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good morning,
here isthe most updated list (as of9:40 a.m.) of those who will be onthe call this morning. there is still the possibility that more will
jo in who have not rsvp'd, thanks 'r- ~0~;';

Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA, Ret ired)

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG) (American Spectator)
.Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, SA Retired )
Colonel Gordon Cucullu ( USA , Retired)
ajar Dana R. Dillon ( SA, Retired )
Colonel (Tim) J. Eads (USA Retired )
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF Retired ) (MS BC)
Co lonel John Garrett (tentative) (USMC, Ret ired)
Co mmand Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis A, Ret ired)
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (U SAF, Retired )
General Wi lliam L. Nash (USA, Retired )
Captain Martin L. Strong (US , Retired)

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Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowan (USMC, Retired)

ColonelleffMcCausland, (USA, Retired)
Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired)
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired)

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To: Retired Military Analys ts

From: Dallas Lawre nce

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Date;' April 21, 2005

Re: C onfe ren ce Ca ll with Se nio r DoD Offi cia ls

We invite you to part icipate i n a conference call. TOMO RRO W, April 1.2, 1005 from 10:30-1/:00.

Participants in this conference call will be the De puty Director, Regional Operations, J-3 Brigadier General
Ham. His biography is attach ed for your review . Topics to be discussed are curre nt operations in Iraq. His
comments will be on back ground only.

Your host.for this call will be Dall as Lawrence.

To part icipate in t his conference call, please dial P;.';,:;J ~t 'PJ;;r and ask the operator to
connect you to the Analysts conference call.
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We hope you are able to part icipate .

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

Mr. Jed Babbin ( SAF, JAG) (American Spectator)

Dr. James Jay 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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have rsvp'd by cob tomorrow . to include their previous military background... that will give you an indication of who will
be on the call.

one of the agreements we have with these fOlks is that we don't send out the list ...

work for you?

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 United States Army

Brigadier General CARTER F. HAM

Deputy Director, Regional Oper a tions, J-3

The Joint Staff .
3000 JolDt Sta ff Pentagon, Room: BD966
Wa shi ngton , DC 203 J8-3000
since Ma rch 2005

OURCE OF COMMISSIONED SERVIC ROTC

MILITARY SCHOOLS ATTENDED

Infantry Officer Basic Course
Armor Officer Advanced Course
United tares aval Command and Staff College
Air War College

FOREIG LANGUAGE(S} None recorded

PROMOTIONS DATES OF APPOINTM ENT

2LT 2 Jun 76
ILT 2 Jun 78
CPT I Aug 80
MAJ I Jun 87
LTC I Sep 92
COL 1 Apr 98
BG I Oct 03

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FROM TO ASSIGNMENT

Jun 76 Aug 76 Training Officer. II Reserve Officer Training Corps Region, with duty at
4th Basic Combat Training Brigade, Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 77 Jan 78 Redeye Section Leader. Combat Support Company, Ist Battalion. 509to
Infantry (Airborne Combat Team), United States Anny Europe. Italy
Jan 78 Dec 79 Rifle Platoon Leader, later Executive Officer, A Company, later S-3 (Air).
later S-I (Personnel), 2d Battalion, 22d Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, V
Corps, United States Anny Europe, Germany
Dec 79 Jun 81 Commander, C Company, later S-3 (Operations), 2d Battalion, 22d
Infantry, 8th Infantry Division, United States Anny Europe, Germany
Jul8 1 Feb 82 Student, Armor Officer Advanced Course, Fort Knox, Kentucky _

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 Brigadier Genera l CARTER F. HAM

Feb 82 Feb 84 Lima Area Commander Columbus District Recruit ing Command,
Co lumbus, Oh io
ar84 Sep 84 Detachment Commander. Forward Milita ry Support Element, 1984
Summer Olympics, Los Angeles, California
Sep84 Aug 86 Assistant Inspector General, ational Training Center, Fort Irwin,
California
Aug 86 Feb 87 S-3 (Air), 6th Battalion (Mechanized), 3 1st Infantry, ational Training
Center Fort Irwin, California
Feb 87 May 89 S-3 (Operations), later Executive Officer, 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 52d
Infantry, ational Training Center, Fort Irwin, California
Aug 89 Jun 90 Student, aval Command and Staff College, Newport, Rhode Island
Jun 90 May 93 Light Infantry Branch Chief, later Chief. Doctr ine Division, later Brigade
Senior Advisor to Saudi Arabian National Guard and OPERATION
DESERT STORM. Saudi Arabia, later Executi ve Officer , United States
Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georg ia
Jun 93 Jun 95 Commander, Ist Battalion. 6th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division, United
States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany and OPERAnON
ABLE SE TRY, Macedonia
Jun 95 Jul 96 Sen ior Task Force Observer/Controller, Operations Group, Combat
Mane uver Training Center, United States Army Europe and Seventh
Army. Germany
Jul96 Jun 97 Student, nited States Air War College, Max.well Air Force Base,
Alabama
Jun 97 Ju199 Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 (Operations). later Chief of Staff, 1st Infantry
Division, nired States Army Europe and Seventh Army. Germany
Jul 99 Jun 0 1 Commander, Infantry Training Support Brigade (29th Infantry Regiment),
Unite d Sta tes Army Infan try Sc hoo l. Fort Benning, Georgia
Jul OI Aug 03 Deputy Director, J·8. United States Central Command, MacDiJI Air Force
Base. Florida
Aug 03 Feb 05 Deputy Commanding General for Training and Readiness, I Corps and
,,:" Fort Lewis Fort Lewis, Washington to include duty as Commander, Multi-
National Brigade orthwest, OPERATIO IRAQI FREEDOM. Iraq
Mar 05 Present Deputy Director for Regional Operations. Operations Directorate, Joint
Staff. Pentagon, Washington, D.C

SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIG ME TS Dates Grade

Deputy Director, J-8. United States Central Command Jul 01 - Aug OJ Colonel
MacDill Air Force Base, Florida
Deputy Director, Regional Operations. J·3. The Joint Mar as- Present Brigadier General
Staff. Washington, DC

US DECORATIQ S AD BADGES
Defense Superior Serv ice Medal (with Oak Leaf Cl uster)
Legion of Merit (with oak Leaf Clu ster )
Bronze Star Medal
Meritorious Service Medal (with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters )
Jo int Serv ice Com mendation Med al
Army Commendation Med al (w ith 2 Oak Lea f Clust ers )
Army Achievem ent Medal (with 2 Oak Leaf Cl tees)
Expert Infantryma n Badge
Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab As of 11 April 2008
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The America n Spectato r

Ton gsun Redux

By Jed Babb in
Publ ished 4/1 8/200 5 12:07:13 AM

For news ju nkies , t his will be a hectic wee k. By its end, Catholics may have a new
pope , we may have a new UN ambassador, and both Ko I and his bestest buddy
Jacques ma y suffer ne rvous breakdowns. T hings are looking up because , while
Vo lcker fiddles, the FB I and the U.S . Attorney for the Southe rn Distr ict of New York
are burning bad guys. Now all.we nee d to find out are the name s of Cooperating
Witnesses One and Two, and the high-rankin g UN offic ials whom they bribed for
Saddam .

CW1 and CW2 may be the fi rst people who have ea rned the P reside ntial Meda l-of
Freedom as a res ult of plea barga ins keeping them out of j ail. (CW 1 has alread y
pled guilty to being an unregist ered age nt of the Sad da m governme nt and is
cooperating w ith U.S. investigators.) They are unindicte d co -co nspirators - credited
with hel ping Saddam bribe the UN into setting up th e Oil-fo r-Food-fo r-Br ibes-for-
Weap ons scam - in the indictm ent of one of our all-time f aves, Tongsun Park of
Koreagate infamy.

Foethose joining us since 1976 , Mr. Pa rk w as indicted back then on 36 counts of

bribery, influen ce peddling , and other usual busine ss on Ca pito l HilL The charges
were even tually dro pped after he testifi ed in Co ngressiona l hearings about his
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 involvement with dozens of Congressmen , only three of whom were later
reprimanded by the House. (Think of th is the next time you hear the caterwauling
about Tom Delay.)

Just because Saddam is evil doesn't mean he's a dummy. He did what any good
manager wou ld do if he wanted to pay bribes : he hired an expert. According to the
March '21 indictment of Mr. Park unsealed last week, and the affidavit stating it
signed by FBI special age nt Nicholas Panagakos. Saddam paid bribes to and
through Park to Cooperating W itnesses One and Two and to at least two high-
ranking UN officia ls in order to get the UN to .create the Oil-for-Food program by
Secu rity Council in 1996 . Just who were they? Not Benon Sevan, who wasn't yet
chosen to run the Oil-for-Food scam. There wou ld have been no reason to bribe
him before he was chosen to run the scam. Was Annan himself bribed? How abou t
Iqbal Riza, his chief of staff who later ordered the shredding of UN documents for
the 1996-1999 pe riod . when the prog ram was first created and run? So meday soon,
we should know.

The bribes apparently co ntinued until 2003 (when Tommy Franks had something to
say about Saddam's future plans ). to make sure that the program was extended
beyond its original expi ration date. The indictment says that Park "invested in a
company owned by an immediate fam ily member of a hig h-ranking UN official "
money paid to him from the Government of Iraq in connection" with the bribe
agreement. 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 oil
vouchers entitling the UN officials to collect more millions from the sa le of the
vouchers. So how does Kofi respond to the new revelations? By trying to pass the
blame to President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, of cou rse .

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

If Kofi's week weren't sour enough, Secretary of State Condi Rice added to his
agony by saying, " It is no secret to anyo ne t hat the United Nations cannot survive
as a vital force 'in internationa l politics if it doesn't refo rm ." Note to Kof!: reform or
die. It's a great disappointment that we didn't see the appropriate headline in the
New 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 , which
may come later th is week. .

THE lEF:TIES HAVE MANAGED to delay , but not stop, the nom ination of John
Bolton 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 Oems
can't get either of them to vote against Bolton , or at least abstain, Bo lton's
nomination should be reported out of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee early
this week . On the floor , it will pass eas ily. 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 Ie
domaine, Jacques is apparently sinking in the congenital contrariness of his own
countrymen.

Ah, how Ie ver turns. Just a yea r ago, it was a sure bet that France -- one of the
chief proponents of the European Union - wou ld eas ily pass a referendum on the
, t.
EU constitution. Now , as the May 29 referend um app roaches , polls show the
French ready to reject it. That led Pres ident Chirac to the most desperate meas ure.
Calculating correctly that t he worst thing a Frenchman could think to do was to help
Uncle Sam, Chirac said that a "no" vote would weaken the EU and benefit the
United States . Chirac, in a carefu lly scripted ''town hall" sess ion with young French
voters , issued that dire wa rning last Thursday , with littl e or no effect. The French
may be content with the status quo which, as the Gipper once said, is Latin for "the
mess we're in."

Whether the French vote the EU constitution down rema ins to be seen . It's unlikely
that they will reject it because without the EU agriculture subsidy, much of Frenc
farming will end . As John Hulsman of the Heritage Foundation once told me, the EU
agricultural subsidy is "really a sop from Germany to pay French farmers to sit
around , play bou le, and do nothing." The French may just be revolt ing against ten
years of Chiracism o r just emoting for the press. Once they get enough attent ion
from the rest of Europe, they may pass the EU constitu ion to keep the ir subsidies.
You see , that's wha t 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 w hat they're all
about. Not everyone in the wor ld is concerned solely w ith money. From U.S.
European Command and the Joint Staff comes wo rd of new strides in building the
Iraq Coal ition.

From a kinda sorta reliab le Navy source comes this bulletin from the Joint Staff
quoting one of its lieutenant colone ls: ''Things are looking up fo r us here. Papua-
New Guinea is thinking of offering two platoons: one of infantry (headhunters) and
one of engineers (hut builde rs). 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 to
transform the State Department as Mr. Rumsfe ld is doi ng with the Pentagon. She
apparently has a long, hard road ahead .

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

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From: Whitm an, Bryan, SES, OASD-PA
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To: Richard, Joseph, Ltc OASD-PA
Subject: RE: Newshour Program DADT

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Subject: RE: Newshour Program DADT

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Let 's make sure we tape it . Thanks

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Sent: Wed nesday, April 13, 2005 '1 :50 PM
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Subject: Newshour Program OADT

Subject: Newstlour Program D-'OT

Sir: Just wanted to advise that the News hour may run a DADT piece this eve ning .... we
declined their invitation of an on camera ea rlier as you know ...... we provided our military analyst
Bob McGinnis .....background Information and most recent data ---he will unofficially represent
DoD's perspective and carry our message ......LTC Richard

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Hello All: In Case You 'M issed this ....

Jed has it rj.ght!!!

EXCLUSIVE: Women in Combat?

Da te: Saturday, March 19 @ 2 1: 17:46 CST
Topic: FSM FEATURE

.By Jed Babbin

Did you know that wome n in our armed forces are increasingly being pushed into a combat role? Find out why -
and how this will affect our troo ps - in this EXCLUSIVE piece from FSM contri buting 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, al-
Queda, the military budget or anythi ng else, we all have something to say. And that' s a good thing, because
American democracy doesn't function withou t open and honest deba te. Social security used to be the "third rail"
of American politics. 0 one dared to touch it because to do so was to com mit politica l suicide. Now, the same
can be said of the question of wom en in combat.

Because politicians and too many mi litary leaders are afraid to taJk about it, the quest ion is being decided by
defa ult 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 must
be subjected to the light and heat of politics.

The President has.said, " 0 women in com bat." US law, Defense Departme nt policy and everything eJse the
Army is supposed to obey says that women should not serve in infan try units , in spec ial operations, and in the
other ground combat forces whose business is killing people and breaking thing s. Sma ll, slow changes have -
for years - allowed women to fly Air Force and Navy combat aircraft , fly Army helos .i n combat, and serve on
most 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 to
from the combat arms. ow, the Anny is changing its operating doc trine to include women in more combat
units by manipulating the gender cod es.

According to the Center for: Military Readiness, and confirmed by a Defense Department source, the Army is
j 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 wom en to these units
to raise the unit manning number s to the requisite levels, but plans to withdraw the wom en if the units are
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engaging in combat. There are only two results that can obtai n, and nei ther is good for the figh ting strength of
the 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 fraud
on the rest of the soldiers who will have to fight short-handed when the women leave. Second, if the Army is
vio lating the ban on women in combat arms, it's more than just an accounting scam. It' s a knowing reduction in
the Army's combat capability.

Feminis ts argue tha t it 's discrimina tion against women to keep them ou t of combat units because they aren' t as
likely to be promoted without combat experience. The feminists ' argument is premised on fact: there is
favo ritism in the mi litary promotion system toward those who have served in combat. And there must be
because the "glass ceiling" the y complain about is smeared with blood. Lesso ns learn ed on the battlefield are
paid for with so ldiers ' lives, and as many m illennia of war have taught us, those lessons are best applied by.
m ilitary commanders who have learned them first -hand . .

The commanders' job is to apply those lessons to win the war in.the shortest am ount o f ti me by inflicting the
greatest damage on the enemy in the shortest perio d o f time. T heir principal tool is the people who serve in
combat arm s. To win battles, the combat arms must be peop led on ly by those who can perform as well as every
other under the stresses of com bat. And very few women can qualify under the standards for combat.

For those wh o sti ll doubt tha t, the 2002 Bri tis b M inistry of Defence study, "W omen in the Armed Forces ,"
should settle the matte r. It begins with a foundational truth: " Combat effectiveness is the ab ility of a unit. . .to
carry out its mission ... The cohesion of a unit is a vital factor in its comb at effecti veness." The study finds that
on ly 1% of women can meet the physical sta ndards men do, that they are less aggressive and mo re prone to
inj ury than men , and that - in the on ly example where the combat effectiveness of women is measurable, the
Israeli army in 1947-4 8 -- " Israeli morale suffered disproportionately when a female so ldier was killed or
wounded." In short, unit cohesion is reduced significantly by including women in combat arms because the vast
maj o rity can 't mee t the standa rds men do , and becaus e of the effec t on the unit when a wo man becomes a
casua lty. Just what will the effect o f the A rmy ' s bureaucratic maneuvering be?

A very wise man, the late Capt. H .H. Babbin, USMCR.. had words of wisdom for me as my com missioning date
approached more than three decades ago . H e sa id tha t I'd soan be a we ll-educated and highly-trained j unior
officer. Whic h, he sa id, meant [' d be essentia lly use less. His advice was to find someo ne w ith a lot of stripes on
his sleeve and do what he said if I wanted to do my j ob well live to tell about it. What was good advice for me
then is goo d advice for the Arm y no w. Ret ired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Duff was one of those
bestriped persons . Having served more than 20 years in the Marines, Duff has some strong opin ions about
women in combat.

