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Colonel Carl Kenneth AllardMr. Jed Babbin

.Dr. James Jay CarafanoColonel Gordon Cucullu

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Gentlemen, .' just wanted to send you a reminderabout the call this morning. Ifyou have already RSVP'd for the call, youdo notneed 10 do soagain, (f you have not, pleasedo so. We would be thrilled to have youon the call. Thank${?J~M

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We invite you to part icipate in a conference call. TOMO RROW, April 1.2, 1005 from 10:30-1/:00.

Participants in this conference call will be the Deputy Director, Regional Operations, J-3 Brigadier GeneralHam. His biography is attached for your review . Topics to be discussed are curre nt operations in Iraq. Hiscomments will be on background only.

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here are the rsvp's fOT tomorrow's call as o f this evening:

Mr. Jed Babbin ( SAF, JAG) (American Spectator)Dr. JamesJay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired)Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona ( SAF, Retired) (MS Be)

.Colonel John Garrett (tentative) (USMC. Retired)Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis ( SA, Retired)General William L. ash (USA, Retired)

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hi there~ment ioned that general hamm wou ld like to see our invitation list.. how about if we give you the list of folks whohave rsvp'd by cob tomorrow. to include their previous military background... that will give you an indication of who willbe on the call.

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Tongsun ReduxBy Jed Babb inPubl ished 4/1 8/200 5 12:07:13 AM

For news ju nkies , this will be a hectic week. By its end, Catholics may have a newpope, we may have a new UN ambassador, and both Ko I and his bestest buddyJacques may suffer nervous breakdowns. Things are looking up because, whileVolcker fiddles, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern Distr ict of New Yorkare burning bad guys. Now all.we need to find out are the names of CooperatingWitnesses One and Two, and the high-ranking UN offic ials whom they bribed forSaddam.

CW1 and CW2 may be the fi rst people who have earned the Presidential Meda l-ofFreedom as a result of plea bargains keeping them out of jail. (CW1 has alreadypled guilty to being an unregistered agent of the Saddam government and iscooperating with U.S. investigators.) They are unindicted co-co nspirators - creditedwith helping Saddam bribe the UN into setting up the Oil-fo r-Food-fo r-Br ibes-forWeapons scam - in the indictment of one of our all-t ime faves, Tongsun Park ofKoreagate infamy.

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involvement with dozens of Congressmen, only three of whom were laterreprimanded by the House. (Think of th is the next time you hear the caterwaulingabout Tom Delay.)

Just because Saddam is evil doesn't mean he's a dummy. He did what any goodmanager wou ld do if he wanted to pay bribes : he hired an expert. According to theMarch '21 indictment of Mr. Park unsealed last week, and the affidavit stat ing itsigned by FBI special age nt Nicholas Panagakos. Saddam paid bribes to andthrough Park to Cooperating Witnesses One and Two and to at least two highranking UN officia ls in order to get the UN to .create the Oil-for-Food program bySecurity Council in 1996. Just who were they? Not Benon Sevan, who wasn't yetchosen to run the Oil-for-Food scam. There would have been no reason to bribehim before he was chosen to run the scam. Was Annan himself bribed? How aboutIqbal Riza, his chief of staff who later ordered the shredding of UN documents forthe 1996-1999 period. when the prog ram was first created and run? Someday soon,we should know.

The bribes apparently continued until 2003 (when Tommy Franks had something tosay about Saddam's future plans ). to make sure that the program was extendedbeyond its original expi ration date. The indictment says that Park "invested in acompany owned by an immediate fam ily member of a high-ranking UN official "money paid to him from the Government of Iraq in connection" with the bribeagreement. Park, having agreed to bribe the UN officials for Saddam, got at least$2 million for himself and dlstrlbu ed millions in bribes, both in cash and in oilvouchers entitling the UN officials to collect more millions from the sale of thevouchers. So how does Kofi respond to the new revelations? By trying to pass theblame to President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, of cou rse .

Last week the sagging Annan said , "The bulk of the money that Saddam madecame out of smuggling outside the oil-far-food program, and it was on the Americanand British watch." Annan added. "Possibly they we re the ones who knew exactlywhat was going on , and that the cou ntries themselves decided to close the ir eyes tosmuggling to Turkey and Jordan because they were allies ." Of course, nothing theUN did was wrong .

If Kofi's week weren't sour enough, Secretary of State Condi Rice added to hisagony by saying, " It is no secret to anyone that the United Nations cannot surviveas a vital force 'in international politics if it doesn't refo rm." Note to Kof!: reform ordie. It's a great disappointment that we didn't see the appropriate headline in theNew York Daily News, in 54-point type, saying : "Condi to UN: Drop Dead."Something to look forward to. Almost as much as the Botton confirmation, whichmay come later th is week. .

THE lEF:TIES HAVE MANAGED to delay , but not stop, the nomination of JohnBolton to the UN ambassador's post. Thankfull y, and my apologies to Sen. Hagel,

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even he and Sen. Lincoln Chafee seem to be standing with Bolton. If the Oemscan't get either of them to vote against Bolton, or at least abstain, Bo lton'snomination should be reported out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlythis week. On the floor , it will pass easily. For Kofi and the rest of the Turtle Bay .crime family, it will be as much fun as passing a kidney stone. Meanwhile back at Iedomaine, Jacques is apparently sinking in the congenital contrariness of his owncountrymen.

Ah, how Ie ver turns. Just a year ago, it was a sure bet that France -- one of thechief proponents of the European Union - wou ld eas ily pass a referendum on theEU constitution. Now, as the May 29 referend um approaches, polls show theFrench ready to reject it. That led President Chirac to the most desperate measure.Calculating correctly that the worst thing a Frenchman could think to do was to helpUncle Sam, Chirac said that a "no" vote would weaken the EU and benefit theUnited States . Chirac, in a carefu lly scripted ''town hall" sess ion with young Frenchvoters , issued that dire warning last Thursday , with littl e or no effect. The Frenchmay be content with the status quo which, as the Gipper once said, is Latin for "themess we're in."

Whether the French vote the EU constitution down rema ins to be seen . It's unlikelythat they will reject it because without the EU agriculture subsidy, much of Frencfarming will end . As John Hulsman of the Heritage Foundation once told me, the EUagricultural subsidy is "really a sop from Germany to pay French farmers to sitaround , play boule, and do nothing." The French may just be revolt ing against tenyears of Chiracism or just emoting for the press. Once they get enough attent ionfrom the rest of Europe, they may pass the EU constitu ion to keep the ir subsidies.You see, that's what it's all about. Like Oil-for-Food, the EU is an economic scam.The French have too much to lose if hey reject it.' And money i.s what they're allabout. Not everyone in the world is concerned solely with money. From U.S.European Command and the Joint Staff comes word of new strides in building theIraq Coal ition.

From a kinda sorta reliab le Navy source comes this bulletin from the Joint Staffquoting one of its lieutenant colone ls: ''Things are looking up for us here. PapuaNew Guinea is thinking of offering two platoons: one of infantry (headhunters) andone of engineers (hut builders). They want to eat any bad Iraqis they kill. We've got ·no issues with that , but State is being anal about it." Dr. Rice reportedly wants totransform the State Department as Mr. Rumsfe ld is doing with the Pentagon. Sheapparently has a long, hard road ahead .

TAS contributing editor Jed Babbin is the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UNand Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004).

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Sir: Just wanted to advise that the News hour may run a DADT piece this evening .... wedeclined their invitation of an on camera earlier as you know ...... we provided our military analystBob McGinnis .....background Information and most recent data ---he will unoff icially representDoD's perspective and carry our message ......LTC Richard

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EXCLUSIVE: Women in Combat?Da te: Saturday, March 19@ 2 1: 17:46 CSTTopic: FSM FEATURE

.ByJed Babbin

Did you know that women in our armed forces are increasingly being pushed into a combat role? Find out why and how this will affect our troops - in this EXCLUSIVE piece from FSM contributing editor Jed Babbin!

Women in Combat?Jed Bobbin

Everyone has opinions about the war, and no one seems shy about expressi ng them. Whether it' s about Iraq, alQueda, the military budget or anything else, we all have something to say. And that' s a good thing, becauseAmerican democracy doesn' t function withou t open and honest debate. Social security used to be the "third rail"of American politics. 0 one dared to touch it because to do so was to commit politica l suicide. Now, the samecan be said of the question of women in combat.

Because politicians and too many military leaders are afraid to taJk about it, the quest ion is being decided bydefault in the incrementalism of the bureaucracy. Army bureaucrats are decid ing the issue in small chunks,moving women into combat units by making small changes in obscure polic ies. These bureaucratic actions mustbe subjected to the light and heat of politics.

The President has.said, " 0 women in combat." US law, Defense Department policy and everything eJse theArmy is supposed to obey says that women should not serve in infan try units , in spec ial operations, and in theother ground combat forces whose business is killing people and breaking things. Small, slow changes have for years - allowed women to fly Air Force and Navy combat aircraft , fly Army helos .in combat, and serve onmost avy combat ships . Every Army' unit - infantry, armor, suppon, reconnaissance, etc. - has a "gender code"number. The gender codes are supposed to separate those non-combatant units tha women can be assigned tofrom the combat arms. ow, the Anny is changing its operating doc trine to include women in more combatunits by manipulating the gender codes.

According to the Center for: Military Readiness, and confirmed by a Defense Department source, the Army isj uggling unit gender codes to allow women to serve in combat arms such as mult iple-launch rocket systems,reconnaissance, and Stryker Brigade Combat Teams. The Army apparently plans to assign women to these unitsto raise the unit manning number s to the requisite levels, but plans to withdraw the women if the units are

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engaging in combat. There are only two results that can obtain, and nei ther is good for the figh ting strength ofthe army.

First, if this is mere ly the accounting game it appears, the Army is more in step with the UN than the President.It 's trying to increase the number o f troops it needs by including troops that won't be there to fight. It's a fraudon the rest of the soldiers who will have to fight short-handed when the women leave. Second, if the Army isvio lating the ban on women in combat arms, it's more thanjust an accounting scam. It ' s a knowing reduction inthe Army's combat capability.

Feminis ts argue that it 's discrimination against women to keep them out of combat units because they aren' t aslikely to be promoted without combat experience. The feminists ' argument is premised on fact: there isfavo ritism in the mi litary promotion system toward those who have served in combat. And there must bebecause the "glass ceiling" they complain about is smeared with blood. Lessons learn ed on the battlefield arepaid for with so ldiers ' lives, and as many millennia of war have taught us, those lessons are best applied by.military commanders who have learned them first -hand . .

The commanders' job is to apply those lessons to win the war in.the shortest amount of time by inflicting thegreatest damage on the enemy in the shortest perio d of time. Their principal tool is the people who serve incombat arm s. To win battles, the combat arms must be peopled only by those who can perform as well as everyother under the stresses of com bat. And very few women can qualify under the standards for combat.

For those who sti ll doubt tha t, the 2002 Bri tis b Ministry ofDefence study, "Women in the Armed Forces ,"should sett le the matte r. It begins with a foundational truth: "Combat effectiveness is the ab ility of a unit. . .tocarry out its mission ...The cohesion ofa unit is a vital factor in its combat effectiveness." The study finds thaton ly 1% of women can meet the physical standards men do, that they are less aggressive and mo re prone toinj ury than men , and that - in the on ly example where the combat effectiveness of women is measurable, theIsraeli army in 1947-4 8 -- "Israeli morale suffered disproportionately when a female so ldier was killed orwounded." In short, unit cohesion is reduced significantly by including women in combat arms because the vastmajority can 't mee t the standards men do , and because of the effec t on the uni t when a woman becomes acasualty. Just what will the effect of the Army ' s bureaucrat ic maneuvering be?

A very wise man, the late Capt. H.H. Babbin, USMCR.. had words of wisdom for me as my com missioning dateapproached more than three decades ago . He said tha t I'd soan be a we ll-educated and highly-trained juniorofficer. Which, he said, meant ['d be essentia lly use less. His advice was to find someone with a lot of stripes onhis sleeve and do what he said if I wanted to do my job well live to tell about it. What was good advice for methen is good advice for the Arm y now. Ret ired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Duff was one of thosebestriped persons . Having served more than 20 years in the Marines, Duff has some strong opin ions aboutwomen in combat.

Duff told me that it 's not a question of physical fitness. That women have to meet different physica l fitness testsin the military is, to Duff, of no relevance 10 their fi tness for combat serv ice . Combat fitness is abo ut the othertests and standards (which include physical capabilit ies) that ha ve to be met to qual ify for combat duty.

I asked Duff about the Bri t findings that 1% or so of women who can meet the standards for ground combat.Duff said it's too few, and imposing such a small minority of women will create a lot of internal frict ion. .Women comprise about 6% of the Marines and , according to Duff, ev en that number can cause a 101ofintemalfriction. Being a wo man - a very attractive one at that - Duff is a pretty. good j udge of it.

Duff said that if she were talking with the Presiden t privately, she 'd urge him to stay the co urse and not a llowwomen - even those who can mee t the standards for ground combat - into combat units. " For the women whocan meet the standards, I'm not going to say ' go for it' because . .. it' s going to be such a small

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number... [because it s] going to cause disruption and morale and cohesion issues. We're naive if we thinkotherwise."

. To GunnyDuff, the standards set for combat service are inviolable. If the Army is allowing women who can'tmeet those standards to serve in combat units, the Ann)' is degrading its combat capabilities. Unless enoughwomen could qualify to comprise at least 15-20% of a unit' Sstrength. she believes it would be highly disruptiveto unit cohesion and morale. Duff told me, "If the Army's going to do this and allow people to go in[to combatunits) jus t to have this equality, they 're forgetting what their mission is. Their mission is to win a stinkingwar..."

We know - from history, from the Brit study, and from GunnyDuff' s advice - that women shouldn't be incombat arms. Why, then, is the Army playing games with unit gender codes and thereby threatening unitcohesion? Is it more important 0 win battles or to give women a greater chance at promotion? All it's about,like GunnyDuff said, is winning the stinking war.

Family Security Matters contributing editor Jed Bobbin is also a contributing editor f or The AmericanSpectator magazine and the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse than YouThink.

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Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA, Retired)Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG)Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired)Colonel John Garrett (USMC. Retired)Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired).Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis . (USA, Retired)Colonel Jeff McCausland, (USA. Retired)General Montgomery Meigs (USA, Retired)Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired)General Wil liam L. Nash (USA, Reti ed)Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired)

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I wrote some 1811<1"9 points off 1I Gen Smith's call with the military analysts.

' gave them to LTCttlJ(!g: !'Rhoproof. Usually he's real speedy but ne'wascrashing on something I think and said hecouldn't get to them until tomorrow. I said fine.

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Oi Rita, Larry , CIV, OSD·OASD-PAWednesdllY, Mllrch 30,200511 :49 AMWhitman, Bryan, SES, OASl>-PARuff. Erte, 55, OASQ-PA; Rhynedal'ic:.e, GeO/Ve, COL. OASO-PARE:

Below is the guls of a snowflake seedef sent out to Cambone and the heads of defense intelligence agencies (nro, dia,nsa, etc.)

l et's use II as Ihe basis for a draft release that we could put out tomorrow after the Silberman report is recefved bypotusfrom t11e commissioners.

Pull somethIng logether and let me see a draft. I'd like to have a draft that I have already reviewed for the seeders 3:00prep today. Tnx..

Pleasecoordinate yourresponses throughSteveCambone.

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Call went well -- the only news maybe that he hinted that they ore seeing more fore ignf ight ers than before.

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hi folks. here is the most recenl Jist of the military analysts calling in this morning forour conterence call. thanks. tj

Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:Colonel Carl Kenneth AllardMr. Jed Bab binLieutenant Colonel Rick FranconaColonel John GarrettColonel Jack JacobsLieutenant Colonel Robert L. MaginnisColonel Jeff McCauslandGeneral MontgomeryMeigsCaptain ChuckNashGeneral William L.NashMajor General Paul E. Val lely

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http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7956

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f rJ- ~?' -:¥'4CIV, OASD-PAWednesday. March 30, 20058:55 AMRuff, 'Eric, SES, OAS D-PARE: Military analyst on O'Reilly factor

sir,dallaswanted meto make changes to the original doc ble of somethi g seedef expressly wanted... then give to allisonso she can seewhat we're offering before we offer it. but allison has asked me forsomething elsea little more pressing. i will gel the newoutreachplan to ab by cob today. good enough? :)

·····Original Message- - ·From: Run, Eric. 5ES, OASD-PASent: Wednesd~ M¥d\ 30, 2005 7:34 AMTo: t!»(~ft7.W,§;; CN, OASD-PASUbject: RE: MilitaryanalystonO'ReillY factor

where is the info j requested, ma'am?

