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...pervasive indifference toward training and certification by the FPS, which protects about 9,000 federal facilities across the country (not including the most important buildings, such as the Capitol and White House). As the GAO's Mark Goldstein told lawmakers recently, "I think we would be able to say that FPS is simply an agency in crisis." (Watch a video of the homeland security tradeshow...
Asked about the incident, McChrystal pauses for nine seconds, his mood shifting from animated to muted. "We sent our own paratroopers to bury each of our own killed," he says, saying the tragedy taught him the importance of teamwork. Others say it showed his leadership. McChrystal and his wife Annie attended all the funerals and memorial services. "That was real moral courage," says Dan McNeill, who was McChrystal's commander at the time and who later ran the war in Afghanistan. "I don't know if I could have done that...
...tuning fork, McChrystal has a certain monkish mythology about him that his aides seem keen to foster. In Afghanistan, they say, he gets up at 4 a.m. to run and e-mail before his workday really begins with an 8:30 video briefing with his regional commanders across the country. His iPod and Kindle (the newest model) are stocked by his wife with serious tomes on Pakistan, Lincoln and Vietnam. Right now, he is reading William Maley's 2002 book The Afghanistan Wars, a catalog of the long list of British failures in Afghanistan. McChrystal famously eats little during...
...willing, in the next five years, the world will say, 'Indonesia is something, Indonesia is rising.' " - Speaking at a huge election rally in Jakarta (New York Times, July...
Cyberexperts like Dale Meyerrose, who recently retired as chief information officer for the director of national intelligence, say it may be weeks before it becomes clear who was responsible for the mischief. In fact, if the attackers were smart enough, we may never be certain of their identity...