12.31.2004 "Sex-assault treatment guidelines omit pill -- Victims' advocates call emergency contraception key, seek Justice changes." By Marie McCullough, Philly.com

12.31.2004 "This week in the magazine, John Lahr profiles the playwright Tony Kushner, the author of "Angels in America" and the musical "Caroline, or Change."" The New Yorker Online Via Andrew Sullivan

12.31.2004 " Why We Must Oppose Gonzales For AG" by Armando at Kos

12.31.2004 "A new statement out from Rep. Harold Ford: "I do not support changing the Social Security system as has been proposed by President Bush, ...'" Per Josh Marshall
But see This

12.31.2004 " Sears will cooperate with DeLay-related investigation" by ddonnelly at Kos

12.31.2004 "Justice Expands 'Torture' Definition -- Earlier Policy Drew Criticism" By R. Jeffrey Smith and Dan Eggen, Washington Post

12.31.2004 "Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts" LATimes

12.31.2004 "Eli Lilly & Co. documents linking the antidepressant Prozac to violence have been turned over to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the British Medical Journal, the publication says in its Jan. 1 issue.
The documents ``appear to suggest a link'' between Lilly's Prozac and suicide attempts and violence, the journal said. The papers ``went missing'' during a product liability lawsuit 10 years ago and were recently sent to the medical journal by an anonymous source, according to the journal's account." Bloomberg.com
"Eli Lilly won the case but later disclosed it had settled with the plaintiffs during the trial." Mercury News

12.30.2004 "Delegation Running Riot -- Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation" by David Schoenbrod (Yale University Press, 1993), 260 pp. Reviewed by Douglas H. Ginsburg ... "Legislators seem to be unconcerned about imposing delay, complexity, and confusion on their constituents when they delegate." Why? Because legislators are themselves essentially an interest group, interested in showing the voters that they have acted in favor of the good and the true and in distancing themselves from the consequences, conflicts, and hardships that inevitably arise in the real world where government affects people. Indeed, by Schoenbrod's account, the legislators stand to gain from, and therefore favor ways of creating, regulatory nightmares for the citizenry; that puts them in a position to do "casework" on behalf of constituents beleaguered by the federal bureaucracy to which the legislators have delegated the hard choices." Cato Institute

12.29.2004

"Washington, DC, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The inaugural committee for U.S. President George Bush is looking to raise more than $40 million -- a record price tag for the event." Washington Times

"The United States on Tuesday more than doubled to $35 million its pledge of aid for victims of the Asian tsunami and rejected suggestions that rich nations were being "stingy" with aid." Reuters

12.28.2004 "Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash" Jamie Mcintyre CNN.

12.27.2004 "Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane -- 'shot down' in Pennsylvania. -- During surprise Christmas Eve trip, defense secretary contradicts official story" Per Drudge

12.27.2004 "Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane -- 'shot down' in Pennsylvania. -- During surprise Christmas Eve trip, defense secretary contradicts official story" Per Drudge

12.27.2004 A conservative's view of the internet 2004: "The Year Of Blogging Dangerously"

12.27.2004 Rendition: "According to airport officials, public documents and hobbyist plane spotters, the Gulfstream V, with tail number N379P, has been used to whisk detainees into or out of Jakarta, Indonesia; Pakistan; Egypt; and Sweden, usually at night, and has landed at well-known U.S. government refueling stops." Dana Priest, Washington Post.

12.26.2004 " An increasingly wobbly Rumsfeld looks like he’s being set up to take the fall for the military errors in Iraq, and for his own missteps. But it would be a terrible shame if in the rush to blame Rumsfeld, we missed the real culprits." The Virginia Pilot

12.26.2004 "Not-so-healthy forests" ... "Some have argued that Bush's exploitation of our natural resources is driven by an anti-environmental animus. I think it's far more likely that the administration was simply bought and paid for." Carpetbagger

12.25.2004 "Army Historian Cites Lack of Postwar Plan -- Major Calls Effort in Iraq 'Mediocre'" By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff "Reluctance in even defining the situation . . . is perhaps the most telling indicator of a collective cognitive dissidence on part of the U.S. Army to recognize a war of rebellion, a people's war, even when they were fighting it," he comments."

