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DoD ‘Stonewalling’ V-22 Investigation, Committee Chairman Says

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Friday, May 22nd, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee yesterday threatened to "compel" the Department of Defense to provide reports and information on the V-22 Osprey before a hearing rescheduled for two weeks from now. "We had hoped to conduct today a thorough examination of the Defense Department's V-22 Osprey, an aircraft with a controversial past, a troubled present, and an uncertain future," Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), committee chairman, told Marine Lt. Gen. George Trautman, deputy commandant for…

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