What does this refer to?
It’s an Executive Order he signed a day or two ago, it was posted on a couple of threads. Naturally I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. I hope people who can explain what this all means show up and explain.
President Bush issued an Executive Order on Friday. It's seemingly fairly innocuous, having to do with various departments (ie. State, Defense, Justice, etc) relying on background checks and other investigations conducted by and/or for departments other than themselves. The only thing I thought rather strange was the timing of the order. It didn't seem to be the sort of thing that a President would do "at the last minute", as they do pardons and commutations.
Background checks are manpower intensive and thus expensive. The language is a bit convoluted, but I took that to be because the author(s) were trying to cover all the various departments, which even use different terminology for much the same things regarding access to sensitive (classified) data. Thus it made sense to me that money could be saved when people, particularly contractors, move between departments or work on projects from multiple departments over the same period of time. Folks at my place of employment do that a lot, mainly NASA and DoD, but others as well.
However others seem to have found a few other little things in there that they think might be used to go after BHO, his Magic Birth Certificate, and his eligibility to the office of President of the United States.
President Bush issued an Executive Order on Friday. It's seemingly fairly innocuous, having to do with various departments (ie. State, Defense, Justice, etc) relying on background checks and other investigations conducted by and/or for departments other than themselves. The only thing I thought rather strange was the timing of the order. It didn't seem to be the sort of thing that a President would do "at the last minute", as they do pardons and commutations.
Background checks are manpower intensive and thus expensive. The language is a bit convoluted, but I took that to be because the author(s) were trying to cover all the various departments, which even use different terminology for much the same things regarding access to sensitive (classified) data. Thus it made sense to me that money could be saved when people, particularly contractors, move between departments or work on projects from multiple departments over the same period of time. Folks at my place of employment do that a lot, mainly NASA and DoD, but others as well.
However others seem to have found a few other little things in there that they think might be used to go after BHO, his Magic Birth Certificate, and his eligibility to the office of President of the United States.