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...where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold - and where will it end? - we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor. George Hunsinger McCord Professor of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. There is an old saying that when dog bites man it's not news, but when man bites dog, it is. Your...
...sudden ouster of Harry Stonecipher as CEO of Boeing for having an affair with an employee was just the latest blow to the aerospace giant, whose previous CEO, Phil Condit, resigned 18 months ago in an Air Force contracting scandal. But the nation's second biggest defense contractor may have more worries ahead. In the cross hairs this week is a $120 billion Army contract, managed by Boeing, that would enable computer-equipped soldiers on the ground to see and fight the enemy with satellites, unmanned vehicles and futuristic weapons. Senator John McCain of Arizona will hold hearings this week...
McCain oversaw the investigation that helped derail the $23 billion Pentagon deal to lease Boeing tanker airplanes to the Air Force. Investigators found that the company's CFO had violated conflict-of-interest rules, and the scandal landed both him and a high-ranking Pentagon procurement official, who said she had steered other contracts to Boeing, in jail. McCain says he is not on a vendetta against Boeing but continues to have concerns about the Pentagon's procurement processes. "There are a lot of big-ticket items," says McCain. "It is going to be a very tough year." --By Sally...
...Bolton's nomination. Bush chose Bolton, they say, because he's sure that the smart and abrasive onetime protégé of U.N. basher and former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms is just the person to convince U.N. bashers in Congress that it will serve U.S. interests to give the scandal-plagued international body the American support and money it needs. "This guy has the credibility to go to the skeptics and say, 'It's in our vital interests to have the U.N. because we can't do all these things alone,'" insists a senior Bush aide...
Graff said he decided to apply for the press pass after the recent scandal in the White House surrounding Jeff D. Guckert—who obtained consistent daily press passes for two years, while operating under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon, and reporting for an online Republican mouthpiece, Talon News...