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s.,.t: Tuesdav, March 29. 2005 6:48 PM rq sp _", "'_""' 1.._ .To: Barber , Allison, a», OASl)·PAi Lawrence, Dalas, QASD-PAi Ruff, Eric, SES, OAS[)-PA;h 'd "· ' ·~>':".:''i'' :-"'.MV, OASQ- AASubject: MlIJtary analyst on O'Refltyfactor

Jed Babbin will be on fox news tonight around 8:30 talkingabourdetaineedeaths. fyi. tbanks!tl'~ ..j

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Here isthe preliminary listof/hose calling into the military analysts call tomorrow morn ing. thanks. lj

Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA, Retired)Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG)'Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired)Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginn is (USA, Retired)Colonel Jeff McCausland, (USA, Retired)General Montgomery Meigs (USA. Retired)CaptainChuck Nash (USN. Retired)General William L. Nash (USA, Retired)MajorGeneral Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired)

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i just got a call from Icdr flex plexico saying that southcom was conducting an investigation and they might like to brief the analysts atits conclusion in II month or so... bur, they wanted to see if they could get the list in advance. i said no. told him that it's not publicknowledgeand they prefer to remain annonymous. he was very nice and asked who owned the list, in case they wanted 10 appeal. i toldhim you do. anyway.j ust fyi that you may get a call fromsome conunander in southcom asking us-to sell them the list. j'm sure theyhave a good supplyof candy and apples you could exton. :)

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Whitman, Bryan, SES, OASD-PATuesday, March29. 20053:39 PMMerritl, RoxieT. CAPT, OAS""D"".P.,.,A= = "..."..,.=K~.k. G~t ?%,.96SD-PA:[~J(Sl.:r;~r:t;t§M Lt Col.OASD·PA; LarryDJRita( fdlrtta~I; ,:S: . ~~RE: FYI - Fox O'Re lly Show: Army NotParticipating 29 March (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Good work by all -- Bobbin will do us well-- we should contact him and ask him if he needs .anything -- I would be happy to talk to him

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' ''- Orlginal Message·- -From: Merritt, RoxJeT. CAI1T 04S0-PASc"t: Monday, Marcil 28, 20054:07 PM " ".Tel: 'Boyce, Paul MrOCPAi "'mitt, RoXIe T. CAPT OASD.PAJl/j(~V: i~ ~ .Icol OCPAi \l~ ; .. r,CC: Whitman, Bryan5ES OASD·PA " ~'~\l'."Subject; RE: NIO/ltllne·det.alnee libuse (UNCLASSIFlEO) ""'-":';"':'--'--''-'

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I called RonMitchell at Fox Ne...w at11 :38 a.m. todaydeclininghavingan Army oHiclal on their planned29 M r h snowaboutdetaineeabuseallegations. (As per earlierconversauons of this morning between COls Keck and ~_~ .')' v/r-

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fD!~) ~,~~t , ;i;j' ; lismystified at where the Army got the notionthattherewould be'an ACLU lawyer on the show. AClU wouldnevera ree to be on the showin lhe first place, nor would O'Reilly have them. An'('Nay. with a little help trom " .».:>:-Pc,.., 'J~l£ theyare going to use Jed Babbin Instead. . ~,.\, .

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The Bill O'Rei ly Fox request is for Tuesday night and we're attempting to see who may be available. vlt «

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W hat about Bill O'Reilly?

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Barter, Allison, CIV, OASD-PA lalUson.barbe rW ednesda y, March 16,20057:27 PMW hitman, Bryan. SES. OASD-PA; Barber, All isOn, e lV, OASD-PA; Di Rita, Larry, CIV, 080OASD-PAlawrence, Dallas, OAS D-PARE: seeds! 10 min

yikes 0 fr iday . . that is a busy schedule .. maybe ' we can check in the morning to see if wec an squ eeze a few minuces on t he schedul e o r try and build i t in on t he back side of t hetown hall fr i day . t han ks ab

-- ---Original Message--- - -Fr om: Whitman , Bryan . SES, OASO-PA [mailto:Bryan .WhitroaSent : wednesday, Ma r ch 16 , 2005 5 :26 PMTo: Barber, Al lison , ClV , OASD-FA; Di Rica , Larry , crv , OSD-OASD-PACc: Lawrence, Dal las, OASD-FASUbj ec t : RE: s ecdef 10 min

I think i t would be great; however t his i s how the hour is c ur r en t l y fil led .That with 5 minut es t o walk t o and from the studio.

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NBC News . J im Miklas zewskiWSMV - Nashville (NBC aff il iate)

WCTl - New Burn , NC (ABC a ffiliate )KENS - San Anton io , TX (CBS affil i ate)

--- --Or i g i nal Message --- - -From: Barber. A.llison , CIV, OASD· PA [mai lto:.allis on.barberSent: Wednesday, Ma rch 16, 2005 3:38 PMTo : Whitman , Bryan, CIV , OASP-PAe c ; Lawr ence , Dallas , OASP- PASub ject : FW : oecdef 10 mi n

h i t heredo you thi~k we cou ld squee ze 1 0 min f o r secde f t o a nswer a fe w questions f r om mili t a r yaaalys ts ? i know we are trying to get a l ot out o f the bl ock o f t i me . . what do you think?t hanksab

- - - - -Or i gi na l Message---- -From : Di Rita, Larry , CIV, OSD- OASO- FA [mai lto : l a r r y . d i r itSent: Wednesday , March 16, 2005 3 : 35 PMTo : Ba r ber , Al l ison, CI V, OASD-PASubject : Re: Beedef 10 Min

Probabl y . Work with br yam so t ha t our hour i s used up smartly

Se nt f r om my BlackBer,r y Wi r ele s s Handheld

- - -- -Or i g i na l Mess age- · - - -Fr om: Barber , Allison, CI V, OASO-PA <all isTo : Di Rita Larry (E-ma il ) <l arry . d i r i taSent : wed Mar 16 15: 34 :30 20 05Sub j ec t : seedef ~o min

h i the r eany chance we ca n ge t Becdef to do a 10 min call wi th mi l i tary analysts tomorrow a ft e r hi sint ervie ws? just a f e w que stions on the 2 ye.r anniversary? i t is another crazy i dea but it hink i t would be powerful s i n ce they wi l l all be on tv t hi s weekend .

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mRita, Larry, CIV, OSD-OASo.PAWednesday, March 16.20058:02 AMWhitman. Bryan, SES. OASD-PA; 'Dan Senor'RE:

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Senor , i f this doesn ' t make y ou a s tar we ' re going to stop try i ng l !

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With I t aly' s annou ncement to withdr aw troops starting in De cember . I woul d also off er t hefollowi ng :

-- Ne appreciate I t a l y ' s demonstrated support f or t he coal i t ion and the Iraqi people .

- - I t a l y has been and conti nues to b e a steadfas t a l l y in the Gl obal War Agains t Terr or 'a ndwe va l ue al l the i r con t r ibu t i ons in support democrac y a nd libe r t y

The coal! tion

- -Coa l i t i on s upport is mOre t ha n ha v ing troops i n Iraq

- -More t han 3 0 countries are ke y members of the · coal ition team providing t r oops . politica lback ing t o the coalition , t raining opportuni t ies , suppl i es and financial support to helpr ebui ld t he countr y

-- The coa l ition i s support ing a l l Iraqi efforts to e stabl ish the rule of l a w, promotej ust ice and i mprove qu ality o f l i f e

·- 27 countries with fo rces 1n I raq (in addition to US )

-----Origina l Mess age-- - - -Fr om: D1 Ri t a, Larry , CIV, OSD- OASD- FASent , Wednesday ,To : ' Oa n senor '; o i Rita , La r ry, c r Y, OSD-oASD- PA; Whitman . Bryan ,SES, OASO- PASubj ec t: R.8 :

1 . some allie s have said repeatedly tha t they wi l l ass ess as the I raqi security fo r cesge t mo r e c apable . The U. S . i s do i ng the same t hing .

2 . Once the u . s . recedes back to i t s pre-e l ec t ion level of abou t 1 38. 00 0 (17 brigades)I r aq i s ec urit y f o r c e s thems e l ve s c onstitut e t he l a rges t s ingle compone nt of the coa l i tion,and t hat is goo.

2 . Even so, there are upwar ds of two dozen countries with troop commitments in Iraq.

2. Every country i n NATO has recently pledged to make s ome kind of commitment - - money .trainer s , off-shor e trai ning , e t c . - co t he NATO tra ining mi ssi on i n I r a q.

3. Gene r al Casey, Genera l Abizaid . on up regul arly consu l t with o t her count r ies that arelooking f or ways they may be helpfu l .

4 . the coal ition will continue to shift , but t ha t i s expected as i ndivi dua l c ountriesmake the i r own decisi ons .

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Hey there,

Goi ng on Fox & Friend s tomorrow morn a t 8: 20 . .. wi l l definitely get quest ions about t r oopwithdrawal from coali t ion a l lies .

Any t alkers on i t beyond what Scott sa id below? I f not , I can ge t by . Other wise . pleases hoot me anything yo u 've got .

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Q Sc o t t , what i s you r unders t a ndi ng of Italy's posi t i on on wi t hdr awi ng t r oop s from I raq?

MR. McCLELLAN : Well , actually , l a s t wee k Prime Mi n i s t e r Berlu5c oni spoke to , I be l ieve,the Italian Senace and addressed this issue . He sa id that , as I r a qi s are able t o assumemore responsibili t y , we wi l l wor k i n agreement wi t h our al l ies and s tart to withdraw someof o ur fo rces . And that was something he sa id, I believe i t was j us t about a week ago - lasc Wednesday, I Chink .

Q Ruc has Chis come t o a head . chen, tod~y?

MR . Mc CLELLAN : I saw the comments he made t oday and I think they were very similar t o theco~ments he made l ast week .

o What does this do t o our overall troop s t rength t here ? And i s i t hurting our effor t , i ngener a l , i n

MR. MCCLEL~: I don 't t hink so, because i f you l ook a t what he s a i d l a s t week and wha hes a id agai n today, t hia wil l be based on the ability and capabil i ty of I raqi f orces and t heIraqi gover nmen t t o be able co a s sume mor e respons ibil ity. and t hat he wi l l work inagreement with allies in the region before taking those steps . And we cer t a inly appreCiat et he contributions of t he I talians . They have eer ved and sacrifi ced alongside I raqis anda longside other coali tion f or c e s.

Our f ocu s rema i ns on making s ure t hat t he I raqi f orc e s are f ull y tra i ned and equipped andr eady to aasu~e more responsibi lity for t heir fu ture , and t ha t ' s whe r e our f ocu s wi l lre~ain , 80 tha eventual ly ou r troops wi ll be able ~o r e t urn home with honor.

Q How much of this reflects t he teneion between t he United Sta tes and I taly over theshooting i ncident?

MR. McCLELLAN : I' m no t aure that I 'd make a connec t ion there. I don' t view i t the' samewa y .

Q Is t here any connection?

MR. McCLELLAN: Not that I 'm awa re of.

Q So no connection at a l l?

MR . McCL~LLAN: Not that I -- I haven 't heard any comment to that effect from I t~ l i~n

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Whitman, Bryan. SES, OASO-PA. 2005 11:10 PM

':f'~1: CIV. OASD-PAFW: Africa Center Speaking Invitation

Pl eas e make contact wi t h h im - - make no promises (I agreed t o find s omeone f r om t heoffice ) not nece s sar i l y me.

Mr . Whitman ,

1~~~W[~~fJ~~#~ has for wa r ded your ema i l agreeing to par t icipat e i n "The Next Gener a t i on o fAfr ican Mil itary Leader s· course. Thank you for yo ur wi ll i ngne s s to be a part of t he 17May roundtable on OS de fense pol icy i n Africa .

I f you would please pr ov i de me wi t h your contact information . i ncluding phone and faxnumber, a s well as mailing a dd r e s s I will have a f orma l i nv ita t i on sent out to yo u .Add i t i onal i n fo rma t ion on the t op i c and r oundtab l e format wi l l al so fo l l ow a s we ge tc l oser to the s t art o f the course .

Thank you aga i n for yo ur s upport of t hi s course.

Regards ,

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Attac hments : Harvard Speech Final.pdf; CFRSpeech Final.pdf

Allison:

Doug Feilh wants two of his recent speeches sent out to someof pur lists.

Both of these are posted on our speech web site on defenselink.~~1

~? I shared with Lt Col fM W%1':tfM lhe various types of lists we have. He wants it sent to the ml ~tary analysts. the "formers" typelist (this is the her ykisslngers, etc), and the defense experts (think tankers).

Per some back and forth email with .~.ii .~ he doesn't need a line from Larry, just my typical line which would be somethinglike attached are two recent speeches y doug eith, undersecretary for pollcy. the first is x and the second is y.

The Harvard speech is THiCK (quotes John.Stuart MlII and Edmund Burke). The CFR speech Is more readable. Thepeople on these lists might actually read these (too much for Main Street).

Is this ok with you to se d to these lists7

He's requested this once before. Last summer I think he wanted an article sent out in which the secretary defended him,etc. We did it

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Hi again, these are the two spee ches Mr Feith wo uld like to be sen t ou t under DiRita's signature to your three databases(de fense leaders. mil itary ana lysts, and de fense experts). App reciate it! Pleas let me know final ou tcome so' ( can feed thein fo back to Mr Fetth-vthanks! .

Words for DiRita, "....one of the most important elements of the President's and SeeDefs loreign policy/strategy is thepromotion or democratic institutions around the world. U5D(P) Doug Feith just gave two speeches that dea l with th isissue, among others, and I commend them to your attention...."

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hi t he r ecan we add this in monday 's bird?t hanksab

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Can you make this happen on Monday?COL George H. Rhynedance

George , can you please make sure the b ird staff runs this in MONDAY 'S ebird? Tha nks .

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TORTURE TRUTHSBy J SD BABBINJUST how f a r were u.s . i nt e r r og a t or s told they could go in questioning detainees i n I raq ,Afghanistan and Guan tanamo Bay? A new report by Vice Adm . Albert T. Church I I I , the formernavy inspector general, answers some quest ions pointedly, but raises many more .The Pefense Department bas now done 11 investigat ions growing out of the Abu Ghraibprisoner -abuse scandal, which b r oke a year ago . Church testified to the Senate ArmedServices committee on the latest report Tbursday . His task was to t r a c e any connectionbetween the interrogation methods sanctioned by Defense to any abuses in Iraq , Afghanistanand Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.At the outse t of the war, t he president determined, e ntirely correctly , that suspectedterrorists and their ilk - such as the Taliban and l a t e r the so-ca l led "Saddam Fedayeen " weren' t prisoners of war entitled to the protections afforded under the GenevaConventions. Since we attacked Afghanistan in October 2001 , the left has been work ingnigbt and day to forCe a reversal of that decision. Its principal tool has become theabuses at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad .Critics focused the confirmation hearings for Alberto Gonzales as attorney general onJustice Department and White House memos debating the definitions of torture . Ever sincethe Abu Ghraib 8c.ndal broke, others h.ve blamed Defen8e Secretary Donald Rum~feld and thesenior mi l itary leadership for creating an atmosphere in which prisoner abuse was, if notspecifically permitted , at l e a s t inevitable. .The Church report proves those assertions wrong. It says , "We found, without exception,tha t the DoD and senior mi l i t a r y commanders respOnsible for the formulation ofinterrogation policy evidenced the i nt ent to t r ea t detainees humanely, wbich i g

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fundamenta l l yt ha t detaineeabuses at Abuthea t er. "B~t wha t ~bout Afghanist an and Gua ntanamo Bay? Wer en 't the i nt e r r ogators just turnedl oose ? I n f act, no . Church wrote , · We found no lin~ be tween approved i n t e r r oga t i oncechniques and deta i nee abus e . "Church found t hat mos t of t he abuse cases d idn 't eve n come out of inte rroga t i on s. "Of t he7 0 cases o f . . . subscant i a ted abuse . on l y 20 o f these cases . or l e s s thAn one-third ,coul d be considered ' i nt e r r oga t i on - r e l a t ed. ' .. The rest occurred i n si tuat ions such as a tt he "poi nt o f capt ure · - whe re soldiers whO 've cap t ured peop l e they believe d had causedt he de a ths or wound i ng of the i r pa ls got emot i ona l l y ca rri ed away .Acco rdi ng t o Church , t he inciden ce o f abus e i s not uniqu e t o a ny of the services , toactive vs. reserve sol diers or ot her f actors . (Thus , he apparently d isagrees wi t h t heearlier Taguba report OD Abu Ghraib , whi ch found he reservist mi l i t ary policei nadequately t r ained f o r detainee oper a t ions in t he environment they e ncountered. )Every t r ue interrogator ' s goal i s to ge t act ionable int elligence · r e liable informat iont ha t ' s trans latable i nt o o f fens ive or defensive ac t i on . To get i t , we mu st both abj uretort ure and r e ject the t ide o f political correctne s s that t hreat e ns to drown ouri nte r r oga t ors . .I nt err oga tion- r e l ated abuse i s qui t e rar e . the report not e s: "At (Guan t anamo Bay] , wher et here have been over 24 . 0 00 interrogat i on sessions . . . there are only thr e e cases of .. subs tant ia ted abus e . al con s isting of mi nor assau l ts i n whi ch imi l i t ary intel ligence ]i nt e r r oga t ors exceeded t he bounds o f approved i nte rrogat i on pol icy . uBut those boundS , a s Church ' s repor t explains , r emain b urry because ~ no universal lyaccepted definit i ons of ' tort u r e ' o r ' abus e ' exi s t . · A 1 t here i s - in the GenevaConve ntions , U.S . and int erna t i ona l l a w - i s t he concept that deta i nees must be t r ea t ed"humane l y . "As t he Church r eport shows. t he t errorists are t raine d in our i nt er r oga t i on me t hods andho w t o resist t hem. Whe n we us e more aggress i ve techn iques . as we did i n t he case of t wo"high- va l ue " deta i nees a t Guantanamo who resis ted s tandard i nt e r r oga tion for months . t henew t ec hn i que s "succ e s s ful l y neut ralized t he two detainees' res i stance t r a ini ng andyiel ded va l uabl e int e l igence . ·Church said i n a co nfer en ce c a l l Wednesday that ou r i nter roga t ors are now "clamped up · decl i ning to push i nterroga ti9ns a s hard as t hey lega lly and mora lly can and Shou l d forfea r o f the next i nveot igation that wi l l come a long .We are punishing innovat ive i nterrogator s , such as the t wo women at Guantanamo Bay . "who,on t he i r own ini t i a t ive, t ouched and spoke co detaine es i n a s exual y - suggestive manne r inorde r t o i ncur s tress ba s ed on the detai nees ' re i gi ous be l i e fs. " Why shou l d we punis ht hose women? Why shoul d we respect terrorists ' rel i gi ous be l i e f s when we - and a growingnumber of thei r c o-re l i gion ist s - say they a re perver t i ng t he i r religion by t hei rt error i sm?The most impor ~ant f inding Church make s is 4 neg a t ive one ·, t hat t her e is no un i versa ldefinition o f torture or abuse . American a nd a l l ied int e r rogat o r s s ho uldn 't have t o worki n f ea r o f prosecut i on under vague l a ws and treat ies . So l ong as they do , t hey will remain"c l amped uP" - l e s s e f fect i ve t han t hey mus t be i f we ar e t o ge t t he actionablei nt el l i gence we need to s ave l ive s .We have a c lear de f i n i t ion of "torture " 1n .S . l aw. Congress s ho ul d - as c learl y aspossible , without t ryi ng to speci fy every possible ci rcums t ance · act quickl y to speci fywhat "a bus e " mea ns .J ed Babbin i s a f ormer deputy unde r se cr eta ry of de f ense , a cont r ibuting ed i t or wi t hfami l ysecuritymat ters.com a nd author of "Ins id e t he Asy lum , Why t he U. N. an d Ol d EuropeAre Wors e Than You Think . ·~

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Thanks for ehe update -always happy t o hear from you .

