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...over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility...
Inside the Beltway, Rumsfeld's spying efforts--the Pentagon last week publicly acknowledged that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is sending out special clandestine teams--seem to critics like a power grab. But the Defense Department says its agents can deliver intelligence on military targets that's finer-grained than what the CIA provides--for example, architectural details of a building that commandos must storm...
...uncomfortable with the Pentagon's encroaching on its work, wants its station chiefs overseas to be informed of what Rumsfeld's spies are up to. Some lawmakers fear that the Pentagon's secret activity will escape the strict congressional oversight imposed on the CIA's covert operations...
...told TIME. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner says he is satisfied for now that his committee is being informed of the secret operations. But Warner and the panel's senior Democrat, Carl Levin, have warned Pentagon officials that they want "no surprises," says a Senate aide. For Rumsfeld, the test will be whether his soldier spies can do better than the CIA overseas--and keep out of trouble at home...
...outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility...