tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post7360050665733720960..comments2023-09-25T21:22:28.439-04:00Comments on Cup Of Joe Powell: House Ethics Group Not Done With Davis AideJoe Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04326800254526438870noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15078815.post-90390620229832599962007-08-29T13:40:00.000-04:002007-08-29T13:40:00.000-04:00U.S. Rep. David Davis, Staff Doublespeaking About ...U.S. Rep. David Davis, Staff Doublespeaking About Press Secretary Vandalizing Wikipedia Political Bios (gleaned from the Saturday, August 25 edition of the Johnson City Press and the U.S. House Ethics web site:<BR/><BR/>-U.S. Rep. Davis' Chief of Staff (COS) Brenda Otterson is now admitting that her "informal inquiry" regarding the Hill-Wikipedia blanking vandalism of political biographies with Timothy Hill utilizing government computers within Rep. Davis' congressional offices for political activity was not actually referred to the individual Members of Congress serving within the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (UHCSOC; popularly known as the "U.S. House Ethics Committee"), but rather with UHCSOC staffer(s) yet unidentified by name and job title (meaning that these unknown staffer(s) could be anyone inclluding UHCSOC telephone clerks, student interns, secretaries, janitors, attorneys, office supervisors, etc.);<BR/><BR/>-U.S. Rep. David Davis' COS Otterson could not have filled such a report with the individual Members of Congress via the UHCSOC as the Otterson telephone inquiry was made this August 2007 during the U.S. Congressional recess and the U.S. Congress will not convene until at least September;<BR/><BR/>- U.S. Rep. Davis' COS Otterson is now disclosing that she did not file a written report originating from Rep. Davis' office pertaining to the Hill-Wikipedia vandalism that was ever submitted to the yet unidentified UHCSOC staffer(s), and presumably, Davis' Press Secretary Hill at the time of notifying Davis and his COS was not required to submit his own written statement of the events pertaining to the Hill-Wikipedia vandalism to be included in a written report for the UHCSOC;<BR/><BR/>- U.S. Rep. Davis' COS Otterson made the inquiry with the yet unidentified UHCSOC by telephonic interview of unknown duration based on statements made Davis' press secretary Timothy Hill; [a related news article appearing within the August 11, 2007 edition of the Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee) reveled that Hill was "...initially contacted about the attempts to revise the Davis and Rep. Hill biographies, Hill told the News Sentinel he was not personally responsible. But he called a reporter back later to say he had spoken off the cuff on his cell phone in the midst of a hectic event involving the congressman and “miscommunicated”];<BR/><BR/>- U.S. Rep. David Davis' COS Otterson based her telephonic inquiry of the unnamed and unidentifiedd UHCSOC staffer "...on the information that Timothy gave me'' [and not mentioned by Otterman as if she also provided the UHCSOC staffer with a copy of the August 11, 2007 Knoxville News-Sentinel news article that originally broke the news of the Hill-Wikipedia vandalism scandal];<BR/> <BR/>- U.S. Rep. Davis' COS Otterman has not disclosed the length of her telephone inquiry with the yet unnamed and unidentified UHCSOC staffer;<BR/><BR/>- U.S. Rep. Davis' COS Otterson sought "...no formal investigation by them" (UHCSOC), "looking into what the precedents were, and to see how we should or could address the issue;<BR/><BR/>- U.S. Rep. Davis' press secretary Timothy Hill had once already completed the U.S. House ethics training earlier in 2007 when Davis began his freshman term representing the Tennessee 1st U.S. House District; howver, Davis is not offering an explanation as to how Hill's second time enrollment in the ethics course would address his press secreatry choosing to disregard the U.S. House Ethics Rules covered during the first ethics course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com