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...Protected Content to Downloading Web Site," contained incorrect information about an incident at Harvard Business School in 2005. The article reported that the Business School's Web site was hacked and "secure admissions information" was distributed. In fact, the Web site in question was owned by ApplyYourself, an independent contractor hired by the Business School. Additionally, the site was not hacked—it had a glitch that allowed individuals to see their own admissions results in an unauthorized manner...
...days of legal immunity for civilian contractors in Iraq may be numbered, as Washington and Baghdad prepare to renegotiate a long-term bilateral security agreement. Ahead of negotiations on the issue, which could begin in two weeks, the Bush Administration is trying to hammer out its positions on key issues such as authority over combat operations and detentions, as well as other elements of the mission over the next 24 months and beyond. And top of the list of deal-breakers for the Iraqis, is contractor immunity...
...Contractor immunity may be unique to Iraq and difficult to demand of Baghdad, but the Pentagon still wants it. In interagency discussions arranged in preparation for the start of negotiations, the Department of Defense has said it want to ask the Iraqis to maintain status quo. The State Department, however, has argued strongly against that position. "We are just still internally discussing this, and still haven't really come out with a position," says the senior Administration official. A State Department official says discussions are underway. Says Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell, "Don't confuse interagency discussions with disagreement...
...less than meets the eye. Some outside observers say immunity is based not on current legal arrangements, but on the unwillingness of the U.S. to prosecute the contractors. Human Rights First argues that the initial rule that provided immunity to the contractors expired when the authority that adopted it - the Coalition Provisional Authority - closed up shop. The U.S. could subsequently have brought contractors to trial in courts in Iraq, the U.S. or elsewhere, says Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution, but "the political will to use them has been completely absent." By that measure, any fix to the rules...
...While the M4 isn’t even close to reliable in its current state, a simple and affordable solution is already on the market. Heckler & Koch, a widely respected German defense contractor, has developed a drop-in part called the HK416 that rectifies that vast majority of the M4’s problems. When pitted against the regular M4 in “torture tests” that involved exposing the weapons to sandy and dusty conditions, the HK416 was proven to be almost four times more reliable than the standard-issue carbine...