GovExec.com Today - September 3, 2004
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September 3, 2004
* No timeline set for selecting new civil service subcommittee chief
* CACI chief defends company's interrogation work
* Pentagon encourages environmentally friendly acquisitions
* Customs and Border Protection canine nominated for top dog award
* Cabinet changes expected if Bush is re-elected
* Today's column: Legal Briefs
* The Earlybird: Today's headlines
* Quote of the Day
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1. No timeline set for selecting new civil service subcommittee chief
By David McGlinchey
No timeline has been established to replace Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., as the
chairwoman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency
Organization, a senior committee member said Thursday.
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., the subcommittee's vice chairman, said there is no firm
deadline to replace Davis, who left last month to take a seat on the House Select
Committee on Intelligence. Several congressional staff members previously said that
Rep. Ed Schrock, R-Va., was a favorite to succeed Davis. Schrock, however, announced
Monday that he would not run for reelection in his southeastern Virginia district
after a Washington-based Web site alleged that he is secretly homosexual.
Schrock, a former Navy officer, is a prominent supporter of a constitutional amendment
that would ban gay marriage, and opposes the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the
military. Schrock has not discussed the allegations beyond saying that he will not
seek another term in Congress.
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2. CACI chief defends company's interrogation work
By Shane Harris
The president and chief executive officer of CACI International Inc., whose employees
were hired by the Army to perform interrogations in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, defended
his employees' qualifications and took issue with some specific findings of a recent
Army report on alleged prison abuses.
In an interview, J.P. "Jack" London called the investigation "a very complicated
topic." But he sought to clarify a number of points concerning the CACI interrogators'
experience and training, as well as their work at Abu Ghraib. According to London, no
more than 10 CACI interrogators worked at the prison complex at any given time.
"The language in that report is a bit unfortunate," London said of the investigation
recently completed by Maj. Gen. George Fay. "It gives the impression that [CACI
interrogators] were sent over there and didn't know what the hell they were doing,
which is patently not the facts of the matter." The Fay report recommended that the
Army's general counsel consider referring three CACI employees to the Justice
Department for prosecution, alleging that they abused detainees.
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3. Pentagon encourages environmentally friendly acquisitions
By Amelia Gruber
The Defense Department has issued a new policy aimed at helping procurement offices
make environmentally sound purchases, officials announced Wednesday.
The "green procurement" guidelines ask the department's acquisition officials to plan
how they will identify opportunities to buy environmentally friendly "products and
services in the normal course of business" and keep up-to-date lists of those
opportunities. Such items include products made from recycled materials or non-ozone
depleting substances, and those labeled as energy-efficient. Products or services that
use alternative fuels also count as green.
Under the policy, Defense purchasing offices must also set reasonable goals for buying
environmentally safe items, based on overall levels of acquisition and the nature of
goods and services needed.
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4. Customs and Border Protection canine nominated for top dog award
Daniel Pulliam
The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection is urging people to vote "Trouble," the
top U.S. service dog in the Pedigree Paws to Recognize contest.
A member of the CBP elite Agriculture Inspection Beagle Brigade, Trouble is following
in the footsteps of last year's winner, the CBP narcotic detector Labrador retriever
Crazy Joe, assigned to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
People can vote for Trouble, or one of the five other service dogs, at Pedigree Paws
to Recognize until Monday.
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5. Cabinet changes expected if Bush is re-elected
By Alexis Simendinger, National Journal
Donald
Rumsfeld is likely to stay as Defense secretary in a second Bush
term if he wants to. Attorney General John Ashcroft would
probably go, and RNC Chairman (and former Montana Gov.) Marc
Racicot is a leading candidate to succeed him. Treasury
Secretary John Snow absolutely would stay. Colin Powell is
departing State -- no news here -- but there is no single
leading replacement candidate yet, should President Bush get the
chance to name one. Longtime Bush friend Donald Evans, head of
the Commerce Department and viewed by the president as a top
spokesman for his economic programs, seems ready to leave
Washington; his wife has already moved back to Texas.
Those are the headlines
wheedled out of well-informed White House, congressional,
administration, and private-sector sources gathered for Bush's
convention week in New York.
"I don't know what the
turnover will be in the second term," Evans told reporters
Wednesday. "People love serving the country," he said, "and love
serving this president." Evans conceded, "Of course there is"
burnout after four tumultuous years, "but the people who know
the president best love him the most."
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6. Today's column: Legal Briefs
Split Decision
A federal judge dismisses a class action discrimination lawsuit, but allows
plaintiffs to move forward with individual lawsuits.
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7. The Earlybird: Today's headlines
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8. Quote of the Day
"He's only halfway through his plan to reform the Pentagon."
-- Grover Norquist, president of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, explaining
why Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may { Link:
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remain in his post if President Bush wins a second term.
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