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...Following its internal investigation, the DOE is proposing sweeping changes in security procedures and the issuance of clearances - and not just at Los Alamos. The report indicates that for the first time after years of security snafus, "any proven or admitted drug involvement within the past 12 months" will be cause for "termination" of a security-clearance application. Other steps to tighten, centralize and refine security procedures and drug tests will also be implemented...
...four years make. In 2003, Airbus outsold its archrival Boeing for the first time, sparking a mood of triumphalism for those who saw the four-nation consortium as a model of European industrial cooperation. Today Airbus workers are demonstrating, and financial losses are mounting as a result of disastrous snafus that have delayed its flagship new plane. Cooperation? Major private shareholders of parent company EADS can't dump their shares fast enough. And to complicate matters, jousting among its government shareholders--exacerbated by the French presidential elections--is casting doubt on a restructuring plan that includes 10,000 job cuts...
...Army spouses and televised hearings with perspiring generals under congressional attack were only the prelude. The Walter Reed imbroglio has now morphed into a real Washington scandal with President Bush's announcement Tuesday morning that he is creating a commission to investigate the problem of poor care and bureaucratic snafus in the nation's military and veterans' hospitals. To lead the commission, Bush's White House deftly picked a severely wounded ex-soldier, former GOP Senate leader and Presidential candidate Robert Dole, and an expert on health care, former Clinton Cabinet member Donna Shalala...
...Some Pentagon officials praise Gates' emphasis on accountability; he seems less inclined than Rumsfeld to tolerate snafus. But more than a handful of people inside the Pentagon are wondering whether the new boss will ever apply the same standard to those actually waging...
...Even they grumbled about paperwork snafus and the bewildering medical retirement process. But they also enjoyed the freedom of outpatient life as well as comfortable housing and meals. Clearly problems worsened as the outpatient community exploded later in 2005. It was not until October of that year that soldiers were housed in the notorious Building...