No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

I think it was a great program, ... It was one of the things I'm proudest of.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Put together that letter and the commander's recent actions and statements against the government, his interference with who should be appointed the president and vice-president at the Great Council of Chiefs, and you have a recipe that threatens stability and peace.