D uff told me that it 's no t a question of physical fitn ess. That women have to meet different physica l fitness tests
in the m ilitary is, to Duff, of no relevance 10 their fi tness for combat serv ice . Combat fitness is abo ut the other
tests and standards (which incl ude physical capabilities) that ha ve to be me t to qual ify for combat duty.

I asked Duff about the Bri t findings that 1% or so of wome n who can meet the standards for ground combat.
Duff said it's too few, and imposing such a small mino rity of women will create a lot of internal frict ion. .
Women comprise about 6% of the Marines and , acco rding to Duff, ev en that number can cause a 101 ofintemal
friction. 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 Presi den t privately, she 'd urge him to stay the co urse and not a llow
women - even those who can mee t the standards for ground combat - into combat units. " For the women who
can meet the standards, I'm not going to say ' go fo r it' because . ..it' s going to be such a s mall

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

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

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

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

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Thanks for your assistance in supporting ltGen Smith on this recent visit.

CDR

Ch ief of Media .

U.s. Central Comman d

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hi folks. here is the most recent list of the military analysts calfing in this mornin g for ou r conference ca ll. thanks.

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. Maginn is . (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. Va llely (USA, Retired)

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From : Claude Salhani !Claude@'?l~~\.~;~,>~:~ :,;1

Sent : Friday, April 01, 2005 10:23 AM
To : Raymond Tanter (E-mail)
Subject: wolfowltz

Ray , I had an idea . . . (I ge t one of t hos e once in a while ) . You say

t ha t Wol,fie is a nice guy and that those who kn ow ' h im, like him.
wou ld you be in a position to arrange an i nte rview for me? and i
promise i would approac h it with an open and honest mind . I wi ll no
bad mouth hi m or show h im in a ne ga t i ve l i ght , try and por tray what
you s a i d , t ha t if you ge t to know him , you see a d i f ferent image of
t he man . i t woul d be h is chance to show his "other" f a c e t o t he
world .
any chance?

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Attachments: TP 03-30.05 Iraq Update.doc

Allison:

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

' gave them to LTCttlJ(!g: !'Rho proof. Usually he's real speedy but ne'was crashing on something I think and said he
couldn't get to them until tomorrow. I said fine.

Here they are unedited - , know you're on the road tomorrow.

TP 03·30-05 Iraq
Update.doc (2...

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From: Rhynedance . George, COL, OASD·PA
Sent: We dnesday. March 30. 20055:15 PM
To: Ruff. Eric, SES, OASD.PA
SUbJect : Phone Message

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Se nt: Wednesday, March 30. 2005 12:53 PM
To: Oi Rita, Larry, CIV, OSO-CASD-PA
Cc: Ruff, Eric, SES, OASD-PA; Rhynedance, George, COl,OASD·PA
Subject: RE:

Got it·- I 'll put something together for you t o review.

from: Oi Rita, Larry , CIV, OSD·OASD-PA

Sent: WednesdllY, Mllrch 30,200511 :49 AM
To: Whitman, Bryan, SES, OASl>-PA
Cc: Ruff. Erte, 55, OASQ-PA; Rhynedal'ic:.e, GeO/Ve, COL. OASO-PA
Subject: • RE:

Bryan-

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 by potus
from 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 seeder s 3:00
prep today. Tnx..

Please coordinate yourresponses throughSteveCambone.

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From : Whitman, Bryan, S ES, OASD-PA
sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:29 AM
To: 01 RIta, Larry, CIV, OSD·OASD-PA
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 Call went well -- the only news maybe that he hinted that they ore seeing more fore ign
f ight ers than before.

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

Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:

Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA, Retired)
Mr. Jed Bab bin (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 William L. Nash (USA, Retired)
Major General Paul E. Val lely (USA, Retired )

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The Ame rican Spectator (Jed Babbin)

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

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 From: f rJ-~?' -:¥'4 CIV, OASD-PA
Sent: Wednesday. Marc h 30, 20058:55 AM
To: Ruff, 'Eric, SES, OAS D-PA
Subject: RE: Military ana lyst on O'Reilly factor

sir,
dallaswanted me to make changes to the original doc ble of somethi g seedef expressly wanted... then give to allison so she can see
what we're offering before we offer it. but allison has asked me for something else a little more pressing. i will gel the new outreach
plan to ab by cob today. good enough? :)

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From: Run, Eric. 5ES, OASD-PA
Sent: Wednesd ~ M¥d\ 30, 2005 7:34 AM
To: t!»(~ft7.W,§;; CN, OASD-PA
SUbject: RE: MilitaryanalystonO'ReillY factor

where is the info j requested, ma'am?

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To: Barber , Allison, a», OASl)·PAi Lawrence, Dalas, QASD-PAi Ruff, Eric, SES, OAS[)-PA; h 'd "· ' ·~>':".:''i'' :-"'.MV, OASQ- AA
Subject: MlIJtary analyst on O'Refltyfactor

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

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I its 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 public I
knowledge and they prefer to remain annonymous. he was very nice and asked who owned the list, in case they wanted 10 appeal. i told
I him you do. anyway.j ust fyi that you may get a call from some conunander in southcom asking us -to sell them the list. j'm sure they I
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29. 2005 3:39 PM
To: Merritl, RoxieT. CAPT, OAS""D"".P.,.,A= = "..."..,.=
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SubJect: RE : FYI - Fox O'Re lly Show: Army Not Participating 29 March (UNC LA SSIFIED)

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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Ketlt, Gary, Col, OASD·PA; Ill , " cO ""t'\(jt1Y~; U Col, OASD·PA
FW: FYI. Fall O'R~y Sllow: rmy cipatlng 2'J March (UNClASSiFIED) I
fD!~)~,~~t, ;i;j' ;lis mystified at where the Army got the notionthattherewould be'an ACLU lawyer on the show. AClU would
never a ree to be on the show in lhe first place, nor would O'Reilly have them. An'('Nay. with a little help trom " .».:>:-
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I called Ron Mitchell at Fox Ne...w at11 :38 a.m. todaydeclining havingan Army oHiclal on their planned29 M r h snow '\
I aboutdetainee abuseallegations. (As per earlier conversauons of this morning between COls Keck and ~_~ . ')' v/r--
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WhItman, Sryan SES OASD-PA [g';'~ ..;ffi 'i!:'::'.::l- ,~,< . . ' ''''''"~ .
Rf : Nightline-de talnee abuse( UNClASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
caveats: NONE

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

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Cc: Whitman, Beya n SES OASo-PA Le:2,;~~~
Sub'.ct: RE: Nlghtlille,de ta nee a bus e (UNClASSIFIED)

W hat about Bill O'Reilly?

Roxie T. Merritt
Captain, U.S. Navy
Director. 000 Press Operatio ns
Office of the Ass i ~cre ta ry of Defense for Public Affairs
Pentagon, Room ~
1-140 0

ursuit of All Who T hreaten It"

C lassificat ion: UNCLASSIFIED

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 From: Ba rter, Allison, CIV, OASD-PA lalUson.barbe r
Sent: W ednesda y, March 16,20057:27 PM
To : W hitman, Bryan. SES. OAS D-PA; Barber, AllisOn, e lV, OASD-PA; Di Rita, Larry, CIV, 080 -
OASD-PA
ce. lawrence, Dallas, OAS D-PA
SUbject: RE: seeds! 10 m in

yikes 0 fr iday . . that is a busy schedule .. maybe ' we can check in the morning to see if we
c an s qu eeze a few minuce s on t he schedul e o r try and bui ld i t in on t h e back side of t he
town hall fr i day . t han k s ab

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Fr om: Whitman , Bryan . SES, OASO-PA [mailto:Bryan .Whitroa
Sent : wednesday, Ma r ch 16 , 2005 5 :26 PM
To: Barber, Al lison , ClV , OASD-FA ; Di Rica , Larry , crv , OSD-OASD-PA
Cc: Lawrence, Dal las, OASD-FA
SUbj e c t : RE: s ecdef 10 min

I think i t would be great; h owever t hi s i s how the hour is c u r r en t l y fil led .

That wi th 5 minut es t o walk t o and from the studio.

3 : 20 - 3 :30 NBC Ne ws . J im Miklas zewsk i

3 :3 5 - 3 : 45 WSMV - Nashville (NBC aff il iate)
3: 47 - 3 : 57 WCTl - New Burn , NC (ABC a ffili ate )
4: 00 - 4:10 KENS - San Anton io , TX (CBS affil i ate)

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From: Barber. A.llis on , CIV, OASD· PA [mai lto:.allis on.barber
Sent: Wednesday, Ma rch 16, 2005 3:38 PM
To : Whitman , Bryan, CIV , OASP-PA
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Sub ject : FW : oecdef 10 mi n

h i t here
do you thi~k we cou ld s quee ze 1 0 min f o r se cde f t o a nswer a fe w questions f r om mili t a r y
aaalys ts ? i know we are trying to get a l ot out o f the b l ock o f t i me . . what do you think?
t hank s
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From : Di Rit a, Larry , CIV, OSD- OASO- FA [mai lto : l a r r y . d i r it
Sent: Wednesday , Marc h 16, 20 05 3 : 35 PM
To : Ba r b e r , Al l ison, CI V, OASD-PA
Sub ject : Re: Beedef 10 Min

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

Se n t f r om my BlackBer,r y Wi r el e s s Hand held

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Fr om: Barber , Allison, CI V, OASO-PA <all is
To : Di Rita Larry (E-ma il ) <l ar ry . d i r i ta
Sent : wed Mar 16 15: 34 :30 20 05
Sub j e c t : seede f ~o mi n
h i the r e
any chance we ca n ge t Becdef to do a 10 min call wi th mi l i tary analyst s tomorrow a ft e r h i s
int e rvie ws? just a f e w que stion s on the 2 ye.r anniversary? i t is ano ther crazy i dea but i
t hink i t would be powerful s i n ce they wi l l all be on tv t h i s weekend .
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From: mRita, Larry, CIV, OSD-OASo.PA

Sent: Wednesday, March 16.20058:02 AM
To: Whitman. Bryan, SES. OASD-PA; 'Dan Senor'
Subject: RE:

Good add1 c1ons .

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

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.. ' Sent : Wednesday , March 1 6 , 2 00 5 6 : 58 AM
.. To : ' Dan Senor'
Cc : Di Ri ta . Larr y, crv, OSD-OASD- PA
Su bj ec t : RE :
With I t aly' s annou nceme nt to withdr aw troops start ing in De cember . I woul d also o ff er t he
fo llow i ng :

-- Ne appreciate I t a l y ' s de monstrated support f or t he coal i t ion and the Iraqi peopl e .
- - I t a l y h a s been and conti nues to b e a steadfas t a l l y in the Gl obal War Agains t Terr or 'a n d
we va l ue al l the i r con t r ibu t i ons in support democra c y a nd lib e r t y

Th e coa l! 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 · coa l ition team prov iding t r oops . pol itica l
back ing t o the coalit ion , t rai n ing opportun i t ies , suppl i e s and fi n ancial support to help
r e bui ld t he countr y
-- The coa l ition i s s upport ing a l l Iraqi efforts to e st abl ish the ru le o f l a w, promote
j ust ice and i mprove qu a lity o f l i f e

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

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Fr om: D1 Ri t a, Larry , CIV, OSD- OASD- FA
Sent , Wednesda y ,
To : ' Oa n senor '; o i Rita , La r ry, c r Y, OSD-o ASD- PA; Whitman . Brya n ,
SES, OASO- PA
Subj ec t: R.8 :
1 . some alli e s have said repeatedly tha t they wi l l ass ess as the I raqi secur ity fo r ces
ge t mo r e c apable . The U. S . i s do i ng the same t hi ng .
2 . Once the u . s . recedes back to i t s pre-e l e c t ion level of abou t 1 38. 00 0 (17 brigades)
I r aq i s e c uri t y f o r c e s the ms e l ve s c onsti tut e t h e l a rges t s ing le comp one nt o f the c oa l i tion,
and t hat is goo.

2. Even so, there are upwar d s of two dozen countries with troop co mmitments in Iraq.

2. Every count ry i n NATO has recent ly pledged to make s ome kind of commitme nt - - money .
tra ine r s , off-sho r e trai ni ng , e t c . - co t he NATO tra ining mi ss i on i n I r a q.
3. Ge ne r al Casey, Genera l Abizaid . on up regul a rly consu l t with o t her coun t r ies tha t are
looking f or ways they may be helpfu l .

4 . the coal ition will con tinue to shift , but t ha t i s expected as i ndi vi dua l c oun tries
make the i r own decis i ons .

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SUbject :

He y there,
Goi ng on Fox & Friend s tom orrow morn a t 8: 20 . .. wi l l definitely get quest ions about t r oop
withdrawa l 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 . Othe r wise . please
s hoot me anything yo u 've go t .
Than ks I

- Dan

Q Sc o t t , what i s you r un ders t a nd i ng of Italy's posi t i on on wi t hdr awi ng t r oo p s from I raq ?

MR. Mc CLELLAN : Well , actuall y , l a s t wee k Prime Mi n i s t e r Berl u5c oni spoke to , I be l ieve,
the Italian Sena ce and addressed this issue . He sa id that , as I r a q i s are able t o assume
more responsibili t y , we wi l l wor k i n agreement wi t h our al l ies and s tart to withdraw so me
of o ur fo rces . And tha t was something he sa id, I believe i t was j u s 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 ma de t oday and I think they were very similar t o the
co ~m e n t s he made l a st we ek .

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 n
g ener a l , i n

MR. MCC LEL~: I don 't t hink so, beca use i f you l ook a t what he s a i d l a s t week and wha he
s a id ag a i n toda y, t hia wil l be based on the ability and capabil i ty of I raqi f orc es and t he
Iraqi gover nmen t t o be able co a s sume mo r e respons ib il ity. and t hat he wi l l work in
a greement with al lies in the region before taking those st eps . And we cer t a inly appreCiat e
t he contributions o f t he I talians . They have ee r ved and s acrifi ce d alongside I raqis and
a longs ide other coal i tion f o r c e s.
Our f ocu s rema i ns on making s ure t hat t he I r a qi f orc e s are f ull y tra i ned and equipped and
r e ady to aasu~e more responsibi lity for t heir fu ture , and t h a t ' s whe r e our f ocu s wi l l
re~ ai n , 80 tha e ventual ly ou r troop s wi ll be able ~ o r e t urn home with hono r.
Q How much of th is re flects t he teneion between t he Unit ed Sta tes a nd I taly ove r the
shoot ing i ncident?
MR. McCLELLAN : I' m no t aure that I 'd make a connec t ion there. I don' t vi ew i t the' same
wa y .
Q Is t here any c onnection?

MR . McCLELLAN: Not that I 'm awa re o f.

Q So no connec tion at a l l?

MR . McCL~LLAN: Not that I -- I haven 't heard a ny c omment to that effect from I t~ l i ~ n
o ffici als .

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 From:, Whitman, Bryan. SES, OASO-PA
Sent : . 2005 11:10 PM
To: ':f'~1: CIV. OASD-PA
Subject.: FW: Africa Center Speaking Invitation

Pl e a s e make contact wi t h h im - - make no p romises (I agreed t o find s omeone f r om t he

offic e ) not nece s sar i l y me .

Mr . Whitman ,

1~~~W[~~fJ~~#~ has fo r wa r de d you r e ma i l agreeing to par t ic ipa t e i n "The Ne xt Gener a t i on o f

Afr ican Mil itary Le a de r s· cour se. Tha n k you for yo ur wi ll i ngne s s to be a part of t he 17
May round table on OS de f ense pol icy i n Africa .
I f you would please pr ov i de me wi t h your contac t info rmation . i ncludi ng phone and fax
number, 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 ona l i n fo rma t ion on the t op i c a nd r oundta b l e format wi l l al so f o l l ow a s we ge t
c l oser to the s t ar t o f the course .

Thank yo u aga i n fo r yo ur s upport o f t hi s course.

Regards ,

300 5 t h Ave . , Bu ild i ng 62

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Afr ic a Cent e r fo r Str at eg i c St ud ie s Washi n gton , DC 2 031 9-5066 Web:
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Attac hments : Harvard Speech Final.pdf; CFR Speech Final.pdf

Allison:

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

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

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~? 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" type
list (this is the her y kisslngers, 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 something
like 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 Edm und Burke). The CFR speech Is more readable. The
people 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

- ·Ortginal M e-' "

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Se nt: Fr1d~)~2rct1J4,200S ~ :2~ PM
To: ~:!Pr-'~, r " '"'' OASD-PA
Cc: RhynedanCl!, George, COl.. OASD·PA
SubJect: Felth Speedles

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 lead ers. mil itary ana lysts, an d de fense experts). App reciate it! Pleas let me kno w fin al ou tco me so' ( can feed the
in fo back to Mr Fetth-vthanks! .