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; .From: ~~, , 'If.~ CO;" MNFI STRATCOM Dep Di rTo : Whi tman, Bryan, SES, OASD- PA <Bryan. WhitmSent: Sun Mar ~3 10 :04: 04 20 0 5Subj ect : RB: Dan Senor on l i f e i n sover eign I r aq

Br ya n . s i r ... same of t he passages did sound familia r . Pumped it out t o s enior (senorperhap s ) l eadership here to very goo d reviews. Thank you f or he lping us out ove r here ,We haven ' t had a l o t o f bounce on t he injured deta inee releas e .. . which is what we hadhop e d f or . However , a s t h i ng s g o , it could be wrapped i n t o a br oader s eory a s we nearc ompl etion of the i nv esei ga tion into t he Sgrena i ncid ent . Bulga r ian stor y has a lso pl ay edpr etty hea vi l y over here . .. l ' ve been t o ld when t he Bulgar ian of f icial c ame to v i s i t wi thMNC-I official s . he was pr ovid ed a copy o f a pre l iminary repor t . . .and as we allknow. . . onc e you hand pa per ou t e xpect ink on i t to follow. The lraqi gov' t (threemini s t r i e s ) ha ve deni e d t he ex ist ence o f t he 39 he adless bod i e s and say the resu l tingstories in the Wes t ern pr e s s wer e successful a t t empts by someone t o specifical l y"mi sinf orm' (I read this as deceive ) ehe We s t ern press . The s t ory d idn ' t play heavily i nt he I r aqi medi a which l ea ds me to bel i eve I r aqi and other pan~Arabic newspape r/ t e l evisi oned itors · s me l l ed " s ome t hi ng foul i n t he reports . I nt e r e s ting that this came from a nonve r if iabl e s our ce , b ue that so many we re wi l ling co pic~ the sto r y up. We' r e nowp r epar i ng for t he seating o f t he Tr ansitional Nat i ona l Assembly a nd l ot s o f work be ingdone on security . I'll be a t eh e Convent ion Cente r throughout the day a s t he seniorSTRATCOM r ep , The y don' t wa nt a l o t of "uniforms " aroun d dur i ng t his event . .. which i svery understandable . Tha t ' s about i t f or now. Anything you 'nee d , j ust drop me a l i ne .Wi ll minim ize my emai l t o you 8 0 I do n ' t fil l up your already burgeoning emai l box . . . onlythe s tuff I be l ieve you shou ld know in sh ort orde r . Keep smi l i ng my fr 'end. More to 'come.

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Recognize any o f the passages ? You may no t real i~e i t bu t you coordi nate on a spect a ofthi s l ast 'week:-) . Nice j ob !

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Lad ies & Gentlemen : Not a bad story from Dan Senor f or your SA.

Colonel , OSAP

Deputy Di r ec tor f or Publ i c Af fair

Deput y Chief o f Staff , Strateg ic Communications

Mul t i -Nat iona l Forc e -Iraq

The Week y Standard

Meanwhi l e , Back i n Baghdad

Fr om the March 21 . 200 5 i s s ue : Li f e in 60v ereign I r a q.

by Dan Senor

0 3 /21/2005, Volume 010, Issue 25

Baghdad

THB RECENT SUICIDE BOMBING i n the Gouthern I r a q i c ity of Al Hilla was, sadly , nothing new.Watching the news here with Iraqi friends, I thought I knew what ~ould happen nex~, s inceit had happened often enough before I left I r aq e i gh t mont h s ago, when the United Stateshanded over sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government . Then, the I r aq i s standing a round

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the bank of televisions i n our offices would ha ve t urned to . me, the repr esentat i ve'Amer i can , asking why we could not ge t s ecurity under contro .

This time, howeve r , the same I r aqi friends ignored me' and instead participated i n apxotest : the f irst Iraqi - organized ma s s publ ic protest , Borne 2 ,000 strong , in the 23months s i nce the fa l l o f Sa ddam' s r egime . "The Ameri cans " were no longer an address forfrustration or salvation . Welcome to postelection I r a q ,

And t he r e are many more ba rometers of a new traqi mood , even a s tens of t hou sands offore ign troops remain in the country and the bruta vio ence continues .

* Checkpoints and securi t y--Last summer , most milit a ry checkpoints i n Baghdad were mannedby Amer i can soldiers . Iraqis were the fi r st t o deplore this "humi l i a t i on . " But everycheckpoint I ' ve been t hr ough on thi s trip has been staffed by Iraqi soldiers .

Now American troops are i nc r ea sing y be hind t he scenes , there to help i f things ge t dicey .For mo s t I r aq i s , the checkpoint expe r ience ha s become one of interfa c e with t heir fellowc i t izen s in uniform- -an enormous psychologica.l a nd symbol ic change . A sen i or DefenseDepartment of f i c i a l here discussed taking this process t o t he next step by employingIraq ' -only mi l i t a ry patro ls in the majo r ci t i e s .

Last year. I r aq ' S prime m~n1 s ter . deputy prime minis ~er , and president were guarded byU.S . Special For ce s . When the s e politicians appeared on l oca l television, a r ing ofplai nclothes Ameri cans was often i n the camera s hot.At t ha t t i me, Pri e Mi n i s t e r Al awi visited the s c enes of su i c ide bombings to project astrong "l a r ge and in c har ge " i mage . Thi s e f for t was hampered by visuals of the tightc irc l e of Amer icans who were keep i ng him al i ve. Now I r aq i s have been tra ined to do thej ob· · anot he r i mportant cha nge .

As for t he I r aq i security eervices , whe n I passed a r ecruit ing f a cilit y i n Baghdad , .t hel ine went on a s fa r as the eye could see . It l ooked l i ke a suici de bombing waiting toha ppen . But Iraqis have not been deterred. Aa the CENTCOH command er , Ge ne r al Abizaid, pu tit , "Eac h t ime an Iraqi soldier is kill ed, another steps up t o t a ke h is p l ace. And sincethe handover of s ov ere i gn t y , mor e I raqis have died in the line of du ty in I r aq thanAmericans . "

When I repeated thi s s t ory to a Western reporter , he cynically r esponded:"well tha t j us t s hows you how desperate they are for j obs. " Perhaps . But then how does ooeexplain more than 8 mill ion I raqis who r isked the i r lives , not f o r a j ob, but . t o vote ?

As fo r Iraqi secur i t y performance , I asked 0 . 5 . troops in Baghdad f or feedbaCK. Some wasglowing, some r e strained , bu t non e disparaging. At a mi n imum, there was r ea l respect qnt he part our troops f or Iraqi s risking their lives for their own country . And whileeveryone agrees that I r aq i forces s t i l have a way to go , their e l i t e t eams-- i~e SWAT,emergency response, a nd c ount e r i n s urge ncy - - ar e per f ormi ng except i onal l y well . They havebeen fully par~1cipat in~ and a re often t axing the l e a d in complax and d angerousoperat ions .

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This has been going on for some time: Rec a t hat the Oi l- for ~Food s candal was firs texposed by a post -Sadda I raqi ne ws pap er. when I s topped .by the Int ernat ional Pr e s sCe nt e r, I raq i j our nalis t s- - men and ~~men --were busy f i l i ng s t or i e s about t he hors e - tradingbetween t he po l it ica l part i e s. When t he e lec t i on r esults were of f icial l y announc ed , I r aqi scrowded ar ound televis ion sets i n ca fes al lover Baghdad, watching t he news .

The Arab sate l l i te channels thems e l ves a re goi ng t hrough a transfor mat ion .Wh i,l e Iraqi s c l aim t ha t Al J«:z:eera cont i nues t o be " t he mouthpi ece of the i nsurgency , " i t ech ie f competitor , Al Arabiyah , ha s gotten serious about r epor t i ng ne ws beyond theviolence , notwi t hs t anding some sensationali~, from time to t i me .

On Elect ion Day, Al Arabiyah ha d correspondents go l i ve at pol l ing places i n s ix ci ties .north t o so uth. When fe nce-s itting I r aqis tuned i n that morning to decide whether to taket he r isk t o vo te, AJ Arabi yah r e por t ed vo ter momen tum rather than t err oris t at tacks .Monentum begets momentum.

Interest i ngly , Al Ja zeera doe s not hold t he dominant po sit i on i n Iraq that i t ma intains i not he r Arab markets . I t d id l a unch a bout eigh t years ahead of Al Arab iyah, which emer gedj u s t before t he Iraq war. But because Saddam bad ou t l awed satelli te d ishes . both c~nnels

arrived at the s ame time i n t he home s of mos t I r a q i s .

• Women--One of the I r a qi i nterim cons t i t ut ion 'S mandates res u lted i n every f ourthpo sition on each pol i t ical party list be ing held by a woman . This produced femalerepresentat ion in t he Nat iona Assembly a t a h igher r ate t han 'i n t he U. S . Congress .

Suc h newfound po l itica rights are not a s easily reversible as We ste rn s kept ics c lai m. Apo l i t ical consti tuency i s be ing crea t ed , which wa s exac tly t he int ent of the IraqiGoverning Counci l and the Coal it ion when t hey made thi s const itut ional s tipulat ion . Oncewornen get comfortable with po i tical power , i t ' s not easy for I slami s ts t o t ak e i t awaywithout r i sk of r evo l t.

The e xamp e being get by Ir~qi g on women 'g r ighta goec beyond pol itics to myriad newwomen's r ights organizat i ons a nd t o women ' s v~s ibi lity i n t he press corps . Indeed , therei s nothing more revolut ionary t ha n an I sla mis t po itician bei ng gri l l ed by an abayah -c ladfemale Iraqi reporter unde r t he brighc _i ghts o f pan-Arab t e levi s i on cameras broadcastingto t he ent ire reg ion .

• Arab nationa l ism- - "Wha t this e lect i on co l d us i s tha t Arab na t i ona lis m is dead inIraq ,· one Iraqi l e ade r proudl y proc l a i med to me . I f the r e ' s any do ub t , watch I r aqi sse lect a Kurd as t he i r nex t pres idenc--the fi r s t t ime a member of: a non -Ara b minor ity wi llbecome the ceremoni al hea d o f a n Ar ab count ry , i n a pa r t of t he wor l d not known for i t sr e spec t f or ethnic mi no r i t y right s .

Even I r aqi s ' lack of i nt e r e s t i n the ft Zioni st entity · i s t e ll i ng . This is not to say thatI r aq i s are s upport i ve of Israel or unsympa t het i c t o t he Pa l e s t ini ans. It 's just that theydon ' t ~hare the ob~.G&ion with I8r~e tha t conaumea some othvr~ i n t he rvgion. The Iraqipolitica l part ies that ran on a Na s s e r i t e pan-Arab agenda performed di smally .

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if my fina l destinat ion from B&ghdad was Amman. ~ No . · I replied. "i t ' s Tel Aviv. · Hedidn't flinch , l e t alone launch i nt o an anti-Israel tirade or deny me service. Hi s on lyconcern was how to tag my. l uggage SO i t could go all t he way through . I told a Sunni Iraqimi ni s ter at the a irport the same thing . He didn 't miss a beat ~ either . Fr ee Iraqi s seem t obe able to reconcile being agnostic about Israel with being sympa t he t i c to thepalestinians . And . besides , Iraqis are p r eoccupied with jobs . electricity. and securi ty.none of which they connect to the old pan-Arab scapegoat. The ir outlet now i s their ownpolitical pr o ces s .

.. I r aqi pride-'-When I was working i n r aq , I was s truck by how proud I r aqi s were of theirc ount r y-- s urpr i s i ng given t ha t the mod er n s tate of I r aq has existed for only 85 years .I r aq i s were qu ick to note that, unti l the I r an - I r aq war , they were II. ways t he f irst in ther egion , whether i t was joining t he U.N. o r acquiring te ev i s i on sets . Saddam 's t yrannydestroyed much of that · pride, and what wa s lef t was dealt a blow by the realization thatit had t aken a foreign power to liberate them.

No.... , i n the paste lee ion euphoria , one beg i ns t o hear the word "first"again. Iraqis recogni ze the significance of the election not only for themselves , but forthe region , which has renewed their sense o f pride. As the spokesman for the I ndependentElectora Commission of Iraq put i t when ~~nouncing the official results of t he election :"Today I r aq i s taking a new step toward . . . de mocracy ." I t was t he firs t "truedemocrat ic experience"for Arab countries "and a model for the people of the area . . . . Today is the birth of afree I r aq . . . based 00 civi l ized democratic values . "

on the day that Raf i k Har iri , former pri me mi niste r of Lebanon, was assassinated , an Iraqileade~ predicted to me that t he response from the Lebanese people would be dramaticallydifferent because of the example s e t by the I raqi e lection .

Even in Iraq 's s unn i ·ma jority areas , many people a lready resent t he Assoc iation of IslamicScholars for urging a boycot t of t he e l ec t ion, and so forcing the~ o ff the democratictra in j us t a s i t was l eaving the stat ion .Ther e i s little doubt that Sunnis will participate at muc h higher rates i n t he t woe lect ions scheduled for l a t e r t his year .

Even after Saddam's capture, many I r aq i s seemed unable to f ully be lieve tha t their countrywould not revert to tyranny , t he only political reali t y most had ever known . Now , sincethe electiOns. Iraqis seem for t he f irst t ime to be taking ownersh ip of thei r country .They are proud, and determined not to lee it go.

Dan Senor was chief spokesman and senior adviser for t he Coalition Provisional Authorityin Baghdad from April 2003 t hrough J une 2004. He recently r eturned to Iraq for the firsttime s ince the handover of sovereignt y .

o Copyright 2005, News Corporation , weekl y s tandard , Al l Rights Reserved .

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My apologies . I t o ld the Standa rd copy editor t o change "Navy Sea l s " to "Ameri cans" inboth places . . . she d i d in one , but i n the other replaced with "Special For ce s " . Nothelpful . I' ve seen Navy Seals e lse whe r e in print before . But. still , sorry about t ha t .

I t h i nk you ' ll l i ke the r est of the piece. Put in the bird i f you think i t woul d behelpful .

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Civil Liberties, Civil Society and Civilityby

Douglas J. FeithUnder Secretary of Defense for Policy

John F. Kennedy School of Government * Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts

March 3, 2005

Good evening. It's good to be back at Harvard. As you've heard, I

went to school here, at the College. I want to reassure the students in the

audience : a Harvard degree does not have to be a liability. In conservative

political circles, I've found, it may require some explaining, but many

conservatives are open-minded and others are forgiving. As an example of

this generos ity of spirit, I'll tell you a true story :

Nearly thirty years ago, I had a piece of foreign policy juvenal ia

published in the j ournal ofa conservative think tank. The biographical squib

mentioned my recent college degree . A reader sent me a fan letter, asserting

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as a compliment that 1 must have slept through my political science courses

at Harvard to have written so sensible an article.

So much for right-wing humor.

Actually, I stayed rather attentive in my government classes in college

- without much ill effect. As it happens, some ofwhat I read in a "gov"

course on political philosophy has had some bearing on work I've done at

the Pentagon, some of which I'll discuss this evening.

Two concepts I studied here are particularly relevant to the US

strategy for the war on terrorism.

The first is civil liberties , and how to think about the balance between

individual freedom and the powers of government. The second is the local

character of governmental institutions , and whether they measure up to

principles that are said to be universal.

As much civil liberty as possible

In the United States, national security refers to more than protecting

territory or people. The United States is not just a country; it's a country

that lives in a certain way. The word "American" proclaims not an ethnic

identity, but an association with a community regulated by our Constitution.

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That s why, though one cannot instantly change one 's ethnicity, millions of

peop le have, by taking an oath, become not just American citizens , but

Americans.

All of th is is to say that civil liberties are not just a feature of life here,

they are what defines us as a nation. he civil liberties of the American

people therefore are what we aim to secure when we work on national

security policy.

