Lawmakers are focusing on how high up the chain of command culpability for the abuse goes.
But congressional inquiries into the affair are looking higher up the chain of command.
How high up the chain of command does responsibility for this gun walking fiasco and cover-up reach?
Now they're just trying to find out how far that lie went up the chain of command.
The question for the Bush administration is how far up the chain of command the scandal will reach.
Instead of a months-long back-and-forth process, Marshall-Chapman speeds up the chain of command.
McCleod testified that she had brought all her complaints far up the chain of command, and that they were simply ignored.
Prosecutors said this was part of a deliberate strategy of starting with the small fry and working up the chain of command.
In retrospect, this was important news, which should have been passed up the chain of command to Mr Lake and ultimately to the president.
What hard evidence takes those abuses up the chain of command and lands them in the vice president's office, which is where you're placing it?
He also questioned why an independent Accountability Review Board that investigated the attacks didn't expand its probe to cover decisions made higher up the chain of command.
He also asked why a State Department review board that investigated the attacks didn't expand its probe to cover decisions made higher up the chain of command.
In his prepared testimony, he also asked why a review board investigating the attacks didn't expand its probe to cover decisions made higher up the chain of command.
But in the electrified political atmosphere of an election year, the Bush administration's opponents will want to see the buck stop far higher up the chain of command.
Such political correctness, or willful blindness up the chain of command, doubtless caused Hasan's colleagues to keep silent about his alarming beliefs, lest they be punished for expressing concerns about them.
But the judge claimed it was in the public interest to discover how far up the chain of command knowledge of the rigging went, noting "the cat is out of the bag".
When this message is clear and credible, colleagues will not hesitate to call one another on errors in safety practice, and news of near misses will pass up the chain of command without impedance.
For the first time, on-the-ground soldiers will be able to fire at a hidden opponent without having to go up the chain of command to ask for a precision air strike and waste precious time doing so.
"The secretary-general, I think, as a manager, wants to have a review of the circumstances under which filming is done in peacekeeping missions and the way in which information is moved up the chain of command, " Eckhard said.
"Time and time again communication is passed up the chain of command but when I was there it didn't change dramatically - the letters were sent off about the potential dangers, but things just stayed the same, " he added.
Lynn's defense team argues that he repeatedly sent word of child sex abuse up the chain of command, operated under strict orders from the late Archbishop Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and never had the power to remove a priest from ministry.
When the ISP said no even to producing the older emails, the Revenue Agent went up the IRS chain of command to the IRS General Counsel for help.
The big idea that bubbled up through the chain of command was a long-haul counter-insurgency campaign.
We see a military response system for sexual assault that is structured so individuals who were sexually assaulted report to a higher up in the chain of command.
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Attacking terrorist targets in Africa is not a new trend, in fact a secret order (known as the al-Qaeda EXORD) dating back to 2003 authorized lethal action by JSOC forces against al-Qaeda in Algeria, Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia and Syria so long as JSOC forces sought the tacit approval from the country involved or at least a sign-off from higher up on the American chain of command.
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Some cardinals have suggested restructuring the Curia's chain of command, breaking up the all-powerful post of secretary of state, which was held by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone under Pope Benedict XVI.
Today the increment of time for market change is now faster than the increment of time for moving information up and down a chain of command.
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