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...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...
...Pentagon insists that it has strict controls in place to prevent abuses and that it is briefing Congress on its spy missions. "Applicable laws and regulations are applied to planning and operations conducted by U.S. forces," Stephen Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 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...
Bradner said the healthcare industry is under unusually strict requirements to protect sensitive information, in part due to HIPAA...
...Lawyersat the State Department and attorneys representing the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military services opposed abandoning the strict reliance on Geneva, chiefly because it might endanger U.S. troops who could be captured and denied the Conventions' protection. In January 2003, owing to concerns from the Navy's top lawyer, Rumsfeld abruptly rescinded his December order, pending a study, and ordered that the tougher measures could only be applied with his approval. Three months later, the study group recommended the use of some of the new interrogation techniques at Guant??namo. Dropped from the list were hooding, nudity...
...National??League's??best??hitter, left fielder Barry Bonds, is an exceptional athlete with a legendary training regimen, strict diet and unequaled discipline at bat. Steroids may pump you up, but they won't help you bat .362 or hit homers more often than you strike out. Commentators who try to credit steroids for Bonds' success are doing a disservice to America's youth by implying that drugs--not talent, hard work and discipline--are what make athletes great...