12.25.2004 "AN ARGUMENT FOR A NEW LIBERALISM. -- A Fighting Faith" by Peter Beinart

12.25.2004 Ho, Ho, Ho: "National forest policies face a big change" Washington Post

12.22.2004 "Mayberry Machiavellis" Josh Marshall.

12.21.2004 "FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques" ACLU

12.20.2004 Bibliography on Election Issues, Hunter at Kos.

12.20.2004 "Heterosexuals Caught in Gay Marriage Issue" "The Social Security Administration is rejecting marriage documents issued for heterosexual couples in four communities that performed weddings for gay couples earlier this year.
The agency is rejecting all marriage certificates issued in New Paltz, N.Y., after Feb. 27, when the town's mayor began marrying gay couples, according to town officials." Newsday.com
"No word on Mass. marriages. Perhaps the SSA needs to set up a system of local crotch inspectors. Hey, John Ashcroft needs something to do..." -Atrios

12.20.2004 "On Sunday, Democrats also seemed divided over Mr. Rumsfeld. Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who are the senior Democrats on, respectively, the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, blamed the White House for problems in Iraq, saying they saw no need to remove the defense secretary if the president's policies remained the same." The New York Times

12.19.2004 "Isn't freedom of religion something we should insist upon in Iraq?" Andrew Sullivan

12.19.2004 "Poll Shows Seniors Back Medical Marijuana" By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

12.19.2004 "The Pentagon's mission and budgetary creep is out of hand." Steve Clemons

12.19.2004 "2001 Memo Reveals Push for Broader Presidential Powers -- A Justice Department lawyer (John Yoo) may have been laying the groundwork for the Iraq invasion long before it was discussed publicly by the White House" Michael Isikoff
5.30.2004 " Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights - Don't blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib." BY JOHN YOO "The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq." WSJ Opinion Journal

12.19.2004 "It's a great example -- almost a morality play -- of one of the key flaws in the president's leadership. He gets clear first impressions and makes judgments based on instinct. And then there's almost no follow-up, no challenging instinct with the harsh light of facts. And certainly no accountability. More often than the not, or course, the instinct turns out to just be wrong. As with Iraq, and Putin's soul and now Kerik" Josh Marshall

12.19.2004 "Medicine Fueled by Marketing Intensified Trouble for Pain Pills" By BARRY MEIER "Dr. Fries said the story of the COX-2's was emblematic of the consumer marketing forces that now propel the drug industry."
It is a market, he said, in which the lure of the new can run ahead of science.
"You have to have a new generation of drugs," said Dr. Fries. And under that model, "the old ones are dangerous, and the new ones are safe." Or until proven otherwise.

12.18.2004 " Making A Federal Case Out of Almost Everything -- It's time to rediscover constitutional limits" Gene Healy, Reason

12.18.2004 Christie Todd Whitman: "It is time for Republican moderates to assert forcefully and plainly that this is our party, too, that we not only have a place but a voice, and not just a voice but a vision that is true to the historic principles of our party and our nation, not one tied to an extremist agenda," she says.

12.17.2004 Steve Clemons on Michael Powell: "Not only is Powell not protecting the country from the nefarious consequences of concentrated media power, he is driving it. He has exploited Janet Jackson's boob-stunt to create fear throughout the broadcast media on the viability of provocative educational and political content. And now, he is stifling America's broadband-rich potential and taking us back to a time of oligopolies in technology firms."

12.17.2004 "A poor choice for OSHA" Carpetbagger

12.17.2004 "ECONOMIC CONFERENCE -- Laughing Off Victims" by Christy Harvey, Judd Legum and Jonathan Baskin, The Progress Report

12.17.2004 "Debunking "Debunking Centrism" Matthew Yglesias "It seems to me that David Sirota's latest attack on the DLC and other "centrists" is in need of a response. The problem here is not that the things he says are popular are not, in fact, popular. Rather, the problem is that he's gone off and created a straw man here, attacking the nefarious DLC for positions it doesn't hold. Discussion below the fold."

