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...White House meeting in late April opened with the presentation of a seven-page, single-spaced memo titled "Marginalizing Chalabi." Drafted by the National Security Council (NSC), the document detailed three options for sidelining the controversial Iraqi political figure Ahmad Chalabi--methods ranging from gently pushing him offstage to cutting off U.S. funds for his intelligence-gathering operation. Once a Pentagon favorite to lead Iraq, Chalabi had been criticizing Washington for dragging out the transfer of power to Iraqis. It was time for Chalabi...
...Jeff Jarvis, an early champion of vlogging and founder of buzzmachine.com, a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. "It has the potential to be the farm team for new talent used by big, mainstream media. Suddenly anybody can become an Andy Rooney." Or better yet, an Edward R. Murrow...
...Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Committee aides discovered belatedly that their copy of the 6,000-page report on prison abuses produced by Major General Antonio M. Taguba might not be complete. The copy they got after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on May 7 was a thick document with 106 annexes, and it was quickly arranged into separate binders. Only later did the committee stack up all the pages, compare them with a ream of 6,000 blank pages and decide that at least 2,000 pages were missing. "We'd certainly like to know why they...
Many legislators, joined by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors the Geneva Conventions, say these new rules violated the treaty and sowed the seeds for abuse. The Senate Armed Services Committee released a one-page document, "Interrogation Rules of Engagement," which the Pentagon claimed was produced by minor officers in the prison's military-intelligence brigade, that went into effect right after Miller's visit. The right column of the page outlined rough practices that could be used if Sanchez personally approved them. The list included sleep deprivation, stress positions, lengthy isolation, dietary manipulation and the presence...
Sources: AP; Federal Document Clearinghouse; CNN; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Reuters...