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Subject: Heritage Administration Update 10.4.06

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FEATURED ANALYST: Peter Brookes, Senior fellow, National Security Affairs and Chung Ju­
Yung Fellow for Policy Studies
NY Post: Pakistan Pickle
by Peler Brookes

The Pakistani government's summer truce with the pro-Taliban tribesman on the Afghan border, may be good for
President Pervez Musharrars political health, but it's sure hurting Afghanistan.

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Domestic Policy
Economy
http://www.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gif Tax Rate Reductions Strengthen the Economy, But
Excessiye Goyernment Spending Threatens Long-Ryn Performance
by Daniel J. Mitchell, PhD., and Michelle L. MucoiD
Internal revenue code reform, pro-growth tax cut implementations, and spending caps are necessary to enhance
economic growtt1.

Energy and EnvirQnmtnt

http://www.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gif Declining Energy Prices No Reason for Complacency
by Ben Lieberman
The short-term easing off of prices does not taKe the pressure off Congress to open ANWR and expand offshore drilling.

http://www.heritage.orglemailslhidden/bluebullet.gif Gas Prices Are Down, But Energy PQlicy Still Neegs
Reform
by Ben Lieberman
The dec~ne In energy prices does not free Congress from addressing energy policy reform.

Legallsaues
http://www.heritage.org/emails/hiddenfbluebullet.gif Justice's Trap for Unw8tV EmpIQ~ee§: C20perate or EI§e
by Brian W. Walsh .
Sometimes what you don't know can hurt you ~. and your family - a lot.

http://WWIN.heritage.org/emailsJhidden/bluebullet.gif Congress protects right§, pre~rves nationa! security

by James Jay Carafano
When Congress passed the law that will govern how terrorIst suspects can be tried In mUltary tribunals, It acted Jusllike the
Founding Fathers wOUld have wIshed.

Federal Spending
http://www.heritage.org/emaHs/hidden/blueDullet.Qif Thai Hollow Feeling
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 by James Jay Carafano

Given that replacement costs are ignored during peace times. Washington needs to allocate more money to the Army so
that It can rebuild its forces now.

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For~ign PoliCY
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http://www.heritage. org/em aifs/hidd enIb' uebullet.gif Eolitica! protectiOnism threat~ns !J.S. -China dialogue
by Michael A. Needham & Tim Kane
Protectionism rhetoric and legislation adversely effect the developing economic partnership between the US and China.

http://www.heritage.org/emails/hiddenJbluebullet.gif China and the Middle Eist: A New Patron of Regional

Instabilitv
by Ji Hye Shin and John J. Tkacik, Jr.
As China strengthens relationships with Syria and Iran, Washington must publicly confront Beijing about its growing aid to
nations inimical to peace and prosperity in Middle ~a5t.

http://WW\N.heritage.org/emails/tlidden/bluebullet.gif Benefits of stronger JaR§lnese military

by Edwin J. Feulner ..
A more substantial Japanese military will help further American goals throughout Asia as well as help protect Japan from
its undemocratic neighbors.

Middle E!!,t

http://www.heritage.orgJemails/hidden/bluebullet.gif Time for the Senate to Act on Iran SanctiQns

by Jamss PhUfips
The Iran Freedom Support Act would extend the authority to impose sanctions on Iran.

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to the War on Terrorism
by Peter Brookes and James Phillips
According to the NIE, Victory in Iraq is critical to the war against terror/sm.

WOrJdwld2 Freedom

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by Lee Edwards. Ph.D., Frank Ce/zon, Paul Goble. Harry Wu

Today, 50 years after Stalin died. the remaining Communist dictatorships such as Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba. and North
Korea perpetuate the leninist legacy of fear and intimidation.

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 .United Nations
http:INvww.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gif Much ado. at the U.N.
by Helle Dale
The US must develop the most appropriate pOlicy for dealing with tile ridiculousness and hypocrisy of the U.N.

http://www.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gif The Status of United Nations Reform

by Brett D. Schaefer
There has been qUite a bit of smoke on reform, but very little fire.

Trade and Foreign Aid

http:/(www.heritage.org/emails/hiddenlbluebullet.gif U.S. Trad~ Eolicy Tracker: An Update
by Anthony Kim and Dani9/Ja Markheirn
With 13 trade agreements under consideration, Congress and the Administration have the opportunity to boost America's
future prosperity.

Russia and Eurasia

http://www.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gifEurasiantiger.svisit
by Ariel Cohan
Kazakhstan's economic potential and democractic policies show it to be a powerful US ally in the heart of Eurasia.

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http://www,heritage.org/emails/hldden/bluebullet.gif 9/11: Fjve Years Later--Gauging Islamist Terrorism
by Peter T.R. Brookes
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terrorist attacks against American interests and citizens, especially overseas.

http://www.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gif ~omjng to America: Initiatives for Better. Faster, and

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by James Jay Carafano, PhD., Brian C. Goebel, and JoSh Kussman
Congress and the Administration should improve the visa issuance system by creating a risk management system to
separate low-risk applicants from high-risk applicants.

http://www.heritage.org/emails/hidden/bluebullet.gif 6nt,- Terror Debaw b~ave$ Demr&rats Qpen to Crltlc,,-~

by Michael Franc
The outcome of the anti-terror debate could determine whether we live or d~. As Senate Armed Services Chairman John
Wamer (R.-Va.) said. 'What we do ... will impact how we conduct the war on terror for as long as it lasts,"

http://www.heritage.O[9/emails/hidd~nfbluebullet.gtf The Army Needs Adequate Eunding

by Baker Sprtng
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, other civilian leaders In the Department of Defense, and Congress must ensure
that Army funding requirements are met. both now and in the future.