12.17.2004 Social Seurity "reform": "Buying Into Failure" By PAUL KRUGMAN

12.17.2004 "CIA's prison within a prison at Gitmo -- Secret facility holds some al Qaeda detainees"By Dana Priest and Scott Higham, The Washington Post.

12.16.2004 "House's Author of Drug Benefit Joins Lobbyists" By ROBERT PEAR, The New York Times.

12.16.2004 "If Congress wants to address a looming crisis, they can deal with the inevitable Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation disaster." -Atrios

12.15.2004 Folks who, Finally, agree with me about Donald Rumsfeld:

Senator Jack Reed, Armed Services Committee.
Sen. Evan Bayh
Senator Susan Collins
Sen. Trent Lott
Tom Donnelly, AEI fellow
William Kristol
Joe Scarborough
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
Senator John McCain
Senator Chuck Hagel

12.12.2004 Bob Novak and the Valerie Plame case: "Bob in Paradise -- How Novak created his own ethics-free zone." By Amy Sullivan

12.12.2004 "The case involves tax credits that the city of Toledo gave to Daimler-Chrysler, a major local employer, in order to lure the company into building a new plant there." Paul Glastris, Washington Monthly "The heart of the decision finds that the Commerce Clause to the U.S. Constitution prohibits preferential tax credits that are intended to interfere with interstate commerce by inducing a company to locate or stay in a State, through a program of direct subsidization. The Toledo program ran afoul of the Commerce Clause because it was deemed to be a direct subsidy. Other indirect tax benefits may not be a problem." Armando at Kos

12.11.2004 "This is why populism is ultimately the way back for Democrats. Because, as red-region progressives show, having the guts to stand up for middle America -- even when it draws the ire of corporate America -- is as powerful a statement about morality and authenticity as any of the GOP’s demagoguery on "guns, God, and gays." David Sirota
Sirota Answers DLC arguments against his article: Here

12.11.2004 "Of course, Gonzales is not a Nazi. But he is not different enough." ... "And now, to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the man who constructed the legal rationale for a policy of torture. It is a disgrace.
It is an outrage." Armando at daily Kos

12.11.2004 The founding fathers speak regarding separation of church and state: Here

12.11.2004 "FCC Wary of Greeks Baring Gifts at Games" By Lisa de Moraes The Washington Post

12.11.2004 "Official Who Criticized Homeland Security Is Out of a Job -- Inspector General Had Reported Mismanagement, Security Flaws" By BRIAN ROSS AND RHONDA SCHWARTZ , ABC News

12.10.2004 "Why Academia Shuns Republicans" JONATHAN CHAIT, LA Times

12.10.2004 "Harvard hire's detainee memo stirs debate" By Marcella Bombardieri, Boston Globe Staff "The Washington Post quoted unnamed officials in October saying Goldsmith, who left the OLC in July, resigned from that office because a lawyer working for Vice President Dick Cheney ''sought to persuade OLC to take a more permissive line on torture." ... "The memo that surfaced in October, initialed by Goldsmith, offered an unusual interpretation of the Geneva Conventions that allowed the CIA to take detainees out of Iraq for interrogations, although it noted that prisoners still would retain rights to humane treatment. The memo was sent from Goldsmith to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. The CIA has since come under fire for holding ''ghost detainees" -- people who were captured in Iraq and taken elsewhere, and others whose status was not disclosed to the Red Cross as required under the Geneva Conventions."

12.10.2004 No, Jonah. This does not compute. "This is more than an academic point: "Sure, 9/11 was a wakeup call," Drum writes, but since we haven't been attacked as badly at home since, there's no reason to conclude that 9/11 was our generation's Pearl Harbor. In other words, if Bush hadn't done as good a job fighting the war on terrorism, Drum might be more convinced that the war on terrorism is worth fighting." NRO

12.9.2004 "Questions for Kerik -- Is he qualified to run the Department of Homeland Security? By Fred Kaplan, Slate (No). 12.10.2004 Apparently Kerik doesn't think so either: 948 articles on Google News
"And, of course, the vetting process was handled by Alberto Gonzalez, whose contribution to justice and competence are legendary..." Atrios

