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To: Lane3 who wrote (42890)	5/8/2004 2:08:03 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) of 793719

Not sure why you were aghast, Karen. That's a pretty good representation of what happened for the entire 3 hours. Evidently, the Senate hearings are just for the aggrandizement and ego of the Senators...the real reports are in all the papers that the Secretary and the Generals brought with them. >>>>>>>>>It was a humane flogging, as these things go. The secretary of defense was occasionally hectored, badgered and interrupted, but his rights were never violated. His main punishment was being forced to sit in a witness chair for 165 uninterrupted minutes yesterday while one United States senator after another hurled a speech at him.<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>The Armed Services Committee has 25 members, fully a quarter of the Senate. Every senator had the privilege of questioning witnesses for precisely five minutes yesterday, but much of that precious time was gobbled up by oration.<<<<<<<<<<< I was aghast at this piece from the Post until I checked and saw that it was from the C section, Style. A Volley of Hard Questions, Many Unasked

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