[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the Day by beckett

[Common Tator]

In an interview today, David M. Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, suggested that a lawsuit against the Bush administration was almost certain if the White House failed to provide the information by the end of next week.

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?

[yoe]

John, who is David M. Walker? Is he a Clinton hold over or a Bush appointee? Didn't the GOA loose or had unaccounted millions missing during the Clinton years? How many of those 'credit' cards belong to people working for the GOA? Yep, a little scandal there would be very interesting.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This whole "issue" was created by what appears to be a left-leaning GAO who has the support of the lemmings in the press corps to change the discussion on a National Energy Policy from a debate on the merits of the Presidents proposals to a debate on the process used to put it together. I suspect that democrats know they will lose a debate on the merits so they are putting up a smoke screen with the help of their surrogates.

[wotan]

Does anyone know why Cheney's task force was legal but Hillary's wasn't? I have read that Cheney was very careful to organize his so that their deliberations could be kept secret. Hillary was not so careful.

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?

[kcvl]

David M. Walker

Our guys can BEAT up their guys...lol!

[RJCogburn]

The motivations of Waxman and the rest are unlikely to be pure, and are intended, it would seem, to gain a political advantage.

Having said that, I don't like the idea of government secrets in matters not related to security and national defense.

While the guys in office now are decent people, I don't like having to rely on the good character and good intentions of the government. Administrations and individuals come and go. A principle of no secrets, except for security/defense would be best.

Many of these secrets involve areas in which, ideally, the government ought not to be involved in the first place.