Memorandum for Confirmation Book
Answers to SASC Pre-Hearing Questions for Secretary-Designate Cohen
DEPARTMENTOFDEFENSE OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL 1600 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301.1600
January 6,1997 MEMORANDUM FOR CONFIRMATION BOOK GROUP SUBJECT: Answers to SASC Pre-Hearing Questions for Secretary-Designate Cohen
This memo is to restate and supplement the current plans and schedule regarding answers to SASC pre-hearing questions. 1. Draftine answers. Please be sure to follow the content and format guidelines stated in my memorandum of December 24. In addition, please remember the rules established by Ms. Miller at the December 18 meeting: be concise; avoid excessive detail; stick with established positions and themes; do not make new policy. 2. Submission of draft answer*. Answers are due to room 3E999 not later than noon, Wednesday. Jannarv 8. This date was established to avoid the need to disrupt holiday leave schedules, but it eliminated any slack in the schedule. All responses must be in on time, approved by the senior official or principal deputy of the office involved. You must submit your answers in both hard cow and on disk, preferably in WordPerfect 6.1 or 6.0. 3. Include ooints of contact. To facilitate the coordination process, please include with your submission the appropriate point of contact for each answer. Include: name, office, room number, office phone number, home phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. 4. Coordination. The schedule permits only a 2-day coordination. A set of draft answers will be available for pick-up in room 3E999 late afternoon, Wednesday, January 8. You may call Cathy Weaver or me at 697-9341 in the mid-afternoon to find out the time the draft answers will be available. 5. Cornmen&. Affirmative coordinations from each offrice are’ requested. Rather, the not coordination process is to recommend substantive changes that the commenting office believes are necessary for factual accuracy or to state correctly Administration or Departmental policy. Comments must be submitted bv 4 a.m.. Friday. Januarv 10. to room 33999. Again, comments should be accompanied by the identification of a point of contact: name, office, room number, office phone number, home phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. 6. Resolution of disam-eementg. If there are any substantive disagreements regarding answers, they will have to be resolved over the weekend of January 11-12. If any Confirmation Book Group coordinator will be unavailable over the weekend, please identify to me a back-up. Many thanks for your continued assistance. Joe
Memorandum for Confirmation Book
Advance Policy Questions from SASC
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL
1600 DEFENSE PENTAGON WASHINGTON,,DC 20301-1600
December 24, 1996 MEMORANDUM FOR CONFIRMATION BOOK GROUP SUBJECT: Advance Policy Questions from SASC
Attached are the advance policy questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee. As you know, the proposed answers to these questions make up Volume Four of the Confirmation Book. Pending a formal request from the leadership, I wanted to share these with you as quickly as possible. I have noted in the margin the office of primary responsibility for the preparation of the draft answer. No due date has yet been established, but I anticipate a due date and time of noon, Friday, January 3. The answers (which must be unclassified) should be prepared with the view that these will ultimately become the personal answers that Senator Cohen will submit. Therefore, the answers must not be drafted in a context only appropriate for an incumbent senior DOD official or imply knowledge or participation in internal DOD processes. On the other hand, answers should take note of facts that have been or will be presented to the Secretary-Designate in briefings or briefing papers. The Office of General Counsel will consolidate the individual answers into a single document. Therefore, you must submit your draft responses in hard copy and on disk, preferably in WordPerfect 6.1 or 6.0. Please retype the heading and the question before the answer. If the topic has more than one question, each question must have a separate answer. A multipart question may not be answered with one response. I am also attaching a copy of the final,submission to the SASC made by then Deputy Secretary-Designate White in May 1995. This can serve as a model with respect to format. Thank you for your assistance.
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