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Declaring the resumption of business-as-usual, Assistant Secretary Everett Pyatt said that naval investigators had found "no pattern of corruption" with regard to General Dynamics' billing practices. If anything, Pyatt asserted, the Defense Department's "imprecise and ludicrous" guidelines were partly to blame. Said he of the St. Louis-based company: "They were simply doing what our procedures would allow them...
...exchange for becoming eligible for new awards, General Dynamics agreed to meet a series of Navy demands. Among them was the creation of a "rigorous code of ethics for all employees." After a selective naval review of 94 million previously submitted expense vouchers, the company withdrew $111 million in challenged bills. The Navy agreed to pay $17 million of the rest, leaving $30 million in dispute...
...prisoner known around the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay as Detainee 063 was a hard man to break. Defiant from the start, he told his captors that he had been in Afghanistan to pursue his love of falconry. But the young Saudi prisoner who wouldn't talk was not just any detainee. He was Mohammed al-Qahtani, a follower of Osama bin Laden's and the man believed by many to be the so-called 20th hijacker. He had tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001, allegedly to take part in the Sept. 11 attacks. But while...
...next day, a radiologist is flown in from Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico, 600 miles away, to read the CT scan. The log reports, "No anomalies were found." Nonetheless, al-Qahtani is given an ultrasound for blood clots. For the first time since the log began, al-Qahtani is given an entire day to sleep. The next evening, the log reports that his medical "checks are all good." Al-Qahtani is "hooded, shackled and restrained in a litter" and transported back to Camp X-Ray in an ambulance...
...been charged with a crime, has no lawyer and remains in detention at Guantánamo. But his case is already the subject of several probes in Washington. A year ago, a senior FBI counterterrorism official wrote the Pentagon complaining of abuses that FBI agents said they witnessed at the naval base. The agents reported seeing or hearing of "highly aggressive interrogation techniques." The letter singles out the treatment of al-Qahtani in September and October of 2002--before the log obtained by TIME begins--saying a dog was used "in an aggressive manner to intimidate Detainee #63." The FBI letter...