12.9.2004 "Armor Holdings Inc., the sole supplier of protective plates for the Humvee military vehicles used in Iraq, said it could increase output by as much as 22 percent per month with no investment and is awaiting an order from the Army.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday the Army was working as fast as it can and supply is dictated by ``a matter of physics, not a matter of money.'' Bloomberg

12.8.2004 "GI Janes, By Stealth -- The Army tries to pull a fast one. The U.S. Army is quietly making a radical change in its personnel policy that may well see the 3rd Infantry Division redeploy to Iraq early next year with mixed-sex support companies collocated with combat units. The move violates not only Defense Department regulations, but also the requirement to notify Congress when such a change goes into effect." Mackubin Thomas Owens, National Review

12.8.2004 "Beginning next year, the F.E.C. will institute new rules on the restricted uses of the Internet as it relates to political speech." CBS Per Atrios

12.8.2004 "Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters" By Mark Benjamin, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL "Advocates said seeing homeless veterans from Iraq should cause alarm. Around one-fourth of all homeless Americans are veterans, and more than 75 percent of them have some sort of mental or substance abuse problem, often PTSD, according to the Homeless Veterans coalition."

12.8.2004 "U.S. killed unarmed Iraqis, war-dodger hearing told" Colin Perkel, Canada.com

12.8.2004 "Bush gives 20 Mln to Palestinians for Israeli Bills" Reuters

12.8.2004 "FBI reports Guantanamo 'abuse'" CNN

12.7.2004 "Besides, we need to focus our attention on jettisoning an even more problematic region -- a belt of Even Redder States that have none of the cultural advantages or storied charm of the South. That’s right, I’m talking about nullifying the Louisiana Purchase." ... "And no, I’m not talking about giving the land back to the Native American tribes who lived on it. It’s not theirs, after all– it belongs to the French. Thus, when we void the Purchase and return the territory to France, all those red-state voters will become French citizens, and the fair cities of Baton Rouge, Pierre, Des Moines and Cape Girardeau will– at long last– be repatriated. Of course, we’ll have to ask for our $15,000,000 back, prorated for inflation since 1803 (or “year eleven,” ha ha ha). I suggest we set a reasonable price of $10,000 per acre, which brings the total cost to $5,299,116,800,000, or enough to reduce the federal deficit by almost 75 percent, knocking it down under the $2 trillion mark.
So the United States will be close to solvent again, and the upstanding, God-fearing people of Nebraska and Wyoming and Oklahoma will join together in singing “Le Marseillaise.” Michael Bérubé

12.7.2004 "Pentagon: Bush's 'hypocrisy' lost us hearts and minds" Kos "Amazing stuff considering the source. We may assume that the author will be exiled to the Alaskan tundra in retaliation for the harsh and honest criticisms, but this thing had to be approved at multiple levels before it was published. It's clearly not the work of a rogue analyst. "

12.7.2004 "NO MORE MOORE -- The DLC joins the witch-hunt." By Matt Taibbi, New York Press. "Well, I noticed. I also noticed that unless something is done about it, this unelected bund of corporate pawns is once again going to end up writing the party platform and arranging things to make sure that no antiwar candidate is allowed to compete for votes in the primaries. It will push one of its own -- probably Harold Ickes, or Brazile—in next year's election for the chairman of the Democratic Party. And when that person wins, the tens of millions of Democrats who opposed the war will have to get used to people like Will Marshall referring to them as "we" in front of roomfuls of reporters -- Marshall, who this year wrote, in Blueprint, an article entitled "Stay and Win in Iraq" that offered the following view of the progress of the war:
"Coalition forces still face daily attacks but the body count tilts massively in their favor."