Part of my education here at Harvard-was reading John Stuart Mill,

who championed the ethical and practical benefits of 1iberal principles,

principles that respect the worth of individuals and their equality under the

law. In his wr itings, including his 18 ~9 essay On Liberty, ill argued that

humane and sensible societies allow their peop le as much individual

freedom as is consistent with "self-protection" or public safety .1

Much ofwhat makes Americans happy - their political freedom,

economic prosperity, domestic tranqu ility and opportunity to better

themse lves - derives from the liberal and democratic nature of our society

and the degree of mutual trust - sometimes referred to as social capital - that

I ThePhlfoS()phy 0/ 1. S. MifI, ed., Marsh311 Cohen (New York: Modem Library, 196\). p. 197.

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such a society engenders. It's hard to overstate the moral and material

benefits that are rooted in that social capital, in that trust, in our freedom.

9/11 and the War

This, we should all appreciate, is what's at stake in the war on

terrorism. Beyond the cost in lives and property, the 9/11 attack - or rather

our reaction to it - exposed a far-reaching element of the threat posed by

terrorism : To protect ourse lves physically, we might feel compelled to

change fundamentaJly the way we live, sacrificing our society 's openness for

hoped-for safety.

Because of our historical good fortune, we Americans enjoyed for a

long time a high degree of public safety and so became accustomed to

thinking that the liberal openness of our way of life is not only sacred but

immutable. But a community's freedom depends on circums tances .

Societies inevitably adjust to allow the state to fulfill its most basic duty:

providing security. As noted, even such uncompromising champions of

liberty as Mill bow to the exigencies of public safety . Our Constit ution and

the judges that interpret it often seem to be saying that our freedoms are

absolute, but when danger becomes oppressive, people are wont to recall the

quip that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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In the immediate aftermath of9/11 concerned that another attack may

be in the works, our government took actions to eliminate vulnerabilities that

the hijackers had turned to their advantage.

• We shut down air travel throughout the U.S. When it resumed we

intensified airport security measures and folks now have to remember

to wear duly mended socks when they plan to fly.

• At the same time, the government restric ted the issuance of visas, thus

affecting not only the freedom of foreigners to travel , but the freedom

of Americans to host them.

• And new legis lation allowed intelligence and law enforcement

agencies.to share information more readily.

These were steps deemed prudent, indeed necessary, in the light of

what we knew - and what we didn't know - at the time. My interest here is

.not to defend particular measures. Rather, it's to stress that, beyond the

human and materia l costs it imposes, terrorism takes advantage of and

thereby endangers the openness and trust that allow us to enjoy freedom and

prosperity.

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If another 9111 happened, especially an attack involving the use of

nuclear or biologicaJ weapons, who could doubt that our society would

respond by increasing further the powers of government, affecting our

freedoms? As has happened over and over again for the last 35 years or so,

since the era ofairplane hijacking got into full swing, security measures that

once seemed outrageous could over time become routine .

Such thoughts weighed on President Bush and his advisers as they

considered, in the period immediately after 9/1 1, how to prevent the next

attack against the United States . If the strategy for preventing that next

attack were to be solely or even primarily defensive, it would require a ·

wholesale clamping down, not just at our borders but throughout the

country.

President Bush early on recognized that 9/11 was an act of war, not

merely a law enforcement matte r and that the enemy is not a single group,

but a network of extremists and their state and non-state supporters. The

President declared that our war aim is to defeat terrorism as a threat to our

way of life as a free and open society . We could not achieve that aim - for

we could not maintain a free and open society - with a solely defensive

strategy. To preserve civil liberties, the President had to adopt a strategy of

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disrupting terrorist networks abroad, where they do much of their planning,

recruiting and training. He had to adopt a strategy of initiative and offense.

I put it this way : The President decided that, in dealing with the terrorists,

he either had to change the way we live, or change the way they Jive.

Taking the war to the enemy has been necessary, but not sufficient.

Many months ago, in one of his famous "snowflake" memoranda (which

leaked to a newspaper), Secretary Rumsfeld asked : Are we capturing or

killing terrorists faster than our enemies can recruit new terrorists? Now, the

Secretary knows that attacking enemy networks keeps the terrorists off

balance and can deprive them of what they need to operate. What the

Secretary wanted to highligh t was that such action cannot produce victory in

the war so long as those networks can regenerate themselves.

Countering ideological Support for Terrorism

To defeat our enemies in this war, we'll have to do more than disrupt

and attack; we'll have to counter their ideology. It's the attractiveness of

extremist ideology to certa in segments of the Muslim world that motivates

people to join or help the terroris t groups. As the 9/11 Commission noted,

the US aim, in addition to attacking the terrorist groups, should be to

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"prevail].. .] in the longer term over the ideology that gives rise to lslamist

terrorism.,,2

The first pan of this "battle of ideas' is the effort to de-legitimate

terrorism. The purposeful targeting of ordinary peop le going about their

lives in offices , markets and such places is not a politica l method that

deserves credit or pardon from decent people. This is what President Bush

is driv ing at when he says that US policy aims to make terrorism like the

slave trade, piracy, or genocide - activities that nobody who aspires to

respectability can condone, much less support. It 's an ambit ious goa l to

change the way millions of people think.

But it can be done. History yields examples of successful ideological

campaigns. Particularly noteworthy, in my view, is Britain 's effort in the

1 9~ century to suppress the international slave trade. It was a protracted,

multifaceted , far-flung enterprise. The British avy had a leading role, as

did the Church. Journalists , diplomats and university figures all worked for

the cause. The effort took more than fifty years, succeed ing ultima tely not

only in suppressing to a large extent that sad commerce, but in de

legitimating it. At the end of the 19th century, the civil ized world didn 't

justify or excuse the slave trade, as had commonly been done when the

29/11 Comm ission Report, p. 363.

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century began. The British effort changed the way millions of people

thought, talked and acted .

Britain's fight against the slave trade involved - in today s phrase -

al1 instruments of national power. It used "hard" (that is, military) power

and "soft." It tapped the energies of the government and of society at large.

Similarly, non-governmental institutions today - universities, think

tanks, other NGOs - have a role to play in the ideological struggle against

terrorism . Such institutions can in various ways wage the battle of ideas in

the war on terrorism more effectively than can our government.

Government policy makers have the task of finding proper and effective

means to encourage that effort .

De-legitimating terrorism is but one component of the strategy to

counter ideological support for our extremist enemies. President Bush, in

recent speeches has been emphasizing another: promotion of civi l society,

political freedom and self-government. As he said in his Second Inaugural

address:

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on thesuccess of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in ourworld is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

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America 's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one.

This has produced controversy. I'll deal here with two lines of

criticism that I find particuJarly interesting. One is that the President is too

ambitious, in that he should not expect to be able to implant democracy in

what is said to be unfertile soil. The other is that the President is not

ambitious enough in pressing certain countries to implement principles of

liberal democracy.

The Burkean Critique

The first line of criti cism - that he is too sanguine about promoting

democracy - might be labeled "Burkean, , as in Edmund Burke, one of the

philosophers to whom I was introduced here at Harvard. In college and

since, I read and re-read his works with admiration and profit. Burke

teaches that successful political institutions are Tooted in local soil. They

grow organically, as it were, out of the culture, situation and historical

experience of particular people. Burke warns of the catastrophes that can

result from arrogant rationalists using philosophical abstractions for the

revolutionary remaking of societies .

Burke's argumen ts have power not only because they are elegantly

articulated, but because they were vindicated so bloodily in the French

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Revolution, in the course of which he wrote some of his greatest work, and

then vindicated again repeatedly over the next two centuries in the Bolshevik

Revolution and in other murderous projects of grand social engineering. If

the test of a theory is that it predicts, then Burke's writings deserve high

grades and careful consideration.

I see President Bush's promotion of human freedom not as arrogance

or naive and rampant Wilsonianism. The President starts, I believe, from the

well-grounded observation that societies with free political institutions

provide their people with greater personal liberty and prosperity than do

societies without such institutions. He observes that the rejection of tyranny

and the aspiration for freedom are not peculiar to our particular culture. As

he said in his Second Inaugural : "America will not pretend that jailed

dissidents prefer their chains , or that women welcome humiliation and

servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies ."

At the same time, the President has made a point of not urging, let

alone imposing, American-style political institutions on other countries.

He doesn't believe that there's a single model of democratic

governance that can function everywhere. Actually, he has said the

opposite: "As we watch and encourage reforms in the (Middle East], we are,

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mindful that modernization is not the same as Westernization.

Representative governments in the Middle East will reflect their own

cultures. They will not, and should not look like us.,,3 The President, I

submit, is here voicing the modest prudence of Burkean restrain t.

Democracies on a Spectrum ofLiberality

So we come to the second line of criticism - not that the

Administration is trying to impose our ideas of democracy on unwilling or

unready Afghans or Iraq is, but rather the opposite: that the Administration

is tolerating political inst itutions in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere that

don' t count as democrat ic because they don't measure up to American

standards.

The critics here commonly focus on the new Afghan Constitution and

Iraq 's interim constitution, known as the Transitional Admin istrative Law.

Both refer to Islam as the state religion.

either document, to be sure, would pass muster by US constitutional

law standards . But are these freshly produced constitutions therefore

undemocratic?

J Remarks At The 20th Anniversary Of The ational Endowment For Democracy, November 6, 2003.

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Both documents state protections for rights of non-Muslims. The

Afghan Constitution says that "Followers of other reiigions [other than

Islam] are free to perform their religious rites with in the limits of the

provisions of law" and that the Afghan "state shall abide by .. : the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights."4

The Iraqi interim constitution painstakingly balances Islam's official

status with the rights of non-Muslims:

Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considereda source of legislation. 0 law [may) contradict] .. .J theuniversally agreed tenets of Islam, the principles of democracy ,or the [individual] rights cited in [the interim constitut ion].. .[The interim constitution] guarantees the full religious ri~hts ofall individuals to freedom of religious belief and pract ice.

Among the individual rights referred to here are those in the following

provision:

Each Iraqi has the right to freedom of thought, conscience. andreligious belief and practice. Coercion in such matters shall beprohibited/'

Are such provisions incompatible with a decent political order. with

human freedom or with democracy?

• Artic les 2 and 7., Article 7(A).6 Article 13(F).

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Before we answer, we should consider the rather wide spectrum of

liberality across which are ranged the world 's democratic countries. The

more individualist democracies generally the countries of' new sett lement,"

are on the liberal side of the spectrum. On the other are those democracies,

generally countries with national histories that reach back into antiquity, that

are comfortable giving legal recognition to religious or ethnic groups.

In some countries, democracy might not be workable ifit were not

possible to take into account the interests of these groups as groups,

however un-American that concept is. As illiberal as it is to give groups as

groups legal rights and privileges, it has been deemed necessary in some

democratic countries, where historical experience has made it impossib le for

members ofvarious groups to relate to each other simply as fellow-citizens .

.ow, on this spectrum of democrac ies, the United Sta es is ensconced

at the liberal end. We pride ourselves on laws that respect the liberty and

political equality of individual citizens. Our political institutions (the US

Senate and the Electoral College being notable anomalies) stand on the

principle of one man, one vote. We have no king and no established church

and our Constitution (since the Civil War, in principle, and since the civil

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rights movement, in fact) disallows invidious recognition of race, religion or

ethnic identity.

But, as I've noted, fundamental as these features are to the American

poJitical system, they are by no means universaJ among the world 's

democracies.

• The heads of state of such venerable democratic countries as Norway,

.Sweden and the United Kingdom are hereditary monarchs.

• The UKand Denmark have established churches.

• In a number of democracies, such as France and Germany, the state

pays clerics.

• Many democracies have religious symbols on their flags - for

examp le, Switzerland and Norway each have a cross; on the UK flag

there are two crosses.

• Even in liberal and tolerant Canada, there are laws concerning the font

sizes in which store-front signs must announce their wares in French

and in other Janguages.

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And democracies differ from one another also regarding other matters

ofcivil liberties:

• British libel laws are much stricter than those in the United States.

Germany and France make the uttering of certain opinions (for

example, denial of the Holocaust) a criminal offense. Such laws

would be regarded in the United States as violations of freedom of

speech .

• Finally, police search powers differ widely among democratic states.

Many European states give their police powers that would, in the

United States, be regarded as unreasonable infringements on privacy.

Given the variety of political institutions even among the advanced

industrial democracies of the West, no .one should be surpris ed if and when

new democracies in other parts of the world emerge looking quite different

from our own . As more and more societies achieve self-government, they

will evolve institutions and practices that fit their own cultures and

circumstances.

Conclusion: Democracy and Debate

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One of the impressive things about the Afghan and Iraqi constitutions

I've been discussing is that they were created through democratic debate not

dictatorial fiat . Indeed orderly, reasoned and respectful debate of

controversial subjects is crucial for the functioning of democratic

government. It may even have a place at American universities.

As you've heard, I'm a fan ofEdmund Burke. At the end of his

. Reflections on the Revolution in France," he claims that he is someone "in

whose breast no anger durable or vehement has ever been kindled, but by

what he considered as tyranny." This strikes me as a kind of gold standard

for those who wou ld enter the public debate in a democracy.

In a similar vein, J. S. Mill, though hardly an ally of Burke on most

issues, notes with respect to democratic debate: "The worst offence . . .

which can be committed by a polemic, is to stigmatize those who hold the

contrary opinion as bad and immoral rnen.',8

Indeed, as ill points out:

In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving ofconfidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept hismind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because ithas been his practice to listen to all that could be said against

? Burke, Reflections011 the Revolution in France, (Penguin Books, 1968), p. 376.I The PhiJosophyofJ. S. Mill, ed., Marshall Cohen(New York: ModemLibrary, 1961 ). p, 247.

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him; to profit by as much as was just and expound to himself,and upon occasion to others, the fallacy of what was fallacious."

In both Afghanistan and Iraq democratic debate is in its infancy. We

hope that tolerance and compromise will become habitual there and make

possible - though the process will likely be long and tumultuous - the

creation of prosperous democratic societies. We may even be seeing ear ly

signs that political progress in those countries is having benign influence on

others in the region , including the Palestinians and the Lebanese.

This has been an exciting time to be in government and to witness,

encourage and perhaps help enable the blossoming of humane ideas of

liberty and self-government, the exposition of which one had the good

fortune not to sleep through many years earlier in a Harvard classroom .

Thank you.

4 The Philosophy of J. S. Mill. ed., MarshallCohen(NewYork: Modem Library, 196 \), pp. 208·09.

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TORTURE TRUTHSBy JED BABBINJUST how f a r were U.S . interrog ators told they could go in questioning deta inees in l raq.Afghanistan and Guan tanamo Bay? A new report by Vi ce Adm . Albert T. Church I II. the f o rme rnavy inspectoc gener al, answers aome que stions pointedly, but raises many more .The Def ens e Department has now done 11 i nvesti ga tions growing out of t he Abu Ghraibpr i soner- abu se scandal , which broke a year ago . Church test ~£ led t o tne Se na te Armed

'Ser vi ce s committee on the latest repor t Thuraday . Hi s ta sk was to t r a ce any conne c t i onbetween the i nter r ogation methods sanc t i oned by Defen se to any abuses in I r a q. Afgh&ni stanand Guantanamo Bay . Cuba .At the outse t o f the war , t he president determined , ent irely corr ect l y . that a UBp e c t e dt e r rorists and t he i r ilk - s uch • • tho Ta11PGn aQ~ 1ater the s o - cal l e d · ~ addaM Feday••n N

wer en ' t pri soners of war en t i t led to t he prot ect i ons afforded under t he GenevaConventions. Since we attacked Afghanistan in OCtob e r 2 001 , t he lef t bas been workingni ght a nd day t o f orce a reversal of tha t decision . r t s pr incipal tool has become theabuses at t he Abu Gh r a i b prison ne ar Baghdad.Critics focused t he confirmation he arings t or Alberto Gonza les as a t torney general onJ ustice Department and Whi te Rouae mecos debating the def initions o f tortur e . Ever sincethe Abu Ghraib s canda l br oke , ' others have Dlamed Defense Secr etary Donald Rumsfe l d And t hesenior mil itary l eader ship fo r c r eat i ng an a t mosphere i n whi ch prisone r abuse was. if notspecifica l l y permitted , a t l e a st ~nevitable .