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Proliferation Challenges
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proposition.

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 Full Name: Dr. John Hillen

Last Name: Hillen
First Name: John
Job Title: Assistant Secretary of State for Political·Military Affairs
Coinpany: Slate Department

BU$inell. Addrea.: 2201 C Street - Dept of State room 6212

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From:· Rob Shepardson [RShepardsonrs[,\;: !:;,X.. .
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 9:02 PM
To: Krieg, Kenneth J., CIV, OSD·PA&E
Subject: Question

Hey Ken. Hope you're well. Would love to get together in NY or DC eoon.
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In meantime" do you know Dan Senor, Bremer's communications guy in Baghdad?

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To: OSDSTAF r: -Laf~~f~Y;t\':;{>·.i:.{i.rA
Subject: OASD-PA Update - Bagram Death Cases

Attachments: 05-23-05 Bagram Death Cases,doc

05-23-05 Bagram

Death Clises.do...

Attached please find the latest DoD Update from the Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs.

This is beIng forwarded to you at the request of Allison Barber, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.

These talking points are sent as warranted to lists that include Pentagon and military staff, executive office staff. Capitol
Hill staff, military analysts and others with an interest in milltary issues. Media are not included on the list. The talking
points are unclassifed, .

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 US D rl t f D Ii
DoD Update: May 23, 2005 - Bagram Death Cases

Following is information aboutthe Investigation into the deaths of two persons in U.S. custody in
Bagram, Afghanistan. in December 2002, and articles that appeared in the May 20 and May 22
editions of the New YOlk Times.

» Information about the cases of two persons who died in U.S. custody In Bagram, Afghanistan,
In December 2002 Is not new.
• Media have reported on these cases previously.
• The Department of Defense released the death certificates for the two IndIviduals In May
2004.
• Much of the information in the articles comes from the Army's Criminal Investigation
Division's (CID) InvestigatIon.

~ The Army has investigated the two deaths.

• The investigation was initiated before incidents of detainee abuse at Abu Ghralb in Iraq
were reported.
• The CIO investigation was completed in OCtober 2004.
• The scope of the Investigation Included more than 250 interviews of potential witnesses,
reviews of more than 2,000 pages of applicable documents and several vIsits to
Afghanistan.

~ The military's Investigation demonstrates the seriousness with which we take allegations of
detainee mistreatment.
• The Investigation Identified 28 soldiers with possible culpability in these two cases,
meaning they may have committed one or more offenses punishable under the Uniformed
Code of MlHtary JustIce (UCMJ).
• Seven soldiers have thus far been charged with violations of the UCMJ, and three
additional soldiers have been reprimanded -. evidence that we are holding Individuals
accountable.
,," • Of the seven soldiers that have been charged In these cases, sIx are pending court-martlal.
One has pleaded guilty to assault and makIng a false statement: he was sentenced to three
months of confinement. forfeiture of $3,200, reduced in rank to E·l (private) and received
a bad conduct discharge.

;0. The Department of Defense did not promulgate interrogation policles/guidance that directed,
sanctioned or encouraged abuse.
• The humane treatment of detainees has always been Department of Defense policy.

);- The Department is fUlly committed to investigatIng all allegations of detainee mistreatment
and is hOlding accountable those who are found to have 8t:ted inappropriately.
• During testimony last May before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees,
Secretary Rumsfeld said: "It is my obliglltion to evaluate whathappened, to make sure
those who have committed wrongdoingare brought to justice, andto make changes as
needed to see that!tdoesn'thappen again. "
• More than 10 major reviews. inspections, and Investigations have been Completed
concerning allegations of detainee abuse. They have been bMed on:
• More than 1,700 IntelVlewsj

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 • More than 16,000 pages of Informat/on; and

• More than 29 congressional hearings and 40 staff briefings.
• 'rhere have been more than 360 crimInal investigations looking Ilfto allegations of detainee
mistreatmsllt
• More than 130 military membe/'S (officers and enlisted members) have been
disciplined for misconduct.

:l> The vast majority of American troops are serving with tremendous honor and distinction.
• More than 1 million militalY members have deployed in support of Operations EndUring .
Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, with more than-70,OOO detainees held.
• Almost all Investigations resulted from amilitary member seeing something believed to be
wrong, and a chain of oommand that orders an Investigation.

Published by the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs

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Start: Wed 2/9/2005 9:30 AM

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 From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OASD-PA

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Sent:

To;
Cc: Oi Rita, Larry, elV, OSO-OASO·PA: Jonas, Tina, Ms, OSD-COMPT; Rhynedance, George,

COL,OASO·PA
Subject: FY 06 budget roll out

Gentlemen, as part of this year's budet roll out it would be terrific if you could participate in a , .
background briefing for the military analysts - the group that provides newspaper and television
commentary. The budget will be' announced by the President and sent to Congress on Monday, Feb.
7. 080 practice 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 chief could brief the analysts this time around because we
are hoping to provide real context about the nature of this budget. It is a document that we hope to
frame as much more than the usual 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 perspective, that of a meaningful 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 ,,, budget would be beneficial to create a fuller understanding of
this FY 06 submission. We are holding open Wednesday, Feb. 2, or Thursday, Feb. 3 for the
briefing, but obviously will do it at your convenience. In the ideal situation, we will conduct back-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 expect reporters will go to the analysts for additional
thoughts about the DOD budget.

