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...Some people make groundless accusations against China. China has all along been opposed to and forbids criminal activities undermining computer networks, including hacking.' JIANG YU, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, denying claims that the Chinese military hacked into the Pentagon's computer system...
...outposts around the capital, where troops barricaded roads into the city, worked with local residents to flush out insurgents and spent millions creating safe zones where markets and normal life could return. Average Iraqis tell Time that Baghdad feels safer; sectarian violence in the capital has been reduced, Pentagon officials say, and many Baghdad residents want the surge to continue. That's in part what the operation's architects had in mind when they sketched it out last fall...
...expect any significant change in the overall war strategy when the White House releases Petraeus' report on the surge by Sept. 15. But with the war likely to continue more or less apace, there is even more pressure on the Pentagon to clean up its oversight. Not only is the military dispatching a high-powered investigative team to Iraq to look into past malfeasance, but it's also creating a senior Army panel to examine what systemic problems may be contributing to the plunder. No evidence has yet surfaced that the missing arms or ammo ended up in the hands...
...other senior officers, the Pentagon has maintained that none did anything wrong. But Stjepan Mestrovic, a Texas sociologist who has testified as an expert witness at several Abu Ghraib trials, calls the Pentagon's attempt to blame the scandal on a few low-ranking "bad apples" little more than "magical thinking...
...Last week the Pentagon was talking about dumping $1 billion on private intelligence contractors. This gets us nothing, other than to drive up property prices in the Washington area. The NSA doesn't need a contractor to tell it how to let the CIA read its raw data...