WAXMAN GETS HYPE, SENDS LETTERS. Brian Beutler reported yesterday on Rep. Henry Waxman's letter to the EPA calling them out for ignoring the Supreme Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA. Yesterday he also sent a letter to Condoleezza Rice, in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, demanding that the State Department come forth with "all reports prepared by the Office of Accountability and Transparency, whether classified or unclassified, relating to the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity," and make three officials from the Office of Accountability and Transparency available for interview, which they'd requested back on Sept. 10. So far, the State Department has only let one of the three officials available for interview, and let staffers come read the relevant reports, without providing copies of those reports. Waxman set a deadline for noon today, and says they'll issue a subpoena if they don't deliver. "I would like to avoid the need for the use of this compulsory process," he writes.
--Kate Sheppard
