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...taped, transcribed interview with Woodward, in which he described telling Bandar that he could “take that to the bank this is going to happen,” has mysteriously been deleted from the Pentagon’s version of the transcript. Also deleted by the Pentagon (but, luckily, preserved in Woodward’s transcript, according to the Washington Post) is the following incredible statement from Rumsfeld: “We’re going to have to clean some of this up in the transcript. We’ll give you a—I mean...
...there is an annoying condescension to this style of leadership. It assumes that nothing has changed since 9/11, that Americans are too busy living their lives to ask tough questions about that planeload of flag-draped coffins-an image the Pentagon didn't want you to see-heading home last week. It assumes that the public won't pay closer and more critical attention as the election draws near. If this is, indeed, the President's calculation, it is a cynical and dispiriting one. Perhaps Bush's EQ isn't so stratospheric after...
...decision by the Pentagon to swell the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq to 135,000 and make provision for more underscored the extent to which April's twin insurgent flare-ups had stretched the Coalition's combat capability. Allies willing to commit new troops are increasingly scarce, while U.S. officials report that as much as half of the Iraqi security forces recruited by the U.S. have proven to be unreliable against the insurgents. U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Tuesday said bluntly that such forces won't be in a position to ensure Iraq's security after the planned transfer...
...Coalition Provisional Authority that has the final say in picking an Iraqi caretaker government. Not surprisingly, some elements on the Iraqi Governing Council are resisting the proposal, since it would required that the IGC be dissolved. And some of its more controversial figures, such as Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's favorite Iraqi exile, are unlikely to make it into a UN-picked interim government mandated to run the country for a seven-month period, pending nationwide elections to be held next January...
...reforms have been treated as make-work projects for agencies that deeply distrust one another. While 50,000 names from various lookout lists have been loaded into the National Crime Information Center master list, Donna Bucella of the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center testified recently that the Pentagon has yet to share its list of terrorism suspects. There are also problems with various agencies sharing threat assessments. And pressure is likely to grow for the release of other documents, including the so-called antiterrorism plan laid out by White House adviser Richard Clarke and the Sept. 4, 2001, plan...