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 Subject: renee wI military analysts

Location:

Start: Tue 1125/20054:00 PM

End: Tue 1/25/20054:30 PM

Recurrence: (none)

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 Subject: phone call w/Frank Gaffney, Pete Geren

Start: Mon 5/512003 10:00 AM

End: Men 5/5/2003 11 :00 AM

Recurrence: (none)

re: Defense Transformation Act and awareness issue

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 Subject: Ken Allard's class

Location: Georgetown University

Start: Mon 3/2412003 7:00 PM

End: Man 3/24/2003 9: 30 PM

Recurrence: (none)

Ken Allard's Class Ken Allard's class

Ken Allard

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 Subject: Ken Allard's class

Location: Georgetown University

Start: Mon 3/2412003 7:00 PM

End: Mon 3/24/2003 9:00 PM

Recurrence: (none)

Ken Allard
COL, USA (Ret.)
MSNBC M,lita Analyst

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 SUbject: Ken Allard's class

Location: Georgetown University

Start: Man 3/24/2003 7:00 PM

End: Man 3/24/2003 9:30 PM

R~urrence: (none)

Ken Allard

COL, USA (Ret.)

MSNBC Milita Analyst

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 Subject: Outreach - Retired Military Analysts re: strength issues. transformation, taking care of the
force
Location: f~f~71:i!~M;%;E:i~W'1
Start: Wed 2111/2004 2:45 PM
End: Wed 2/11/20043:15 PM

Recurrence: (none)

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 SUbject: Gen Joe Ralston (ret) re: NSPS . ' \ +Mr. Abell arrive late

Start: Men 612120033:15 PM

End: Men 6/2/2003 4:15 PM

Recurrence: (none)

Gen Ralston

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 Subject: Speak to Frank Gaffney's Group

Location: 1920 l. Street, 2/f

Start: Mon 9/17/2001 12:00 PM

end: Man 911712001 1;00 PM

Recurrence: (none)

Center for Security Policy: National Security Working Group

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 Subject: cc: VADM Dennis McGinn, DCNO for Requirements & Programs - HERE

Start: Fri 6/29/2001 10:30 AM

End: Fri 6/29/2001 11 :00 AM

Recurrence: (none)

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To:

:i'COl,
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Kernan lUCk
OMC-A All Users i;i\ Vuono Carl (mjlpricev~~l;~%'V;\:i:¥}!jH!i:,;rdi[,j
Cc:

Subject: DASH-A: Afghan leaders Plan Strategy for the Future

Attachments: DASH-A MPRI.pdf

OASH·A MPRI.pdf
(149 KB)
The 2-4 August Afghan Ministry of Defense Senior Leaders Seminar in Kabul is the subject of this article.
Hosted by MPRI, this seminar brought together representatives of the Afghan Ministries of Defense. Interior and Foreign
Affairs, the Presidential Office of National Security, the General Staff and the Office of Military Cooperation· Afghanistan.

We broke into Afghan led working groups to make recommendations to finalize an Afghan national military strategy in
response to the Afgahn approved National Threat Assessment. For the first time. Afghan leaders used modern strategic
methods and techniques to review their draft national military strategy and use their proposed planning system to define
appropriate force structure to execute the strategy.

Their efforts are praised by retired Genera' Carl E. Vuono, president of MPRI. who was co.!ead with retired General Buck
Keman, for the seminar.

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 Afghan Leaders

ByUSArmy Plan for The Future

Maj. Greg Park

Kabul, Afghanistan • Maj. Gen. Craig P. Weston, months. Our first

Representatives from the ChiefofOMC~A, opened the important planning
Afghan Ministry of Defense seminar by saying, ·Working milestone was the
{MoD), Office of Military as a team, we have made Ministry of Defense's
Cooperation-Afghanistan much progress in the past six work with Combined
{OMC-A), and MPRI, a fli'" .
private professional services
company from Alexandria,
. Va., mettor an important 1"­
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three-day seminar in Kabul, Ill;:" .
2·4 August.
The focus of the seminar
was to gather senior Afghan
leaders together to discuss ~}:::.
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recommendations for ]i.;
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developing a national military ~
strategy. The seminar was. . U'tj...
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officially opened by the
National Security Advisor, the
First Deputy Minister of.
Defense, and the Chief,
OMC-A
For the firsttime, modern
strategic methods and
techniques were used by
Afghans, with the help of the
coalition partners, to develop
a complete national military
strategy and planning system.
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which is the most important. If ~ ,"
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successful," said retired Gen.

General ot t~e Afghan Army Abdul Rahim Wardak. t~e First Deputy Minister
Carl E. Vuono, President of of Defense, addresses the participants of the senior leadors seminar. held
MPRI. Vuono is a former U. S. in Kabul 2-4 August, to discuss recorrmendatlons for developing a national
Army Chief of Staff. military slr/iltegy.

