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...executed and will be allowed to have his family in the courtroom and talk to his lawyers without Americans listening in. But the Brits are pushing for more, and what about the inmates from Yemen or Pakistan or Afghanistan? Seeing the risks of multiple standards of justice, Pentagon officials said last week that they are conducting a wholesale review of the tribunal rules...
...James Yee, was freed from pretrial detention in a naval brig to work in the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga. Yee still faces charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real concerns about Yee's loyalty, says a military official, "he wouldn't be free." At the same time, concerns about security at Gitmo were raised again last weekend when Army Colonel Jack Farr, a top official in the group conducting interrogations, was charged with mishandling classified material...
...RESIGNED. PHILIP CONDIT, 62, chairman and CEO of U.S. aviation-and-aerospace giant Boeing; following revelations that top executives breached the company's ethics policies to secure Pentagon contracts; in Chicago. A week earlier, two Boeing executives had been fired in connection with the case. Condit's seven-year tenure had weathered several other scandals involving accounting improprieties and corporate espionage...
...issue is the Solomon Amendment, a 1996 law that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funding from universities that inhibit military recruiters’ access to students on campus. Opponents of the Solomon Amendment say the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates Harvard’s commitment to non-discrimination...
Your story about the hundreds of U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq was heartrending [Nov. 10]. It is important for us to know the full cost of this war. The Pentagon's willingness to acknowledge only the deaths (and an occasional injury that happens during a fatal attack) amounts to a cover-up. HETHIE PARMESANO Beverly Hills, Calif...