James O’Beirne, get ready to meet Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA).
As part of Waxman’s ongoing hearings into cronyism at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today demanded that Defense Secretary Bob Gates provide the committee with pertinent information relating to O’Beirne. O’Beirne, as readers of Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City know, was the Defense Department official who screened potential candidates for CPA jobs on such mission-critical qualifications such as whether or not they voted for George W. Bush or agreed with Roe v. Wade. Apparently, Waxman’s earlier requests to interview O’Beirne were “mislaid,” according to Defense Department officials.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181482