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...North, who was running an illegal war from the White House basement, had to go). President Bush confronts nothing so threatening to his Administration as Iran-contra. But it's probably time to renovate the West Wing staff under new leadership. And there aren't three people in the Pentagon who can understand why Donald Rumsfeld is still Secretary of Defense after presiding over one of the great debacles in American military history: the failure to prepare for the Iraqi insurgency...
That lack of institutional memory could be part of the problem. General Michael Moseley, the new Air Force Chief of Staff, recently told Congress that the wholesale jettisoning of "cost estimators, engineers [and] program managers" led to the service's procurement scandals, which forced the Pentagon to take control of major aircraft purchases. Moseley pledged "to get the right people back into that process." Fitzgerald, for one, says he's ready to help: "I have unfinished business here." --By Mark Thompson
...meet again with prosecutors to discuss notes from a conversation with Cheney aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby that turned up after her Sept. 30 testimony. Meanwhile, lawyers for possible indictment targets are boning up on the Espionage Act, used to charge Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon papers, say people close to the probe. Fitzgerald would face fewer hurdles proving a case under the statute, which bars transmitting "information relating to the national defense" to anyone not entitled to receive it, than under the more exacting Intelligence Identities Protection Act. But national-security lawyer Kate Martin says, "Civil libertarians have...
...Jerry Bruckheimer is not a man who is fond of going broke. He nearly singlehandedly made CBS No. 1 with his CSI franchise and its crime-story satellites. His track record in other genres is spotty--this season, the middling WB buddy-lawyer show Just Legal and NBC's Pentagon snooze E-Ring--but in cop procedurals, he has gone five for five. That tingle in your chest when you see Anthony LaPaglia race to find a missing child on Without a Trace? That's Bruckheimer pushing your buttons...
...Sept. 28.), it is important to realize that “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a law of Congress and not a policy of the Department of Defense. Although many, if not most, admirals and generals in the Pentagon may agree with this law, they are required to obey it whether they agree...