The Chu r ch repor t p rove s thos e asse~t ionB wrong . I t says , · We found, without except i on .that t he DoD and sen i o r mi li t a ry commanders respons ibl e 'for t he formulatio n ofi n t e r r ogation policy eVidence~ the int ent to t r eat detaine e s humane l y , whi ch i sfundamentally inconsistent with the notion t ha t s ucb of fi cia l s or commanders ever acceptedt hat det a ine e abuse would be permissible . . . (and] it 1s clear that none of t he p icturedabu ses a t Abu Ghraib bear a ny resemblance to approved pol icies a t any l eve l , in anyt heate r. " .But what about Af gha n i s t an and Guan tanamo Bay? We r en't; the i n t e r r oga t ors j us t turnedl oose ? I n f act , no . Chur ch wrote , "We found no link between approved i nte r r oga t iont ecbni ques and detainee abus e . "Church f ound t ha t most of the abuse case:. didn 't. even come ou t of i nt e r roga t i ons . · o f t he70 cases of . . . substant iated a buse, on l y 20 of thes e cases , or l e es t han one-third ,coul d be cons idered 'int e rrogation-related . ' • The res t occurred in s i t ua t ions such as at

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the "point of capture" - where eo l u1ers who've captured people they believed had cau s edthe dea ths or wounding of their pa ls got emotiona lly carried away .According to Church , the i ncide nc e of abus~ is not unique to any of t he services , t oactiv~ va . reserve soldiers or other factors . (Thus, he apparent ly d isagrees wi t h theearl ier Taguba report on Abu Ghraib, which fo und t he r e s ervi st mili t ary policei nadequate ly t r ained for de ta inee operat ions in t he environment they encount ered .) Everyt r ue interro9'~tor '~ goal .io to ge t Act ionable i ntellige nce - rel iable i nfor mation t ha t'stranslatable i nt o offensive or defensive act ion. To ge t i t , we mus t b oth abj ure t or tur eand r e j ec t t he tide of po liti cal correctness t hat t hr eatens t o drown our interr oga t ors .I nterr ogation - rel a ted abuse i s quit e ra re. the r epor t note s : "At [Guantanamo Bay}, wherethere have been over 24.0 00 i nterrogat ion s egsions .. . the r e are on ly three cases of .. substantiated abuse , al l consist ing o f minor assaul t s in which [mil i tary inte ll i ge nce]int errogators exceeded the bounds o f approved i nt erroga t ion policy . "But. t hose bo-unds , a s Church' s r~port expla i ns, rema in b l urry because "no univer&al lyacce pted de fini t ions of 'tor t \.\ re ' o r ' a bus e' exist." All the r e i s .- i n t he GenevaConven t i ons. U. S. and i nt e r national law - i s the conce~t t hat de tainees must be treated"h ultlanely .OIAs t he Church report shows , the t err orist s a re t r a i ned i n our inter rogation method e andhow t o ~es~st t hem. When we use more aggressive t echnique s - A S we did i n t he case o f two"hi gh -val ue " de ta inees at Guan tanamo who res i s ted s tandard i nt erroga tion f or months - t henew t ec hni que s "suc ces s fu l ly ne ut r alized ~he t wo de t a inees ' res istance t raini ng andyie lded valuab l e i ntelligence. "Church said i n a conferenc e call wedne~day t ha t our inte rroga t ors are now "clamped up ' declining t o p ush interroga tions aa ha~d as t hey l ega lly and morally can and s hould forfear of the next i nve s t i ga t i on that wi l l co me al ong.We a r e puni shi ng innovative i nt e r r ogator s , such as t he t wo women at Guanta namo Bay. · who .on t heir own i ni tiat i ve, touc hed and spOKe to de tainees i n a s exual ly -sugges t ive man ne r i nordl!!r t o inc-ur st res s baaed on the de tainee s ' r e l i gious be l i e f s.. " Why ohould we punishthose women? Why Dhou ld we r e spe ct t erroris t s' religi ous beliefs when we - and a grOWi ngnumber of t heir co-re ligi onists - say t ney are pervert ~n9 their r elig ion by t he irt e r r orililm?The most important fi nding Chur ch makes is a negative one ; t hat t her e i s no universaldefi nition of t ortur e or abuse . American and allied i n t e r r oga t or s s ho uldn 't have to worki n fear of prosecution under vague l a ws and treat i es . 50 l ong a s t hey do , t hey wi l l remain"clamped up· • l eas effective t han t hey must l:>e if we are t o get the act i on abl ei n t e ll igGn c e we need to save l i v e D.We have a clear definition of "tor ture " in U.S. law. Con gre s s should - a D cl early asposs ible , without trying to specify every poss ible c ircumstance - act qu ickly to specifywha t -abuse" means .Jed Babbi n i s a for mer deput y unde r secr e t ary of defense, a contr i but i ng e di t or wi t hfamilysecurit ymatters.com and author of "Inside the Asylum , Why the U. N. and Old BuropeAr e Worse 1'han You Thi nk."

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> > > > Larry,> :> > >> > > > Good to see you last week .> > > :>

> > > > I 'm publ ishing an article i n the Standard next> > > week that points t o al l> > > > the posit ive developments I observed on my> > recent .> > > t rip ~o Iraq .:> > :> :>

> > > > One section relates to Iraqi security forces ,> > and> > > I just want to make> > > > sure it 's okay by you . . . that it doesn 't> violate> > or> > > expose anything> > > > that you'd be uncomfortable with .

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. > > > > The r e l evant text is below (I 'm particluarly> > > concerned with the> > > > reference t o t he Navy Seals and the senior DoD> > > offic ial ) :> > > :>

> > > > ChecKpoints and s ecur i t y . . .> :> :> >> > > > Last su mmer , every mi li t ar y checkpoint was> > manned> > > by Amer i can> > > > soldiers. I r aqis were t he f i rst t o ci te t his> > > "humiliation K • But> > > > every checkpoint I 've be en through now is> > s t a f f ed> > > by Iraqi s ol di e rD.7> > > >> > > > Now American troops are increas ingly> > > > behind-the-scenes, only there to help i f> t hings> > > get dicey . For most> > > > Iraqis , t he checkpoint experience ha s become> one> > > of i nt e r f a ce with> > > > their fel low ci t izens in uniform an> enormous> > > psychologica l and> > > > symbolic change.> > > :>

> > > > A senior De f e nse Department official here> > > d iscussed t a ki ng thi s> > > > process to the next step by employing> Iraqi-only> > > mili t a ry patrols in> > > > the ma jor ci ties .> > > >> > > > Last year, Iraq 's Prime Minster. Deputy Prime>

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Maybe mnfi? I am persona lly comfortable with it ba sed on the b r i efi ngs/d emos we got ini raq . Not s ure i f I got the names of t he indi idua l f orces yet . . _

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I 'l l t ry to was h i t a r ound -- but it real l y i s i n the eye o f t he beholde r. Agai n I t hinkit maybe unnecessar i l y overstated. Anyone in par t i cular you might me to r un i t by?

- - - - -Orig1nal Message - - ---From: P i Rita , Larry, CIV, OSP-OASP-PASen t : Thursday , Marc h 10. 2005 4: 07 PMTo: Whitman , Bryan , SES, OASD-PASubject : Fw:

Can you have someone do a bas i c sani t y check on the fo l lowi ng gr af dan ha s in afort hcoming art icle . Part of t he s ame article I sent you some text f rom earl ier . . . t nx

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Lar , I i ntegra t ed your nost r e cent suggestion into anothe r gra ph from anot he r pa r t o f theart icle . Le t me know i f t he facts are correct . .. thanKS !

-- -As f or I raq i sec urity force perfor mance , I asked US troops in BaghQa d for feedback.SOfie glowing , some r e str a i ned , but none disparag ing . At a minimum, t he r e was a r ea lrespect on the part our t r oops for I r aq i s ris ki ng ~~ei r l ive s f or t heir own count ry . Andwhile everyone agrees that Iraqi forces s t i ll have a way t o go , the ir e l ite t eams- - l ike SWAT, emergency response , andcounteri nsurgency - - are perform ing excepcional l y wel l . The y have been fullyparticipat i ng and are of ten taki ng t he ead i n compl~x and dange rous operations .

- - - "Di Ri ta , I V, OSD- OASD - PA"<larry .dirita wro t e:> Good f or you for doing t b i a , dan . • ,! think> security go too far . Certainl y the second> specif ic uni t .

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,.' ,. You might be able t o t el the same 6t or y by j us t say ing that,. "amer icans ·,. were provi d ing personal s e curi ty ( eave i t open to whethe r i t was e i v,. or> mi l ) a nd tha t now it increasingly i s i r aqis , or whatever the case i s.>> One "po i nt wor th consi dering i s the genera l po i n t that , across the> boa r d , i raqi secur i t y forc es mus t get much mor e capable , bu t a t t he> hi gh end (swa t t e ams, emer gency r e sponse , counter i ns u r genc y t ea ms ,> ·e t c . ) They are gett ing,. r ea l ly qu i te good . They are ge tting more i nvol ved in sens itive , comex,. ops , e tc .>> Anyway , glad you are do ing i t .>> Enjoyed ou r br ie f visit las t wee k .. . ch ee r s

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> Sent : Thu Ma r ~O 14: 03: 31 2 005',. Subject :>> La rry,>> Good t o see you l a s t week .,.

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> I 'm publishing an a r t i cle in t he Standard next week t hat poi nt s t o al l> t he posi tive developments I observed on my r e cent t r i p t o I r aq.>> One s ec t ion r e l ate s t o I r a q i secur ity f or ces , and I just want t o make,. sure it' s okay by you .. . t ha t i t does n ' t vi o a te or expos e any t hi ng,. t hat you 'd be uncomfor t able wi t h .,.> The r e l eva nt t ext i s below ( I ' m pa r t i c l ua r l y concer ned wi t h t he,. refe rence t o the Navy Seals and the s enior DoD offi c i al ) :>> Checkpoxnt s and security .. .,.> Las t Bummer. e very mi l i t ary checkpoi nt was manned by Amer i can> soldiers, Iraqis wer e t he f irst t o cite t his Ghumi l i a t i on " . But> ev ery checkpoint I' v e been t hrou gh now i s staffed by Iraqi soldiers .>> Now American troops 'a r e inc r e a s ingly,. behind-the - scenes, onl y there to he l p if t h ings ge t d i cey. For most> I r a qi s , the chec kpoint experience ha s become one of i nterf ace with> t heir fellow citizens i n un i form - - an enormous psychol ogi ca a nd> symbol ic change ,>> A senior Defense Depar t men t o f f ic ial here di s cu s s ed t aki ng t hi s> pr oce s s to the nex t s t ep by employing I r aqi -only mil i t ary pa trols i n> t he ma j or c it ies.>,. Last year , Iraq's Pr i me Mins ter , Depu ty Pr i me Mi nste r . and Pre s ident> were guarded by US s pe c i a l forces .,. When> thc~e pol iticiaha appeared on l ocal t e levision . & r ing o f> plain-clothed Americans was o f ten i n t he ca mera shot .>> At that time, Prime Mini s ter Al lawi visi t ed the sc enes of s uici de> bombings to project a s t rong ' a rge and i n -cha r ge ' i ma ge . This effort> was greatly "hampe r e d by v isuals of the tight c irc le of Navy Sea s who

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> wer e keepi ng him a l ive . Now I r aqis have been t r a i ned to do t he j ob > anothe r importa nt change .>> As for the I r aqi sec ur i t y ser vi c es , when I passed a r e cruiting> facIl i t y i n Bag hdad. the l ine we n t on as fa r a s the eye c ou l d see . I t> l ooked l i ke a suic ide bombi ng wa i t i ng t o happ en , a s events t hi s week> i n a l-Hi l l a reminded us . But Iraqi s have not been> deterred. As the Centcom Commande r , Genera> Abiz:aid ,> put i t . "ea ch t ime an I r aq i s o l d ier i s ki lled , another s t epD up to> t ake his plac e . And s ince the handover o f s overeignt y , mo re I r aqi s> have di ed i n t he line of dut y i n I r aq than Americans . '>> When 1 repeated this Bto ry t o a we s tern r epor t er . he cyn ica l y> r e sponded : "we l l t hat ust shows you how de spe r a t e t hey a re f or> j obs ." Perhaps . But t hen how do e s one expla i n 8 .8 mi llion I r aqi s who> ris ked t he i r l ives , not for a j ob. but t o vo t e ?>

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March SGOBy Jed BabbinPUblished 3/7/2005 12 :07:44 AM

. Sup reme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, creating a new job market fo r hit me n under the age of18, opined that Ame rican law -- and that dusty old Const itution that sits in increasing irrelevan cebehind a plate of glass down Cap itol Hill from Kennedy's perch -- was out of step with the rest of theworld. That would be eno ugh SGO for any month , but it's certainly the clearest written excogitat ion ofth is month 's theme. (For those just joining us, "SGO" is the immortal acronym that sprang from theove rly-active mind of my pal and former SEAL Al Clark for the phrase, "s$%t go in ' on.")

We are, thankfully , so out of step with Eu rope that even when we appear to be in step - as in tellingSyrian dictator Bashar ai-Assad to get out of Lebanon -- no one , including Assad, takes it se riously.Franee has jo ined us in telling the Syrians to end their occ upation of Leba non forthwith. If we cancou nt on the French for anything , it's only that they'are likely wh ispering to Assad what they told hisBaathist pal Saddam three March's ago : that they won't really do anything, and can tie us up in theU.N. so that we won't eithe r. Assad is dancing the Sadda m waltz. playing for-time w ith meaninglesspromises to withd raw Sy rian forces f rom Lebanon gradually, meaning not at all. T he latest -announced yesterday - is a withd rawa l beginning today, to move Syrian troops back to the Syrian.Lebanese border, but still in Lebanon. Th at which is moved today ca n be moved back tomorrow, withequal ease.

We have both underestimated and overest imated Ass ad . He's not the dummy we have thoug ht, buthis personal power is limited . His generals and advisers *- most leftovers from his father's reign - arehis power base, and they'd t rade him for a short beer if they saw the need. Hezbollah, the Iranianbacked terrori st organization , co ntrols much of southem Lebanon and has been used by Assad to 'th reaten Israe l. Hezbollah is not unde r Assad's cont rol. It .will do what the mullahs in Tehran tell it todo, and they're not about to tell them to withdraw.

Syria will have to be solved militarily and the longer we wait to do it the easier it wi ll be for thete rrorists to escape, to move weapons , money. and people to another sanctuary. Dubya is settinghimself up for anothe r tong bo ut of quagmire diplomacy in the U.N. It won't work any bette r than it didon Iraq . Better to act and ask forgiveness than to wait for pe rmission. Especially when Bad Vlad Putinis on the prowl . .

TH E MOST DANGEROUS HEADLINE of the week is the one leading the story of Russia's imminentlaunch of two Iranian spy satellites. Pla nned for launch some time between April and June, the"Mesbah" and "Sinah-1" satellites •• Iran's first - will be a major strategic increase of Iran's militaryand terrorist capabilities. There is no reason to think that the satellites -- which must have been builtby the Russians for Ira n - will do any less. Moreover, these satellites almost certain ly have secure

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communication capabilities , wh ich will make Iran's terrorist operations - through Hezbollah , alQaeda, and other groups it is allied with - much more effective and less vulnerable to attack. Ouranti-satellite weapons capability (which is still aborn ing) .should be put high on the age nda fordevelopment and implementation . And the Iranian satellites sho uld be taken out at the fi rstopportunity.

Russ ia's all iance with Iran makes impossible any effective U.N. or European diplomatic action todef use the Iranian nuclear weapons program. President Bush is making a major mistake in creatingan easy political environment for Putin to push Russia's centuries-old ambitions in the Caucasus byhelp ing Iran achieve its nuc lear ambitions. By jo ining in the European effort to negotiate Iran'snuclear program away, the President is emboldening Rcssia and Iran both , and further muddying ourincoherent policy toward the mullahs. By doing 50, he wil l ne ithe r lead the Europeans to divorcethemselves from feckless diplomacy nor isolate Iran. Europe will always appease, even when .appeasement means the rise of another nuclear power that will threaten it directly, as Iran will. Weneed to sort out what we will do about Iran . and get on with it. Peace ~. here and in the Middle East ••cannot be ach ieved until we do. There will be no progress this week, because the world 's attentionwiil again be on allegations of American prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

LAST WEEK, TH E BBC called to ask what I knew of the allegations made by a Libyan detainee(who, until capt ured in Pakistan , was a resident of the UK) that Libyans had interrogated him at theBaghram air base in Afghanistan, having been flown there secretly by a CIA aircraft. One OrnarDeghayes claims he was threatened with removal to Libya, where he would be treated ungently byQaddafi's secret po lice . W hen I checked with an intelligence source, it denied knowledge of anyLibya n involvement (which means close to nothing) . When I asked a Defense Department source, helaughed uproariously but said not a word . W hich means, meth lnks. that a coup le of Midd le Easternlooking guys on our payroll (dressed up in Libyan uniforms) visited Mr, Deghayes to inte rrogate himand succeeded in scaring the hell out of him. 0/Vere I in charge, it co uld also mean that the wholeincident was concocted simply to see how long it would take for the rumor of Libyan involvement tobe picked up in the Brit media.) But regardless of the mind games we are playing with Mr. Deghayesand the Beeb, this w ill be a very rough week on the prisoner abuse Issue.

On Thursday VAdm. Albert T . Church III •• former Navy inspector general, and now director of Navystaff .- w ill report in Senate testimony the resu lts of the DoD inquiry into det ainee interrogationmethods. Senators will dredge up every abuse at Abu Ghraib. every allegation of abu se com ing out .of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and every other horrible thing they can , seeking yetaga in to score a soundbite on the CBS Evening News. (Gunga Dan Rather gives up the anchor chairon Wednesday. Pity . It'd be worth' putting up wit h him for one more night to see how he slanted thisstory.) Despite the Senate theatrics , there may be some light shed on what's going on .

Church will probably say, as the Schlesinger panel said before him , that there is no policy permittingtorture, that our interrogators are well supervised, and that our interrogators aren't permitted tomistreat or degrade detainees. What won't be asked will be more important than what will be. Are weimposing false limits on interrogation methods that are ham pering our ability to get information wemay need desperately? Are we limiting techniques such as degradation, body clock manipulation andsuch, mo re than we legally and mo rally must? Seems to me that our people should be able to domore than say, "Your momma wears combat boots."

TAS contributing editor Jed 8abbin is the author of Inside the Asylum; Why the UN and OldEurope Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004).

