Rumsfeld Wants To Cut “Red Tape”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has asked Congress to cut the red tape so that he can be “freed from archaic rules and regulations”.

Rumsfeld submitted a proposal to Congress on April 11 that would scrap virtually every reporting requirement intended to let lawmakers oversee major defense spending programs.

This comes from a government in which the Vice President has secret meetings to create energy policy and has to be taken to court to get information! A government that reportedly gave a Halliburton subsidiary a deal for work in Iraq, without sending it out to bid (while Cheney continues to receive $1M payments from Halliburton).

I don’t think I would trust the Clinton administration to have run without oversight and accountability to provide information. I definitely do not believe that this administration has earned the trust to be free of accountability.