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 Forces Command on
deploying the ANA for
election security."
"If you can continue to do
what you have started in the
last six months, you can
create something special for
the people of Afghanistan,"
said Vuono, "leaders are
becoming more confident. the
MoD is increasingly effective
and the ANA [Afghan National
Army] increasingly effective."
"The ANA is doing very well
in anti-terrorism and stability
operations," said General of
the Afghan Army Abdul Rahim
Wardak, the First Deputy
Senior Afghan National Army Ieaders/lsten wfllle Mike Snell of MPRI
Minister of Defense. discu••es strategic method. to develop a National Military Strategy during
"They (ANA) have served a three-day Leade,.. Seminar held In Kabul. Afghanistan.
with distinction. They are very
well received by the Afghan need to build on that national government come
people," Wardak added. sLiccess,' said Weston. together for the seminar.
"The success of the ANA in A major concern for the The gathering of MoD,
the field is heard around the stability ofAfghanistan is General Staff, Ministry of the
world, in combat operations Disarmament, Interior, MinIstry of Foreign
and stability operations. We Demobilization and Affairs. and Presidential
Reintegration (DDR) of Office of National Security
former regional militias: officials to discuss strategies,
"There will be DDR. It is a issues and goals was
requirement now, before it unprecedented in the history
was voluntary. Now, we will ofAfghanistan.
apply pressure. The "It is encouraging and
president [Afghan president important that these agencies
Hamid Karzai] has issued his were present and involved,"
first decree and will soon added Martin.
come out with punishment for Vuono said there is .
those who won't comply,· said tremendous progress being
Wardak. made in Afghanistan and he
'The MoD and General Staff congratulated the OMC·A and
have done a tot of work ANA team for what they had
toward developing the achieved and continue to
. 'Anr'. II, AIWIY ~J. Gnl r,rlfo
national military strategy and achieve.
Brigadier Genera I Sh Ir Mohammad planning system," said Mike
listens and take. nobill during the Martin, MPRI program
the SenIor Leaden Sum Inar.
Mohammad works In the Ministry manager.
of Defense Judge Advoc;ilte Martin was happy to see
Genera". office. members of the Afghan

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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5: 18 PM

To: Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA

SUbJect: FW: PA Events Follow

fyi. i sent the list of 15. looks like they'll come for the ~ecdef only or nothing at all.

oh well. thanks for trying. hopefully someone will show up. although if i don't get the

invite out, no one will ...

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From: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA

Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006

To: Whitman, Bryan Mr OSD PA· Ba b Ms OSD

K~)(~lX;f'\/:':iiYnLi<:pSD PA ;t;il·~·m<'tX:i'iGm\'
Ce: Abbott, Catherine COL OSD OSD PA
Subject: PA Events Follow

Here is further guidance on the events we discussed:

Friday, Dec 8

Town Hall Meeting---now scheduled for 1l:00.am

Tuesday Dec 12

Military Analysts---I need a list of the top 15 for him to chop on, I need the list by
5:00 pm today. They will be at the long table in the dining room. I don't see any value

in doing other briefings. This is a farewell event.

wednesday Dec 13

OSD Award Presentaion--unclear as to the media ground rules. I'll follow up,

Thursday, Dee 14th

Farewell Message to the Troops--taped in the Protocol office for distribution on Pentagon
Channel. AFRTS, and website.

Move to Dining Room for Interview with Brit Hume

Hope this helps',

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From: . ~"f=~:"",;):,*",NikTR OSD PA

Sent: cember 06, 2006 10:12 AM
To: OSDPA
Subject: RE: partIcIpants list.doc

Thanks for the timely response. You rock!

10:05 AM

Yes, trip happened. No, gaffney was not on it ...

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CTR OSD PA
D PA
Sent: Wed Dec Q6 09:55:46 2006
Subject: FW: participants list. doc
Did this trip ever take place? It is the Oct trip to GITMO. I also need confirmation of
whether or not Gaffney wen on this trip. If so, that means I will need to take him off of
.~oming GITMO trip list. Thanks for your help~

9:53 AM

~~~~*~~ here is the GITMO participants' list you requested.

Hope this is helpful.

From:
9:14 AM

Subject: FW:

~~~~03S§m here is the GITMO list you requested.

From:
Sen 12:54 PM
To:
Sub participants list,doc

hi ~;~)I~;Wf4f!ji;!(:1
i am gOlng to need some help for our trip to guantanamo next week. would you see if you
can pUll their bios offline for me?
thanks

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Participants: (NOV 1)

Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy

David Frum, American Enterprise Institute

Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute

Peter Worthington, Toronto Star

Edwin J. Feulner, President, Heritage Foundation

Ed Meese III, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman, Center
for Legal and Judicial Studies

Leonard Leo, EVP, The Federalist Society

General Wayne Downing, USA, Retired

MOTORPOOL:

Trip to Andrews #

Trip to Pentagon #

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To:
Cc: SOPA
Subject: military analysts
Attachments: Ret Mil Analysts SeeDef Luncheon Proposed Invitees.doc

sir,

based on our conversation, I chopped the list of analysIs to invite 10 the luncheon next week. as soon as i

have your approval, I Will send the invite.

PUblic Affairs
r tary of Defense

A./RI?OClR

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 RETIRED MILITARY ANALYSTS

Proposed Invitees for SeeDef Luncheon, December 12, 2006

1. ColoneJ Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

2. Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics
3. Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation
4. Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News
5. Lieutenant Genera} Michael P. DeLong (USMC, Retired) Fox News
6. GeneraJ Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC
7. Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) NBC
8. Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) - Fox News
9. Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN
10. Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
11. Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired) MSNBC
12. General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired) Lehrer Newshour
13. Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) Fox, CNN, BBC, Radio
14. Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA. Retired) CNN
IS. Dr. IeffMcCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS (mostly radio)
16. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News
17. Major General Robert H. ScaJes, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox News
18. Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN
19.Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN, Retired)-:-Fox News
20. Major General Perry Smith (USAF, Retired)
21. Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) - Fox News
22. Mr. Bing West (Fmr ASD) - Atlantic Monthly, Freelance Writer

