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Saturday, March 19, 2005
SATURDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
From the New York Times: CIA Says Approved Methods of Questioning Are All Legal ("The Central Intelligence Agency said Friday that all interrogation techniques approved for use by agency personnel in questioning terrorism suspects were permissible under federal laws prohibiting torture. "All approved interrogation techniques, both past and present, are lawful and do not constitute torture," the agency said in a statement."); Pentagon Sets New Policy On Reporting Sex Assaults at Academies ("Victims of sexual assault at the nation's military academies will soon be able to report to specified counselors and receive medical treatment without immediately setting off an official inquiry, Pentagon officials said on Friday. The officials said the new policy was devised to increase the reporting of sexual assault by assuring victims that they could privately seek counseling and medical care before being faced with the difficulties of an investigation.").
From the Washington Post: Defense Dept. Surveys Academy Sex Assaults ("One female student in seven attending the nation's military academies last spring said she had been sexually assaulted since becoming a cadet or midshipman, according to a report on the first survey of sexual misconduct on the three campuses released yesterday by the Defense Department. More than half the women studying at the Naval, Air Force and Army academies reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment on campus, according to survey responses. But few of those incidents, and only a third of the assaults, were reported to authorities."); Pentagon Stresses Privacy for Sex Assualt Victims; CIA Helped Serbia Hunt Mladic, Ex-Premier Says ("CIA agents took part in dozens of unsuccessful attempts by Serbian police in 2003 to capture the Bosnian Serb wartime commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, who faces war crimes charges before an international tribunal, a former prime minister said Friday. Zoran Zivkovic, who headed Serbia's government for nearly a year starting in March 2003, said an agreement on Serbian-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for Mladic had been reached with former secretary of state Colin Powell, former CIA chief George Tenet and other top U.S. officials.").
From the Washington Post: Defense Dept. Surveys Academy Sex Assaults ("One female student in seven attending the nation's military academies last spring said she had been sexually assaulted since becoming a cadet or midshipman, according to a report on the first survey of sexual misconduct on the three campuses released yesterday by the Defense Department. More than half the women studying at the Naval, Air Force and Army academies reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment on campus, according to survey responses. But few of those incidents, and only a third of the assaults, were reported to authorities."); Pentagon Stresses Privacy for Sex Assualt Victims; CIA Helped Serbia Hunt Mladic, Ex-Premier Says ("CIA agents took part in dozens of unsuccessful attempts by Serbian police in 2003 to capture the Bosnian Serb wartime commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, who faces war crimes charges before an international tribunal, a former prime minister said Friday. Zoran Zivkovic, who headed Serbia's government for nearly a year starting in March 2003, said an agreement on Serbian-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for Mladic had been reached with former secretary of state Colin Powell, former CIA chief George Tenet and other top U.S. officials.").
