Oversight Chairman Wants GSA Chief to Testify Again

[maddezmom]

Source: Washington Post

By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 25, 2007; Page A08

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday asked General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan to testify about allegations that she made "misleading and false" statements to an independent investigative agency.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) invited Doan to testify before his committee June 7 about statements that she made to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which interviewed her during an inquiry into whether she had violated the federal Hatch Act. The act restricts executive branch employees from using their positions for political purposes.


The special counsel's office questioned Doan and numerous GSA political appointees about a Jan. 26 presentation of 2006 election results by Karl Rove's political affairs deputy at the White House. Several political appointees told investigators that Doan asked them after the presentation how they could help Republicans in 2008.

Doan told the special counsel's office under oath that she could not recall making any such statement, according to a May 18 report by the special counsel's office, which found that Doan had violated the Hatch Act.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402112.html

[annabanana]

1. Can Lurita be arrested and jailed?

She broke laws, right?

[rodeodance]

2. Ha-she says the people who made allegations were Low performers:

..........Doan told the special counsel's office under oath that she could not recall making any such statement, according to a May 18 report by the special counsel's office, which found that Doan had violated the Hatch Act.

Doan also told investigators that the appointees who made the allegation against her were biased because they were poor performers. She said that "there is not a single one of those who did not have somewhere in between a poor to totally inferior performance," according to the report.

Investigators for the special counsel reviewed the performance evaluations of seven political appointees who gave unfavorable testimony about Doan. They found that each had been rated as meeting or exceeding expectations, and some had received awards for their work, the report said.

The special counsel concluded that Doan's sworn statement appeared "to have been purposefully misleading and false," and noted that Doan "knew that none of the above named witnesses had ever been subjected to written disciplinary action," according to the report.

[tanyev]

3. Bring your own water glass, Lurita. Wear rubber gloves.

BOO!

[Parche]

4. Lurita

NO NO, I cant stand to see her smirk and play dumb again..........:mad: :hurts:



Send her directly to jail, do not pass Committee...............:rofl: :rofl:

[struggle4progress]

5. House Hearing Set on GSA Chief's Remarks

May 25, 2007, 3:19PM
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A U.S. congressional committee has scheduled a hearing about remarks that Lurita Doan, who runs the government's main contracting arm, allegedly made to discredit employees who testified against her in a misconduct probe.

Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote in a May 24 letter to Doan, chief of the General Services Administration, that her accusations the officials were "biased and poor performers" are serious. He set a hearing for June 7.

"Government employees who cooperate with congressional and federal investigations perform a vital service to the nation," Waxman wrote. "It would be a serious abuse if your statements were part of an effort to retaliate against these witnesses for cooperating with the Oversight Committee's investigation." ~snip~

Waxman's letter comes on the heels of an Office of Special Counsel's preliminary report that concluded Doan violated the Hatch Act, a federal law that prohibits government employees from partisan political activity. ~snip~

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4836856.html

[struggle4progress]

6. Early special counsel report pushed punishment for GSA chief

By Daniel Pulliam [e-mail] May 24, 2007

An early version of a report finding that General Services Administration head Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, the law limiting political activity in the government, recommended that President Bush "take disciplinary action" against her. This was changed to "appropriate action" in a later version of the report. ~snip~

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/052407p1.htm

[Marie26]

7. More Lurita!

She really is my favorite Bush crony. Why does she still have a job after violating the Hatch Act?