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From: ~,~M~~fW\jfi:)!:ji::;i;·;tiI\;:loSDP A
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:32 AM
To: Smith, Dorrance. HON, OSD·PA
Cc: ~~);~~li';t;;@;;ii!;;:!.:efijiH::'W\ilosDPA; ~·=~0(=,el=at=~'m;=Wi!.=;;H=\!.~;;=Jffi=imil OSD PA; Abbott, Catherine COL OSD PA
Subject: military analysts luncheon
Attachments: Agenda.doc

~ .
we thought you might also want to take a look althe proposed agenda. so far, dr. winkenwerder and mr. popps
have confirmed.
thanks

Public Affairs
Office of the Secretary of Defense

4/8/2008

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 As of December 4, 2006

,"

Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld

Meeting with Retired Military Analysts

TUESDAY, December 12, 2006

ROOM # TBD, The Pentagon

AGENDA

10:303.m. Welcome and Introduction

• j Public Affairs

10:31 8.m. Update on Deployment Health Report for OIF and OEF

• Dr. Winkenwerder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

11:00 a.m. Update on Progress in Iraq Reconstruction

• Dean Popps, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for

Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and Director of Iraq
Reconstruction and Program Management

11·:30 a.m. Discussion and Questions with CJCS Peter Pa<:e

12:00 p.m. Luncheon Discussion with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

12:45 p.m. Meeting Concludes

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From: :, OSD PA
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11 :29 AM
To: Smith. Dorrance HON OSO PA

Cc: .,,;!r;;U';OSD PA;=~~·=M$=·~'1=Y;1=\%=[ii:JcTR OSD PA;

::05D PA; Abbott Catherine COL OSD PA;

VVhitman. Bryan Mr QSD PA

SUbject: Military analysts lunch

Attachment$: Ret Mil Analysts SecDef Luncheon Proposed Invitees.doc

sir.

here is the list of proposed analysts tor the luncheon. as soon as we get the go ahead, we wlll send the invite to

them. they are not all local.

thanks

II;]
~~:l:~~{N(i(,:,J!:)M:[~;'il
Public Affairs
Office of the Secretary of Defense
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 --
RETIRED MILITARY ANALYSTS
Proposed Invitees for SecDefLuncheon, December 12, 2006

1. Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

2. Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics
3. Commander Peter Brookes (USN, Reserve) Heritage Foundation
4. Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation
5. Lieutenant Colonel Gordon CucuUu (USA, Retired) Fox News
6. Lieutenant General Michael P. DeLong (USMC, Retired) Fox News
7. General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC
8. Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News
9. General Ronald Fogleman (USAF, Retired)
to. Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) NBC
11. Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) - Fox News
12. Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Re~ired) CNN
D. Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
14. Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA: Retired) MSNBC
15. General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired) Lehrer Newshour
16. Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) Fox, CNN, BBC. Radio
17. Maj or General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN
i8. Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS (mostly radio)
19. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF; Retired) - Fox News
20. Major General Burton R. Moore (USAF, Retired)
21. General Thomas S. Moonnan, Jr. (USAF, Retired)
22. Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)
23. Lieutenant General Erv Rokke (USAF, Retired)

24'. Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox News

25. Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN

26. Lieutenant Colonel Carlton Sherwood (USMC, Retired)
27.Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN. Retired)-Fox News
28. Major General Perry Smith (USAF, Retired)
29. Captain Martin L. Strong (USN, Retired)
30. Captain Robert R. Timberg (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute
31. Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) - Fox News
32. Colonel John Warden (USAF, Retired)
33. General Larry D. Welch (USAF. Retired)
34. Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired) - Atlantic Monthly, Freelance Writer
35. General Charles E. Wilhelm (USMC, Retired)
36. General Tom Wilkerson (USMC. Retired) US Naval Institute

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Sent:
To:
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SUbject:

H~lp a brother out ...

·--··Original Message--·-­
From: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 200

To~ Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA;
Whitman, Bryan Mr OSD FA;

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Subject: Military Analysts

Who are we co~sidering for lunch ne~t week?

!. know the secretary will want to make the tinal call.

r have no information on this event ,and if asked by the secretary would ahve to plead
ignorance. Not a poStion I'm comfortable with.

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From: ~~1£1?!iiniJN;i;@t'~jW\tMOSD PA
Sent: Tuesday, December 05,200610:49 AM
To: SA(ALT)
Cc: TR OSD PA
Subject: Military Analysts Roundtable
Attachments: Agenda.doc; ASAATL Request Memo.doc; Ret Mil Analysts SeeDef Luncheon Proposed
Invitees.doc

hi ~~Itp~iiim
nice chatting with you yesterday. here is the proposed agenda and invile list for the roundtable next week. it would
be great If mr. popps would come in and brief the analysis on the reconstruction report, as we had discussed
distributing it to this group in the past. please let me know asap If he is still available/willing to do it. also, if he will
have aN needs, please let me know so that we can set that up in the room. also, i will need it eleclronically at
least 24 hours in advance so that we can run through it.

jf you have any questions, please feel free to contact myself or james davIs, cc'd above.
thanks

Public Affairs
Office of the Secretary of Defense

4IlV?008

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 -

As of December 4, 2006

Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld

Meeting with Retired Military Analysts

TUESDAY, December 12,2006

ROOM # TBD, The Pentagon

AGENDA

10:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

• Tara Jones, Public Affairs

10:31 a.m. Update on Deployment Health Report for OIF and OEF

• Dr. Winkenwerder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

11:00 a.m. Update on Progress in Iraq Reconstruction

• Dean PoPps. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Anny tor

Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and Director of Iraq
Reconstruction and Program Management

11:30 a.m. Discussion and Questions with CJCS Peter Pace

12:00 p.m. Luncheon Discussion with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

12:45 p.m. Meeting Concludes

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MEMORANDtrM

To: Dean Popps

PD ASA, ATL and Dir of Iraq Reconstruction and Program Management

From: ~~~!~~t!'jliJ)1t";(W!::1\j:;iJ
OSD Public Affairs

Date: December 4, 2006

Re: Secretary of Defense Outreach Meeting with Retired Military Analysts

OSD Puhlic Affairs requests that Secretary Popps participate in an outreach briefing for retired
military analysts.

