Political Quotes

“I think we have got a good work product here, and I think this reflects some pretty good bipartisan work in what are fairly useful sessions where we have briefings by SEC DEF and the other relevant leadership in DoD. He brought up the fact, and we talked about the fact, that in the Abu Ghraib prison situation you had General Sanchez starting an investigation immediately after the soldier came forward, and the investigation proceeded apace; and under the UCMJ, the prosecutions proceeded apace; but nobody flagged this as something of particularly extraordinary or explosive impact. So we did not have a system that flagged something. In this age of television and instant communications, these pictures were out in the press before SEC DEF knew about it or we knew about it or other people knew about it. So I think this is a good result of the gentleman understanding that, talking it back and forth with DoD.”