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Just down the hall from Donald Rumsfeld's third-floor office at the Pentagon is a high-tech conference room where U.S. generals arrayed around the globe can talk to the Pentagon boss--and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told...
...majority of the Law School’s faculty signed a letter in October urging University President Lawrence H. Summers to take legal action against the Pentagon in order to restore the pre-2002 recruiting framework...
However, FAIR cheered one part of Lifland’s opinion, in which the judge suggested that the Pentagon had misinterpreted the Solomon Amendment. But if the provision currently before the Senate becomes law, Greer said, that section of Lifland’s opinion might become moot...
...Senate bill “ends the discussions about whether the [Pentagon] regulations are authorized by the [Solomon] statute,” Greer said...
Sickening images of American troops abusing Iraqi prisoners have swept the world over the last two weeks, giving the country pause as the United States barely holds its nation-building effort together. A week ago, too, after months of concealing the full story, the Pentagon showed Congress over 1,600 additional photographs of atrocities at Abu Ghraib. It is becoming clear that this developing scandal is not a matter of a few “bad apples,” but rather the fault of this entire executive branch. For these horrific acts and the cover-up that followed...