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...That's the America I know and love. But it is not, alas, the only face of America in this war. One of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's first instructions for military interrogations outside the Geneva Conventions was that military doctors should be involved in monitoring torture. It was a fateful decision - and we learn much more about its consequences in a new book based on 35,000 pages of government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The book is called Oath Betrayed (to be published June 27) by medical ethicist Dr. Stephen Miles...
...definitive reply to the calls for a drawdown came from General George Casey, the U.S. commander in Iraq: Not just yet. A senior defense official tells TIME that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week quietly approved Casey's request to begin the deployment process for 15,000 troops, who should be in the Middle East by October to replace some of the 127,000 now in Iraq. "Things are still too uncertain in Iraq for the U.S. commanders to take a chance," says an officer. But there may be more good news soon. According to a senior officer, Casey...
...Rumsfeld and Summers, who was Treasury secretary under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001, have served as cabinet officials in different administrations for opposing political parties, but the two have a lot in common. Both faced calls for their resignation—for Summers, from professors; for Rumsfeld, from retired generals. And both blamed the tumult on small segments of those two constituencies. But Rumsfeld ultimately found greater support from his boss when President Bush said he was "exactly what is needed." Summers, by contrast, lost the backing of several members of the Harvard Corporation, the University?...
This past fall, Rumsfeld and Summers found themselves on opposite sides of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” debate—a fact that goes unmentioned in the defense chief’s letter. The Pentagon threatened to block hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to Harvard unless the Law School let military recruiters use its career placement office. Summers said in September that the military’s policy toward gay and lesbian service members was “corrosive.” And Harvard joined...
...Rumsfeld's letter was confirmed today by a spokesman for the Defense Department, Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin. A copy was posted on the website of Advocates for Harvard ROTC, a group of alumni and supporters who have called for a return of ROTC to campus...