Word s for DiRita, "....one o f the most importan t elemen ts of the President's and SeeDefs loreign po licy/strategy is the
promotion or de mocratic institutions around th e world. U5D(P) Doug Feith just ga ve two sp eeches that dea l with th is
iss ue, among others, and I commend them to your attention...."

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~ - · -- o r i g i n a l Message - - - - -
From : Rhynedance, George , COL , OAS!:l -PA
Sen t: Friday, March 11 , 2 005 7 :42 AM
To : Barber , Al lison, CIV, OASD -PA
SUbject : Fw: Babbin (Ne w York Post )

Can you make this happen on Monday?

COL George H . Rhy ned ance

George , can you please make sure the b ird staff runs this in MONDAY 'S ebird? Tha nks .
Sent f rom my Bl a ckBe r r y Wireless Handheld

FrOm:
To: ~
Se nt : Fr~ ar 11 07:06:53
Sub ject : Babbin (Ne w York
TORTURE TRUTHS
By J SD BABBIN
JUST 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 former
navy inspector general, answe rs some quest ions pointedly, but raises many more .
The Pefense Department bas now done 11 investigat ions growing out of the Abu Ghraib
prisoner -abuse scandal, which b r o ke a year ago . Church testified to the Senate Armed
Services committee on the latest report Tbursday . His task was to t r a c e any connection
between the interrogation methods sanctioned by Defense to any abuses in Iraq , Afghanistan
and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
At the outse t of the war, t he pres ident determined, e ntirely correctly , that suspected
terrorists and their ilk - such as the Taliban and l a t e r the so-ca l led "Saddam Fedaye en " -
weren' t prisoners of war entitled to the protections afforded under the Geneva
Conventions. Since we attacked Afghanistan in October 2001 , the left has been work ing
nigbt and day to forCe a reversal of that decision. Its principal tool has become the
abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad .
Critics focused the confirmation hearings for Alberto Gonzales as attorney general on
Justice Department and White House memos debating the definitions of torture . Ever since
the Abu Ghraib 8c.ndal broke, others h.ve blamed Defen8e Secretary Donald Rum~feld and the
senior mi l itary leadership for creating an atmosphere in which prisoner abuse was, if not
specifica lly permitted , at l e a s t inev itable. .
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 of
interrogat ion policy evidenced the i n t ent to t r e a t detainees humane ly, wbich i g
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 fundamenta l l y incons isten t wi th the no tion t hat s uc h o ff i cia ls or commande r s ever ac c epted
t ha t detainee abuse wou ld be permis s i b l e . . . [a nd ) it i s c l ear that none o f the p i ctured
abus es at Abu Ghr a i b bear any r e s emblanc e to appr ove d po l ic ies a t any level . i n any
the a t e r. "
B~t wha t ~bou t Afghanis t an a nd Gua nta na mo Bay? Wer en 't the i n t e r r ogators just turned
l oos e ? I n f act, no . Church wrote , · We found no lin~ be tw e e n appro ved i n t e r r oga t i on
cechniques and deta i nee a bus e . "
Church f ound t hat mo s t o f t he abuse cases d idn 't eve n come out o f int e rroga t i on s. "Of t he
7 0 cases o f . . . s u bs cant 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 tua t ions such as a t
t he "po i nt o f capt u re · - whe re soldi ers whO 've cap t ured peop l e they be lieve d ha d caused
t he de a ths or wound i ng of the i r pa ls got emot i ona l l y ca rri ed a way .
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 serv ic es , to
ac tive vs. reserve so l diers or o t her f actors . (Thus , he apparently d isagrees wi t h t he
e arlier Taguba report OD Abu Ghraib , whi ch found he reservist mi l i t ary po lic e
i nadequately t r ained f o r deta inee oper a t ions in t he environment they e ncountered. )
Ever y t r ue interrogator ' s goal i s to ge t a ct ionab le int elligence · r e li able informat ion
t ha t ' s trans latable i nt o o f fe n s ive or defens ive a c t i on . To get i t , we mu st both abj ure
tor t ure a nd r e ject the t ide o f political corre ctne s s that t hreat e ns to drown our
i nte r r oga t ors . .
I nt err og a tion - r e l ated ab use i s q ui t e rar e . the report no t e s: "At (Guan t anamo Bay ] , wher e
t here have been over 24 . 0 00 interrogat i on sess ions . . . there are onl y thr e e cases o f .
. s ubs tan t ia ted abus e . al c on s is ting o f mi nor as sau l ts i n whi ch imi l i t a ry intel ligence ]
i n t e r r oga t ors exceeded t he bounds o f ap proved i nt e rro gat i on po l icy . u
But those boundS , a s Church ' s repo r t explains , r emain b urry because ~ no universal ly
accepted definit i ons of ' tor t u r e ' o r ' abus e ' exi s t . · A 1 t here i s - in the Geneva
Conve n tions , U.S . and int e rna t i ona l l a w - i s t he concept that de ta i nees must be t r e a t e d
"h umane l y . "
As t he Church r eport shows. t he t errorists are t raine d in our i n t er r oga t i on me t hods a nd
ho w t o res ist 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 " det a i nees a t Guantanamo who res is ted s tanda rd i n t e r r oga tion f o r months . t he
new t ec hn i qu e s "s uc c e s s f ul l y neut ra lized t he two deta ine es' re s i stance t r a ini ng and
yiel d ed v a l ua bl e int e l igence . ·
Ch urch said i n a co nfe r en ce c a l l Wed nesday that ou r i nter roga t ors are now "cl ampe d up · -
decl i ning to push i nterrog a ti9ns a s hard as t hey lega lly and mora lly can and Shou l d f or
fea r o f the next i nveot igati on 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 spo ke c o detaine e s i n a s exual y - sugge stive man ne r in
orde r t o i ncu r s tress ba s ed on the detai nees ' re i gi o us be l i e fs. " Why s hou l d we puni s h
t hose women? Why shoul d we re spect terrorists ' rel i g i ous be l i e f s when we - and a growing
~: ' number o f thei r c o -re l i gion ist s - say they a re p e rver t i ng t he i r religio n by t h ei r
t error i sm?
The most i mpor ~ ant f inding Church ma ke s is 4 neg a t ive one ·, t hat t her e is no un i ve rsa l
d efinition o f tort ure or abuse . American a nd a l l ied int e r rogat o r s s ho u ldn 't have t o work
i n f ea r o f prosecut i on under vague l a ws and treat ies . So l ong as they d o , t hey will remain
"c l amped uP" - l e s s e f fect i ve t han t he y mus t be i f we ar e t o ge t t he actionable
i n t el l i ge nce we need to s av e l ive s .
We have a c lear d e f i n i t ion of "tort ure " 1n . S . l aw. Congress s ho ul d - as c learl y as
possible , without t ryi ng to speci f y every pos sible ci rcums t anc e · act quic kl y to speci fy
what "a bu s e " me a ns .
J ed Babb in i s a f ormer dep uty unde r s e c r eta ry of de f ense , a con t r ibut ing ed i t or wi t h
fami l ysecuritymat ters.com a nd a uthor o f "Ins i d e t he Asy lum , Why t he U. N. an d Ol d Europe
Are Wors e Than You Thi nk . ·~

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 From : Wh ~man , Bryan, SES, OASD-PA
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To:
Subject:
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
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Thanks f or ehe updat e - al ways happy t o hear from y ou .

Se nt f rom my Bl a ckBe r r y Ha nd he ld .
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From: ~~, , 'If.~ CO;" MNFI STRATCOM Dep Di r
To : Whi tma n, Bryan, SES, OASD- PA <Bryan. Whitm
Se nt: Sun Mar ~ 3 10 :04: 04 20 0 5
Subj ect : RB: Da n Senor on l i f e i n sov er eign I r a q
Br ya n . s i r ... same of t he passages did sound familia r . Pumped it out t o s enior (s e nor
p erhap s ) l e a de rship here to very goo d reviews. Thank you f o r he lping us out ov e r here ,
We haven ' t had a l o t o f b ou nce on t he injured deta inee releas e .. . which is what we had
hop e d f or . Howeve r , a s t h i ng s g o , it could be wrapped i n t o a br oad er s eory a s we near
c ompl etion of the i nv esei ga tion into t he Sgrena i ncid en t . Bulga r ian stor y has a lso p l ay ed
pr etty hea vi l y over he re . .. l ' v e been t o ld when t he Bulgar ian of f icial c ame to v i s i t wi th
MNC-I off icial s . he was pr ovid ed a c opy o f a pre l iminary repor t . . . and as we all
know. . . onc e you hand pa per ou t e xp e ct ink on i t to foll ow. The lraqi gov' t (three
mini 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 ting
stories in the Wes t ern pr e s s we r e s uccessfu l a t t empts by someone t o spec ifica l l y
"mi sin f orm ' (I read this as dece ive ) ehe We s t e rn pre ss . The s t o ry d idn ' t play heavily i n
t he I r a qi med i a which l ea ds me to bel i eve I r aq i and other pan~Arabic news pa pe r/ t e l evisi o n
ed itors · s me l l e d " s ome t hi ng foul i n t he reports . I n t e r e s ting that this came fr om a non -
ve r if iabl e s our ce , b ue tha t s o many we re wi l ling co pic~ the sto r y up. We' r e now
p r ep ar i ng fo r t he seating o f t he Tr a nsitional Nat i ona l Assembly a nd l ot s o f work be ing
done o n se curity . I'll be a t eh e Convent ion Cente r throughout the da y a s t he senior
STRATCOM r ep , The y don' t wa n t a l o t o f "unif orms " aroun d d u r i ng t his event . .. which i s
very underst a ndable . Tha t ' s about i t f or now. Anything you 'n ee d , j ust drop me a l i ne .
Wi ll minim ize my emai l t o yo u 8 0 I do n ' t fil l up your already burgeoni ng emai l box . . . on ly
the s tuff I be l ieve you s h ou ld know in sh ort orde r . Keep smi l i ng my fr 'end. More to '
come.

Mul t i - Nat ional Force -Iraq

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Fr om : Whitma n , Bryan , SBS . OASD-PA (mailtO:Brya n. Whitma n
Sen ' 1 3, 20 0 5 4:2 3 PM
To : . COL MNFI STRATCOM Dep Dir PAO
Subject : Re: Dan Senor on l i f e i n s ov erei g n I raq
Recognize any o f the passages ? You may no t r e al i ~ e i t bu t yo u coordi nate on a spect a of
thi s l ast 'we ek:-) . Nice j ob !
Sent fr om my Bl a ckBerry Handhel d.

Br ya n , SES,
<pit tmahe , CAPT,
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 l i f e in sovereign raq
Lad ies & Gentlemen : Not a bad story from Dan Senor f or your SA.

Colonel , OSAP

Deputy Di r ec to r f o r Publ i c Af fa ir
De put y Chie f o f Sta ff , Stra teg ic Communicat ions
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 e reign I r a q.
by Dan Senor
0 3 /21/2005, Volume 010, Issue 2 5

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 Ira qi friends, I thought I knew what ~ould happen nex~, s ince
it had happened often e noug h before I left I r aq e i gh t mont h s ago, when the United States
handed over sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government . Then, the I r aq i s standing a round
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 the bank of televis ions i n our offices wou ld ha ve t urned to . me, the repr esentat i ve
'Amer i c a n , asking why we could not ge t s ecurity under contro .

Th is time, howe v e r , the same I r a qi fr iends ignored me' a nd instead partic ipated i n a
pxotest : the f irst Iraqi - organized ma s s publ ic protest , Borne 2 ,000 strong , in the 23
months s i nce the fa l l o f Sa ddam' s r e gime . "The Ameri cans " were no longer an address for
fru stration or salvat ion . Welcome to pos telection I r a q ,

And t he r e are many more b a rometers of a new traqi mood , even a s tens of t hou s ands of
for e 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 manne d
by Ame r i can soldiers . Ira qis were the fi r st t o deplore this "humi l i a t i on . " But every
checkpoint I ' ve been t hr o ugh on thi s trip has been staffed by Iraqi soldiers .

No w American troops a re i nc r ea si ng 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 ien c e ha s become one of interf a c e with t hei r fell ow
c i t ize n s in uniform- -an enormous psychologica.l a nd symbol ic change . A sen i or Defense
Department o f f i c i a l here d iscussed ta king thi s process t o t he next step by employing
Iraq ' -only mi l i t a ry patro ls in the maj o r ci t i e s .

La st year. I r aq ' S prime m ~ n1 s t e r . deputy prime m i ni s ~e r , and president were gua rded by
U.S . Specia l For c e s . When the s e politicians appeared on l oca l television, a r ing of
plai nclothes Ameri cans was o ft en i n the came ra s hot.
At t ha t t i me, Pri e Mi n i s t e r Al awi v isited the s c enes of s u i c ide bombings to project a
strong " l a r ge and in c har ge " i mage . Thi s e f for t was hampered by visuals of the tight
c irc l e of Amer icans who were kee p i ng him al i ve. Now I r a q i s have been tra ined to do the
j ob· · anot h e r i mportant ch a nge .

As for t he I r a q i securi ty eervices , whe n I pas s ed a r ecruit ing f a cilit y i n Baghdad , .t he

l ine went on a s fa r as the eye could see . It l ooked l i ke a suic i de bombing waiting to
ha ppen . But Iraqis have not b een deterred. Aa the CENTCOH command er , Ge ne r al Abizaid, pu t
it , "Ea c h t ime an Iraqi soldier is kill e d, another steps up t o t a ke h is p l ace. And since
the h andover o f s ov ere i gn t y , mor e I raq is have di ed in the line of du ty in I r a q than
Americans . "

When I repeated thi s s t ory to a Western reporter , he cynically r esponded:

" we ll tha t j us t s hows y ou how desperate they a re for j ob s. " Pe rhaps . But then how does ooe
explain more than 8 mill ion I raqis who r isk ed the i r lives , not f o r a j o b, but . t o vote ?

As fo r Iraqi secur i t y p erformance , I asked 0 . 5 . troops in Baghdad f or feedbaCK. Some was

glowing, some r e strained , bu t non e disparaging. At a mi n imum, there was r e a l respect qn
t he part our troops f or Iraqi s risking their lives for their own country . And while
everyon e a grees that I r aq i force s s t i l have a way to go , their e l i t e t eams-- i~e SWAT,
emergency res ponse, a nd c o un t e r i n s urge ncy - - ar e per f ormi n g exc ept i onal l y well . They have
been fully p a r~ 1c ipa t in~ and a re often t axing the l e a d in c omplax and d angerous
operat ions .

• The I r a qi press- -Iraqi p oli t icians are being scrut inized by a free press.
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 This has been going on f o r some time: Rec a t hat th e O i l- fo r ~Food s candal was firs t
exposed by a post -Sadda I raqi ne ws pap er. when I s topped . by the Int ernat iona l Pr e s s
Ce nt e r, I raq i j o ur nalis t s- - men and ~~me n --were busy f i l i ng s t o r i e s about t he hors e - trading
between t he po l it ica l part i e s. When t he e lec t i on r e sults were of f icial l y announc ed , I r aqi s
crowded a r ound telev is ion sets i n ca fe s al lover Baghdad, watc hing t he news .

The Arab sate l l i te channe ls the ms e l ve s a re goi ng t hrough a transfo r mat ion .
Wh i,l e Ira q i s c l aim t ha t Al J«:z:eera cont i nues t o b e " t he mou thp i ece of the i nsurgency , " i t e
ch ie f competitor , Al Arabiya h , ha s gotten ser ious abou t r e po r t i ng ne ws beyond th e
vio lence , notwi t hs t andi ng some se ns a tional i~, from ti me to t i me .

.?:,..,.: On Elect ion Day, Al Arabiya h ha d correspondents go l i ve at po l l ing places i n s ix c i ties .

north t o so uth. When fe nc e-s itt ing I r aqis tuned i n that morni ng to dec ide whether to take
. .,........ t he r isk t o vo te, AJ Arabi ya h r e por t ed vo te r mome n tum rat her than t err o ris t at ta cks .
Monentum begets momentum.

Int erest i ngly , Al Ja zeera do e s no t hold t he domi nant po s it i on i n Ira q that i t ma inta ins i n
o t he r Arab markets . I t d id l a un c h a bout eigh t years a head of Al Arab iyah, which emer ged
j u s t before t he Iraq war. But because Saddam ba d ou t l awed sa te lli te d ishes . both c~nnel s
arrived a t 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 mandate s re s u lted i n every f ourt h
po sition on each pol i t ical party li st be ing held by a woman . Th is p roduced fe male
represe ntat ion in t he Nat iona As s embly a t a h ighe r r at e 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 la i m. A
po l i t ical cons ti tuency i s be ing cre a t ed , which wa s exac tly t he int ent of the Iraqi
Governing Counc i l and the Coal it ion wh en t hey made thi s const itut ional s tipulat ion . Once
wornen get comfo rtable with po i tic al po wer , i t ' s not easy fo r I sl ami s ts t o t ak e i t away
without r i sk of r evo l t.