The purpose of this meeting is to provide the group with an operational update on Iraq, a briefing
on Global Posture and an update on the global war on terrorism.

The Secretary's participation, consisting of brief remarks and Q&A, is requested for 30 minutes,
from 11 :00 a.m. on Tuesday, December L2, 2006, room TED. We request that the Secretary be
available for Q & A on the Iraq Reconstruction Report, as well as the progress and way ahead for
reconstruction efforts.

Other invited participants for this event are; ASD (Health Affairs) Dr. Winkenwerder to address
the deployment health report for OIF and OEF. and General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, to address the status ofthe military and the Global War on Terror.

The list of invitees and the proposed agenda are attached.

Should you or your staff have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact,s:: OSD
Public Affairs at or via email at

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 RETIRED MILITARY ANALYSTS

Propl)sed Invitees for SecDefLuncheon, December 7. 2006

Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics
Commander Peter Brookes (USN, Reserve) Heritage Foundation
Dr. James Jay Cacafailo (LTe, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News
Lieutenant General Michael P. DeLong (USMC, Retired) Fox News
General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA. Retired) Fox News
General Ronald Fogleman (USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) NBC
Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) - Fox News
Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN
Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired) MSNBC
General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired) Lehrer Newshour
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (liSA, Retired) Fox News, CNN, BBC, Radio
Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN
Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS (mostly radio)
Lieutenant General Thomas Mcinerney (USAF. Retired) - Fox News
M~ior General Burton R. Moore (USAf, Retired)
General Thomas S. Moorman, Jr. (USAF, Retired)
Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)
Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired) - Fox News
General Joseph Ralston (USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant General En' Rokkc (USAF. Retired)
Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) _. Fox News
Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN
Lieutenant Colonel Carlton Sherwood (USMC, Retired)
Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN, Retired) - Fox News
Major General Perry Smith (USAF. Retired)
Captain Martin L. Strong (USN, Retired)
Captain Robert R. Tirnberg (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) - rox News
Colonel John Warden (USAF, Retired)
General Larry D. Welch (USAf, Retired)
Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired) - Atlantic Monthly, Freelance Writer
General Charles E. Wilhelm (USMC, Retired)
General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute

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From: ~~~t~X'@;H:j:;:?;TI::j'lOSD PA
Sent: Tuesday, December 05. 200610:33 AM
To: 'Haddock, Ellen (Katie), Col, OCJCS/PA'
Cc: CIV, JCS OCJCS; CTROSD PA
SUbject: II ary nalysts Roundtable
Attachments: Agenda.doc; CJCS Request Memo.doc

hi. here is the official request memo and the proposed agenda. the roundtable will be from 10:30 am until 12 pm­

at whIch time the luncheon with the secretary will begin. what j'd like to do is to give the chairman an opportunity

to attend the luncheon, but brief beforehand b/c I know the analysts will have a lo! of questions for him and i don't

want that to put him in an awkward spot at a luncheon that the secdef is hosting. what are your thoughts on that??

if he's unable to brief beforehand, perhaps joint staff could propose someone else to brief them on a relevant

topic...

please let me know whal you think and we will work the details. osd protocol has nol set the room yet. but i will let

you know asap when they do.

~~!'~~~MWf~I',;;,:~\';;GW:i~;1
Public Affairs
Office of the Secretary of Defense
i,b,

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 MEMORANDUM

To: Colonel Katie Haddock

Joint Staff Public Affairs

From:

Date: December 4, 2006

Re: Secretary of Defense Outreach Meeting with Retired Military Analysts

OSO Public Affairs requests that General Peter Pace, Chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff,
participate in an olltreach briefing and luncheon for retired military analysts.

The purpose ofthis meeting is to provide the group with an operational update on Iraq, a briefing
on Global Posture and an update on the global war on terrorism, as well as the opportunity to bid
Secretary Rumsfeld farewell.

The Chainnan's participation, consisting ofbrief remarks and Q&A, is requested for 30 minutes,
from II :30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 12,2006, room TBD. We request that the Chairman be
available for Q & A on the global war on terrorism, Iraq, and the way ahead.

Other invited participants for this event are: ASD (Health Affairs) Dr. Winkenwerder to address
the deployment health report for OIF and OEF, and Dean Popps, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Anny (ATL), to address the Iraq Reconstruction Progress Report.

The list of invitees and the proposed agenda are attached.

Should you or your staffhave any questions, please do not hesitate to contact OSD
Public Affairs a .. or via email at:(~j~~ ...... ..

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 IRAQ TRIP PARTICIPANT CONTACT INFORMATION Page 1ofj

From: eSDPA
Sent: Tuesday. December 05,20068:13 AM
To: Ruff, Eric Mr eso PA
Cc; J)}(
',}'i/( Sgt eso PA

Subject: Agenda.doc

Attachments: oledata.mso

hi. here is agenda and rs'vp's for the calL

·i,·....

As of December 5 - 6:00 a.m.

Conference Call

Retired Military Analysts

TUESDAY, MONTH DAY, 2006 TIME: 8:30 -9:00 8.m.

