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...Amendment’s provisions are so onerous that they could be viewed as a direct regulation. The panel cited a 1958 Supreme Court ruling that bars the federal government from attaching strings to a grant in order to “produce a result which [it] could not command directly.”The circuit court panel—on a two-to-one vote—endorsed FAIR’s interpretation of the Boy Scouts ruling.As the Third Circuit ruling demonstrated, the same legal principle that can be used to further gay rights in one context also...
...aides at the Pentagon and State Department are furious that the President's big speech last week touting progress in Iraq was largely drowned out by disclosures that the U.S. command in Baghdad had been secretly planting rosy stories in Iraqi newspapers. Administration sources say Karen Hughes, who is in charge of improving the U.S.'s image abroad, is fuming and that neither she--as the State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy--nor such senior Pentagon officers as Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace knew of the program until the Los Angeles Times broke the story last week...
Under a $5 million contract negotiated last year by the U.S. command's Information Operations Task Force, the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based p.r. firm, translated upbeat stories written by military information officers and then paid Iraqi newspapers to print them or hired Iraqi journalists to sell them as their own stories. U.S. officers in Baghdad insisted last week they were only trying to get the truth out by buying editorial space, a customary practice in Iraq that prompted Hughes to launch programs there to train journalists to be more independent. Says a Defense Department official: "This certainly undercuts what...
...Press." The 9/11 group is composed of members of the 9/11 Commission, who wish to follow up on the recommendations made in their July 2004 final report. Keane, who chaired the commission, and his vice chairman, former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, lamented the absence of a national crisis-command structure. They also charged Congress with making decisions about homeland-security dollars based on politics instead of determinations of risk and vulnerability. "We've had some of this money spent to air-condition garbage trucks. We've had some of the money spent for armor for dogs," Hamilton says. This week...
...Predators commanded by the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron are launched and landed by troops at the front, but while they are in the air, up to 24 hours straight every day, they are controlled by Air Force crews sitting in six grounded cockpits at Nellis. Each cockpit consists of two large armchairs set in front of banks of computer screens with keyboards, control joysticks and live video images. Video is relayed from a camera mounted on the bottom of the Predator not only to Nellis but also to troops on the ground, commanders in the region and the Pentagon. The crew...