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Critics have also condemned Feith and others at the Department of Defense for instituting neoconservative policies at the Pentagon. In January, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blasted Feith in an article for the New Yorker for allegedly aiding an effort to launch a U.S. military intervention in Iran. The Pentagon has denied the charges...
Feith has recently made public his intentions to leave the government this summer, citing “personal and family reasons,” according to a Pentagon press release...
...official said a large percentage of the accounts are for the Pentagon but that some 40 federal agencies and other entities are affected. Some of the tapes related to non-federal card-holders, the official added. Trower would not comment on which agencies are affected, referring questions to the General Services Administration. A GSA spokesperson had no immediate response to an inquiry about the matter, including whether any of the Pentagon's billions of dollars in secret "black" programs could be affected. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the data loss includes files on 900,000 of the Pentagon's three...
...welcome antidote to the country's chronic acrimony. After weeks of negotiations, al-Jaafari, 58, has emerged as the favorite to become Iraq's first elected Prime Minister--the most powerful position in the incoming government. His main challenger has been Ahmad Chalabi, the former favorite of the Pentagon, whose relationship with the U.S. soured after he was accused of passing secrets to Iran. Though he commands little popular backing, Chalabi waged an aggressive campaign for the premiership, hoping to pick up support from uncommitted members of the Sistani List, or slate of parties approved by Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini...
...reports of Syrian meddling in Iraq have provoked the most rage. For a time, U.S. diplomats thought they were making headway in persuading Damascus to crack down on the money and manpower the Bush Administration charges is flowing across Syria's border to insurgents in Iraq. But a Pentagon official told TIME that the U.S. believes Syrian military officers went to Fallujah to assist insurgents before the U.S. assault on the city last fall. The official says it is "implausible" that the Syrian government was unaware of the officers' activities. In January, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage...