie! However, it qualified them to continue holding closed meetings, and caused the judge set aside the case for a while.
Yes, I heard a Law Professor with Brit Humme the other night discussing this very issue. IF my memory serves me correctly, Cheneys task force consisted of OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATION members, appointed by the administration for the very purpose of the intent of the task force, whereas, Thunderthighs' taskforce consisted of just the opposite; numerous private and coroporate affiliates, who had no official appointment or title, and were merely "invited" to attend and or be a part of the task force.
Those incapable of computerizing the data themselves will have to turn it over to a ``clearinghouse,'' such as Equifax, IBM, or TRW. (Note that Working Group 10 in the Clinton Health Care Task Force concerned Information Systems.) Data can then be disseminated nationwide and internationally, ``to cooperate with national committees of other countries and with the World Health Organization and other national agencies in the studies of problems of mutual interest'' (253).
HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE
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It is? This was a bumper sticker I observed recently and is typical of either socialist brainwashing, or this person has never read the U.S. Constitution. After Mr. Clinton took office, his wife decided to waste everyone's time and energy on formulating a national health care plan. congress, in this frenzy, spent over $30 million and a year and a half worth of time and effort for legislation, if signed into law, will not survive a true constitutional court challenge. Mr. & Mrs. Clinton, Herger, Dole, Gingrich, Kennedy, Feinstein, and the owner of the bumper sticker above, apparently have no regard for the U.S. Constitution. As a matter of fact, research turned up by Linda Liotta, a "patriot" whose story was actually written up in thc Washington Post, August 20, 1995, found a letter in the health care "task force" archives from a Justice Department official lawyer explaining how to "avoid the Tenth Amendment limitation" on federal power over the states. To say that Mrs. Clinton [a lawyer herself was being disingenuous, is putting it politely.
...The direct control of medical practice has been left to the states."
What the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ruled. is that health care is beyond the power of the federal government and reserved to the individual states of the Union by the 10th Amendment. Yet, our learned brethren and the Co-President of the United States wants to waste everyone's time and energy on a moot point.
Well, it certainly did distract the average American out there, didn't it?
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