AGENDA

TIME a.m. Welcome and Introduction (GUIDELINES)

• OSD Public Affairs

TIME a.m. Update on SUBJECT

• Principal's name and title

TIME a.m. Q&A

• Military Analysts
TIME a.m. Conference Call Concludes (GUIDELINES)

4/8/2008

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Note: Dial-in-telepbone numbers are

4/RI7.008

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Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:

Calonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG) American Spectator

Lieutenant Colonel Gordon CuculJu (USA, Retired) Fox News

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News

Colonel Jeff McCausland (USA, Retired)

Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired)

Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN, CIA, Retired)

Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired)

Major General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Retired)

4/&12008

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 .....

From:' Ruff, .Eric Mr OSD F'A

~n::ence c:,ft1~~:~ii~(t;:a'/i!;()mfrSgt
Sent:
To; FW: OSD PA
Subject:

Attachments: attdge91.glf; Invite. doc

a~e91,glr(8 KB) Invlte,doc (39 KB)

please calendar and provide the call in #. thanks

;;~~~jR~F0800%;080s0If;~~-;A
Sent: Monday, December O~, 2006 11:41 AM
Subject, Conference Call Tomorrow

MEMORJiNDUM

To, Retired Military Analysts

From,

Office of the Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs

Date: December 4, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, TUESDAY, December 5, 2006, from

8,30-9:00 a.m.

Major General Caldwell, Coalition spokesman, will brief you on the progress in Iraq, This
call will be On-the~Record.

.-_.. ----­
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Please R.S.V.P. to at her at

We hope you are able to participate.

of Defense

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" .
MEMORANDUM
To: Retired Military Analysts

From:
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs

Date: December 4, 2006

Re: Conference can with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, TUESDAY, DecemberS, 2006,!rom

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Major General Caldwell, Coalition Spokesman, will brief you on the progress in Iraq.
This can will be Onwthe-Record.

To participate in this conference call, please dial ~!r,~~;((!,!nMJ;'j;K[ti:;::!i@~ii;)::i;'tM'~:;;~W;:W:\;1;iiW:;.ij\~:\WD!:;iWml and .

ask the operator to connect you to the Analysts conference call.

Please R.S.V.P. to at or call her a

We hope you are able to participate.

---_.,

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Paul Vallely [vallely

Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:08 AM

To: Scasherwood,H

;.,
Subject: Stand Up America

Great Guests today on Stand Up America

Go to Www.rig.b1glk.com at 1PM EST - Streams on the internet worldwide 24 hours

after the live broadcast.

All Shows archived on www....Q.S.Pr~Y-rgdi.Q~w.ww.MP-reymedia.u.s

Fox News Channel

Osp"ey Media
Paul E Vallely
Military Analyst/Radio Host ''Stand Vp
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Arid me tlJ you" address bOlJA .. WMf a slgr..7turl!! liAe tiM?

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From: JedBabbjn~~!&~l:~(fi:!iMiw;~{1iJjl
Sent: Monday. December 04,20069:48 AM
To: tmcinerney nashct
USAGlrl1957 WSSln
ladd.wheeler . . twllkerson
Subject: Eager for Defeat? Today's TAS

The Republicans seem as eager for defeat as the Dems. Why can't anyone recognize the fact that this
war isn't about Iraq, and can't be won there? Baker~Hamilton will be ignored, properly. So Newt
Gingrich should be as well.

Jed Babbin
(home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

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OSDPA
Sent: December 01, 200612:57 PM
To: TROSD PA
Cc: TROSO PA

need toget~~)llW(,lstarted on mail merge to send heroes and other documents to civilian defense, military
analysts and opinion leaders.

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From: AFIS-HQ/PIA
Sent: Friday. December 01,20066:44 AM
To: Smith. Dorrance HON OSD PA: Barber, Allison Ms QSD PA: Thorp, Frank RDML OSD PA;

RUff. Eric Mr OSC PA; Whitman, Bryan Mr OSD PA; Wilkie, Robert, HON., OSD-LA;

Thompson, Jonathan Mr OSD PA

Subject: 12.1 Rapid Reax Rpt and 11.30 Clips

Attachment.: RRR for 12.1.06.doc: Clips from Thursday.doc

Good morning. Nothing major for reaction but the RRR has a Reuters report on Taliban saying more NATO

troops will just give them more targets.

Early Morning TV/RadIo headlines: World Aids Day, winter storm, ISG leaks on withdrawl recommendatIons,

residual US/lraq summit coverage.

Highlights from Evening clips: ,

MSNBC Tucker Carlson, Michael Hirsch: The Baker report will "be a bust in that irs sort of consensusing itself ...

the one legacy of the Baker study group will be Bob Gates... he'll obviously going to be in there with Condi Rice

preaching pra9matls~. And so you will see some long impact there, long term"

MSNBC Hardball, Gen. Wayne Downing: The 3,500 proposed troop increase to Baghdad is "a drop in the bucket.

