Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson have ignored a request by the House Judiciary Committee to provide details of the Obama administration’s plans to allow Ebola-infected West Africans to come to the United States for treatment.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Wednesday he has not received any information from Kerry or Johnson, despite an Oct. 25 deadline.
Goodlatte sent the request more than a week ago, on Oct. 21.
“Secretaries Kerry and Johnson still have not responded to my letter inquiring about this proposal,” Goodlatte said. “The Obama administration must be forthcoming with both Congress and the American people about its proposed plans to bring non-U.S. citizens infected with this deadly disease to the United States for medical care.”
Goodlatte said there is an internal State Department memo “outlining a proposal to transport non-U.S. citizens infected with Ebola to the United States for treatment.”
He said the memo, leaked Tuesday to Fox News, shows “this proposal was approved by several people at the State Department, and possibly even by the official leading the Ebola Coordination Unit at the agency.”
