That's a good point. It caught my eye given that I've noticed something similar in Washington, DC, one of many things wrong there — an example being the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, not the Department of Energy or Commerce, devising (ridiculous) motor vehicle fuel economy regulations.

“NHTSA sets fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the U.S.”

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/fueleconomy.jsp

Even though accused as a “scumbag,” which may, by accident and fate and opinion, be his only crime, I say it demeans us all to base justice on his station in life or on another's perception of the value of his life.

” The early explorers, archeologists, anthropologists without aerial or depth sensor equipment for penetrating views, didnt know and often couldnt even imagine ‘what lay beneath,’ until they traveled there first person and went into the brush to see the evidences and their relationship to other evidences, precisely.”. . . .so very true dr.e. . . .

may all darkness come to the point of light in this case. . . .

That's campaign politics. I have no doubt that Kay would have been just as unhappy with the far ranging nature of the commission. As for cover up, why bother? No One Will Care. nobodies mind will be changed, nothing will be proved. Willingham was such a scumbag that even innocent no one would mind that he is dead. I think the commission was wasting time and state money and it mattered only to the anti death penalty people, almost all of whom are out of state. It has to matter to merit a cover up.

Not the way I read it and definitely not how it is being portrayed (as a innocence investigation). At best
(referring to to the arson conclusion in the Willingham case) it would of said that the report should have stated that it was unable to determine the cause of the fire. This is not a judicial or criminal commity so the idea that that finding would prove Willinghams innocence is absurd and factually untrue.

If the commision starts going off half cocked getting involved in things the Gov doesn't believe they should be doing then he should tell them and take action. If they had over reached and were investigating things that were not their business then maybe not releasing Docs that legally mean nothing and have no legal finding makes sense.

If they wanted to investigate the arson investigator then that would have made sense. But that isn't what happened is it. Why not? Why take on this much more expansive case that is clearly arguably outside their purview?

Still doesn't answer the question of the governor interfering with the commission or refusing to release the execution review documents or pressuring the commision chair to drop the investigation. If it walks like a cover-up, and quacks like a cover-up, there's a pretty good chance it's a cover-up. Even conservative R's like Hutchinson are using the term cover-up to describe Perry's conduct.

At this point it's as much about Perry's conduct as it is Willingham's guilt or innocence. People want fair, honest and transparent government, and it doesn't look like they're getting that in Texas.

The Texas Forensic Science Commission was created
by the Texas Legislature in 2005 for the purpose of:

A. Developing & implementing a reporting system through which accredited laboratories, facilities, or entities report professional negligence or misconduct

B. Requiring all laboratories, facilities, or entities that conduct forensic analyses to report professional negligence or misconduct to the commission

C. Investigating, in a timely manner, any allegation of professional negligence or misconduct that would substantially affect the integrity of the results of a forensic analysis conducted by an accredited laboratory, facility or entity.

Maybe they felt they were doing C but then they should only be focused on the science and why a case where the guy was already executed? I can see why the gov thought they were going off point. This is a new agency and it is reasonable to disagree but why would this Commission be used like this? It's and end run.

Dorian