Unclear Roules For Retirement Vise Extension

they do have the right to ask for anything they want.

Unfortunately, that is the bottom line. And, its fact is usually published with something like "officers may require additional information."

Fiefdoms are the way of life in the Orient -- as is yanking the chain of a roundeye.

From Wikipedia:

In contemporary usage, fiefdomism can refer to behavior of bureaucrats or small time politicians when information or programs are isolated and jealously guarded from other bureaucrats or small time politicians in order to preserve their power at the expense of making government worse.

Ain't that the truth....