He resigned in protest at the appointment of senior officials in his chain-of-command who had supported the use of evidence obtained by the use of waterboarding.
(Obviously, these are our personal views and should not be seen as official within our chain of command).
It involves many, many drafts, structured around a set DNA of signed-off talking points (signed off by the state department, or the chief of staff, or the right senior official up the chain of command).
"But Jeff is regimented, military, a chain-of-command type".
"All meaningful witnesses are outside Iraq," Mr. Myers wrote, listing military investigators, intelligence officers, civilian contractors, government officials and "the chain of command".
The response was managed at the state level, with state district health officials in the chain of command.
Instead, the judge found Mr. Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib el-Adly, guilty of failing to stop the police from killing demonstrators, and acquitted a half-dozen officials lower in the chain of command who had more direct responsibility.
In another move meant to reassure, but which has worried many, a U.S. State Department official was integrated into AFRICOM's chain of command as "Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Affairs".
The single-room command center is designed for flexibility more than chain of command, officials say.
A statement appeared on the military's website and was circulated by email declaring it had taken control to restore democracy, feeding into the fears of government officials who worried the military chain of command had endorsed the takeover.
