What he's doing is elevating the perspective of the leadership of this department and asking: 'I don't know the answers to these questions, but they're on my mind and I want them on your mind too.'

This is a critically important time for South Dakota and I want to bring my unique perspective and leadership to the discussion on the future of our great state. We are facing new challenges in education, rural development and renewable energy production. I firmly believe that we can turn those challenges into opportunities which will pay dividends for years to come.

We have not been able to find anything that would corroborate the kind of detail Lt. Col. Shaffer and Congressman Weldon seem to recall.

This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed.

The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized,

In many cases, we are holding people accountable, prior to people even knowing that there was a case. And that's not anybody's fault. That's just the way the military justice system operates.