Claire McCaskill actually said...

"If there is a new program undertaken in the military, I was under the assumption that in the active branches, there was always the requirement of a written legal opinion for a program to begin."

"The bottom line is the recruiters in every State work for the Adjutant General (TAG) in every State."

"How many investigators do you have working this right now?"

"But, that does not change the fact that they signed up, and so there should have been those legal authorizations there just as we are asking those questions of you."