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for your planning: As of COB today, the latest word wehave is that VADM Church has declined to do theinternal interviews LtColm""W'~;}; requested on our behalf. However, we have a veryTENTATIVE interviewinstead with MG Donald Ryder, Provost Marshal General of the Army. on Tuesday, 8 Mar. TimeTBD. Thisinterview would also be embargoed until VADM Church's SASe testimony Thursday. Everythi ng subject toc t week, of course. .

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Tell me if I screwed anything up....just worried about them delaying so Ion on making decisions that we miss theopportunities or make them more painful by last minute coo rdlnation .- ~

As we discussed yesterday, part of the co mmunication st rategy involves "Internal/m ilitary" co verag e and engagement withretired military analys ts. Bo th or the se are very low threat and offer a big payback The key is to schedule them now 90that we don't miss this oppo rtunity. Recomm end the following:

Pentagon Channel Interv iew/American Forces Press Service Interview: Monday. 7 Marc h. 1230, 30 Minutes(Location In Build ing , studio 18D)-Admiral to discuss his charter, general findings, and any thoughts he wishes to share..."ie.:comprehensive review,hundreds of interviews In mUltiple loca tions with a ll types of expe rts, etc ."-In order to maximi ze the Admiral's time, the print journalist takes notes during the video inte rview...and then Is offered 10mins to ask follow-up questions on ce the 15 min video interview ends.-NONE of the Information will be released in any way/sha pelform unti l after Congress ional testimony-ldea is for "oyr fol lss" to capture these interviews right away with Adm iral Church so they have a couple of days to producetheir stories.·Another benefit is this would allow a review of the video scrl>t and the print story (s) prior to use-s-but review must be donerapidly . .-Will also arrange to r app~opriate OSDJArmy leader for a different story on Detention Ops reforms

Retired Mllilary Analy$t Conference Call : Wednesd!!y, 9 Mpr, 1500. 4§ Minutes .-Admiral Church and OSD/Army Rep to conduct the call . There are about 50 retired m ilitary ena lysts that are part of thisgroup...these are the fOlks tha t end up on FOX, CNN , etc interpreting m ilitary happenings. .-These calls are conducted frequently and offe r HUGE payback...these end up being the people carrying the mail on talkshows (@50 ana lysts, but not all of them will join the call due to their schedules. Many are re tired flag off icers.)-Everything discus sed will be embargoed unt il the start o f testimony on Thursday- -these fol ks will honor the embarg o

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· Please let me know if we can lock into these times/activities. Thanks. '{~>fk~~ .

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) 'j Lt Col. OA SG-PAMerritt , Roxie T. CAPT. OA SD·PA; Keck . Gary. Col. OASO-PA; Carpe nter, Joe, LCOR OA SDPARE: Church Update

r talked to LDand he is going t o respond bock to Church on t hat email.

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WIIltman. Blyan, SES, OASD-PAMerritt. ROXIe T, CAPT, OAsD-PA; Keck, Gaf)', Col. OASD-PA; carpenter, Joe, l CDR OASD-PAO1u ch Update

Sir, with your perm iss ion, I'd like to try & block the following on the Adm ira l's calendar (can change if they end upconflict ing w/Schlesinger meeting): "

·Pentagon ChannellAFPS Interviews (Monday. 7 March, noon, Air Force studio, 30 Mlnute$) ' Embargoed until. conclusion of Friday testim ony

-on-the-Record Military Analyst Conference CaU(Wednesday. 9 Mar, 3 p.m., Ms Suber's office, 30 Minutes)"Embarooed unti l beginn ing of Friday testimon y

Regarding Heat her Mac Donald (spoke w/her today) and Jed Babbin. don't think we need either to physicall y come in tothe Pentagon to meet with Adm iral Church-can do sornetni g on the phone with him and others if need be. Mr Babbin. forexam ple, will be on the analyst call anywa y. Key is to get them some printed material (they will honor embargo) as earlynext wee k as posslb e.

Heard plenty of rumors tod ay, but few facts : maybe MG Ryder instead of LTG A lexander; m aybe Mr Wa xman Instead ofMr Hen~. .

Also spo ke with CD R Chun at CHINFO . See ms like one of the Adm irars concerns was that doing a press brief followingtestimony would mean reporters wou ld g rill him over responses he gave to comm ittee mem bers. However, I sensed thatthe Admiral understand s why this brief may be necessary.- V/R John

Attach ed is the email I sent Capta in Lambert re: Church Testimony Prep dates/times.

« Message: Testimony & Media Prep Sess ions - Church Report »

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TWo U.S. papers (KC Star and Lexingtoo Herald Leader ) that put(mos t ) o f "pen t agon Seeking Lee ....ay OVerseas · in t he ir print ~dit ionB ;

• Two Canadian papers t ha t printed · or· gi na I" articles citing thePos t 's work ;• Twe lve Newspape~ websi tes and one TV news website that republis hedthe Tyson/Priest article online ;• Six news websites that published · o r i gina l " art icles cit ing thePost 's work (a l l were foreign ) ;• Mi l i t a ry analyst David Grange characterized Che i ni t i ative as aim~ng

to "i mpr ove flexibility ' i n discussing t he art i c le on CNN 's Lou Dobbs Tonight program(t r ans c ript and vid eo c: l i p incl uded) ; and• A number of blog comments (r e pr e sen t a ti ve samples included ) . Thoseco~ments varied only i n the degree of t be ir cr it i c ism of b a ving the DoD t ake on t healleged ne .... role .

Pleaee see attachment for f ul l detai le.

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Please get ~e a ta l ly o f t he p l a ce s whe re the following story or related storyran a r ound the country. The was h post art icles frequent ly get carr i ed elsewhere aroundt he counrry/world , Tnx.

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AFIS-HQ/PIAe: rom my team - overview ofcomments this week by retired militarypersonnel serving as

TV analysts - FYI

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Lawrence, Dallas.

of comments t h i s wee k by retired military personnel

[(e n Al lard :• Ameri can ci t izen conspi r ing t o assassinate Pres ident Bush (MSNBC)

Discuss ed the t opic o f potent ial ly hav ing the U.S. take mor e aggres s ive measu rest oward t he i nsurge nt s (MSNBC )Bil l Cowan ,

I nc r eas ed ins urgent a tta cks du r ing the Shiite holida y • Fe bruary 19 th (FoxNews)Wi ll iam Nash :• Change i n insurgent attacks . They a r e now go i ng for i n f r a s tru c t ur e such as oi lref i ner ies and electric plants around Baghdad (Fox News)Paul Vallely :• Syria wi l l hav~ t o be de a l t with (Fox News )

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Gr eat . Let 's try and get the pdf posted wi t h a story about t he ac compishment s . Or someway t o highlight the book . Let'S wai t t o this on monday . Just have l inda s team get itready - --

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The printer re t urned the disks when t he y dropped off the books. I gave t hem t o Li nda sos he coul d start work i ng t o post to t he web , As you know, I am no computer/graph ics pereonbut I believe t hat he r team can work o f t that .

Rn~~~hl is out s i ck with br onchitis unti l at leas t Monday (per do ctor' s or ders l but I ca nblackberry he r a nd ask he r whe r e t he disks are and whe t he r someone on her t e m can makesome ini t ial che cks on the feas ibi l ity/ease of posting t his.

As f ar 8 S distribut i on , we go t t he co ve r let ter back f rom ~r, Di Rita ye sterday and Ityped label s and Dtuffed mos t of t he day . The books to senio r leade~ship i n t he build ingwent ou t with t his morning ' s i ns ide mail. It ' s about 7S peop l e .

Dave Evo.n s now ha s t he electrons so hi s b.!ltc:h (about 55 m.i litary ana lysts and the cabinetsecretaries ) is go i ng out today.

Claude i s s ti ll wa i t i ng for h i s l e tter to the members of Co ngre s s (53 5 ) .

By my ca lcula t i ons we 've earmarked a bout 6 9 0 t o give away .

Th~t gives us 3 0 0 left .

~l lison I t hink it's your ca l l on whet he r yo u want a second r un .

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The PD F file was t he di sc we tooK t o the pr i nte r . He wa s s till work i ng on it when weleft, so it is wi t h him . we also made some addi tional correc tions on i t, so that is theone we want .

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Good i dea .

Do we have the pdf f ile for posting on t he webs ite when we a r e ready ?

I doubt we have extras for of t h is ba tch . Let 's see.

ThanksAbAllison BarberDeputy Ass istant Secretary o f Defense

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Have you ta ked t o Gr ap hics and DAPS abo ut SAving t he copy and artwork f or t he book incase we want to order mor e ? I do n ' t kn ow wha t thei r pol icY i s , bu t I think i t mi ght be agood i dea t o ask to be on the saf e s i d e . What do you think?

Al so , ~~I~$~0' ':::7-A-- t he State Dep t. 11aisonc op i e s . He said he coul d eas i l y us e about 50 0 .Thanks .

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Pursuant to your request, we found:• Two U.S. papers (KC Star and Lexington Herald Leader) put (most) of "Pentagon

Seeking Leeway Overseas" in their print editions;• Two Canadian papers that printed "original' articles citing the Post' s work;• Twelve Newspaper websites and one '"IV news website that republished the Tyson/Priest

article online;• Six news websites that published "original" articles citing the Post's work (all were

foreign);• Military analyst David Grange characterized the initiative as aiming to "improve

flexibility" in discussing the article on CNN.'s Lou Dobbs Tonight program (transcriptand videoclijrincluded); and

• A number ofblog comments (representative samples included). Those comments variedonly in the degree of their criticism of having the DoD take on the alleged new role.

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Reprints:Kansas City Star, p. A2 - Counterter ror plan draws opposition - PARTIAL REPRINTLexington Herald Leader, p. A7 - Pentagon seeks new anti-terror operation; U.S.FQRCES C OULD ACT wrTHQUT EMBASSY QK - PARTIAL REPRINT

Original:Ottawa Citizen, Pg, A] 1- PentagOD seeks t9 (urb ambassadorial vetoes : Genera", notdiplomats, would decide whether to dCl!loy sP$cial forcesPress Trust oflndia - Pentagon promoting foreign ()Deration plans without clearanceThe Frontrunner - Peptagon Seeks Leeway Qverseas For Special Ops ForcesWindsor Star (Ontario) - Ri.ceopposes plan

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Reprints:Contra Costa Times - Pentagpn see"" special leeway overseasFort Wayne Journal Gazette - Plan eases gWbat-operations pathFort Worth Star Telegram - Plan would weaken ambassadors' authorityHoustonChronicle - Pentagon $eeks leeway on o'Vcl'$eas operationsKansas City Star - Counterterror plan draws oppositionKentucky.com - Pentagon seelsit new anti-terror operationLexington Herald Leader - Pentagon seek! new anti-terror operatillnMS BC· More freedom sought for special forcesOmaha World Herald - Pentagon seeks to weaken envoys' power to decide on troops'

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Troy Daily News, OH - Pentagon §eeks leeway on overseas operations

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ISN, Switzerland - Pentagon seeks more leeway in special opsNew Kerala, India - Pentagon promoting foreign operation plans without clearanceTimes of India, India ~ The Pentagon wants to freelaneeuruknet.info, Italy - Covert ODS in Your NeighborhoodXinhua, China - Pentagon seeks greater powers to combat terrorismPresna Latina (Latin American news wire service) - Pentagon Seeks to O-gerate withoutAmbassadors" Knowledie

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CNN - Lou Dobbs TonightFebruary24, 6:00 PM ESTWell, coming up, how special operations forces are taking on a larger role in U.S. Militaryoperations around it isglobe. "Grange on Point" is next.

PILGRIM: In "Grange on Point" tonight. the increasing role of American special operationstroops in the global war on terror, the "The Washington Post" today reported, the Pentagon wantsto give special operations troops new flexibility to hunt down terrorists in foreign countries. ThePentagon is also building up its human intelligence capabilities. Well, joining me from Chicagoto talk about that is General David Grange. Thanks for being with us, sir.

BRJG. GEN. DAVIa GRANGE (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Thank you.

PILGRIM: What do you make of this report, it is a "The Washington PasI" article. The Pentagonis disputing certain points of it, but what do youthink, in theory, of this plan?

GRANGE: Well, I think what is true is that the U.S. special operating forces are trying toimprove the flexibility of their organizations. Anyadaptability of its personnel to actuallyconduct operations around the world as it is today or into the future, not like it was.

PILGRIM: What sort of missions could you envision them doing?

GRANGE: Well, special operating forces, and they change from Green Beret Special forces toNavy SEALS, to rangers, to counterterrorism forces. There's this -- every service has some typeof special operating force to add to quite an extensive capability of OUf country. The type of stuffthey would is, for instance, mainly reconnaissance. Reconnaissance of specific areas or areas ingeneral that future operations may take place.

And what they call this reconnaissance or other tactics is to shape an environment for futureoperations. Special operating forces-are an enabling for general purpose forces. They are a -they can conduct operations unilaterally, but they also enable general purpose forces to

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accomplish their missions more succes sfully.

PILGRIM: Now the CIA, also, has param ilitary forces. How might you see this compete or workwith?

GRANGE: Well, hopefully not compete. Sometimes some of that goes on in the interagenciesour a government. The idea here is that they - it would enhance the Department of Defense only,not take the place of agency operations.

The agency has more of a covert , other words, hide the sponsor type of requiremen t. Wheremilitary special operating forc es have a more clandestine. In other words. they just hide the act.like, they're sneaking into a place. They're parachuting in. They're swimming, whatever the casemay be. And so they're not going to compete. But it's very important that all of the governmentalagencies have a robust capabilit y. And the type ofenemies this country faces today, it'sessentially to our success .

PILGRIM: We're talking about counterinsurgency operations basically. One fine point on this,and you j ust touched on this point, there's a discussion over whethe r there should be, what theycall, explicit concurrence of the V.S. ambassadors in those countries, that they know that they'regoing in. Do you think that is quite an important point, isn't it?

GRANGE: Well, it is an important point. And the ambassador of a particular country is thehoncho, they're in charge . Now, what is probably happening is that the Department of Oefenseand the Department of State is doing pre-approval of certa in types of operations to streamline theprocess. Because in roday's environment, today's world, as fast as things happe n. the military inparticular has to be able to do things quick ly. And you can't wait weeks for an approval processto take place. So they're front-ending, 1would imagine, a lot of these types of reques ts. Andthey're giving a stamp of approval through the Department of State and those ambassadors inthose specific countries to OK those type of missions for special ope rating force s.

PILGRIM: General grange, do you think they're front-ending anyt hing at this point? Anythingbeing planned that you could...

GRANGE: Oh, I think so, yes . And I would hope so, because it's prudent to stay ahead of theenemy . And when you're deali ng with places like, let's takeSyria, I mean , they're trainingterrorists right now in Syria to go into Iraq. And I would hope that we're doing something tocounter that . And one of the best tools that we have at our disposal is special operating forces .

PILGRIM: Thank you so much, General David Grange .

A Sampling ofBlog comments about "Pentagon Seeking Leeway Overseas"

"Steve Gillard 's News" blog:But as Rummy builds his empire, and Bush and Rice remai n mute, just envision th is:

July, 2005 : as a second day of riots engulfed Central Baghdad, the trial of the US commandos '

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caught inside Iran enters it second week. After being spotted by local farmers, the six man teamwas tracked and caught in the suburbs ofTehran in April.

The more operations you run , the risk ofembarrassment increases exponentially. Yellowfruitcomes to mind, Dick Marchinko also COmes up. Both involved scandals with the US's most eliteunits, Delta and SEAL Team Six (Dev Group). where money went miss ing. Well. you allowthese units off the leash, then you expect State and the CIA to clean up and keep the peace....._....-_•._-_._--.._----..-.. ......_---.-.-_.._-_.__.----_.:.----------_..._-------_._-..-------_...-" Another Day In Europe" blog:

Disregarding the squabble between the Pentagon and the State Department, consider what this .means: Special Operations forces are covertly entering countries and conducting "militaryoperations," that is to say killing people the Pentagon doesn't like. Iran, Syr ia, Cuba, orthKorea, and other countries listed as "rogue regimes" come to mind.

In alJ fairness and the rhetoric of "terrorism" aside, if Special Operations forces started killing offthe Iranian mullahs and their supporters and Iranian covert agents entered the United States andrevenged these killings by assassinating U.S. officials, would there really be any room tocriticize the Iranians? Fair is fair, after all.

Problem here is. since these operations will be "covert,' that is to say we willnot know aboutthem since tbe Pentagon will have no accountability to Congress or the American people, anyrevenge operations will be considered prima facie terrorism and serve as anexcuse to attack Iranor whatever country reacts in kind. Only knowing haIf the story-they attacked us unprovoked-theAmerican people will sign off on larger and more deadly military action.

"Minority Report" blog:As if their ineptitude hadn't already reached epic proportions, the Pentagon is pushing hard not tobe held accountable by anyone, especially the State Department or the CIA.

" J ust a Bump io the Beltway " blog:We'll go where we wanna go, kill who we wanna kill, and f*S#@ you, host nation. we're the onlyhyperpower in the world. Eat our dust. We are the champions of the world. Bow down andacknowlege us or be crushed.

"J ust World ews" blogThe check and balance system with the ambassador does not work when he is an evil person likeNegroponte, but it is still better than giving military special ops carte blanche. Good grief, theyare mad. 1used to be in the US foreign service and I hope to hell that Foggy Bottom pulls outallthe stops in getting this insane idea rejected

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Lawrence. Oallas, OASD-PAThursday, February 10. 2005 11:56 AMRuff , Eric, SES . OASO·PA; Whlman, Bryan . SES, OASD-PAFYI

Hannlty and coimes Is having Jed Babbln on today to ta lK about North Korea, not sure If this Is a trend you folks areseeIng but Just wanted to give you a heads up. We are getting Jed a one pager on the status of forces in the KoreanPeninsula (the message being, we stIli have a massive dete rrent there for NK) . We will also put him into touch with Statefor talking points on the6 party talks .

