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Rumsfeld Fails to deliver benchmarks, in contempt of congress
by Open-Publishing - Friday 15 July 20053 comments
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DEFENSE SECRETARY DON RUMSFELD FAILS TO GIVE WAR PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Under the provisions of the defense bill, Rumsfeld
was supposed to give performance numbers
WASHINGTON POST — President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.
Two weeks ago, David Broder pointed out that the Bush administration would soon face a congressionally mandated make-or-break moment regarding its Iraq policy: "Under a little-noticed provision of the defense spending bill passed by Congress in May, Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld has until July 11 [two days ago] to send Capitol Hill a ’comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures of stability and security’ two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein." The deadline came and went Monday without a peep from DoD.
A Pentagon spokesperson stated that those Iraq indicators have indeed been "delayed" and that there is currently no specific date set for their release. Apparently the administration is willing to do just about anything; including violate the law again; to avoid giving Americans a detailed assessment of our progress (or lack thereof) in Iraq.
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15 July 2005, 08:11
Who will challenge them. The Congress is happy being bipartisan. The proverb united we stand should be changed united we go under.
15 July 2005, 11:12
As I believe Ambrose Bierce once said: "’Un-’: a prefix, meaning ’not’; as in ’United States of America’."
16 July 2005, 17:32
"It is outrageous for the Pentagon to be violating the law and showing such deliberate contempt of congressional oversight," Meehan said in the statement. "But aside from the fact that the Pentagon has not met its legal requirements, I am troubled that two years into the war in Iraq we still don’t have a comprehensive set of metrics and timelines.".
Pentagon Misses Deadline for Required Iraq Report