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...measure also strengthens the 1996 Solomon Amendment, under which the Pentagon has threatened to block federal grants to schools that limit military recruiters’ access to students...
Under the legislation, Harvard could lose all funding from the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and a handful of other federal agencies unless the University allows the military the option of establishing an ROTC unit on campus. Currently, Harvard students participate in ROTC programs at nearby MIT. The University does not fund the program directly, instead letting anonymous private donors pick...
...should increase its support to the Northern Alliance and pressure on Pakistan to cooperate in a campaign to remove the Taliban. It was essentially the same plan Clarke had drafted during the Clinton Administration. As his book details, the plan was scuttled by intransigence at the CIA and the Pentagon, neither of which Clinton wanted to confront head...
...should not have from the World Trade Center site." SALLY REGENHARD, whose fire-fighter son died in one of the towers, on the Justice Department investigation that criticized FBI agents for taking souvenirs from the site and found that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had kept an item from the Pentagon attack...
...wasn't completed until Sept. 4. A related question along the same lines: Why didn't you deploy the armed Predator drones in Afghanistan? The technology, which might have provided the clearest shot at Osama bin Laden before 9/11, was available early in 2001. But the CIA and the Pentagon squabbled about which agency would be in charge of pulling the trigger. The dispute wasn't resolved until after 9/11. Were you aware of this dispute, Mr. President? Why weren't you able to resolve...