The e xamp e being get b y Ir~ q i g on women 'g r ighta goec beyond po l itics to my ria d new
women's r ights organ izat i ons a nd t o women ' s v~ s i bi l it y i n t he press corps . Indeed , there
i s nothing more revolut ionary t ha n a n I sl a mis t po iti cian b ei ng g ri l l e d by an abayah -c lad
fe male Iraqi reporte r unde r t he br ighc _i gh ts o f pan -Arab t e levi s i on cameras broadca st ing
to t he ent ire reg ion .

• Arab nationa l ism- - "Wha t thi s e lect i o n co l d us i s tha t Arab na t i ona li s m is dead in
Iraq ,· one Iraqi l e a de r proud l y proc l a i med to me . I f the r e ' s any do ub t , watch I r aqi s
se lect a Kurd as t he i r nex t p res idenc--the fi r s t t ime a member of: a non - Ara b minor ity wi ll
become the ceremoni al hea d o f a n Ar a b count ry , i n a pa r t of t he wor l d n ot known for i t s
r e s pe c t f or ethnic mi no r i t y right s .

Eve n I r a qi s ' lack of i nt e r e s t i n the ft Zio ni st ent ity · i s t e ll i ng . This is not to say tha t
I r aq i s are s upport i ve of Israel or unsymp a t het i c t o t he Pa l e s t in i an s. It 's just tha t they
don ' t ~hare the ob~.G&ion with I8 r~e tha t conaumea s ome ot hv r~ i n t he rvg ion. The Iraqi
politica l part ies that ran on a Na s s e r i t e pan-Arab a genda performed di s mally .

At Bagh dad Internat ional Airpo~ , the I r a qi emp l oye e of Roya l J ordanian Airl ines asked me
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 if my fina l destinat ion from B&ghdad was Amman. ~ No . · I rep lied. " i t ' s Tel Aviv. · He
didn't flinch , l e t alone launch i n t o an anti-Israel tirade or deny me service. Hi s on ly
concern was how to tag my. l ug gage SO i t could go a ll t he way through . I told a Sunni Iraqi
mi ni s ter at the a irport the same thi ng . He didn 't miss a beat ~ either . Fr ee Iraqi s seem t o
be able to reconc ile being agnostic about Israel with being sympa t he t i c to the
palestinians . And . besides , Iraqis are p r e occupie d with jobs . electric ity. and securi ty.
none of which they connect to the old pa n-Arab scapegoat. The ir outlet now i s their own
political pr o ces s .

.. I r aqi pr ide -'-When I was working i n r a q , I was s truck by how proud I r aqi s were of the ir
c ount r y -- s urp r i s i ng given t ha t the mod e r n s tate of I r a q 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 a q war , they were II. ways t he f irst in the
r e gio n , whether i t was joining t he U.N. o r acquiring te e v i s i on se ts . Saddam 's t yra nny
dest royed much of that · pride, and what wa s lef t was dealt a blow by the realization that
it had t a ken a foreign powe r to liberate them.

No.... , i n the paste lee ion euphor ia , one be g i ns t o hear the word "first"
again. Iraqis recogni ze the significance of the election not only for themse lves , but for
the region , which has renewed thei r sense o f pride. As the spokesman for the I ndepende nt
Electora Commission of Iraq put i t when ~~nouncing the offi cial results of t he election :
"Today I r a q i s taking a new step toward . . . de mocracy ." I t was t he firs t "true
democrat ic experience"
for Arab countries "and a model for the pe ople of the area . . . . Today is the birth of a
free I r a q . . . based 00 civi l ized democratic values . "

on the day that Ra f i k Har iri , former pri me mi ni ste r of Lebanon, was assassinated , an Iraqi
leade~ predicted to me that t he response from the Lebanese people would be dramatically
different because of the example s e t by the I raqi e lection .

Even in Iraq 's s unn i ·ma jority areas , many peop le a lready resent t he Assoc iation of Islamic
Sc holars for urging a boyco t t o f t he e l e c t ion, and so forcing the~ o ff the democratic
tra in j us t a s i t was l e aving the stat ion .
Ther e i s little doubt that Sunnis will part icipate at muc h higher rates i n t he t wo
e lect ions scheduled for l a t e r t hi s year .

Even after Saddam's capture, many I r a q i s seemed unable to f ully be lieve tha t their country
would not revert to tyranny , t he only political reali t y most had ever known . Now , since
the electiOns. Iraqis seem fo r 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 Prov is ional Authority
in Bag hdad from April 2003 t hrough J une 2 004. He recently r e turned to Iraq for the first
time s ince the handover of sovereignt y .

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

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you had a rapport with him ). Mr Feith has also asked Mr DiRlta to send It to hi s three databases (defense leaders,
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promotion of democratic institu tions around the world. USD(P) Doug Feith just gave two speech es that d eal with this
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 Civil Liberties, Civil Society and Civility
by
Douglas J. Feith
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

John F. Kennedy School of Government * Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
March 3, 2005

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

went to schoo l 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 of a 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 of what 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 equa lity 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 pub lic safety . 1

Much of what 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 The PhlfoS()phy 0/ 1. S. MifI, ed., Marsh311 Cohen (New York: Modem Li brary, 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 an d 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 adv antage.

• 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 meas ures. 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 wou ld

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 of airplane 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 j ust 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 dea ling wit h the terrorists,

he either had to chan ge the way we live, or chan ge 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 attack ing enemy networks keeps the terrorist s 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 cred it 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 o f 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 civil society,

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

address :

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the

success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our
world 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 democrac y.

The Burkean Critique

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

democra cy - 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 of Liberality

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 democratic 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 "F ollowers 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
4
Declaration of Hu man Rights."

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 considered

a source of legislation. 0 law [may) contradict] .. .J the
universally agreed tenets of Islam, the principles of democracy ,
or the [individual] rights cited in [the interim constitut ion].. .
[The interim constitutio n] guarantees the full religious ri ~hts of
all 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. and

religious belief and practice. Coercion in such matters shall be
prohibited/'

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 of various 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 Co llege 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 UK and 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

of civil liberties:

• Britis h 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 demo cracies 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 mor e 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 tha t 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 of Edmund 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. M ill, 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 j udgment is really deserving of

confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his
mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it
has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against

? Burke, Reflections 011 the Revolution in France, (Penguin Books, 1968), p. 376.
I The Ph iJosophyofJ. 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 Afgha nistan and Iraq democratic debate is in its infancy. We

hope that tolerance and compromise will become habitual there and make

possible - thou gh the process will likely be long and tumultuous - the

creation of prosperous dem ocratic 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,

encoura ge and perhaps help enable the blossoming of humane ideas of

liberty and self-governme nt, 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 TRUTHS
By JED BABBIN
JUST how f a r were U.S . interrog ators told they could go in questioning det a inees in l raq.
Afghanistan and Guan tanamo Bay? A new report by Vi c e Adm . Albert T . Church I II. the f o rme r
navy inspec toc ge ne r al, answers aome que stions pointedly , but raises many more .
The Def ens e Depa rtment ha s now done 11 i nv esti ga tions growing out of t he Abu Ghra ib
pr i soner- abu se scandal , which broke a year ago . Church te st ~£ led t o tne Se na te Armed
'Se r vi c e s committee on the late st repor t Thuraday . Hi s ta sk was to t r a ce any conne c t i on
between the i nte r r ogation me thods sa nc t i oned by Def en s e to any abuse s in I r a q. Afg h&ni stan
a nd Guantana mo Bay . Cuba .
At the outs e t o f the war , t he preside nt dete rmined , ent irely corr ect l y . that a UBp e c t e d
t e r roris ts and t he i r ilk - s uch • • tho Ta11PGn aQ~ 1at er the s o - cal l e d · ~ a ddaM Feday•• n N -
wer en ' t pri soners of war en t i t led to t he prot ect i ons afford e d under t he Geneva
Conventions. Sinc e we attacked Afg hanistan in OCtob e r 2 00 1 , t h e lef t bas been working
ni ght a nd day t o f orce a revers al of tha t decision . r t s pr incipal tool has become the
abuses at t he Abu Gh r a i b p ris on ne ar Baghdad.
Critics f o cused t he confirmation he ari ngs t or Alberto Gonza les as a t torney general on
J u stice Depa rtmen t and Whi te Rou ae me c os debating the def initions o f to rt u r e . Ever since
the Abu Ghraib s canda l br oke , ' othe rs have Dl amed Def ens e Secr etary Donal d Rumsfe l d And t he
senior mil itary l eade r ship f o r c r e at i ng an a t mosphere i n whi ch p ris one r abuse was. if not
specif ica l l y p ermitted , a t l e a st ~nevitable .
The Chu r c h repor t p rove s thos e a sse ~ t i on B wrong . I t says , · We found, without except i on .
that t he DoD a nd sen i o r mi li t a ry commande rs respons ibl e 'for t he formulatio n of
i n t e r r og a tion policy eVidence~ the int ent to t r e at detaine e s h umane l y , whi c h i s
fun damentally inconsistent with the notion t ha t s ucb of fi cia l s or commanders ever accepted
t hat de t a ine e a buse would be permissible . . . (and] it 1s clear that none of t he p ictured
abu se s a t Abu Ghra ib bear a ny re semblance to approved po l ic ies a t a ny l eve l , in any
t heate r. " .
But what a bout 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 turned
l oos e ? I n f a ct , no . Chur c h wr ot e , "We found no link between approved i nte r r oga t ion
t ecbni qu e s an d deta inee abus e . "
Church f ound t ha t most of the abuse case:. didn 't. even come ou t of i nt e r r oga t i ons . · o f t he
70 cases of . . . substant iated a buse, on l y 20 of the s e cases , o r l e e s t han one -th ird ,
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 cap ture" - where e o l u1 er s who've captured people they believed had cau s ed
the dea ths or wounding of their pa ls got emotiona ll y carried away .
Acc ording to Church , the i ncide nc e of abus~ is not unique to any o f t he s ervi ces , t o
act iv~ va . reserve soldiers or other factors . (Thus, he apparent ly d isagree s wi t h the
earl ier Taguba report on Abu Ghrai b, which fo und t he r e s ervi st mili t ary police
i nad eq uate ly t r aine d for de ta inee ope rat ions in t he environment they enc ou nt ered .) Every
t r ue inter ro9'~tor '~ goal .io to ge t Act ionable i nt ellige nce - rel iable i nfo r mation t ha t's
translatable i nt o of fens ive or defens ive act ion. To ge t i t , we mus t b ot h ab j ure t o r tu r e
and r e j ec t t he tide of po lit i cal correctness t hat t hr eatens t o drown our inter r oga t o rs .
I nterr ogation - rel a ted abuse i s quit e ra re. the r epor t note s : "At [Guantanamo Bay}, where
there have been ove r 24.0 00 i nterrogat ion s e gsions . . . the r e are on ly three case s of .
. substant iated abuse , al l c ons ist ing o f minor assaul t s in which [mil i tary inte ll i ge nce ]
in t errogators e xc e e ded the bou nd s o f approved i nt erroga t ion pol icy . "
But. t hose bo-unds , a s Church' s r~por t exp la i ns, rema in b l urry because "no u niver&al ly
acce pte d de fin i t ions of 'to r t \.\ re ' o r ' a bus e' exist." All the r e i s .- i n t he Geneva
Conven t i o ns. U. S. and i nt e r national law - i s the conce~t t hat de tainees must be trea ted
"h ultlanely .OI
As t he Church report shows , the t err o rist s a re t r a i ned i n our inte r ro gation method e an d
how t o ~ es ~ st t h em. When we use more aggres sive t echnique s - A S we did i n t he case o f two
"hi gh -val ue " de ta ine es at Guan ta namo who re s i s te d s tandard i n t erroga tion f or months - t he
n ew t ec hni que s "s uc ces s fu l ly ne ut r ali ze d ~he t wo de t a inee s ' res istance t rain i ng a nd
yi e lded v a lua b l e i ntellige nce. "
Church s aid i n a conferenc e c all we d ne ~day t ha t our inte rro ga t ors are now "clamped up ' -
declining t o p ush interroga tions aa ha~d as t hey l e ga lly and morally can and s hould fo r
fear of the next i nve s t i ga t i on tha t wi l l co me al ong.
We a r e puni shi ng innovative i n t e r r ogator s , such as t he t wo women at Guant a namo Bay. · who .
on t heir own i ni tiat i ve, to uc he d and spOKe to de tainees i n a s exual ly -sugge s t ive man ne r i n
ordl!!r t o inc-ur st re s s baa ed on the de ta inee s ' r e l i gious be l i e f s.. " Why ohould we punish
those women ? Why Dhou ld we r e s pe ct t errori s t s' relig i ous beliefs when we - and a grOWi ng
nu mber of t heir co -re ligi onis ts - say t ney are perver t ~ n9 their r elig ion by t he ir
t e r r orililm?
The most important fi nding Chur ch makes is a negative o ne ; t hat t he r e i s no uni vers al
defi nition of t or tur e or abuse . Americ an a nd allied i n t e r r oga t or s s ho u ldn 't have to work
i n fear of prosecution under va gue l a ws and tr eat i es . 5 0 l ong a s t hey do , t hey wi l l remain
"clamped up· • l e as effectiv e t han t hey must l:>e i f we are t o get the a ct i on a bl e
i n t e ll igGn c e we need to save l i v e D.
We have a c lear definition of "tor ture " in U.S. law. Con gre s s should - a D c l e a rly as
poss ible , without trying to sp ecify every poss ible c ircumstance - act qu ickl y to spec ify
wha t -abuse" means .
Jed Babbi n i s a fo r mer deput y unde r se c r e t ar y of defense, a contr i but i ng e d i t or wi t h
fa milysecuri t ymatters.com and aut ho r o f "Inside the Asylum , Why the U. N. and Old Burope
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 From: Rhynedance, George, COL . OASO-PA
Sent: Th ursday , Ma rch 10, 2005 5:48 PM
To: Oi Rila .lany, CIV , OSO·OASO·PA
Subject: RE:

They ha ve i t for a c tion . ...

- - ' - -Or i g i na l Mes sage - - - - -

From: Di Ri ta , Larry, Cry , OSD -OASD-PA
Se nt : Thursday , Ma rch 10, 2 005 4 :54 PM
To : Rhynedance , George . COL, OASD-PA
Sub j ect : Fw:

~e t ' s be on the lookout f or a senor pi e c e i n the weekly s t a nda rd f o r mond ay' S bi r d . . . t ox

Sent f r om my BlackBerry Wireless Handhel d

it wi l l a pp ear in next week ' s issue and wi l l be on

their webs i t e on Sat night or Sun morni ng . . . 1f you
co ul d pu t it i n t he monday b i rd , t hat woul d be great .

