Witness can't testify...quick shipped to Iraq...by Bush...

From American Progress:

IRAQ -- TOP RECONSTRUCTION OFFICIAL FLOWN TO BAGHDAD TO AVOID OVERSIGHT HEARING:

For the first time since the war began, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is holding aggressive oversight hearings into the billions in waste, fraud, and abuse of U.S. funds in Iraq. On Jan. 10, when President Bush first made his plans for escalation public, he also announced plans to "appoint a reconstruction coordinator in Baghdad to ensure better results for economic assistance being spent in Iraq."

The next day, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named career diplomat Timothy Carney to the position.

During yesterday's hearings, Waxman revealed that the State Department has blocked Carney from appearing at the hearing, despite the fact that Carney personally told Waxman he "was willing to come." Moreover, the Bush administration has apparently rushed him to Baghdad despite claiming that the reason he could not appear at the hearing was because he "did not yet know what he was going to do in Iraq."

Waxman added that the State Department has "now told us that they may make him available to Congress in six months."

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