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...Pentagon...
...will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.' A biblical passage adorning a PENTAGON REPORT on Saddam Hussein during the early phases of the war in Iraq in 2003, according to GQ writer Robert Draper, who claims Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regularly included Scripture in reports submitted to President George W. Bush...
...suggestion that Rumsfeld would have used these reports to somehow curry favor over at the White House is pretty laughable.' LAWRENCE DI RITA, former Pentagon spokesman, denying that such verses were used to appeal to the President's religious beliefs...
Government and private Web networks in the U.S. have emerged as frequent targets for online scofflaws. The Pentagon reported some 360 million attempts to break into its networks last year, up from just 6 million in 2006. That includes a reportedly successful attempt to hack into the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project and copy data about the aircraft's design and electronics systems. The espionage is believed to have originated in China. Experts say computer criminals in China and Russia have also infiltrated America's electrical grid, covertly installing software to potentially damage it at any time (the governments...
...Pentagon was good at some things, dreadful at others. It is better now, but there are lives at stake every day. Gates keeps track of those killed and wounded on his watch. He knows the exact numbers. He can get misty talking about the troops he's met downrange, young people the same age as the carefree students he supervised at Texas A&M, "which makes this all so much harder," he says. They - not future fights with China, not last week's tactics in Afghanistan - light up his eyes. He won't be abandoning them anytime soon...