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That is easier said than done. If confirmed by the Senate, Negroponte would oversee parts of 15 different agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, agencies whose willingness to share closely guarded secrets is notoriously poor and whose suspicion of one another is strong. CIA Director Porter Goss and FBI Director Robert Mueller, for instance, still haven't worked out a lingering turf war over some aspects of human intelligence gathering, and the White House recently ordered that they get it done, sources tell TIME...
While nominally handing massive new budget powers to the DNI, the law also makes clear that he will not "abrogate the statutory responsibilities" of any existing intelligence-related agency. That could be used by the Pentagon to justify holding onto the purse strings. Because of Rumsfeld's reluctance to challenge Bush's authority directly, it's unlikely Rumsfeld will openly take on Negroponte, but that does not mean he won't assert his will in more subtle ways, such as keeping him out of the loop on small budget issues or stonewalling him on information requests...
...Pentagon, which did an extensive study of deserters four years ago, says the vast majority tend to be younger soldiers with troubled records who make a break for it because of personal or financial woes rather than moral or political objections. "Often, we have found, soldiers cannot find an honorable way out and just leave their units," says Lieut. Colonel Susan Danielsen, the provost marshal at Fort Bragg Army base. Whatever the reason, discontent in the ranks seems to be starting to show, especially among National Guard and Reserve soldiers, some of whom probably never bargained for the full-time...
...carrying only a startled family. Afterward, Anderson claims, his sergeants told him, "'Next time, you open fire, just in case.' Basically they have a standard procedure that if you're fired upon, you fire at everybody that's around." Without commenting on specific rules of engagement, a Pentagon spokesman vehemently rejected Anderson's description of the rules...
...They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot." GORDON JOHNSON, director of the robotics program for the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, on battlefield robots currently being developed by the U.S. military...