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Ruff. Eric . SES , OASD·PAThursday. February 03, 2005 3:20 PMStailrid is , James, VADM , OSORhynedance, George, COL, OASD·PARe: [Fwd: Mary: MUST see)

Wi l l do . Thank s . Eric

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Br ie ,For t he Se c retary . The fi r s t is about a Marine causal ity and e mot i ona l ly s hows the

persona l b urden o f sac r if ice WITH HONOR . .. . the s econd i s the upl i f ti ng video t ha t s howst he RESULTS of t hat sacr i fi c e . They are a compe l i ng v iew , Tha t 1000 of t his nati on ' sbes t have s acri f i ced the i r lives a nd t ens of mill i ons Now a r e fr ee a nd mi ll i ons more wi l lcert a i n l y f ol low, j us t ma kes the i r sac r i f ice and t ha t of t h eir l oved ones more nob le .

All t he best ,Ch uck

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TV Broadcast Summary:

An alysis Tommy Franks. Jed Bahbin, Do n Shepperd, Montgomery Meigs and Jack. Jacobs were all featured onnational news stations (Fox News. C and M NBC). Generally speaking, all agreed that the election was notas violent as expected and that th e Iraqi security forces and American troops did a very good job. Severalanalysts alluded to the fact that there will be more danger ahead. The analyst mood was positive as Iraqi eventsunfolded.

Print/Online/Radio Summary:

Military analysts ' discussion of Sunday's election in print. on line and radio outlets was minimal. limitedto accounts Quoting William Nash and Bob Sca les. General Nash was featured on NPR before andduring the election process (January 30trl) while Bob Scales was quoted in The Baltimore Sun .(reprinted by The South Florida Sun Sentinel) on keeping troops safe in Iraq . In add ition. 8

Washington Times reader wrote a letter to the paper commenting on Scales' Op-Ed piece fromearlier in the week on the need to raise troop levels.

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The attached memo provides informatio n on what each analyst said and how often they appeared ontelevision.

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0 1Rita , Larry, CIV , OSO-OASO-PATuesday, Febr uary 0 1, 2005 11:45 AMRhynedance, George, COL , OASO-PARE: I sense we are disconnected....

Separate out members of congress fro m pundl s.

YOU're missing a lot ~f mem bers of congress . Get ttle list of people that helped out just before xmas from matt latimer.Domenici, sessions , cornyn, kyl,.etc .

, don'l know who babbib is. Probab ly led babbin.

Ta ke off scooter libbey , col in powe I, and george tenet.

---Original Message··- -From: Rhynedance, George, COl, OASD-PASent: Tuesday, February 01,200511:38 AMTo: Dl Rita, Ulrry, crv.OSD-0ASD-PASubject : RE: I sense we are d isconnected....

The list I cobbled together based on recent snowflake traffic includes:SaundersBlankleyFowerGree erl airdPodhoretzGingricnNovakFuelne rGaffneyKylEdward Roze kRyskindVic tor Davis HansoncterkeMacKinnlonSchneiderChris WilliamsMembers of the :DPBDSBDBBBabbibColin PowelTenetScooter libby

I have only sen t art icles that the SecDef wanted out. as co mmunicated in snowflakes. You 've seen all of them,news articles . very supportive. Cop ies here at my desk. Have been sending regularly to laird as directed, but hegets a little more...talking points and such .

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Rhynedance,George, 004 OASD-PARE: 1sense we are diSCOMeCteo....

I don't know how to slice and dice it, but there has been a group of stalwarts that should be getting more thana fax across their transom everyday.

Even if we put ,ogether a package now and then and accompanied it by a letter from me or Dan Stanley 0give it a little higher profile.

Let me see that list again, and try to give me a sense of what we have sent them recently.

Thanks.

---Original Message-·.. •from: Rhynedance, George, CDL, OASD-PAsent: Monday, January 31, 20052 :11 PMTo: Di Rita, Larry, civ, OSO-DASD·PASubject: 1sense we are disconnected....

...on the 80s "list of supportive folks." We have taken a bunch - maybe a dozen - snowflakes recentlyinstructing us to add this person or that person and to send things to "the group." I have sent youa listthat describes who I think those folks are- about 19. Your sense of it was that the list was about right.In response to other, more recent snowflakes, J have added a few others since. Now as moresnowflakes come down. r hear that LA Is using a list to send these specific items to a much moreextensive list of members of Congress thinking they are being responsive to the desires of the SO.Recall, the lis' I described above included MOCs, reporters, members of DSS,DBB, OPS, formers,ete. 1want 10 make sure weclearly communicate whatlis' things should go to andmake sure thaI youunderstand what "list" thing are going to. I don't think every positive article we come acrossor feelltleneed 10 promulgate a little, needs to gob all the Republican members of Congress. or all the SASCmembers, etc, ( think we need a discreet and exclusive list in which tosenddiscreet and exclus;\J8correspondence. What say you?

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Iraq's Election DayBvJed Babbln <MaUTo:[email protected]>Published 1/'31/2 005 12:09:304 AM

Yesterday, for the first time in the ir history, Iraqis went to the polls to exe rcise one of the mostbas ic rights of a free people. They voted despite the U.N.'s fa ilure to help, despite liberals' pred ictionsof disaster, and -. most importantly n despite the terrorist declaration that democracy cannot exlst inan Islamic society. The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq , Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declare.d that those whovote in democratic ejections are "apostates." the Islamic term for those who violate Islam's laws andadvocate competing religions . Zarqawi's meaning was clear: that Islam requ ires its believers toaccept religious dictators as their on ly legitimate leaders. When the Iraqis went to the polls in droves-- many losing their lives to do it - they rejected Zarqawi's message and opened a gaping wound inthe jihadist ideology.

The Iraqi election is a milestone in the war against terrorism , but whether it is a major victory won't beknown for years to come. Yesterday's election was only to select a provisional nationa l assembly(and leadership) that will, over the next year, draft a permanent constitution for Iraq that will bepres ented to the voters. W hether the assembly succeeds, or whether the insurgents prevent it, aresti ll open questions. But the turnout among Iraqi voters - something over 70% -- shows that theinsurgents do not have the popular support that's necessary for them to win.

No matter how many times Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and John Kerry insist otherwise , Iraq looksmore like 1945 Germany than 1972 Vietnam. One of the reasons we've had so little success in .establishing effective Iraqi security fo rces has been the fact that before so ldiers and policemen willrisk the ir lives, there must be a something for them to swear loyalty to. Until yesterday , there wasnoth ing in Iraq fo r them to swear allegiance to other than the tribal , ethnic , and relig ious groups thathave comprised Iraq from Its bIrth . or the American-appointed AlIaw; government. Now, even thoughthe national assembly is temporary, it is Jraqi: chosen by Iraqi voters themselvesand not appointedby an outside power or imposed by a home-grown despot. It is suc h things that soldiers andpol icemen can claim to be their own and willingly risk their lives to defend. Difficulties remain, but oneof the biggest obstacles to creating a seff-sustaininq and self-protecting Iraq has just been overcome.

IT WOULD BE AN ENORMOUS mistake for us to withdraw from Iraq, or even establish a date to doso. On Sunday evening I had the bizarre pleasure of debating th is point on MSNBC with Rep. lynnWoolsey (O.C~lif. Need you even ask?) who said that we need to take our so ldiers out of Iraq nowand let Iraq's neighbors come in to help. Th is member of the Democrats' Von Braun Caucusapparently thinks that Syria. Iran. and Saudi Arabia are chafing at the bit to help Iraq i democracy riseabove the Haltiburton-drtven U.S. occupation. She thinks the terrorists won't be mad at us anymore ifwe replace our troops with peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers. Fortunately, no one outsideof northern California knows or cares who Ms. Woolsey Is, far less what she thinks.

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The insurgents - now unable to escape the label "enemy of the Iraqi people" -- are st ill supported bySyria , Iran , and Saudi Arabia. Those despotisms realize that their days are numbered if Iraqidemocracy succeeds. They will become increasingly desperate to make the Iraqi democracy fail, and

.' we wilt have to be in Iraq to protect it from them for the foreseeable future . Pres ident Bush is correctin saying that the election creates momentum behind the Iraqi democracy experiment. Butmomentum can be lost if we Quit too soon. That is one of the central points we will hear onWednesday when Mr. Bush de livers his State of the Union address, And it is one that the Democratsand their holy of holies - the U.N. -- can't bring themselves to answer.

President Bush will call for more nat ions to come to the aid of the fledgling Iraqi democracy. He willpraise the sacr ifices of our real allies. challenge the U.N. and all its members to support freedom witheconomic aid, with eng ineers, construction crews , and all those things needed to put Iraq on its feet.They will smile politely. applaud feebly, and again ignore his call to act ion.

Yesterday, on Meet the Press . John Kerry sa id over and over again that the road to success in Iraqdepends on our obtaining the support of the "international community," by which he means the U.N.and Old Europe . President BUsh rea lizes u as the American people did In choosing to reelect him~that we cannot depend on l he EUnuchs and the despots and dictators who make up three-quartersof the U.N.'s membership to do anything to fight terrorists and the nations that back them . To takeany risk to support democracy In Iraq would be too much for Kofi Annan, because he doesn't wantPresident Bush to succeed in what Annan called an "illegal war." The U.N. and Old Europe are toobusy to help. The first th ing on thei r agenda is still constraining the United States in this war .Conv incing them -- or the democrats -- to do otherwise is simply impossible.

THE PRESID ENT W ILL SOON ASK Cong ress for a supplemental appropriation of $80 bUlion forIraq. (Five billion of it is for the State Department's efforts there wh ich are , to be charitable, hard tod isce rn.) The Democrats will fight against the appropriat ion , seeking to leverage some plan forwit hdrawa l of our forces before the job is done. They have obviously missed the lesson the elect iontaught forme r senator Tom Daschle: obstructionism is not a po licy. 6ut they will obstruct as best theycan, on the fund ing for the wa r and on everything else the President seeks to do.

George Bush can't win the global war agai nst ter rorism by the time he leaves office in 2009. But hecan -- as the Iraqi election proves -- make enormous progress toward victory. In his State of theUnion speech. the president should issue a ca ll to all Islamic nations to follow the example of Iraq.The sooner those nations are rid of jihadism and religious dictatorships -~ by us or by their ownpeoples -- the sooner the war against te rrorists and their ideology will be won . There is ellery reasonto be skeptical that the Islamic nations can reform themselves. But as more of the ir people see whatfreedom looks like, the momentum the President sees in Iraq will grow, and -- so long as we standready to help - grow fastest in places where it is least welcome.

TAS contributing editor .Jed Babbln Is the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and OldEurope Are Worse Than You Think (Regne'Y, 2004).

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Print/Online/Radio Summary:Military analysts' discussion of Sunday's election in print, online and radio outlets wasminimal, limited to accounts quoting WilliamNash and Bob Scales. General ash wasfeatured on NPR before and during the election process (January 301h

) while Bob Scaleswas quoted in The Baltimore Sun (reprinted by The South Florida Sun Sentinel) onkeeping roops safe in Iraq. In addit ion, a Washington Times reader wrote a letter to thepaper commenting on Scales' Op-Ed piece from' earlier in the week on the need to raisetroop levels .

WilliamNa~h (NPR)• Iraqi troops "doing their duty" and enforcing security well• Statements made about U.S. troops pulling out within 18 months "may be

ambitious, but it's a good start,"• ash emphasized the importance of the U.S. supporting, not leading efforts for

the new Iraq, and avoiding being asked to leave Iraq .

Bob Scales (Baltimore Sun - print/online)• The Sun piece described the Pentagon's plans to take U.. soldiers from their own.

units and add them to Iraqi units.• Scales: "It (embedding with Iraqi units) would put our troops' safety at risk, as

they'd be more vuln erable to insurgentattacks."• The key here is to quickly solidify the Iraqi troops as a standalone force from .S.

troops.

TV Broadcast Summary:Analysts Tommy Franks, Jed Babbin, Don Shepperd, Montgomery Meigs and JackJacobs were all featured on national news stations (Fox News, CNN and MSNBC).Generally speaking, all agreed that the election was not as violent as expe cted and thatthe Iraqi security forces and American troops did a very good job. Several analy stsalluded to the fact that there wil l be more danger ahead. The analyst mood was positiveas Iraqi events unfolded.

Representative remarks per analyst are as follows:

Tommy Frank.~ (Fox New - Hannity & Colrnes I Fox & Friends)• Troops feel great about what they've done in relation to the elections• Any election in the Arab world is a "big deal"• This is the first practical example of democracy in the Arab world• Does not agree with comments made by Senator Kerry and Senator Kennedy• He is proud of the work troops have done• Last thing you want to do is announce your "timetable" for withdrawal

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J ed Babbin (M BC Live Coverage - Iraqi Elections)• Withdrawal from Iraq is "Sirnpl the worst thing we could do" .• Withdrawal would strengthen theterrorists and weaken the Iraq people• .We have to look at the bigger picture, we have to deal with a ll the Jihadist nations

that are influenci ng Iraq

Don Shepp erd (CNN Live From.. ..)• Wha t we did in the run up to the election made a big difference (i.e. controlling

' traffic flow around polling areas)• There were extensive offensive operations to stop terrorist before voting took

place especially in relation to foreign insurgents• This weekend was very stressfu l for coalition forces• Jt was very important for the Iraqis to pull th is off

Mon te.omery Meigs (MSNBC Live Coverage - Iraq i Elections)• Events in Iraq have gone surprisingly well• It is a very tough process in inventing a new government• We will see more Iraqi forces come on board with fewer American troops• We will have to watch how Sunnis are brought into the process• Doesn't think the coalition will change after the vote• eed to cont inue to watch insurgents from Syria and Iran

Jack Jacobs (M NBC Live Coverage - Iraqi Elections)• Highlighted " hot spots" in Iraq in real- time during the polling process• Jacobs during the polling, predi cted high voter turnout• Security expectations were "managed well"• Provided an overview of how insurgents might inflict violence during the vote• Said the training of Iraqi forces by the U.S. military was key• Questioned whether "two Iraqs' wou ld arise unti l the next election in October

(relig ious and cultural divides a potent ial after Sunday's election)

WHERE THE ANALYSTS APPEARED

IIJ Tommy Fra nks

• Mon tgomery Meigs

[J J ed Babbln

[J Jl ck Jacobs

II Don Shepperd

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To the editor :

Your story "A Grim March of Missteps" is scurrilous nonsense. It is flat wrong to saythat General Abizaid was rebuffed in a request for more U.S. forces for iraq, and yourinability to get even a background quote on the matter suggests it is rumor dressed upasfact.

The troop levels in Iraq have fluctuated up or down based upon the miJitary assessmentsof commanders and after review by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and theSecretary of Defense. Your poor ly sourced, poorly researched, poorly supported articledoes a disservice to the commanders and to the Secretary of Defense .

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P(~!~;~ allison says we have a time for the military analystslthink tankers on thursd ay. yes?

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I need to know if we have anyone that we ave inviled or plan to invite for Wed :2 Feb lunch wfSecDef? Pis let meknow - thanks,

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Dan pul led t hese together . I note cnn i s start ing t o run s ome s tories on it ,so we ought to ge t t hese point s i n t o t he mix .

At tach ed i s a deta iled set o f po i nt s responding t o the CPA IG Report .

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good question. the process usually works like this.. our comptrollerOr subject matter expert is asked by me to conduct aconf call. we would then call the analysts and invite them to be on the call. If heidi would like to send us a list of folks wemight consider, we can run those names by folks here to make sure it is the appropriate group.

we already have a lis of analysts compiled but we can look at tier list and see if there are additions we should make.

althat time, we will email and call folks to invite them on thecall.

does that help?

thanksab

So, should fqJ~~" ';"'Y~ ~:}all you to set up some hing where they can ask Questions afterward?

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hi folks

just fyi, it might be helpful for folks to know tha when we do a briefing in the press studio, we carry Ihe enitre thingin real time at www.pentagonchannel.mil that is a greatway for folks in nyc to hear the brie ing in total.

in addition, if dod folks want10 do a call with analysts, we are happy to facilitate that. which is another great way forfolks to ask questions from our subject matter experts. those calls are usually done on bac ground so t eyare notdone for reporting purposes -- although II doesn't seem like that is what you are expecting.

i think for the immediate Issue, folks might check their computer systems to make sure you can stream thepentagon channel - 80 you can Bee the b~fingQ .

hope this helpsab

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sent: ·rh,~:',:2" ..~~r uary 27, 2005 12:57 PMTo:WAAI* ;"..,;;;;,.J '.Jl'}JLtCOI, OASO-PACc: Barbe r, Allison, av, OASD-PASubject: RE: Analysts at news conferences

Sorry , but I'm a little confused.

First. let me clarify that I wou ld never ask you to oo anything Illegal or even untenable! \ think you know that,but wanted to clarify, just so there is not miscommunication. It is my understanding -- as a former journaj st,forme r press secretary on Capitol Hill and from earning my MBA and working in banking -. that once 'information Is released to the media for publication/broadcast It is no longer " insider information," mat is whenit becomes "public information."

And if it is being broadcast live, then can't the Wa ll Street analysts just watch it onwww,oentaaonchannel.com? Can we sign them up forthe emails to be alerted to the time? I think the onlything miss ing there is that they would like to ask someone questions . However, being able to view live is betterthan nothing.

