News: "Republican and Democratic members of Congress criticized the embattled Pentagon chief on Sunday for not signing the letters himself all along.

``My goodness, that's the least that we could expect of the secretary of defense, is having some personal attention paid by him,'' said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., noting that President Bush signs such letters himself.

``If the president of the United States can find time to do that, why can't the Secretary of Defense?'' Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, asked on CBS' ``Face the Nation.''"

(Via k5.)