-- - "Di Ri t a . Larry , c r y . OSD-OASD- PA"

<l ar ry. di ri t a@O s d . mi l> wro t e :
> when wi l l i t a pp ea r? We c a n th row i t i n t he bird . . .
> - - . _- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Se nt fro m my BlackBerry Wi re less Handhe ld
>
>

>
> okay.
> i t hi nk you all wi ll l ong the piece i n i ts ent irety
> --
> i t' s a pre tty leng t hy l o ok at fo ur barometors (iraqi
> security f o r c es, ira q i press , i r aq i women , and i r a q i
> prid e ), and i s how how i n e a ch area t he t r e ndl i ne s
> are
> strong .. . thing s a re getting much bet te r .
> --- HOi Ri ta , Larr elV, OSO -OASD-PA"
> <l a r ry. di rita ~~ \~ ...; wrote :
>
> > St ill ch e cking on t hat . Want to ma ke s ure I got
> the
> > names o f the t yp e s of
> > un its right . . .
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - . - . _-- - - -
> > Sent from my BlackBerry Wir e l e s s Handhe ld
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> >
> > --- - -Original Message----f9) S):&'''_~\... ~~,f]
> > From : Dan Senor <danseDor~':tl-¥t>~:",,,< ,,.:f~ ~
> > To : oi R ~t~ , Lar ¥ S ~V , OSO-OASD-PA
> >
> >
W
d a rry . d u l t a{QlIild ",W. I
Sent : Thu Mar 10 16 :29 :50 2005
> '> SUbj ec t : Re :
> >
> > very good . . . t hanks .
'. > >
> > is t he part on the elite iraqi teams playing a
> l e ad
> > role on some ops ok~y?
> > - -- · oi
Ri ta, tar ,CIV, OSO-OASO-PA "
> > <larry . dirita m.
!Jr',,~%.j> wrote :
> >
> > > Great i ns i ght s . . . da n - - may wa n t to qual ify your
> > > comments a bi t
> > > - - - -- - -~ - - - - - - - --- - - -- - - - -
> > > Sen t from my BlackBerry Wi r e l e s s Hand he d
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > OABD -PA
> > >

> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I t' s good - - l c oncur with you r conc erns .
> > > Add it ional ly I wonder with the ·
> > > r e c ent checkpo int shoo t ing , i f t he po int abou t
> > > Ira q i s ma nag i ng 11 the
> > > che ckpo i nts might b e a b i t oversta t e d and l e ave
> > the
> > > reade r to cha lenge
> > > ot he r aspec ts .
> > >
> > > - - --- Or 1gi na l Message - - - - -
> > > From: 01 Ri ta , Larry , CIV , OSD-OASD- PA
> > > Se nt : Thu r s day . Ma rch 1 0, 2 0 05 3 : 4 5 PM
> > > To : whitman . Bryan, BES , OASD-PA
> > > Sub ject : Fw ;
> > >
> ) > PIs take a l OOK at this email st ring and let me
) > know
> ) > what you think , Tnx
> > > ---- - - - - -------- - - - - ---- - -
> > >. Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handhe l d
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > okay , glad i checked . are the allaw1 graphs f ine
> > so
> > > long as i don 't specifiy
> > > beyond "amer icans '?
> > > --- "o i P.ita, La;;rx . CIV, OSO-OASD- PA"
> > > < l arry.d ir i t:afO)(J!\\ ;}, ~~.li~l wro t e:
> > > > GOod for yo u for do ing t hi s, dan . .. r think the
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., .
> > two
> > > grafa on allawi
> > > > security go too far . Certainly the second one
> > > does by identifying
> > > > specific unit .
> > > >
> > > > You mi gh t be able t o tell the same story by
> just
> > > saying tha t
> > > > "ame r i c an s"
> > > > were providing personal security (l eave i t
> open
> > to
> > > whether it was civ
> > > > or
> > > > mi l) and that now it increasingly is i r a q i s,
> or
> > > whatever the case is .
:> > > >
> > > > One point worth cons idering is the general
> point
> > > that , across the
> > > > ' board, iraqi security forces must ge t much
> Ilore
> > > capable, bu t at the
> > > > high end (swat teams , emergency response ,
> > > count erinsurgency teams ,
> > > > etc.l They are getting
> > > > real ly quite good . They are getting more
> > invo lved
> > > in sensitive , comex
> > > > ops, etc.
:> > > >
> > > > Anyway , glad yo u are doing it.
> :> > :>
> > > > Enjoyed our brie f visit last week . . . cheers
> > :> > --_._--- - - -- - - ~ -~ - --------
> > > > Sent fro m my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
> :> :> >
:> :> > >
> > > > --- --Original Message----- w ,, _ • . . •
> > > > From : Dan Senor <dansenori;j.! W~~ ..{¥;\:::. · ~{;~j
> > > > To : 01 Rita Larr CIV OSD
:> > :> :> < 1a ;;.~·...·.' ;~.rJ~n;;~;;~( ~,,;r..·~"i'7f:,,;ff;'t
> > I d i r ita
> > > < 1 di r 'lL ii'alfill'i;rn:S\'
> > > > Sent : Thu Mar 10 14:03 ;31 2005
> > > > Subject:
> :> > :>
> > > > Larry,
> :> > >
> > > > Good to see you las t 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 rela tes to Iraqi security forces ,
> > and
> > > I just want to make
> > > > sure it 's okay by you . . . that it doesn 't
> violate
> > or
> > > expose anythi ng
> > > > that you'd be uncomfortable with .
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 '> :. )0 :>
. > > > > The r e l eva n t tex t is below (I 'm particluarly
> > > concerned with the
> > > > refe rence t o t he Navy Seals and the senior DoD
> > > o ffic ial ) :
> > > :>
> > > > ChecKpo ints and s e cur i t y . . .
> :> :> >
> > > > Last su mme r , every mi li t ar y checkpoint was
> > manned
. , > > > by Ame r i ca n
> > > > sold iers. I r a qis were t he f i rst t o ci te t hi s
> > > "humiliat ion K • But
> > > > every checkpoint I 've be en through now is
> > s t a f f ed
> > > by Iraqi s o l d i e rD.
7> > > >
> > > > Now American troops are increa s ingly
> > > > behind -the -scenes, only there to help i f
> t hings
> > > get dicey . Fo r most
> > > > Iraqi s , t he checkpoint expe rience 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 c hange.
> > > :>
> > > > A senior De f e ns e Department official here
> > > d iscussed t a ki ng thi s
> > > > process to the next step by employing
> Iraqi-only
> > > mili t a r y patrols in
> > > > the ma jor ci ties .
> > > >
> > > > Last year, Iraq 's Prime Minster. Deputy Prime
>
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 Froml W hitma n, Bryan, SES , QAS D-PA
Se nt: Thursday, Marcn 10, 20054:32 PM
To: Di Rila , Larry, CIV. QSD-QASD-PA
Subject: RE:

Will do

- -- - -Or iginal Message - - - - -

From: Oi Ri ta , La rry, CIV, OSD-OASO- PA
Se nt : Thursday , Marc h 1 0 , 2005 4 : 31 PM
To: Whi t ma n , Bryan , SES, OASD- PA
Sub ject : Re :
e-' •
Maybe mnfi? I am persona lly comfort able with it ba sed on the b r i efi ngs/d emos we got in
i raq . Not s ure i f I got the names of t he indi idua l f orces yet . . _
Sen t fro m my BlackBer ry Wir el e s s Handh e ld

- - - -- Origi na l Mess3ge
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- U • t)
From: Whitman , Bryan, SSS, OASO-PA <Bryan . Whit man ,."
To : Oi Ri ta, La r ry, CIV, OSD-OASD-PA <lar ry .d ir i ta •
Se nt : Thu Mar 10 16:26:19 20 05
Sub j e ct : RE :
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 hink
it ma y be unnecessar i l y overstated. Anyone in par t i c ular you might me to r un i t by?

- - - - -Orig1nal Message - - ---

From: P i Rita , Larry, CIV, OSP-OASP-PA
Sen t : Thursday , Marc h 10. 2005 4: 07 PM
To: Whitman , Bryan , SES, OASD-PA
Subject : Fw:
Can you have so meone do a bas i c san i t y check on the fo l lowi ng gr af dan ha s in a
f ort hc oming art icle . Part of t he s ame art icle I s ent you some text f rom earl ier . . . t nx
Se nt f r om my Bla c kBer ry Wireless Han~'e l d

<la r ry .d i r ita

Lar , I i nt e gra t e d yo ur nost r e c ent su ggestion into anot he r gra ph fr om ano t he r pa r t o f the
art icle . Le t me know i f t he facts are correct . .. thanKS !
-- -As f or I raq i sec urity force perf or mance , I asked US troops in Ba ghQa d fo r feedback.
SOfie glowing , some r e str a i ned , but none di sparag ing . At a minimum, t he r e was a r ea l
respec t on the part our t r oo ps for I r aq i s ris ki ng ~~e i r l ive s f or t heir own count ry . And
while 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 , and
c ounteri nsurgency - - are perform ing excep c ional l y wel l . The y ha ve been fu lly
part ic ipat i ng and are o f ten tak i ng t he ead i n c omp l~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 the t wo grate o n a llawi
> security go too far . Certa inl y the second one does by i de n t i f ying
> spec if ic uni t .

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 ,.
' ,. You mi ght be able t o t el the same 6t or y by j us t sa y ing tha t
,. "ame r icans ·
,. were provi d ing personal s e curi ty ( e ave i t open to whethe r i t was e i v
,. or
> mi l ) a nd tha t now it incre asingly i s i r aqis , or whatever the c a se i s.
>
> One "po i nt wor th cons i der ing i s the genera l po i n t that , ac ross the
> boa r d , i raqi sec ur i t y for c es mu s t get much mo r e c apable , bu t a t t he
> hi gh end (s wa t t e ams, e mer genc y r e sponse , cou nter i ns u r genc y t ea ms ,
> ·e t c . ) They a re ge tt ing
,. r e a l ly qu i te good . They are ge tting mo re i nvo l ved in sens it ive , comex
,. ops , e tc .
>
> Anyway , glad yo u are do ing i t .
>
> Enjoyed ou r br ie f vi sit la s t we e k .. . ch e e r s
-".« ,. --- - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - -
> Sent f r om my . Bl ackBerry Wire less Handhe l d
>
>
> - - - - -Or i g i na l Me S & a g e-- ---~~~~==~
,. Fr om: Dan Senor < dansenor'~!~t~~ ~~l
> To : Di Rita Larr CIV OSD
,. <larry. di r i t a ¥ .~. ·~r r "'-"-1>' <ft.l<~ : <ldir ita ' A
> Se nt : Thu Ma r ~ O 14: 0 3: 3 1 2 005'
,. Sub ject :
>
> La rry,
>
> Good t o see you l a s t week .
,.
> I 'm publishing a n a r t i cl e in t he Standard next week t hat po i nt s t o al l
> t he posi tive developments I obse rved on my r e cent t r i p t o I r aq.
>
> One s e c t ion r e l at e s t o I r a q i secur ity f o r ce s , and I just wan t t o make
,. s ure it' s okay by you .. . t ha t i t doe s n ' t vi o a te or expos e a ny t hi ng
,. t hat you 'd be uncomfor t able wi t h .
,.
> Th e r e l eva nt t ext i s below ( I ' m pa r t i c l ua r l y c onc e r ne d wi t h t he
,. refe rence t o the Navy Sea ls and the s enior DoD of fi c i al ) :
>
> Checkpo xnt s and security .. .
,.
> Las t Bummer. e ve ry mi l i t ary chec kpoi nt was manne d by Amer i can
> s oldi ers, Iraqis we r e t he f irst t o c ite t his Ghumi l i a t i o n " . But
> ev ery checkpoint I' v e be en t hrou gh now i s staffed by Iraq i soldiers .
>
> Now American troops 'a r e inc r e a s ingly
,. be hind-the - scenes, onl y there to he l p if t h ings ge t d i cey. For most
> I r a q i s , the chec kpoint experience ha s become one of i nterf ace with
> t heir fellow cit izens i n un i form - - a n enormous psychol og i ca a nd
> symbol ic change ,
>
> A senior Defense Depa r t me n t o f f ic ia l here d i s cu s s ed t aki ng t hi s
> pr o c e s s to the nex t s t ep by employ ing I r a qi -only mil i t a ry pa trols i n
> t he ma j or c it ies.
>
,. Last year , Iraq's Pr i me Mins te r , Depu ty Pr i me Mi nste r . and Pre s ident
> were g uarded by US s pe c i a l forces .
,. When
> t hc~e pol iticiaha appeared on l oc al t e levis ion . & r ing o f
> plain-clo thed Americans was o f te n i n t he ca mer a sho t .
>
> At that time, Prime Mini s ter Al lawi visi t ed the s c enes o f s uic i de
> bombings to project a s t rong ' a rge and i n -c ha r g e ' i ma ge . This effort
> was greatly "ha mpe r e d by v isua ls of the tigh t c irc le o f Navy Se a s who
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 > we r e ke epi ng him a l ive . Now I r aqis have been t r a i ned to do t he j ob -
> anot he r importa nt cha nge .
>
> As fo r the I r aqi sec ur i t y ser vi c es , when I passe d a r e c rui ti ng
> fa cIl i t y i n Bag hda d. the l ine we n t on as fa r a s the eye c ou l d see . I t
> l oo ked l i ke a sui c ide bombi ng wa i t i ng t o happ en , a s e ve nts t hi s week
> i n a l- Hi l l a reminded us . But Iraq i s have not been
> deterred. As the Cent c om Commande r , Genera
> Abiz:aid ,
> put i t . "e a ch t ime an I r a q i s o l d ier i s ki lle d , a nother s t e p D up to
> t a ke his pl a c e . And s ince the ha ndove r o f s overe ign t y , mo re I r a qi s
> have d i ed i n t he line o f dut y i n I r a q than Americans . '
>
> When 1 repeate d 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 s hows you how de spe r a t e t hey a re f o r
> j obs ." Perha ps . But t he n how do e s one e xpla i n 8 .8 mi llion I r aqi s who
> ri s ked t he i r l ives , not for a j ob. but t o vo t e ?
>
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NY TIME S 7 74 7
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Sent:
To:
SubJect:

March SGO
By Jed Bab bin
PUblished 3/7/2005 12 :07 : 44 AM

. Sup reme Court Justice A nthony Kennedy, creatin g a new job m arket fo r hit me n under th e age of
18, op ined that Ame rican law -- and that dusty old Co nstitution that sits in in creasing irrelevan ce
behind a plate of gl ass down Cap itol Hill fro m Kennedy's perch -- was out of step with the re st of the
world. That would be e no ugh SGO for any month , but it's certainly the clearest w ritte n excogitat ion of
th is month 's theme. (For those j ust j oining us, "SGO" is the immortal acronym that sprang from the
ove rly-active mind of my pal and former SEAL A l Clark for the phrase , "s$%t go in' on.")

We are, thankfully , so out of step w ith Eu rope that eve n when we appear to be in step - as in telling
Syrian dictato r Bas ha r ai-Assad to get out of Le banon -- no one , includ ing Assad, takes it se riously.
Franee has jo ined us in telling the Sy rians t o end their occ upation of Leba no n forthwith . If we can
cou nt on the French for anything , it's o nly that they'are likely wh ispering to Assad what they told his
Baathist pal Saddam three March's ago : that they won't really do anything, a nd ca n tie us up in the
U.N. so that we won 't eithe r. Assad is d ancing the Sa dda m waltz. pla ying for-time w ith meaningless
promises to withd raw Sy rian forces f rom Lebanon gradually, mea ning not at all. T he latest --
announced yest e rday - is a withd rawa l beginning today, to move Sy rian troops ba ck to the Syrian.
Lebanese border, but still in Lebanon. Th at which is moved today ca n be moved back tomorrow, w ith
equal ease.

We have both underestimated and ove rest imated Ass ad . He's not the dummy we have thoug ht, but
hi s perso nal powe r is limited . His generals a nd advisers *- most leftovers from his father's reign - are
his pow er base , a nd they'd t rad e him for a s hort beer if they saw the need. H ezbollah, the Irani an-
backe d terrori st organization , co ntrols much of southem Leb anon and has been u sed by Assad to '
th reaten Israe l. Hezbollah is not u nde r Assad's cont rol. It .will do w hat the mulla hs in Te hran tell it to
d o, and th ey're not about to tell th em to withdraw.

Syria will have to be so lved m ilit arily and the longer we wa it to do it the easier it wi ll be for the
te rrorists to escape, to move weapons , money. and people to another sanctuary. Dubya is setting
himself up for anothe r tong bo ut of q uagmir e diplomacy in the U.N. It w on't work any bette r than it did
on Iraq . Better to act and ask forgiveness tha n to wait for pe rmission . Especially when Bad Vlad Puti n
is on the prowl . .

TH E MOST DANGEROUS HEADLINE of the week is the one leadi ng the story of Russia's imm inent
launc h of two Iranian spy satellites. Pla nned for launch some time between April and June, the
"M esbah" and " Sinah- 1" satellites •• Ira n's first - will be a major strategic inc rease of Iran's military
and terrorist capabilities. There is no re ason to think that th e satellites -- whic h must have been built
by the Russians for Ira n - will do a ny less. Moreover, these satellites alm ost certain ly have secure
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comm unication capabilities , wh ich w ill make Iran's terrorist operations - through Hezbollah , al
Qaeda, and other groups it is allied with - much more effective and less vulnerable to attack. Our
anti-satellite weapons capability (which is still aborn ing) .should be pu t high on the age nda for
development and implementation . And the Ira nian satellites sho uld be taken out at the first
opportunity .

Russ ia's alliance with Iran makes impossible any effective U.N. or European diplomatic action to
def use the Ira nian nuclear weapons program. President Bush is making a major mistake in creating
an easy political environment for Putin to push Russia's centuries -old ambitions in the Caucasus by
help ing Iran achieve its nuc lear ambitions. By jo ining in the European effort to negotiate Iran's
nuclear program away, the President is emboldening Rcssia and Ira n both , and further muddying our
incoherent policy toward the mullahs. By do ing 50, he wil l ne ithe r lea d the Europeans to divorce
themselves from feckless diplomacy nor isolate Iran. Eu rope will always appease , even when .
appeasement means the rise of another nu clear power that will threaten it directly, as Iran will. We
........ . .
~ need to sort out what we will do about Iran . and get on with it. Peace ~. here and in the M iddle East ••
cannot be ach ieved until we do. There will be no progress this week, because the wo rld's attention
wiil again be on allegations of American prisoner abuse at Abu G hraib and Guantanamo Bay.

