White House officials said Wednesday that the project was brought up in the memo only as way to illustrate that some renewable energy projects could move forward without a federal loan guarantee, and that the comments in the memo should not be viewed as signaling a final decision by the administration on the project.
Having an underling draft a staff memo is not all that unusual.
In a memo announcing that Chernin would not be renewing his contract, News Corp.
It was Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv's 13-year mayor and a former combat pilot, who, while London's Tech City was not even the subject of an interdepartmental memo, had got on with building a tech center second only to Silicon Valley.
She also said Clarke did not mention it in a January 25, 2001, memo offering recommendations on dealing with al Qaeda overseas.
Just recently, one City household name abandoned all pretence of impartiality, and sent all its analysts a memo warning them that they were "not commercial enough".
"Do not sign unless you have that comfort level, " a GMAC memo then advised employees.
There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.
What formal way -- are there not note-takers in the meetings who then maybe put these discussions in a memo that goes to the President?
One of them immediately called for his CFO and wrote out a detailed memo to all county heads under his command telling them what not to spend on at all, and what to seek his pre-fact approval for before spending.
The investigators didn't include a response from Winnick, who founded the company, but by the time that the June 5, 2000, memo was written, Winnick was already well upstream--and swimming not in a river but in the pool of his mansion in Southern California.
Mr Enness acknowledged that not every single one of the 1, 000-strong service personnel would read the memo in a positive way, but stressed that it was worded carefully, and intended as a "wake-up" call.
McCurry argued that a memo from then director of administration David Watkins had stipulated that the computer file was not to be used for political purposes--although the fact that Watkins was subsequently forced to resign for misuse of government property did not help the press secretary's case.
College President Pafford responded swiftly: "You are not entitled to financial compensation by any other State of Georgia agency or institution, " he wrote in a memo.
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While departmental spokesman Richard Boucher tried with a straight face to suggest that there was no connection between the Grossman memo and the Tarnoff debacle, the implication was unmistakable: Such a clearance process had not been in place before Tarnoff delivered his remarks and therefore his comments had been unauthorized.
If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.
However, Burton, Reno and Freeh all appear to be downplaying the possibility of a showdown, despite a threat from some GOP members to hold Reno and Freeh in contempt of Congress if the memo is not supplied.
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