“Oversight? Screw you, I’m outta here.” – Another Bush Crony Takes His Ball and Goes Home
Posted By JM Bell on October 25, 2007
Here is the Headline:
State official quitting amid Blackwater scandal
Here is the meat of it:
Security chief Griffin announces resignation day after new oversight OK’d
From MSNBC yesterday:
WASHINGTON – The State Department’s security chief announced his resignation on Wednesday in the wake of last month’s deadly Blackwater USA shooting incident in Baghdad and growing questions about the use of private contractors in Iraq.
Richard Griffin, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, announced his decision to resign at a weekly staff meeting, according to an internal informational e-mail sent to colleagues.
When these asshats get caught up in actual oversight, why do they quit? It’s obvious the guy had no idea how to do his job legally, so, with some guidelines from the People’s House, he would have finally known what he was supposed to do, and could have quit making it up as he went along. Or, when informed about International Law as it regards to war, he may have had an, “oh, shit,” moment and he’s packing up his stuff to move to a country without extradition laws. 6 to 5 and pick ‘em.
Griffin announced his resignation just a day after Rice ordered a series of measures to boost government oversight of the private guards the department uses to protect its diplomats in Iraq.
The steps were recommended by a review panel Rice created after a Sept. 16 incident in which Blackwater personnel are accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians. The panel found serious lapses in the department’s oversight of such guards, who are employed by Griffin’s bureau.
See? That’s not suspicious AT ALL, right? So, digging deeper, it looks like Secretary of State Conan Rice decided that maybe the State Department ought to pay a little bit of attention to what was going on in Iraq. Wow. You think? In a move reminiscent of the months before the 9/11 attack, Conan Rice formed a committee that doesn’t really do anything:
Rice’s review panel found serious lapses in the department’s oversight of such guards, who are employed by Griffin’s bureau.
Ok, good start, what’s next?
The panel made no specific recommendations about what should happen to Blackwater, whose guards were escorting an official from the U.S. Embassy when the shooting occurred. Iraqi authorities claim Blackwater guards fired unprovoked, but Blackwater’s founder has said his employees were fired on first.
Oh. Well. Heck’uva job there Conan.
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