I'm also not sure what you are ca lling a "m ilitary analyst " The Wa ll Stree t analysts ca ll themselves mllital)'ana lysts. beca use that is their special ty, Are you talk ing about a spe cial ty subg roup of reporters? I shou ldknow the termino logy here tor the future.

lastly, are you as king that I put Ms. Wood in touch with Ms . Barber, or that Ms . Barber will be calling Ms.Wood (her information is at the bottom of this email)? I'm happy to do eithe r, but j us t wasn 't clear on what , ifanything, I need to do next \0 kee p this movlnq,

Thanks, again , fo r all of your help, and for your quick respon se!

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Please know that there Is tal k about brie fing military analysts ahead of time , but that has not beensolidified. The government, as well as DOD, cannot give out insider informat ion to companies like MorganStan ley ....we will be j oining Martha Stewa rt, if that is the case.

The on-the-reco rd press conference is 7 Feb. It is for media only, It is likely to be broadcast live, becausethere is so much interest. The transcript of the broadcast will also be posted tha t eveni ng onwww.defense link.mil

Ms , Aliso n Barber is the point of contact for specia l interes t groups like this . I have copied her in this e-mail. '

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Following up to our earlier phone discussion, severalWall Street analystsmet with Mr. Wynneacouple of weeks ago and asked jf theycouldattend newsconferences alongwith the mediaparticularlythe big ones like the Feb. 8 bUdget roll out. They want tohave the same information at thesame time as the media, and not haveto wait until the next day, getting only the information andspinthe media choose to report.

You said that you thought the media roommight be filled by reporters for the budget roll-out, however,a second room might be openedfor analystsand a pre-brief made available. If so, this group thatmetwith Mr. Wynne has a "leader" of sorts, Heidi WOOd of Morgan stanley in NYC, who would like toattend, preferably with 5-10 others, butshe is prepared to attend alone and send back the info to hergroup.

However, she said another option is a conference call. She said her group of about20 analysts whoeach have been covering aerospace anddefensefor 10·30 years would just as soon be on aconferencecall for the pre-brief, as we" as hear the news conference, then be givenan opportunity toask questionsat some point. This would probably be better logistically for both DoDand theanalystswho are based In NYC and are dealingwith earnings statements now through the date of the DoDbudget conference.

Is that a possibility?

Would you, or the person deciding whatto do regarding analysts like to speak directly to eldi? If so,I attached her contact mformation below. If you prefer I be the one to contact her, that's fine, too.

Please keep me posted on what is decided .. both for the bUdget news conference, as well as futurenewsconferences.

r.:f7~~~-,!I'" your trelpon this,

Heidi Wood

Morgan Stanley

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New York, NY 10036

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Sir, the sort of strateglzing thoughts In your email below a e very elpful for me to understand and learn. When It Isappropriate andyou are cornfortable and willing to share lhis type of dialogue with me, I would very much appreciate aBCC. Thanks for your consideration sir.

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01RIta, lan'y, o v, OSO-QASD·PA; Jonas. Tina , Ms, OSD-COMPTi Rhynedance, George, COl., OASO-PAFY 06 budget roP. oul

Gentlemen , as part of this year 's budel roll out it would be terrific if you could part icipate in abackground briefing for the military ana lysts -- the group that provides newspaper and televisioncommentary. The budget will be announced by the President and sent to Cong ress on Monday, Feb.7. OSD pract ice is to provide embargoed (hold until introduced by the President) briefings to thePentagon press corps and to the military analysts, and weanticipate.doing so again this year.

Ideally, you and the service chief or vice chief could brief the analysts this time arou nd because weare hoping to provide real context about the nature of this budget. It is a document that we hope toframe as much more than the usu al programmatic funding levels document. Understanding thatpeople will always look at funding numbers, we hope to persuade the analysts and media to see thisbudget from another perspective , that of a mea ningful stab at shift ing the military in a historically newphilosphica l direction, a direction that is required by the realities of the world today.

In briefing the analsyts, a discussion about your services' respective trans format ional needs and howthose needs are addressed in this in budget would be beneficial to create a fuller understanding ofthis FY 06 submission. We are holding open Wednesday, Feb. 2. or Thursday, Feb. 3 for thebriefing, but obviously will do it at your convenienoe. In the ideal situation . we will conduct back-toback-to-back briefings over one time slot. here in the building. We are hoping to brief the militaryanalysts anead Of the media because we expect reporters WIll go to the analysts for additionalthoughts about the DOD budget.

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Rhyned ance , Geo rge, CO L, OASD-PAThursday. Janua ry 27,2005 11:44 AMRuff , Eric, SES , OASD-PARE: FY 06 bUdget roll out

Just a remlonder that ADM Myers would like 10 speak 10 you on this

-·-orlglnal Message--·Prom; Ruff, Eric. SES, OASO·PASent: il'lJrsday, JanulllY 27, 2005 8:-48 AMTo: Rhynedance, George, COl., OA.S().PASubject: RE: FY06budgetroll out

i'm happy to call. t and I discussed this yesterday. i think we talk with t first and i will do thaI. either he or i will talk toadm myers. thanks.

m .-oriQlnal Message·.. ••Prom: Rhynedance, George, COL, OASD-PASent: Thu~ilV, January 27, 2005 8:23 AMTo: Ruff, Ertc, SES, OASD·PASUbject: RE: 'FY06 budget rollout

Took a call from Adrn Myers at SecNav off ice Q!iOO,»)~%",:;· 'j They don't understand the value of this effo rt, nor whalyour exp ectation is, and they are a bil reticent to agree. He would like to discuss in more deta il. He also asked Ifyou were In touch with the CHINFO (RADM McCreary).

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.. ·-{)rfgl nal Message--..From: RuII', EriC, SES, OASD-PAs.ntt Tve--...day, J nuwy 25, 2005 5:q PM , ,To: Enoland. GordonSECNAV FO;rOl@?; ': 11<' ,;.1 SAF/AA:fOJ~)~ " ..~p, SAF/USce Dl Rita, Larry, crv, OSO·OASD-PA; Jonas, ilna, Ms, OSO<OMPT; Rhyned~nce, George, COL, OASO,PASUbject: FY06 bUdget rollout

Gentlemen, as part of this year's budet roll out it wou ld be terrific if you could participate ina background briefing for the military analysts -- the group that provides newspaper andtelev ision commentary. The budget wi ll be announced by the President and sent toCongress on Monday, Feb. 7. OSC practice Is to provide embargoed (hOld untilIntroduced by the President) briefings to the Pentagon press corps and to the militaryanalysts, and we anticipate doing so again this year .

Ideally, you and the service chief or vice chief could brief the analysts this time aroundbecause we are hoping to provide real context about the nature of this budqet. It is adocume nt that we hope to frame as much more than the usual programmatic fUnding levelsdocument. Understa nding that people will always look at funding numbers, we hope topersuade the analysts and media to see this budget from another perspective. that of amean ingful stab at shifting the military in a historically new philosphical direction, adirection that is required by the realities of the world today.

In briefing the analsyts , a discussion about your services' respective transformationalneeds and how those needs are addressed in this In budget would be beneficial to create afuller understanding of this FY 06 submission. We are holdi ng open Wed nesday, Feb. 2,or Thursday, Feb. 3 for the briefing , but obviously will do it at your convenience. In theideal situation, we wil l conduct back-to-back-to-back briefings over one time slot, here inthe building. We are hoping to brief the military analysts ahead of the media because we

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-This ana lysi s is as of lpm on January 2i h• As of this time, we we re not ab le to locate

media clips for McCausland, Vallely, Garrett, Me igs, W . Nash, and C. Nash. Here arethe themes (and hyperJinks) discussed by the other analysts since their participation in thecall earlier this week. Note : Mr. Babbin 's are the on ly comments we found regard ing theDoD bud get.

BOB SCALES

Fox News-- peda l Repor t01125/0518:21 :44

• Discu ssion of Americans going out in special units with Iraqi forces• Shift ing of power to Iraqis so that they can fight on thei r own• Discussed General Luck's findi ngs• U.S. troops are goi ng from a security miss ion to a training mission• Our milit ary be ing "stretc hed thin "• Equipment is beg inni ng to wear out and so ldiers are goi ng into the ir thi rd

rotations. we will have to sh ift power soon

• Di scu ss ion of spy un its within Pentagon

Fox ewsOn the Record With Greta Van Susteren01126/05 22: 12:45

• D iscu ssi on of hel icopter crash• Iraqi guards go ing from 46 to 60, therefore, more of an 'Iraqi military presence• Starting to see foreign insurgen ts go down• We will be in Iraq for a very long time

JEDBABBIN

Fox News u The O 'R eilly Factor01/26/05 04 :03:42

• " I don't th ink you can put an artificial time or an artificial amoun t on it, bill. Ifyou're goi ng to say let's cut the $80 billion in half, what are you going to cut ?"

• We can' t impose artificial dead lines• Congress should look at the war on all installment plan rather than cutt ing it

arbitrariIy• Need to focus on people tra ined and get armor where we need it, etc.• Cannot say that we are going too pull out at a particular time. ..don't want to give

enemy a tirnel ine

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• Once election pro cess happens then you will see training speed up because thenyou wiU have an Iraq i go vernment and structure

DO SHEPPERD

Headline ews01/26/0514:02:16

• Discussed insurgent strategy to prevent Iraqis from attending polling stations• US military is restri cting traffi c flow around poll ing areas ; this is a "smart move"

eNLive From..,01/2 6/05 14:14:17

• Troops going to be spread thin• Doing offensive against insurgents by identifying and confronting them• The U.S. has to co unt on Iraqi forces however, the re is no way to "quickly" tum

out effectively tra ined Iraqis• "There will be a large turn out for the election"• Sunnis wi l think the election is a farce but the rest of the country will see it as

valid

CNLive From..,01/26/0515:1 4:11

• "I wou ld tell my family to go vote 'as a matter of courage' but I would also tellthem it will be dangerous"

• Two different types of training:o Helping Iraqi forces ident ify insurgents, IEDs, mortar attacks, etc.o Prov iding Iraqi forces with quick response teams

• Insurgent s will try to have mass casualties with bombers in voting Jines• North and South will be safe but Sunni area will be dangerous

Headl ine ews01/26/05 18:47: 19

• Iraq is will need courage to vote espec ially because of insurgent intim idation• The U.S. is trying to assure voters that they will besafe• U.S. troops ' goal is to keep insurgents from polling places to begin with• Will be an imperfect election but Iraqmust get through it• U.S. troops will do the best they can to keep the elections safe• Would like to see the U.S. train Iraqi troops as quickly as possible• Referen ced the 2nd elect ion which will set-up Iraq i consti tution and how the

violence will continue at least until then

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Headline ews01127/0506:47:54

• Speculated on the cause of the helicopter crash• Unlikely that the he licopter crash is insurgent re lated• Probably won 't be 100% safe to vote across the entire country• Wil l be enough troops to help some security issues• Insurgents are making threats to Iraqi civilians• Will have more violence in pos t-e lections, especially since this is j ust the first

vote for a transition government• Believes some troops will bewithdrawn next year• important that the Iraqis take over the security role

~Live From...01127/0514:32:31

• Discussion of voting and the ethnic breakdown in Iraq (referring to a map of Iraq)• Points out Sunni area that wi ll be the primary threat area with low polling

numbers and Shi 'ite area that wi ll have high voting numbers

STEVE GREER

. Fox ews01127/05 10:34:43

• Discussion of he licopter crash and the effects of sandstorms in Iraq on operations• Upcoming elections and key po lling sta tions (showed image of Iraq with the main

polling/election cities)• Qu ick reaction forces w ill try and cover most of the poll ing stations• Curfew system is in place and there will bea lim itat ion on vehicle movement• Threat will primarily be suicide bombers and random gun fire• The Shi 'ites are beginning to real ize tha t this is their chance to take power and

they wi ll help troops w ith security to make it successful.• In general, Iraqis will more than like ly also ignore incidents in order to get their

votes counted

JACK JACOBS

MS BC - MS BC News Live01126/05 13:36:00

• Discussion of the helicopter crash and whether or not the group killed werespecial forces

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• " A large proport ion of our view of the security situat ion in Iraq is going to begoverned by what happens this Sunday"

• We will have our hands futl keeping Iraq secure during the elections

MSNBC -- MSNB C News Live01 /26/05 15:15:29

• Discussion of troop morale in relation to the helicopter crash• AI Qaeda may have some effect in the Sunni triangle• Farther away from the triangle you get the less effect insurgent activity will have

on polling activities• The President is probably setting the stage for pulling our troops back but, at the

same time, setting expectation that we will have some troops in Iraq for quitesome time '

• The Army's prima ry focus after the first election will be to train the Iraqi forces

M NnC -- Lester Holt Live01126105 17:46:49"Multiple airings on MSNBC on the helicopter crash

• Helicopter crash was more than likely weather related• Discussion of the recovery effort and the type of terrain• Helicopter was probably on an "administrative run"

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Tha nk you . Sir .

Mr . Ruff is looking for any upda tes you might have .

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We are worKing th is - we haven 't seen any thing ye~ but will have a c e arer picture in themorn i ng. We a r e a lso l ooking at how much coverage has come out of the Fe ith/DefenseWriters Group session.

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Mr. Ruff is asking i f any of the a nalysts went out w th what they learnedyesterday.

I do (lot know if we t r ac k t ha t t ype of inf orma t on . . . any t houghts?

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Conf irmed Retired Mi l i t a ry Analysts :Col one l Carl Kenn eth AllardMr . Jed BabbinLi eut e nan t Genera Fra nk B.Dr . James Jay CarafanoColonel (Tim) J. EadsCol one l J oh n GarrettCommand Sergeant Major Steven GreerCol one Jack acobsCol one Je ff MCCaus l and .Li eu t e nant General Thomas McInerneyGeneral Montgome ry MeigsCaptain Chuck NashGeneral Wil iam L . NashMajor General Robert H. Scales . Jr .Maj o r Genera l Donald W. ShepperdMajor General Perry SmithMajor General Pa~l E. VallelyGeneral Tom Wilkerson

Tentat ive ~ Awaiting Confirmatio n

Admira_ Dennis C. Blair (USN, Retired)Co ma nd e r Peter Brookes (USN. Reserve )Lieutenant Colonel Bi l l Cowan (USMC. Ret ired)Major Dana R . Di llon (USA, Ret ired )General Wayne A. Downing (USA. Ret ired)Lieutenant Genera Buster Glosson (USAF . Retired)Br i ga d i er General David L.Grange (USA. Ret i red )Admiral David E. Jerem_ah (USN. Retired )General Will iam F . - Buck " Ke r nan (USA. Ret ired)Ad ira Thomas Joseph Lope z (USN, Ret ired )Lieutenant Colonel Rober t L. Maginnis (USA, Ret ired )Gene r a l Glen K. Otis (USA, Ret ired ) - not avail .at 1 6 0 0General J o s eph Ralston (USAF, Ret ired)Mr . Wayne Simmons (USN. Re t ired)Captain Martin L. Strong (USN . Retired)General Charles E. Wil helm

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Hl guys ge n lute wa n t s t o do the mil i ta r y a PAl y s t s cal l a t ~ oam. Pleaoe p u l s e our tolks tos e e if they a r e in terested i n t alking t o him. He is the depu ty d i rec tor of opera tions a tcencc om and wi l l talk about s ecurity a nd our troops mission.

Tha nk sAbAll ison BarberDeputy Ass i s t ant Secre t ary of Def ense

Sent from my Bl ackBerry Handhe l d .

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Barber, Allison, CIV, O~SD-PAWednesday, January 26, 2005 4:55 PMRuff, Eric , SES, OASD·PA; W tman, Bryan, SES, OASD·PARE: PAULA ZAHN/PU DITS

...lappan is fine with iI. pam stevens Is worrle6 thaI he story I only be the tle lo crash.. w tlich I sa d was fme. it actual yhappened ! she was okay with it...

anyway, we are ready to execute in the morning.. if we decide to do the call.

tha nksab

j'd be inclined to do it but we need to make sure rob tappan is aware we are conside ring it. i can't imagine they wouldhave a problem but we need to touch t e bases. Ihanks, eric

do we wanl to do this???

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HI~LT 5tC me in this morning asking if we coul d set up a conference ca ll with 1hemilitary analysts 10morTQWfor BG Lute w 0 w~1 be in the Pentagon. Subject wlll probably be security for Iraqi elect ions. Details are s etchy asof right now, but I wanted 10run it by you soonest l et me lUlow your tnots . Thanks . Q , Il ._~~.

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Here's the time frame we are wo rking with on BG Lutes opportunity tomo rrow. I'll ask CENTCOM for a bi moredetails on the i am sure it will be on security conditions during the elections in Iraq. Once I get a limeframe from ~) r:' ·'~.,,~r· on these event s, I'll get back to you. But this gives you a start point. T ere were nobriefings today, so don't know if Ms. Barber knows of his or not,

Things don 't change much:"A lie can travel halfway around the worldwhi le the trut h Is putting on its shoes,"Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

II , 'i'.~'. Is on hts way 10DC now. 'Intent Is to have our J3, 8G Lute, conduct a 30-35 minute backgrounder withml ltary pundits and then the 10-15 min Interview with Paula Zahn tomorrow - atter 1400 .

Following is the contact information for the CNN Producer handling all the election stories this week. I told hershe may be receiving a call from OASD PA to conduct coordinatio n for the Paula Zahn interview.

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