Monday, August 07, 2006

Pentagon Clears Itself of Wrongdoing

In yet another whitewash, the Defense Department's Inspector General's office is giving the Pentagon another "all clear."

From Capitol Hill Blue:
There is no evidence defense officials intentionally misled the Sept. 11 commission when they gave mistaken accounts about actions at the time of the terror attacks, the Pentagon's watchdog agency said.

Poor investigating and record keeping contributed to the inaccuracies, according to a summary from the inspector general's office of the Pentagon.
The Defense Department inspector general has not yet publicly released the full report on the military's testimony to the commission, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Brian Maka said Saturday.

The question of whether military commanders intentionally were misleading will be addressed in the full report, he said.

But Maka said "there is nothing that indicates the information provided to the commission was knowingly false."


What else do we expect when the we allow an agency to investigate itself?