LAST WEEK, TH E BBC ca lled to ask what I knew of the allegations made by a Libyan detainee
(w ho, until capt ured in Pakistan , was a resident of the UK) that Libyans had interrogated him at the
Bagh ram air base in Afghanistan, having been flown there secretly by a CIA aircraft. One Ornar
Deghayes claims he was threatened with remova l to Li bya, where he would be treated ungently by
Qaddafi's secret po lice . W hen I checked w ith an intelligence source, it denied knowledge of any
Libya n involve me nt (which means close to nothing) . When I asked a Defense Department source, he
laughed uproari ously but said not a word . W hich means, meth lnks. that a coup le of Midd le Eastern-
looking g uys on our payroll (dressed up in Libyan uniforms) visited Mr, Deghayes to inte rrogate him
and succeeded in scaring the hell out of him . 0/Vere I in charge, it co uld also mean that the who le
incident was co ncocted simply to see how long it would take for the rumor of Libya n involv ement to
be picked up in the Brit media.) But regardless of the mind games we a re playing with M r. Deghayes
and the Beeb , this w ill be a very rough week on the prisoner ab use Issue.

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

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

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

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SUbJect:

for your planning: As of COB today, the latest word wehave is that VADM Church has declined to do the
interna l interviews LtCol m""W'~;}; requested on our behalf. However, we have a very TENTATIVE interview
instead with MG Donald Ryder, Provost Marshal General of the Army. on Tuesday, 8 Mar. Time TBD. This
interview would also be embargoed until VADM Church's SASe testimony Thursday. Ev erythi ng subject to
c t week , of course. .
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From:
sent:
To:
Subject:

Te ll me if I screwed any thing up....just worried about them delaying so Ion o n making decisions that we miss the
opportunities or make them more painful by last minute coo rdlnation .- ~

A s we discussed yesterday, part of the co mmunicatio n st rategy involves "Internal/m ilitary " co verag e and engagement with
retired milita ry analys ts. Bo th or the se are very low threat and offer a big payback The key is to schedule the m now 90
th at w e don't miss this oppo rtunity. Reco mm end the following:

Pentagon Channel Interv iew/Am erica n Fo rces Press Service Interview: Monday. 7 Marc h. 1230, 30 Minutes
(Location In Build ing , studio 18D)
-A dmiral to discuss his c harter, general findings, an d any thoughts he w ish es to sha re..."ie.:co mprehensive review,
hundreds of interviews In mUltiple loca tion s with a ll types of expe rts , etc ."
-In order to maximi ze the Ad miral's time , the print journalist takes notes during the video inte rview...and then Is offered 10
mins to ask follow -up questions on ce the 15 min video interview ends.
-NONE of the Info rmation will be r eleased in any way/sha pelform until afte r Congress io nal testimony
-ldea is for "oyr follss" to capture thes e interviews right away with Adm iral Churc h so they have a couple of da ys to produ ce
their stories.
·A nother bene fit is this would allow a review of the video scrl>t and the print story (s) prior to use-s-but review must be do ne
rapidly . .
-Will also arrange to r app~opriate OSDJArmy leade r for a different story on Detention Ops reforms

Retired Mllilary Analy$t Conference Call : Wednesd!!y, 9 Mpr, 1500. 4§ Minutes .

-Adm iral Church an d OSD/Ar my Rep to conduct the call. There are about 50 retired m ilitary ena lysts that are part of this
g roup...these are the fOlks tha t end up on FOX, CNN , etc interpreting m ilitary ha ppenings. .
-The se calls are conducted frequently and offe r HUGE payback ...these end up being the people ca rrying the mail on talk
sh ows (@50 ana lysts, but not all of the m will join the call due to their sched ules. Many are re tired flag officers.)
-Everything discus sed will b e em bar goed unt il the start o f testimony o n Thu rsday - -th ese fol ks will honor the e mbarg o

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

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",
From: Whitman, Brya n, SES, OASO·PA
Sent: s 03, 2005 5:51 PM
T o: ) 'j Lt Col. OA SG-PA
Cc: Merritt, Roxie T. CAPT. OA SD·P A; Keck . Gary. Col. OASO-PA ; Carpe nter, Joe, LCOR OA SD-
PA
Subject: RE: Church Update

r talked to LDand he is going t o respond boc k to Church on t hat e mail.

From: U Col, O.-.sD-PA

sent: 03, 2005 5:27 PM
To: WIIltman. Blyan, SES, OASD-PA
ce. Merritt. ROXIe T, CAPT, OAsD-PA; Keck, Gaf)', Col. OASD-PA; carpenter, Joe, l CDR OASD-PA
Subject.: O1u ch Update

MrWhitma n

Sir, with your perm iss ion, I'd lik e to try & block the following on the Adm ira l's calendar (can change if they end up
conflict ing w/Sc hlesinger meeting): "

·Pent agon ChannellAFPS Interviews (Monday. 7 March, noon, Air Force stud io, 30 Mlnute$) ' Emba rgoed until
. co nclusion of Friday te stim ony
-on-the-Record Military Analyst Conference CaU(Wednesday. 9 Mar, 3 p.m., Ms Suber's office, 30 Minutes)
"Embaro oed until beginn ing of Friday testimon y

Regarding Heat her Mac Don ald (spoke w/her toda y) a nd Jed Babbin. don't think we need eithe r to physicall y come in to
th e Pentagon to meet with Adm iral Church-can do sornetni g on the phon e with him and others if need be. Mr Babbin. for
exam ple, will be on the analyst call anywa y. Key is to get them some printed m at erial (they will honor embargo) as early
next wee k as possl b e.

Heard plen ty of rum ors tod ay, but few facts : maybe MG Ryder instead of LTG A lexander; m ayb e Mr Wa xman Instead of
M r Hen ~. .

Al so spo ke with CD R Chun at CHINFO . See ms like one of the Adm irars c oncerns was that doing a press brief following
testimon y wo uld mean reporters wou ld g rill him over responses he gave to comm ittee mem ber s. Howev er, I sensed that
the Admiral understand s why this bri ef may be necessary.- V/R John

Attach ed is the ema il I se nt Capta in Lambert r e: Church Testimony Prep dates/time s.

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

fen se (Public Affa irs)

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 From:
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Cc : COL, OASO -PA: Whitman. Bryan,

Subject:

Attac hments: SpeclaIOpsClips.2,25.doc

SpecialOpsClJps.2.2
S.d<J!: (40 K...
Pursuant to your request , we found :
TWo U.S. papers (KC Star and Lexingtoo Hera ld Leader ) that put
(mos t ) o f "pen t agon Seeking Lee ....ay OVerseas · in t he ir print ~ d it ionB ;
• Two Canadian papers t ha t printed · o r· gi na I" art ic les citing the
Pos t 's work ;
• Twe lve Newspape~ websi tes and one TV news website that republi s hed
the Tyson /Pr iest artic le online ;
• Six news websites that published · o r i gina l " a rt ic les cit ing the
Post 's work (a l l were foreign ) ;
• Mi l i t a ry analyst David Grange charac terized Che i ni t i a ti ve as aim~ ng
to "i mpr ove flexibility ' i n discuss ing t he a rt i c le on CNN 's Lou Dobbs Tonight program
(t r a ns c ri pt and vid eo c: l i p inc l uded) ; and
• A number of blog co mments (r e pr e s en t a ti ve samples inc luded ) . Those
co~ments varied only i n the deg ree of t be ir cr it i c ism of b a vi n g the DoD t a ke on t he
alleged ne .... role .
Pleaee see attachment for f ul l detai le.

OASD-PA; v.'hitman, aryan , SES,

Please get ~e a ta l ly o f t he p l a ce s whe re the following story or related story

ran a r ound the country. The was h post art icle s frequent ly get c ar r i ed elsewhere around
t he counrry/world , Tnx.

http://ebird.afis.osd: m 11 /ebf 1 les /e2 00 5 022~3S3807 . ht ml

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 From : Di Rita, Larry, CIV, OSD-oASD-PA
Sent: F. 25,2005 11:14 AM
To: AFIS-HQ/PIA
Subject: e: rom my team - overview of comments this week by retired military personnel serving as
TV analysts - FYI

T nx

Sent from my Bl ackBerry Wire les s Handheld

All i s on ,
Lawrence, Dallas.

of comments t h i s wee k by retired military pe rsonnel

[(e n Al lard :
• Ameri can ci t izen consp i r ing t o assass inate Pres ident Bush (MSNBC)
Discus s ed the t op ic o f potent ia l ly hav ing the U.S. take mor e aggre s s ive measu res
t o ward t he i ns urge nt s (MSNBC )
Bil l Cowan ,
I nc r ea s ed in s urgent a tta cks du r ing the Shiite holida y • Fe bruary 19 th (Fox
News)
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 l
ref i ner ies and e lectric plants around Bagh dad (Fox News)
Paul Vallely :
• Syria wi l l hav~ t o be de a l t with (Fox News )

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 From: Barber, Allison, civ, OASD·PA
Sent:
To: ==~=::&,, 'V, OASD·PA
SUbJect:

Gr e at . Let 's try a nd get the pdf posted wi t h a story about t he ac compishment s . Or some
way t o highlight the book . Le t'S wai t t o this on mond ay . Just have l ind a s team get i t
ready - --

ThlC
All i son Ba rber
Deputy As s i s t an t Secre tary o f Def ense
Sent f rom my Bl a c kBe r ry Handhe l d .

Al lison , crv . OASD-PA

The print er re t ur ne d the disks whe n t he y dropped o ff the books. I gave t h em t o Li nda s o
s he cou l d start work i ng t o post to t he web , As you know, I a m no co mpute r/graph ics pereon
but I bel ieve t hat he r team c an work o f t tha t .

Rn~~~hl i s out s i c k with br onchitis unti l at leas t Monday (per do ctor' s o r ders l but I ca n
b lackbe rry 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 make
some ini t ial che cks on the fea s ibi l ity/ ease of po st ing t hi s.
As f ar 8 S d istribut i on , we go t t he co ve r let ter ba ck f rom ~ r, Di Rita ye sterday and I
typed labe l s and Dtuffed mos t of t he day . The books to s e nio r le a de~s h i p i n t he build ing
went ou t with t hi s mornin g ' s i ns ide mai l. 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 lita ry ana lysts an d the cab inet
secre taries ) is go i ng out today.

Claude i s s ti ll wa i t i ng for h i s l e tt er to the members o f Co ngre s s (53 5 ) .

By my ca lcul a t i ons we 've e arma rked 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 whe t he r yo u want a second r un .

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From: CIV, OAS D- P~
Sent: Thur sday . Peb r ua ry 24 , 2 0 0 5
To : Barber , Allison, crv, OASD-PA ;
SUbj ect: RE 1 bo ok ==.t : t.:.=;. . ;,:==== OASD- PA
The PD F file was t he d i s c we tooK t o the pr i nte r . He wa s s till work i ng on it when we
left, so it is wi t h him . we also made some addi tional correc tions on i t, so that is the
one we want .

OASD· PA / Ame rican Forces Press Se rvice

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 Good i d ea .
Do we have the pdf f ile for post ing 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.

Thanks
Ab
Alli s on Barber
De pu ty Ass istant Secretary o f Defense

Sent from my Blac kBerry Handheld .

Ha ve y ou ta ked t o Gr ap hics and DAPS abo ut SAving t he copy and artwork f o r t he book in
case we want to order mor e ? I do n ' t kn ow wha t thei r pol icY i s , bu t I thin k i t mi ght be a
good i de a t o ask to be on the sa f e s i d e . What do you think?
Al so , ~~I~$ ~0' ': :7-A-- t he State Dep t. 11 aison he r e in ComRe l - - asked me again abou t
c op i e s . He said he cou l d eas i l y us e about 50 0 . I said I 'd pas8 it a long .
Thanks .

Press Service

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Attachments : The American Spectator.htm

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 From: Di Rita, Larry, CIV , OSD-OASD-PA
Sent : Tuesday , Feb ruary 22, 2005 7:58 A M
To: 'Dan Senor '
SUbjoct: RE:FW:

I t f e lt t o me like you a nd Ti k i had s o me t hi ng go i ng t he re. Good che mis t r y , (- :

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From : Dan Se nor [ m a i l t o : d a n s e no r~~~~~~~~
Sent: Tuesday , February 2 2 , 2005 7 :34
To : 01 Rita , La r ry , ClV, OSO-OASO-PA
Subject : Re : FW :

Gr eat . Thank you. Ve r y help ful.

- - . "Oi Ri ta. v. OSO-OASD -PA"
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> From: Oi Ri t a . Lar ry. ClV, OSD - OASO· PA
> Se nt : Tue s da y , Febr uary 22 , 2 0 05 7 :28 AM
> TO: SenOr . Dani el S .
> Subjec t:
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> watch ing you on Fox . Te r rifi c 8S always . FYI . he re is what 001§I~ PWMi§t!'~1
> put t oge t her in re s pon s e t o t h is Time Mag s t o ry on nego t i a t i n g wi th
> te r r or i s t s :
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> Emba s sy Gu idance:
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> The Uni ted States sp eaks t o a range of I r a qi s , incl Uding s ome people
> who may hd ve con t ~c t t h rough i nte rmed iari e s ~i t h the ins urgents (b u t
> not Za r q awi ' s g roup) . Bu t i t is the Ir a q i gove r nme n t t h at wi l l dec ide
> to negot i a t e wi t h then or not . The Unit e d Sta te s suppo r ts the I r a q i
> gove rnme nt i n i t s e ff or t s to persuade the i ns ur ge nt s to g ive up
> viol e nce a nd to j o i n t he pea ce fu l pol i tical p roce ss now underway i n
> thi s count ry . An example o f t h i s is the I r aqi gove rnmen t' s s uccessful
> effor t s to end the Moqt a d a al -Sadr armed upri s ing o f l ast s ummer and
> fall . We en cou r a ge all a r me d i nsu rgents i n Iraq to end their v i ol e nc e
> an d join the democra t ic p rocess .
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 From~ Ruff. Eric, SES , OAS D·PA
S.nt: T h u rSd a~ , Febru ary 10. 2005 7:38 PM
To: (ol@i, ' -Y'I :CIV, OA SD·PA
SubJect: Re: Images fo r SECDEF

" .~ le t ' 8 diSCU88 , Thanks, e ri c

Sent f r om my BlackBerry Wireless Handhe ld

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who partic ipated in our b r i e i f i ng wa nt e d the SEeDEF t o look a t . He s ent t wo but on ly t he
SECOND one work s-- ·· You have t o copy a nd paste the l i n k a nd it wi l l take you to t he
sj t e .
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spe ll OUt cl ea rly t he sac ri f i ce and the r eward tha t make s t ha t sac r if i c e so ve ry nob l e .
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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;
• T wo Canadian papers that printed "original' articles citing the Post' s work;
M
• 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 (transcript
and videoclijrincluded); and
• A number ofblog comments (representative samples included). Those comments varied
only in the degree of their criticism of having the DoD take on the alleged new role.

PRlNTCLIPS

Reprints:
Kansas City Star, p. A2 - C ounterter r or plan draws opposition - PARTIAL REPRINT
Lexington Herald Leader, p. A7 - Pentagon seeks new anti-terror operation; U.S.
FQRCES C OUL D ACT wrTHQUT EMBASSY QK - PARTIAL REPRINT

Original:
Ottawa Citizen, Pg, A] 1- PentagOD seeks t9 (urb ambassadorial vetoes : Genera", not
diplomats, would decide whether to dCl!loy sP$cial forces
Press Trust ofl ndia - Pentagon promoting foreign ()Deration plan s without clearance
The Frontrunner - Peptagon Seeks Leeway Qverseas For Special Ops Forces
Windsor Star (Ontario) - Ri.ceopposes plan
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Q LINE CLIPS:
Reprints:
Contra Costa Times - Pentagpn see"" special leeway overseas
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Plan eases gWbat-operations path
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Plan would weaken ambassadors' authority
HoustonChronicle - Pentagon $eeks leeway on o'Vcl'$eas operations
Kansas City Star - Counterterror plan draws opposition
Kentucky.com - Pentagon seelsit new anti-terror operation
Lexington Herald Leader - Pentagon seek! new anti-terror operatilln
MS BC· More freedom sought for special forces
Omaha World Herald - Pentagon seeks to weaken envoys' power to decide on troops'
!!!!!:Y
Star Tribune Online - Pentagon seeks out more power overseas
The Standard, Hong Kong- Pentaeol,\ pushes for covert foreign raids
The Union Leader, NH . COVERT QPS: Pentagon seeks leeway on overseAS
operations

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

Origin.l:

ISN, Switzerland - Pentagon seeks more leeway in special ops

New Kerala, India - Pentagon promoting foreign operation plans without clearance
Times of India, India ~ The Pentagon wants to freelanee
uruknet.info, Italy - Covert ODS in Your Neigh borhood
Xinhua, China - Pentagon seeks greater powers to combat terrorism
..... Presna Latina (Latin American news wire service) - Pentagon Seeks to O-gerate without
Ambassadors" Knowledie

BROADCAST CLIPS

CNN - Lou Dobbs Tonight

February 24, 6:00 PM EST
Well, coming up, how special operations forces are taking on a larger role in U.S. Military
operations around it is globe. "Grange on Point" is next.

