The plan is mostly likely to stonewall any real attempts at oversight until the end of the Bush administration. I think that once the true extent of corruption and incompetence vis a vis Iraq is revealed it will boggle the imagination. The GOP can’t have this public before the election.
Lawmaker says Rice interfered with Iraq inquiry | Markets | Reuters
A leading Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of interfering in congressional inquiries into corruption in Iraq’s government and the activities of U.S. security firm Blackwater.Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman said State Department officials had told the Oversight and Government Reform Committee he chairs they could not provide details of corruption in Iraq’s government unless the information was treated as a “state secret” and not revealed to the public.
“You are wrong to interfere with the committee’s inquiry,” Waxman said in a letter to Rice. “The State Department’s position on this matter is ludicrous,” added Waxman, a vocal opponent of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.