12.7.2004 "Simply financing the 'transition costs' of phasing out Social Security will cost a good trillion or two dollars, maybe more -- by the White House's own informal estimates. And where on earth are we going to get that money? Borrow it, says the White House. Notta problem. In other words, we have to start phasing out Social Security now because if we don't we're going to face some big borrowing in a few decades. But we can avoid that horror of horrors by doing some big time borrowing now to finance abolishing Social Security we won't have to face that terrible fate a few decades from now." Josh Marshall

12.7.2004 "The disappearing dollar" From The Economist print edition

12.7.2004 "According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003 (99.8 percent) were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group." Mediaweek.com

12.7.2004 "BERNIE'S STUNNER" By CHRISTOPHER BYRON "a timely recent sale of stock in a company called Taser International, Inc., where he has been serving as an outside member of the board, has made the nation's soon-to-be-confirmed new Secretary of Homeland Security nearly $6 million richer than he was just three weeks ago." The New York Post

12.6.2004 "In sworn affidavit, programmer says he developed vote-rigging prototype for Florida congressman; Congressman’s office silent" the blue lemur Thanks, Aaron

12.6.2004 "the question isn't whether it was "justified" in some simplistic sense- it's whether we achieved desirable and necessary aims at a minimum of cost which couldn't otherwise be achieved." ... The point is that the right question is not "did 9/11 justify war" the right question is "was the way the Bush administration went to war, and all of its consequences, better than the next best option." Unless we have a conversation about the next best option before the fact, and an honest accounting of the consequences after the fact, we can never actually know that." Atrios

12.6.2004 "Brian Baird: Let's get serious about Congress' three-day rule" "Ideally, major pieces of legislation should be available for much more time, so members have the opportunity not only to study the language personally but also to discuss the law with those who would be directly affected. For example, the Medicare bill should have been discussed with senior groups, doctors, long-term care facilities and pharmacists before, not after, it became law." ... "The principle of three-day availability for legislation isn't new. It was championed recently by the very people who now so frequently and blithely violate it. The Republican Leadership Task Force on Deliberative Democracy stated the matter succinctly in 1993: "A bill that cannot survive a 3-day scrutiny of its provisions is a bill that should not be enacted. ... The world's most powerful legislature cannot in good conscience deprive its membership of a brief study of a committee report prior to final action." ... "The outrageous provision to invade taxpayer privacy will not become law because of swift and strong condemnation by both parties. But make no mistake, this is a cautionary tale, and we may not be so fortunate next time. The only way to guarantee that Congress knows what it's passing is to ensure that members have time to read and debate the bills."

12.5.2004 " Officials had hoped the Fallujah assault would put the rebels on the defensive throughout Iraq. But the latest attacks showed they remain capable of hitting where they choose." AP

12.5.2004 "Think, think, shoot, score! -- Brain electrodes help patients play video games in UW study" By JOHN FAUBER, Journal Sentinal.

12.4.2004 "Local gay rights advocates voiced shock and dismay after hearing that about 30,000 state workers will be denied same-sex benefits that had been agreed upon in new union contracts.
Others, meanwhile, praised Gov. Jennifer Granholm's decision Wednesday to revoke the benefits, saying it was the correct legal response to November's voter-approved amendment to the state constitution that bans gay marriage "and similar unions." The Flint Journal.

12.4.2004 "The President didn't mention Kerik's experience much yesterday in the short speech presenting him, choosing instead to focus on his "leadership" qualities. But the record doesn't give much evidence of leadership: he's prematurely quit the two biggest jobs he's ever been handed, just when they got difficult." Benjamin Wallace-Wells

12.4.2004 "The wounded in Falloojeh aren't getting treatment and today we heard about a family with six children being bombed in the city. It's difficult to believe that in this day and age, when people are blogging, emailing and communicating at the speed of light, a whole city is being destroyed and genocide is being committed- and the whole world is aware and silent. Darfur, Americans? Take a look at what you've done in Falloojeh." Riverbend

12.4.2004 "EPA'S BACKROOM DEAL WITH CHEMICAL COMPANIES INCREASES RAT POISONING RATE IN KIDS" ... "In 2001, the Bush led EPA struck a deal with chemical companies to remove two important rat poison regulations designed to protect the safety of children. Specifically, the safety measures had required rat poisons contain an ingredient that makes the candy-like pellets taste bitter to kids and a dye to make it more obvious to adults when a child has ingested the poison.
As a result of no longer requiring those safety additives, the nation is now seeing a record number of children poisoned by the toxic pellets. This year more than 50,000 children were poisoned by rodenticides, which is three times as many as were affected prior to the removal of safety regulations...." Organic Consumers Association