PILGRIM: In "Grange on Point" tonight. the increasing role of American special operations
troops in the global war on terror, the "The Washington Post" today reported, the Pentagon wants
to give special operations troops new flexibility to hunt down terrorists in foreign countries. The
Pentagon is also building up its human intelligence capabilities. Well, joining me from Chicago
to 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 Pas I" article. The Pentagon
is disputing certain points of it, but what do you think, in theory, of this plan?

GRANGE: Well, I think what is true is that the U.S. special operating forces are trying to
improve the flexibility of their organizations. Any adaptability of its personnel to actually
conduct 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 to
Navy SEALS, to rangers, to counterterrorism forces. There's this -- every service has some type
of special operating force to add to quite an extensive capability of OUf country. The type of stuff
they would is, for instance, mainly reconnaissance. Reconnaissance of specific areas or areas in
general that future operations may take place.

And what they call this reconnaissance or other tactics is to shape an environment for future
operations. Special operating force s-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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accomp lish their missions more succes sfully.

PILGR IM: Now the CIA, also, has param ilitary forces. How might you see this compete or work
with?

GRANG E: We ll, hopefully not compete. Sometimes some of that goes on in the interagencies
our a government. The idea here is that they - it would enhance the Department of Defense only,
not take the place of agenc y operations.

The agency has more of a covert , other words, hide the sponsor typ e of requ iremen t. Where
military 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'r e sw imming, whatever the case
may be. And so they're not going to compete. But it's very importa nt that all of the governmental
agencies have a robust capabilit y. And the type of enemies this country faces today, it's
essentially 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 they
call, explicit concurren ce of the V.S. ambassadors in those countries, that they know that they're
going in. Do you think that is quite an important point, isn't it?

GRANG E: Well, it is an important point. And the ambassador of a particular country is the
honcho, they're in charge . Now, what is probably happening is that the Department of Oefense
and the Department of State is doing pre-approval of certa in types of operations to streamline the
process. Because in roday's environment, today's world, as fast as things happe n. the military in
particular has to be able to do things quick ly. And you can't wait weeks for an approval process
to take place. So they're front-ending, 1would imagine, a lot of these types of reques ts. And
they're giving a stamp of approval through the Department of State and those ambassadors in
those 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? Anything
being planned that you could...

GRANGE: Oh, I think so, yes . And I would hope so, because it's prud ent to stay ahead of the
enemy . And when you're deali ng with places like, let's take Syria, I mean , they're training
terrorists right now in Syria to go into Iraq. And I would hope that we're doing som ething to
coun ter 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 en gulfed 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 team
was tracked and caught in the suburbs of Tehran in April.

The more operations you run , the risk of embarrassment increases exponentially. Yellowfruit
comes to mind, Dick Marchinko also COmes up. Both involved scandals with the US's most elite
units, Delta and SEAL Team Six (Dev Group). where money went miss ing. Well. you allow
these units off the leash, then you expect State and the CIA to clean up and keep the peace.
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" 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 "military
operations," that is to say killing people the Pentagon doesn't like. Iran, Syr ia, Cuba, orth
Korea, 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 off
the Iranian mullahs and their supporters and Iranian covert agents entered the United States and
revenged these killings by assassinating U.S. officials, would there really be any room to
criticize the Iranians? Fair is fair, after all.

Problem here is. since these operations will be "covert,' that is to say we will not know about
them since tbe Pentagon will have no accountability to Congress or the American people, any
revenge operations will be considered prima facie terrorism and serve as an excuse to attack Iran
or whatever country reacts in kind. Only knowing haIf the story-they attacked us unprovoked-the
American 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 to
be held accountable by anyone, especially the State Department or the CIA.

" J ust a Bump io the Beltway " b log:

We'll go where we wanna go, kill who we wanna kill, and f*S#@ you, host nation. we're the only
hyperpower in the world. Eat our dust. We are the champions of the world. Bow down and
acknowlege us or be crushed.

"J ust World ews" blog

The check and balance system with the am bassador does not work when he is an evil person like
Negroponte, but it is still better than giving military special ops carte blanche. Good grief, they
are mad. 1 used to be in the US foreign service and I hope to hell that Foggy Bottom pulls out all
the stops in getting this insane idea rejected

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 From: Lawrence. Oallas, OASD-PA
Sent: Thursday, February 10. 2005 11:56 AM
To: Ruff , Eric, SES . OASO·PA; Whlman , Bryan . SES , OASD-PA
Subject: FYI

Hannlty and coimes Is hav ing Jed Babbln on today to ta lK about North Korea, not sure If this Is a trend you folks are
seeIng but Just wanted to give you a heads up . We are getting Jed a one pager on the status of forces in the Korean
Peninsula (the message being, we stIli have a massive dete rrent there for NK) . We will also put him into touch with State
for talking points on the 6 party talks .

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 From: Ruff. Eric . SES , OASD·PA
Sent: Thursday. February 03, 2005 3:20 PM
To: Stailrid is , James, VADM , OSO
.ce. Rhynedance, George, COL, OASD·PA
Subject: Re: [Fwd : Mary: MUS T see)

Much s i mpl e r . Wi l l do . Thank s . Er ic

Se nt from my Bl ackBe rry Wi reles s Handheld

Jus t send up a v i deo with both o f t hem on t here ...

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Fr om: Ruf f , Er i c, SES, OASD - PA
Se nt : Thur s da y , February 03 , 2 005 1: 42 PM
To : Stavridi s , J a mes , VADM, OSC
Cc : Oi Rita
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Lar ry CIV OSD-OASD - PA ' IIII@ , . .~... ~~ ~, ; f] CI V, OSD
Subj e ct : FW : lewd : Mary : MUST s ee]
Impo r tance : High

jim , a t t he analys t s b rief ing toda y c apt. na s h me ntioned thes e t wo v i de os to t he secde f ,

who sa i d he want e d t o 6 e the m. t ha nks , e r i c

Br ie ,
For t h e Se c re tary . The fi r s t is about a Marine causal ity and e mo t i ona l ly s hows the
persona l b urden o f sac r if ice WITH HONOR . .. . the s e con d i s the upl i f ti ng v ideo t ha t s hows
t he RESULTS of t hat s acr i fi c e . They are a compe l i ng v iew , Tha t 1 000 of t his nati on ' s
bes t have s ac ri f i ced the i r live s a nd t e ns of mill i on s Now a r e fr ee a nd mi ll i ons more wi l l
c ert 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 o f t h e ir l oved one s more nob le .
All t he best ,
Ch uck

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Attachments : Military Analyst Coverage - Iraq 020105.doc

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Coverage - Ir...
TV Broadcast Summary:

An alysis Tom my Franks. Jed Bahbin, Do n Shepperd, Montgomery Meigs and Jack. Jacobs were all featured on
national news stations (Fox News. C and M NBC). Generally speaking, all agreed that the election was not
as violent as expected an d that th e Iraq i security force s and American troops did a very go od job. Several
analysts alluded to the fact that ther e will be more danger ahead. The ana lyst mood wa s positive as Iraqi events
unfold ed.

Print/Online/Radio Summary:

Mi litary analysts ' discussion of Sunday's election in print. on line and rad io outlets was minimal. limited
to accou nts Quoting William Nas h and Bob Sca les. General Nash was featured on NPR before and
during the election process (January 30trl) wh ile 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 from
ea rlier 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 on
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 From: 0 1Rita , La rry, CIV , OSO-OASO-PA
Sent: Tuesday, Febr uary 0 1, 2005 11:45 AM
To: Rhynedance, George, COL , OASO-PA
SubJect : RE: I se nse 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 th at help ed out j ust before xmas from matt latimer.
Domenici, sess ions , 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-PA
Sent: Tuesday, February 01,200511:38 AM
To: Dl Rita, Ulrry, crv. OSD-0ASD-PA
Subject : RE: I sense we are d isconnected....

The list I cobbled together based on recent snowflake traffi c includes:

Saunde rs
Blankley
Fower
Gree er
l aird
Podhoretz
Gingricn
Nov ak
Fuelne r
Gaffney
Kyl
Edward Roze k
Ryskind
Vic tor Davis Hanson
cterke
MacKinnlon
Schneider
Chri s Williams
Members of the :
DPB
DSB
DBB
Babbib
Colin Powel
Te net
Scooter libby

I have only sen t articles that the SecDef wa nted out. as co mmunicated in snowflakes . You 've seen all of them,
news articles . very supportive. Cop ies here at my desk. Have been se nding reg ularly to laird as directed , but he
gets a little more...talking points and such .
GR

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Fnlm: Oi RIta, Larry, eIV, OSO..QASD·PA
Sent: Monday, January 31,20052:34 PM
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 To: Rhynedance,George, 004 OASD-PA
Subject: RE: 1 sense 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 than
a 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 0
give 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-PA
sent: Monday, January 31, 20052 :11 PM
To: Di Rita, Larry, civ, OSO-DASD·PA
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Subject: 1sense we are disconnected....
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...on the 80s "list of supportive folks." We have taken a bunch - maybe a dozen - snowflakes recently
instructing us to add this person or that person and to send things to "the group." I have sent youa list I
that 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 more I
snowflakes come down. r hear that LA Is using a list to send these specific items to a much more
extensive 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, OP S, formers,
I
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understand what "list" thing are going to. I don't think every positive article we come across or feelltle I
need 10 promulgate a little, needs to go b all the Republican members of Congress. or all the SASC
members, etc, ( think we need a discreet and exclusive list in which to send discreet and exclus;\J8 I
correspondence. What say you?

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Thought you might be interested in this article.

Iraq's Election Day

BvJed Babbln <MaUTo:edttor@speCUltor.org>
Published 1/'3 1/2 00 5 12 :09:304 AM

Yesterday, for the first time in the ir history, Iraqis we nt to the polls to exe rcise one of the most
bas ic rights of a free people. They voted despite the U.N.'s fa ilure to help, despite liberals' pred ictions
of disaster, and -. most im portantly despite the terrorist declaration that democracy cannot exlst in
n

an Islam ic society. The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq , Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declare.d that those who
vote in democratic ejections are "ap ostates." the Islamic term for those who violate Islam's laws and
advocate competing religions . Za rqawi's meaning was clear: that Islam requ ires its believers to
accept religious dictators as their on ly legitimate leaders. When the Iraqis went to the polls in droves
-- many losing their live s to do it - they rejected Zarqawi's message and opened a gaping wound in
the jihadist ideology.

The Iraqi election is a milestone in the war against terrorism , but whether it is a major victory won't be
known f or 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 be
pres ented to the voters. W hether the assembly succeeds, or whether the insurgents prevent it, are
still open questions. But the turnout among Iraqi voters - something over 70% -- shows that the
insurgents do not have the popular support that's necessary for them to win.

No matter how many times Te d Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and John Kerry insist otherwise , Iraq looks
more 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 will
risk the ir lives, there must be a something for them to swear loyalty to . Until yesterday , there was
noth ing in Iraq fo r them to swear allegiance to other than the tribal, ethnic , and relig ious groups that
have comprised Iraq from Its bIrth . or the America n-appointed AlIaw; government. Now, even though
the national assembly is temporary, it is Jraqi: chosen by Iraqi voters themselvesand not appointed
by an outside power or imposed by a home-grown despot. It is suc h things that soldiers and
pol icemen can claim to be their own and willingly risk their lives to defend. Difficulties remain, but one
of the biggest obstacles to creating a seff-sustaininq and self-protecting Iraq has just been ove rcome.

IT WOULD BE AN ENORMOUS mistake for us to withdraw from Iraq, or even establish a date to do
so . On Sunday evening I had the bizarre pleasure of debating th is point on MSNBC with Rep . lynn
Woolsey (O.C~lif. Need you even ask?) who said that we need to take our so ldiers out of Iraq now
and let Iraq's neighbors come in to help. Th is member of the Democrats' Von Braun Caucus
apparently thinks that Syria. Iran. and Saudi Arabia are chafing at the bit to help Iraq i democracy rise
above the Haltiburton-drtven U.S. occupation . She thinks the terrorists won't be mad at us anymore if
we replace our troops with peacekeepers and humanitari an aid workers. Fortunately, no one outside
of northern California knows or cares who Ms . Woolsey Is, fa r 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 by
Syria , Iran , and Saudi Arabia. Those despotisms realize that their days are numbered if Iraqi
democracy succeeds. They will become increasingly desperate to make the Iraqi democracy fa il, and
.' we wilt have to be in Iraq to protect it from them for the foreseeable future . Pres ident Bush is correct
in saying that the election creates momentum behind the Iraqi democracy experiment. But
momentum can be lost if we Quit too soon. That is one of the central points we will hear on
Wednesday when Mr . Bush de livers his State of the Union address , And it is one that the Democrats
and their holy of holies - the U.N. -- ca n't bring themselves to answer.

President Bush will call for more nat ions to come to the aid of the fledgling Iraqi democracy . He will
praise the sacr ifices of our real allies. challenge the U.N . and all its members to support freedom with
economic aid , with eng ineers, construction crews , and all those th ings 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 Iraq
depends on our obtaining the support of the "international community," by which he means the U.N.
and Old Europe . President BUsh rea lizes as the American people did In choosing to reelect him~­
u

that we cannot depend on l he EUnuchs and the despots and dictators who make up th ree-quarters
of the U.N.'s membership to do anything to fight terrorists and the nations that back them . To take
any risk to support democracy In Iraq would be too much for Kofi Annan , because he doesn't want
President Bush to succeed in what Annan called an "illegal war." The U.N . and Old Europe are too
busy 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 fo r
Iraq. (Five billion of it is for the State Department's efforts there wh ich are , to be charitable, hard to
d isce rn.) The Democrats will fig ht against the app ropriation , seeking to leverage some plan for
wit hdrawa l of our force s before the job is done. They have obviously m issed the lesson the elect ion
tau ght forme r senator Tom Daschle: obstructionism is not a po licy . 6ut they will obstruct as best they
can, 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 he
can -- as the Iraqi election proves -- make enormous progress toward victory. In his State of the
Union speech . the president should issue a ca ll to all Islamic nations to follow the examp le of Iraq.
The sooner those nations are rid of jihadism and religious dictatorships -~ by us or by their own
peoples -- the sooner the war against te rrorists and their ideology will be won . There is ellery reason
to be skeptical that the Islamic nations can reform themselves. But as more of the ir people see what
freedom looks like, the momentum the President sees in Iraq will grow , and -- so long as we stand
ready to help - grow fastest in places w here it is least welcome.

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

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,"'.

MILITARY ANALYST CQVERAGE

IRAQI ELECTIONS

Print/Online/Radio Summary:
Military analysts' discussion of Sunday's election in print, online and radio outlets was
minima l, limited to accounts quoting William Nash and Bob Scales. General ash was
featured on NPR before and during the election process (January 301h) while Bob Scales
was quoted in The Baltimore Sun (reprinted by The South Florida Sun Sentinel) on
keeping roops safe in Iraq. In addit ion, a Washington Times reader wrote a letter to the
paper commenting on Scales' Op-Ed piece from' earlier in the week on the need to raise
troop levels .

William Na~h (NPR)

• Iraqi troops "doing their duty" and enforcing security well
• Statements made abou t 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 insurgent attacks."
• 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 Jack
Jacobs 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 that
the Iraqi security forces and American troops did a very good job. Several analy sts
alluded to the fact that there wil l be more danger ahead. The analyst mood was positive
as 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 Bab bin (M BC Live Coverage - Iraqi Elections)
• Withdrawal from Iraq is " Sirnpl the worst thing we could do " .
• Withdrawal would strengthen the terrorists and weaken the Iraq people
• .We have to look at the bigger picture, we have to deal w ith a ll the Jihadist nations
that are influenci ng Iraq

Don Shepp erd (CNN Li ve 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.om ery 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 for ces 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 po lling process
• Jacobs during the polling, predi cted high voter turnout
• Security expectations were "m anaged well"
• Provided an overview of how insurgents might inflict violence during the vote
• Said the training o f 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 To mmy F ra nks

• Mon tgomery Meigs

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 To the editor :

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

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

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 From: [O)!~,: ?~~ ::' .~ '·',~q:t CIV, OSD
Sent : Mo nday, January 31, 200 5 2:32 PM
To: Ruff , Eric, SES, OA SD·PA
SUbject: RE: LAlPA Lunch HOLD Wed nesday 2 Feb.

