The Daily Background

Dick Cheney on Walter Reed today:

“President Bush has made our administration’s priority very clear to the Congress and to the country: there will be no excuses, only action.”

Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley today admitted that ultimately responsibility rests with him for the conditions at Walter Reed. But here’s him on the same day making excuses and blaming awful conditions at the Walter Reed outpatient Building 18 on what he called “junior level” leadership:

My concern that the issues in Building 18 — which were clearly unacceptable, clearly unacceptable, and were a failure of leadership at the junior level in that building.

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