12.4.2004 "FDA Whistleblower Seeks Legal Help From Public-Interest Group" ..."Graham also told the committee that the FDA was "virtually incapable" of protecting the public from unsafe drugs. He also raised safety concerns over five other drugs on the market which he said could become the next Vioxx." Health Talk

12.3.2004 "Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, warning of a potential global outbreak of the flu and health-related terror attacks. "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," he said. Here

12.3.2004 "What happened to Iraq’s oil money?" By Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit "NBC News has learned that a draft government audit faults the United States for "inadequate stewardship" of up to $8.8 billion in oil money, handed over to Iraq's ministries but never fully accounted for."
"Anyone who approves of the way the Bush administration is handling Iraq just isn't paying attention." Carpetbagger

12.3.2004 "Abstinence curricula aren't just wrong; they're puritanical" Carpetbagger

12.3.2004 George Tenent, former CIA head "I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control." ... "Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who can show they take security seriously", he said. ... Mr. Tenet called for industry to lead the way by "establishing and enforcing" security standards. Products need to be delivered to government and private-sector customers "with a new level of security and risk management already built in."
The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said. Via Drudge

12.1.2004 "Ridge's Record: Color Alerts and Mixed Security Reviews" By ERIC LICHTBLAU and CHRISTOPHER DREW The New York Times "Counterterrorism officials also warn that terrorists could kill tens of thousands of people by blowing up a chemical plant and releasing toxic gas.
When he was still at the White House, Mr. Ridge joined with the Environmental Protection Agency in considering new safety rules in 2002. But after the oil and chemical industries met with Karl Rove, the president's political adviser, and other senior aides, the White House quietly blocked those efforts, current and former officials say."

12.1.2004 "In the unlikely event you haven't heard about this elsewhere, I'd like to join the growing chorus of outrage over the decision by CBS and NBC to refuse advertising from the United Church of Christ." Carpetbagger

12.1.2004 "The Supreme Court’s medical-marijuana case could send federalism up in smoke." ... "Despite its apparent importance to drug warriors, Ashcroft v. Raich is not about medical marijuana or drug prohibition. Nor is it about the wisdom, or lack thereof, of allowing chronically ill individuals to smoke weed for medicinal purposes. Rather, it concerns the limits of federal power under the Constitution. Federalism does not play favorites. It limits the scope of federal power to pursue liberal and conservative ends alike. If a majority of the Court remembers this lesson, Angel Raich will get to keep her medicine. More important, the nation will keep the constitutional limits on federal power." Jonathan H. Adler, National Review OnLine

12.1.2004 "Jesusland for thee, but not for me" Jonah Goldberg and I agree on something: "The virtue of a federalist, republican form of government is that the more you push these decisions down to the level where people actually have to live with their consequences, the more likely it is they will be a) involved and interested in the decision-making process, and b) happy with the result. Federalism is also morally superior because it requires the consent of the governed at the most basic level. Sure, your side can lose an argument, but it's easier to change things locally than nationally. And, at the end of the day, if you don't get your way, there's always the highway. It's easier to move to the next state than it is to move to Canada." ... "It's not that the White House doesn't have good arguments for its policies. But it is impossible to restore federalism unless you start by allowing states to make decisions you dislike. Otherwise, it's not federalism, it's opportunism."

12.1.2004 "PR Meets Psy-Ops in War on Terror -- The use of misleading information as a military tool sparks debate in the Pentagon. Critics say the practice puts credibility at stake." By Mark Mazzetti, LA Times ""The movement of information has gone from the public affairs world to the psychological operations world," one senior defense official said. "What's at stake is the credibility of people in uniform."" ... "According to several Pentagon officials, the strategic communications programs at the Defense Department are being coordinated by the office of the undersecretary of Defense for policy, Douglas J. Feith" See Disinfopedia on Feith.

12.1.2004 "U.S. Generals in Iraq Were Told of Abuse Early, Inquiry Finds" By Josh White, Washington Post

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