The Abu Ghraib supplementary documents

By Alexander Cohen

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2004 — The military's mission at Abu Ghraib was inadequately planned almost from conception. It was subordinated to p

Early warning

By Alan Green

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2004 — One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level

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"… q, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level Department of Defense officials that the army lacked the basic information required to effective …"

Advisors of influence: Nine members of the Defense Policy Board have ties to defense contractors

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Data by Aron Pilhofer WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 — Of the 30 members of the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advis

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"… is widely recognized for bringing commercial high technology into the U.S. Department of Defense. He was the architect of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), an adva …"

"… istant secretary of defense for international security affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1961 to 1964 and 1989 to 1991.James R. SchlesingerSchlesinger divides …"

"… he Washington, D.C. office of Caplin & Drysdale. He has worked for the Department of Defense as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense in international securi …"

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Special Report: Kuchma approved sale of weapons system to Iraq

By Phillip van Niekerk and André Verlöy

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2002 — Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma personally authorized the clandestine sale of $100-million worth of high-tech

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"… l agent for 21 years before founding BEK TEK, lists the U.S. Congress, the Department of Defense, the FBI, the Office of the Independent Counsel, the Department of Justice …"

Commentary: The dangers of disinformation in the war on terrorism

By Maud S. Beelman

WASHINGTON, February 2, 2002 — "In wartime," Winston Churchill once said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a body

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"… ers to “exercise great caution in discussing information related to DOD (Department of Defense) work, regardless of their duties,” making no distinction between classi …"

Pentagon trained troops led by officer accused in Colombian massacre

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2000 — Pentagon officials, under pressure to investigate alleged links between elite U.S. military trainers and C
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Pentagon watchdog weak on whistleblowers

By Nick Schwellenbach

Last week, the Associated Press broke an intriguing story about plummeting morale in the Pentagon’s top oversight agency, the Office of Insp

Commentary: Clamping down on freedom of the press

The clamp-down on the freedom of the press by the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government, begun in the wake of September 11

By the numbers

By Bill Buzenberg and David E. Kaplan

With two wars and an economy in shambles, it’s not hard to get the feeling that something’s gone terribly wrong here in Washington. “We’ll l

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"… 30 million pounds of beef recalled in 2007• $300 billion over budget for Department of Defense weapons acquisitions• Less than 3 percent of U.S. electricity needs met …"

Everyone — except appropriators — agree no more C-17s needed in budget

By Nick Schwellenbach

Bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate committees with the most expertise on military affairs oppose buying more Boeing-built C-17 cargo

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