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Mather House residents were shaken up last October after a convicted rapist was found lurking the lowrise halls, trying to enter students’ rooms by claiming he was a fire door inspector. Since the incident, an increase in false alarms over suspicious persons in the dorms has prompted the Undergraduate Council (UC) and the College safety committee to take steps toward making it easier for students to identify workers in the Houses. The UC unanimously passed a Worker Identification Act at its March 5 meeting, calling on the College to provide “readily identifiable clothing or badges...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
...Department of Defense's inspector general, which some analysts charge has been slow to investigate war spending, will open its first office in the Middle East next week. And a new watchdog project called Follow the Money will begin monitoring from the outside. It's sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and led by Dina Rasor, an investigator who helped uncover the Pentagon procurement scandals of the 1980s. "Normal oversight systems have not been in place," Rasor says. "Troops are getting what they don't need but not getting what they do need. One soldier told...
...past week in anticipation of the President's visit, the bombing in Karachi only reinforced the precariousness of the country's security situation. While there has been no formal link as of yet between the bombing and the President's visit, Syed Marwat Ali Shah, the deputy inspector general of the Rawalpindi Police in charge of security admits that President Bush is clearly a target, and every precaution will be undertaken. ?You are taking every possible eventuality into account and making preparations,? he says. ?Then something happens where you are not expecting it-in this case, Karachi. So you take...
...performs its own oversight, said Gonzales. The program, he argued, is run by professional intelligence officers, and the NSA Inspector General reviews the program to be sure the agency is not listening in on the conversations of unsuspecting citizens. Also, he added, the program itself, which monitors only phone calls where one end originates outside the U.S., is renewed every 45 days on the condition, said Gonzales, that "al Qaeda continues to pose a threat...