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Friday, March 18, 2005
FRIDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
From the NY Times: Questions Are Left By CIA Chief on Torture ("Porter J. Goss, the director of central intelligence, said Thursday that he could not assure Congress that the Central Intelligence Agency's methods of interrogating terrorism suspects since Sept. 11, 2001, had been permissible under federal laws prohibiting torture. Under sharp questioning at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mr. Goss sought to reassure lawmakers that all interrogations "at this time" were legal and that no methods now in use constituted torture. But he declined, when asked, to make the same broad assertions about practices used over the last few years.") NOTE: contrast this story to a story ran yesterday, where the CIA chief completely disavowed torture.
In other news, Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out ("One by one, a trickle of soldiers and marines - some just back from duty in Iraq, others facing a trip there soon - are seeking ways out. Soldiers, their advocates and lawyers who specialize in military law say they have watched a few service members try ever more unlikely and desperate routes: taking drugs in the hope that they will be kept home after positive urine tests, for example; or seeking psychological or medical reasons to be declared nondeployable, including last-minute pregnancies. Specialist Marquise J. Roberts is accused of asking a relative in Philadelphia to shoot him in the leg so he would not have to return to war."); Ex-Halliburton Man Charged With Defrauding U.S. of $3.5 Million.
From the Washington Post: CIA, White House Defend Transfers of Terror Suspects; Snippet on CPT Martin Court Martial.
From USA Today: Humvee Crashes Perplex Army ("The Army is baffled by a recent spate of vehicle accidents in Iraq — many of them rollovers involving armored Humvees — that have claimed more than a dozen lives this year. One key concern: Soldiers lack the skills to handle the heavier Humvees and are losing control as they speed through ambush areas before insurgents detonate roadside bombs."); CIA Director Defends Interrogation Tactics; Soldiers' Families To Hold Anti-War Rally.
In other news, Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out ("One by one, a trickle of soldiers and marines - some just back from duty in Iraq, others facing a trip there soon - are seeking ways out. Soldiers, their advocates and lawyers who specialize in military law say they have watched a few service members try ever more unlikely and desperate routes: taking drugs in the hope that they will be kept home after positive urine tests, for example; or seeking psychological or medical reasons to be declared nondeployable, including last-minute pregnancies. Specialist Marquise J. Roberts is accused of asking a relative in Philadelphia to shoot him in the leg so he would not have to return to war."); Ex-Halliburton Man Charged With Defrauding U.S. of $3.5 Million.
From the Washington Post: CIA, White House Defend Transfers of Terror Suspects; Snippet on CPT Martin Court Martial.
From USA Today: Humvee Crashes Perplex Army ("The Army is baffled by a recent spate of vehicle accidents in Iraq — many of them rollovers involving armored Humvees — that have claimed more than a dozen lives this year. One key concern: Soldiers lack the skills to handle the heavier Humvees and are losing control as they speed through ambush areas before insurgents detonate roadside bombs."); CIA Director Defends Interrogation Tactics; Soldiers' Families To Hold Anti-War Rally.
