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Government lawyers have said that the Solomon Amendment allows the Pentagon to block federal funding to universities that limit military recruiters’ access to students...
Justice department and Pentagon investigators are examining multiple prisoner deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three of those captives died while under interrogation...
...abuse of Iraqi prisoners, and, in a rare move, the White House let it be known that the President had privately rebuked his Defense Secretary for not advising him of the extent of the problem. A senior Administration official said the relationship between the White House and the Pentagon was "in flames." The President, says a Bush adviser, "is legitimately pissed...
...intended neither to placate critics who wanted Rumsfeld's head nor to fuel demands for the guillotine. The Bush team wanted to leak a piece of theater to make sure voters knew he was paying attention. Bush not only approved the leak but also made his staff let the Pentagon know it was coming. Others in the White House said the maneuver had an additional purpose: it was a presidential shot sent across the Potomac to the Pentagon, where officials were insisting the White House had been kept in the loop about the abuse investigation. "If we hadn't done...
...Clinton years, he was if anything frustrated with the Americans for not being energetic enough when taking on international rogues. Nor is it the case that President Bush ignores his views. The prewar diplomacy was designed jointly between Britain and the State Department over the objections of the Pentagon. At first taking the issue to the U.N. seemed a great success, but Blair was undercut by American impatience and French obduracy. Similarly, Blair gained Bush's endorsement for the road map that would supposedly revive the Israel-Palestine peace process, but a combination of suicide bombers, Israeli intransigence and American...