"We would like to see the minutes of the meeting, to know what the prime minister was told and what decisions were taken about the handling of any inquiries".
Then came what Bush aides now concede was clumsy handling of the inquiries into whether the White House and 10 Downing Street exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons, starting a battle between the White House and the C.I.A. over who was to blame for presidential misstatements.
This spring, such visa delays prompted the U.S. government to modify its handling of these inquiries and to dedicate more staff to processing visa applications.
Her supervisor, bureau spokesperson Dan Dunne, was impressed with Levy's work, especially her handling of media inquiries regarding the upcoming execution of Timothy McVeigh.
The officer in charge of the controversial Home Office leaks inquiry today defended the handling of the inquiry that led to a police raid on the parliamentary offices of a Conservative frontbencher.
Meanwhile, principal investigators and administrative staff at research institutions are working long hours at a frenzied pace to meet the stimulus act's accelerated grant deadlines, and the workloads of NIH staff members are increasing proportionately as they seek to handle the flood of inquiries and applications and manage the review process.
The inquiry source also criticised the home office's handling of the inquiry saying that: "Every time there was a choice between the right decision and the wrong decision, home office officials picked the wrong one".
Fortunately for the millions who book through them, the major online travel agencies, Expedia and Travelocity, do a better job of handling e-mail inquiries than do many travel providers.
Phone companies and other D.S.L. service providers need hundreds of customer service representatives to handle the flood of inquiries and service and repair requests, so they are retraining and hiring workers.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in September 2001, when demand for Bayer's anthrax-fighting drug, Cipro, spiked in the United States, executives in Leverkusen seemed oddly detached, leaving their American employees to handle the storm of inquiries about supplies of the drug.