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From: RlAf, Eric, SES, OASO·PA
Sent; MOIldClYt Januw 31, 2005 2:22 PM
To: Ll()(ij:;;" , .'}-'4:::.. CIV, OSD
Subject: RE: LNPA lurdl HOLO WednedaV 2 Feb.

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

SubJea:
I need to know if we have anyone that we ave inviled or plan to invite for Wed :2 Feb lunc h wfSecDef? Pis let me
know - than ks,

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 From: DI Rita, Larry, CIV. OSD-OASD-PA
Sent: Monday, January 31. 20056 :45AM
To: Whitman, Bryan. SES. OASD·PA.
Cc: Rhynedance, George, COL. DASD·PA
SUbject: FW: Response to IG Report

Attachments : CPA IG REPORT.doc

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Dan p ul led t hese togethe r . I note cnn i s start ing t o run s ome s tori e s 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 n t s responding t o the CPA IG Re port .

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Sub ject: Toplcs discussed by military analysts since the budge t-related ca II earlier this week

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good question. the process usually works like this.. our comptroller Or subject matter expert is asked by me to conduct a
conf 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 we
might 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 the call.

does that help?

thanks
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So, should fqJ~~" ';"'Y~ ~:}all you to set up some hing where they can ask Questions afterward?
Thanks
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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 thing
in real time at www.pentagonchannel.mil that is a great way 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 for
folks to ask questions from our subject matter experts. those calls are usually done on bac ground so t eyare not
done 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 the
pentagon channel - 80 you can Bee the b~fingQ .

hope this helps

ab

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sent: ·rh,~:',:2" . ~~r uary 27, 2005 12:57 PM
To: WAAI* ;"..,;;;;,.J '.Jl'}JLtCOI, OASO-PA
Cc: Barbe r, Allison, av, OASD-PA
Subject: 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 a nything Illegal or eve n untenable! \ think you know t hat,
but wanted to cla rify, j ust so there is not m iscommunication. It is my understanding -- as a forme r journa j st,
forme r press secretary on Capitol Hill an d from earning my MBA an d working in bank ing -. that once '
information Is released to the media for pub lication/broad cast It is no longer "insid er information," mat is when
it becomes "p ublic information ."

And if it is being broadcast live, then can't the Wa ll Street a nalysts j ust wa tch it on
www,oentaaonchannel.com ? Ca n we sign them up forthe emails to be alerted to the time? I think the only
thing miss ing there is that they would like to ask someone questions . However, be ing able to view live is better
than nothing.

I'm also not sure what you are ca lling a "m ilitary analyst " T he Wa ll Stree t a nalysts ca ll themselves mllital)'
ana lysts. beca use that is their special ty, Are yo u talk ing about a spe cial ty subg roup o f reporters? I shou ld
know the termino logy here tor the future.

lastly, are you as king that I put Ms . Wood in touch w ith Ms . Barber, or th at 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 , if
a nything, I need to do next \0 kee p this movlnq,

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

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Please k now that there Is tal k about brie fing military analysts ahead of time , but that has not been
solidified. T he government, as well as DOD, can not g ive out insider informat ion to com panies like Morgan
Stan ley ....we will be j oining Martha Stewa rt, if that is the case.

The on-t he-reco rd press conference is 7 Feb. It is fo r media o nly, It is likely to be broadcast live, because
there is so m uch interest. T he tra nscript of the broadcast will also be posted tha t eveni ng on
www.de fense link.m il

Ms , A liso n Barber is t he po int of contact for specia l interes t groups like this . I have copied her in this e-
mail. '

LtCoC ·

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 Following up to our earlier phone discussion, several Wall Street analysts met with Mr. Wynne a
couple of weeks ago and asked jf they could attend news conferences along with the media -
particularlythe big ones like the Feb. 8 bUdget roll out. They want to have the same information at the
same time as the media, and not haveto wait until the next day, getting only the information andspin
the media choose to report.

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

However, she said another option is a conference call. She said her group of about 20 analysts who
each have been covering aerospace anddefense for 10·30 years would just as soon be on a
conferencecall for the pre-brief, as we" as hear the news conference, then be given an opportunity to
ask questions at some point. This would probably be better logistically for both DoD and the analysts
who are based In NYC and are dealingwith earnings statements now through the date of the DoD
budget 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 future
news conferences.

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

Heidi Wood

Morgan Stanley

1585 Broadway

New York, NY 10036

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 From:·
Sent:
To: .
Subject:

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

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From : Ruff, ErIc, SES, OASl>PA

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Cc: 01RIta, lan'y, o v, OSO-QASD·PA; Jonas. Tina , Ms, OSD-COMPTi Rhynedance, George, CO l., OASO-PA
Sub;I!d: FY 06 budget roP. oul

Gentlemen , as part of this year 's budel roll out it would be terrifi c if you could participate in a
background briefing for the military ana lysts -- the group that provides newspaper and television
commentary. The budget will be annou nced 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 the
Pentagon press corps and to the military analysts , and we anticipate.doing so again this year.

Ideally, you and the service chief or vice ch ief could brief the analysts this time arou nd because we
are hop ing to provide real context about the nature of this budget. It is a document that we hope to
frame as much more than the usu al programmatic funding levels document. Understanding that
people will always look at funding numbers, we hope to persuade the analysts and media to see this
budget from another pers pective , that of a mea ningful stab at shifting the military in a historically new
philosphica l direction, a direction t hat is required by the realities of the wo rld today.

In briefing the analsyts , a discussion about your services' respective trans format ional needs and how
those needs are addressed in this in budget would be beneficial to create a fuller understanding of
this FY 06 submission. We are holding ope n Wednesday, Feb. 2. or Thursday, Feb. 3 for the
briefing, but obviously will do it at your convenienoe. In the idea l situa tion . we will conduct back-to-
back-to-back briefings over one time slot. he re in the building. We are hoping to brief the military
analysts anead Of the media beca use we expect reporters WIll go to t he analysts for additional
thoughts about the DOD budget.

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 From: Rhyned ance , Geo rge , CO L, OASD -PA
Sent: Thur sday. Ja nua ry 27,2005 11:44 AM
To: Ruff , Eric, SES , OASD-PA
Subject: RE: FY 06 bUdget roll out

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

-·-orlglnal Message--·
Prom; Ruff, Eric. SES, OASO·PA
Sent: il'lJrsday, JanulllY 27, 2005 8:-48 AM
To: Rhynedance, George, COl., OA.S().PA
Subject: RE: FY 06 budgetroll out

i'm happy to call. t and I discussed this yesterda y. i think we talk with t first and i will do thaI. either he or i will talk to
adm myer s. thanks.

m .-oriQlnal Message·.. ••
Prom: Rhynedance, George, COL, OASD-PA
Sent: Th u ~ilV, January 27, 2005 8:23 AM
To: Ruff, Ertc, SES, OASD·PA
SUbject: RE: 'FY06 budget rollout

To ok a call from Adrn Myers at SecNav off ice Q!iOO,»)~%",:;· 'j They don't underst and the value of this effo rt, nor whal
your exp ectation is, and they are a bil reticent to agree. He wou ld like to discuss in m ore deta il. He also asked If
you were In touch with the CHI NFO (RADM McCreary).

GR

.. ·-{)rfgl nal Message--..

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

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

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

In briefing the analsyts , a discussion about your services' respective transformational

needs and how those needs are addressed in this In budget would be beneficial to create a
fuller understanding of this FY 06 submission. We are holdi ng open Wed nesday, Feb. 2,
or Thur sday , Feb. 3 for the briefing , but obviously will do it at your co nvenience . In the
ideal situation, we wil l conduct bac k-to-back-to-back briefings over one time slot, here in
the building. We are hoping to brief the military analysts ahead of the media because we
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 expect reporters wi ll go to the analysts tor additional thoughts about the DOD budget.

.....

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 h
-This ana lysi s is as of lpm on January 2i • 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 are
the themes (and hyperJinks) discussed by the other analysts since their participation in the
call earlier this week. Note : Mr. Babbin' s are the on ly comments we found regard ing the
DoD bud get.

BOB SCALES
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Fox News -- peda l Repor t
01125/051 8:21 :44
• Discu ssion of Americans going out in special units with Ira qi forces
• Shifting of power to Iraqis so that they can fight on thei r own
• D iscussed General Luck's findi ngs
• U.S. troops are goi ng fro m a security miss ion to a training mission
• Our milit ary be ing "stretc hed thin "
• Equi pment is beg inni ng to wear out and so ldiers are goi ng into the ir thi rd
rotations. we w ill have to sh ift power soon
• Di scu ss ion of spy un its w ithin Pentagon

Fox ews
On th e Record With Greta Van Susteren
01126/05 22: 12:45
• D iscu ssi on of hel icopter crash
• Iraqi gua rds 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 The O 'R eilly Factor

u

01/2 6/05 04 :03 :42

• " I don't th ink you can put an artificial time or an artificial amoun t on it, bill. If
you're goi ng to say let's cut the $80 billion in half, what are yo u going to cut ?"
• We can' t impose artificial dead lines
• Congress shoul d 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 pu ll 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 then
you wiU have an Iraq i go vernment and structure

DO SHEPPERD

Headline ews
01/26/0514:02:16
• D iscussed 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 mov e"

eN
Live From..,
01/2 6/05 14:14:1 7
• Troops going to be spre ad thin
• Doing offensive against insur gents by identifying and confro nting 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

CN
L ive From..,
0 1/26/0515:1 4:11

• "I wou ld tell my family to go vote 'as a matter of courage' but I would also tell
them it will be dangerous"
• Two different ty pes of training:
o Helping Ira qi forces ident ify insurgents, IEDs, mortar attacks, etc.
o Prov iding Iraqi forces with quick response teams
• Insurgent s w ill try to have mass casualties with bombers in voting Jines
• North and South will be safe but Sunni area will be dangerous

Headl ine ews

01/26/05 18:47: 19
• Iraq is will need courage to vote espec ially because of insurgent intim idation
• The U.S. is tryi ng to ass ure voters that they will be safe
• U.S. tro ops ' goal is to kee p insurgents from polling places to begin with
• Will be an imperfect election but Iraq must get through it
• U.S. troops will do th e best they can to keep the elections safe
• Would like to see the U.S. train Iraqi troops as qui ckly as possible
nd
• Referen ced the 2 election whi ch will set-up Iraq i co nsti tution and how the
violence will contin ue at least until then

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 Headline ews
01127/0506:47:54
• Speculated on the cause of the helicopter crash
• Unlike ly that the he licopter crash is insurgent re late d
• 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 transitio n government
• Believes some troops will be withdrawn 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 lo w polling
numbers and Shi 'ite area that wi ll have high voting numbers

STEVE GREER

. Fox ew s
01127/05 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 (sho wed image of Iraq with the ma in
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 be a lim itat ion on vehicle movement
• Threat wi ll primarily be sui cide 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 w ill more than like ly also ignore incide nts in order to get their
votes counted

JACK JACOBS

MS BC - MS BC News Live
01126/05 13:36:00
• Discussion of the helicopter crash and whether or not the group killed were
special forces

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 • " A large proport ion of our view of the security situat ion in Iraq is going to be
governed by what happens this Sunday"
• We will have our hands futl keeping Iraq secure during the elections

MSNBC -- MSNB C News Live

01 /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 Preside nt 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 quite
some time '
• The Army's prima ry focus after the first election will be to train the Iraqi forces

M NnC -- Lester Holt Liv e

01126105 17:46:49
"Multiple airings on MSNBC on the helicopter crash
• Helicopter crash was more than likely weather related
• Discussion of the reco very effort and the type of terrain
• Helico pter was probab ly on an "administrative run"

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 F rom ~
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Tha nk you . Sir .

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

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To : M(sF%~";r;,"tS" ,, OASD -PA ; ®t$)W~~t;"'-:"~"1 Lt Co l , OASD·PA
Sub ject : RE : Mi i t a ry Ana lysts

We are worKing th is - we haven 't seen any thing ye~ but will have a c e arer picture in the
mo rn i ng. We a r e a lso l ooki ng at how muc h coverage has c ome out of the Fe ith/Defense
Writers Group sess ion.

Actua l ly , t he p erson you ne ed to t a l k t o (c c ' d ). He i s traoking that.

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Was . D. C. 30401-1 400

2: 36 PM

This i s a stab in t he dark . . .

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 Mr . Ruff is asking i f any of the a nalysts went o ut w th what they learned
yesterday.

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

secretary of Defense for Publ ic Affairs

.,' .
TODAY - 21 JAN 05

see be low .

Conf irmed Retired Mi l i t a ry Analysts :

Col one l Carl Kenn eth Allard (USA. Retired )
Mr . Jed Babbin (USAF. J AG )
Li eut e n a n t Genera Fra nk B. Campbe ll (USAF. Retired )
Dr . James Jay Carafano (LTC. USA. Ret i red )
Colonel (Tim) J. Eads (USA, Retired )
Col o ne l J oh n Garre tt (USMC, Ret ired )
Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired )
Col one Jack acobs (USA. Retired )
Co l o n e Je ff MCCau s l a n d . (USA, Ret ired )
Li eu t e n an t General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Reti red )
General Montgome ry Meigs (USA. Retired )
Ca ptain Chuck Nash (USN, Ret red )
General Wil iam L . Nash (USA. Ret i r e d )
Majo r General Robert H. Sca les . Jr . (USA. Ret i re d )
Maj o r Genera l Donald W. Shepperd (USAF. Re tired )
Major General Perry Smith (USAF . Retired )
Maj or General Pa~l E. Vallely (USA. Retired )
General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Ret ired )

Tentat ive ~ Awaiting Con firmati o 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 Dav id L.Gra nge (USA. Ret i red )
Admiral David E. Jerem_ah (USN. Retired )
General Will iam F . - Bu ck " Ke r nan (USA. Ret ired )
Ad ira Thomas Joseph Lop e z (USN, Ret ired )
Lieu tenant Colonel Rober t L. Maginnis (USA, Ret ired )
Ge ne r a l Glen K. Otis (USA, Ret ired ) - not avail .
at 1 6 0 0
General J o s ep h Ralston (USAF, Ret ired )
Mr . Wayne Si mmons (USN. Re t ired )
Ca ptain Martin L. Strong (USN . Retired )
General Charles E. Wil helm

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Fr om, OASD-PA
Sent , Tuesday , January 25 , 2 0 05 1 :56 AM
To : Ruff , Eric , SES, OASD-PA
Subj ect : Re: Service Top l ine I n put : S : 13 )0 TODAY - 2 1 JAN 0 5
(UNCLASSI FIED)

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 From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Hl guys ge n lute wa n t s t o d o the mil i ta r y a PAl y s t s cal l a t ~ oa m. P leaoe p u l s e our tolks to

s 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 t
cencc om and wi l l talk about s ecurity a nd our troops mis sion.
Tha nk s
Ab
All ison Barbe r
Deputy Ass i s t ant Secre t ary of Def ense

Sent from my Bl ackBerry Handhe l d .

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 From: Barber, Allison, CIV, O~SD-PA
Sen t: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:55 PM
To: Ruff, Eric , SES, OASD·PA; W tman, Bryan, SES, OASD·PA
Subject: RE: PAULA ZAHN/PU DITS

lappan is fine with iI. pa m stevens Is wo rrle6 thaI he story I only be the tle lo crash.. w tlich I sa d was fme. it actual y
happened ! she was okay with it...
...
anyway, we are ready to execute in the morning.. if we decide to do the call.

tha nks
ab

j'd be inclined to do it but we need to mak e sure rob tappan is aware we are conside ring it. i ca n't imagine they would
have a problem but we need to touc h t e bases. Ihanks, eric

do we wa nl to do this???

thanks
ab
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From: ~L. %.w.~I;.N' eIV, OASD·PA
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 200S 12:00 PM
To: Barber, Allison, eIV, OASD,PA
Subject: FIN: PAULA ZAHN/PUNOITS

HI ~
LT 5tC me in this morni ng asking if we coul d set up a conferen ce ca ll with 1he military analysts 10morTQW
for BG Lute w 0 w~1 be in the Pentagon. Subject wlll probably be secu rity for Iraqi elect ions. Details are s etchy as
of right now, but I wanted 10 run it by you soo nest 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 more
details on the i am sure it will be on secu rity cond itions during the elections in Iraq. Once I get a lime
frame from ~) r:' ·'~.,,~r· on these event s, I'll get back to you. But this gives you a start point. T ere were no
briefings 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 world
whi le the t rut h Is putting on its sh oes,"
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 with
ml ltary pundits and then the 10- 15 min Interview with Paula Zahn tomorrow - atte r 1400 .

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

Thanks,

NY T I MES 77 9I 6
 Chief of Media

U.S. Central Command

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