Tom Davis Quotes
The tragic truth is that this falls somewhere between screw-up and cover-up.
Elements of the Army lied to the family of the dead soldier and the media, and then tried to cover up the lies. Davis was one of the few Congressman who would castigate a scandal caused by the administration of his own party.
Tom Davis, U. S. Congressman (Republican, VA), House Congressional Hearing on the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman, August 1, 2007
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Elements of the Army lied to the family of the dead soldier and the media, and then tried to cover up the lies. Abazaid is one of the few government high officials who was candid about his agency’s failure.
Testifying for air power proponent General Billy Mitchell at his court martial, the Congressman described the quality of Mitchell's superiors:
Rush ran the hospitals for the Revolutionary Army and talked to many officers and enlisted men, and also observed much of the British military practices.
Nathaniel Gordon was the first American slave trader to be executed after the slave trade was made illegal. The Erie was his slave ship where, as was typical, many of the captured Blacks, died as a result of the inhuman conditions. Although Gordon was the first person executed in America, the act making the slave trade an act of piracy dated from 1820. See {68753} .
It was almost unheard of for generals and retired generals to criticize the administration publicly, but the George W. Bush Administration polarized not only the country as a whole but the military as well.
He was commenting on some of the military disciplinary, logistical, intelligence, and tactical breakdowns that had occurred in the Afghanistan War.
When politicians make bad decisions or choose bad alternatives, there is usually a price which involves use of tax money and sometimes the sacrifice of life itself. In the case to which McCain was referring, the George W. Bush Administration had gone to war against Iraq for reasons that turned out not to be true, and then after a military victory with few casualties, botched the occupation of the country and a vicious insurgency developed bogging down the nation in its longest war in history. The major burden fell on the armed forces and their families while all Americans endured the highest financial deficits in the nation’s history.
Disciplining agents for dereliction in the Oswald investigation would be seen as Early in 1962, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Immigration & Naturalization Service all had files on Oswald but none of them shared the information with any of the other agencies. Before the Kennedy murder, the FBI had gathered evidence that Oswald may have been a deranged Marxist who supported the Cuban Revolution. The Central Intelligence Agency knew that Oswald was working at the Texas Book Depository. If the Secret Service had been privy to these agency’s files or even one of them, the Kennedy Assassination might have been prevented. Also, to J. Edgar Hoover’s later distress, the FBI did not follow up and locate Oswald when they learned their facts. He disciplined several agents. See {634531}. No one was more careful to “protect” the image of the FBI than Hoover. He used his powers to classify documents as “Secret” and did so for all the documentation of the FBI negligence and the discipline until 2000 when it became public.
Thomas Milburn Davis III is an American lobbyist and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who represented Virginia's 11th congressional district in Northern Virginia. Davis was considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by five-term incumbent and fellow Republican John Warner in the 2008 election, but decided against it. He announced on January 30, 2008, that he would not seek reelection to an eighth term. Davis resigned from Congress on November 24, 2008.