I do not think that American forces are the key to that problem over there. I think the Iraqis are" and we'd be better

off with 3,500 Iraqi advisers

CNN Lou Dobbs; Gen. David Grange: Our biggest problem is that our nation is at war - our troops ,and some

government agencies are - we're not fUlly engaged and there's no "unity of effort"

CNN Anderson Cooper, PreSident Carter:

)- The Iraq Study Group's proposed gradual withdrawal of troops is "better than nothing. I would prefer a
much more rapid withdrawal myself'
)- Talking with Iran and Syria won't make them "a disturbing factor if they are also in conjunction with or In
harmony with Egypt and Jordan and Saudi Arabia" and other countries

NPR, Michael O'Hanlon:

)- Not "wowed" by what he's heard of the Iraq Study Group report - findings represent the "least common
denominator sort of thinking in the sense that we'd all like to get out of Iraq"
)- "Distressed" about the report. as our pOlicy should depend on what the Iraqis do
~ Thinks the U.S. should use its policy to create leverage and make the Iraqis "make compromises· - but
the group report doesn't seem to recommend that

NPR, Talk of the Nation:

> Michael DUffy, assistant managing editor at Time magazine:
o Mr. Gates knows "there's no easy way out" of Iraq
o His participation in the study group is "an advantage" to our country
o He has tried "to shake those institutions up(CIA and Texas A&M) at a time when neither of them
wanted to be shook up and he made some progress"
o His military experience is lacking, which is a key weakness. ·And frankly, I don't know where he's
going to draw on people he will need in that e.ring, because they're going to have to clear out the
entire Rumsfeld staW

> Lieutenant General William Odom. Hudson Institute:

o Mr. Gates "is the right person for the job"
o .His real challenge will be to "convince the president that he has to reverse a policy that is tumln.9
out to be the bj99~st disaster in American history"
o Mr. Gates will "depend heavily on the chairman of the joint chiefs, the joint chiefs and the

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 Page 2 of2

commanders in the field" and "he'll have to re-staff himself, but I think he'll be extremely well treated
and extremely well and honestly served by the senior military"

} Melvin Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for,lnternational Policy and director of the center's National,
Security Project and worked with Mr. Gates at the CIA:
o Mr. Gates was "guilty of politicized intelligence"
o "He is not fit for this particular position" because of his lack of military experience
o His memo to Bill Casey suggesting military action against Nicaragua "tells you about Gates'
reliance on force and what he would do to ingratiate himself with a master, such as Bill Casey"

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 TaJiban Scoff at NATO Troop Increase

By REUTERS
Filed at 4:41 a.m. ET
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO's plans to send more soldiers to Afghanistan to quell a
resurgent Taliban would simply give the rebels more targets, a guerrilla commander said
on Thursday.
"Increasing or expanding NATO troops in Afghanistan is not a worry for the Taliban,
will
instead it make targets for the Taliban mujahideen much easier," Commander Mullah
Obaidullah told Reuters, adding the hardline Islamists could fight for 20 years.
"After five years of continuous fighting against foreign troops. the Taliban bave become
a strong military power and the Taliban are able to fight and defeat the strongest army."
After months of requests for more troops from NATO commanders on the ground, a
swnmit of alliance leaders this week agreed to a small increase in troop numbers and to
ease some restrictions on how and where their forces can be deployed.
Obaidullah repeated Taliban threats to step up the suicide attacks which killed several
foreign soldiers before and during the NATO summit in the Latvian capital, Riga.
Fighting in Afghanistan this year has been the worst since a U.s.-Jed coalition ousted the
Taliban government in 2001.
NATO and U.S. officials say the rebels have been bolstered by the country's blossoming
illegal opium trade -~ hitting record levels this year -. and sanctuary in Pakistan.
NATO leaders pledged at the summit on Wednesday to stay the course to restore peace
and stability in Afghanistan.
"It is winnable, it is being WOD, but Dot yet won," said NATO Secretary-General Jaap de
Hoop Scheffer ofthe most dangerous ground combat in the alliance's 57-year history.
In October, NATO's Intemational Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took over command
of the country from U.S. forces.

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 Clips from Thursday, November 30
MSNBC Tucker Carlson, Michael Hirsch: The
Baker report will "be a bust in that it's sort of
consensusingitself ... the one legacy of the
Baker study group will be Bob Gates ... he'll
obviously going to be in there with Condi Rice
preaching pragmatism. And so you will see some
long impact there, long tenn"
MSNBC Hardball, Gen. Wayne Downing: The
3,500 proposed troop increase to Baghdad is "a
drop in the bucket. I do not think that American
forces are the key to that problem over there. I
think the Iraqis are" and we'd be better off with
3,500 Iraqi advisers
CNN Lou Dobbs, Gen. David Grange: Our
biggest problem is that our nation is at war - our
troops and some government agencies are ­
we're not fully engaged and there's no "unity of
effort"
CNN Anderson Cooper, President Carter:
~ The Iraq Study Group's proposed gradual
withdrawal of troops is "better than
nothing. I would prefer a much more
rapid withdrawal myself'
» Talking with Iran and Syria won't make
them "a disturbing factor ifthey are also
in conjunction with or in hannony with
Egypt and Jordan and Saudi Arabia" and
other countries
NPR, Michael O'Hanlon:
» Not "wowed" by what he's heard of the
Iraq Study Group report - findings
represent the "least common denominator
sort of thinking in the sense that we'd all
like to get out of Iraq"
» "Distressed" about the report, as our
policy should depend on what the Iraqis
do
»0 Thinks the U.S. should use its policy to
create leverage and make the Iraqis
"make compromises" - but the group
report doesn't seem to recommend that·
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NPR, Talk of the Nation:
) Michael Duffy, assistant managing
editor at Time magazine:
o Mr. Gates knows "there's no easy
way out" oflraq
o His participation in the study
group i.s "an advantage" to our
country
o He has tried '"to shake those
institutions up(CIA and Texas
A&M) at a time when neither of
them wanted to be shook up and
he made some progress"
o His military experience is lacking,
which is a key weakness. "And
frankly, I don't know where he's
going to draw on people he will
need in that eoring, because
they're going to have to clear out
the entire Rumsfeld staff'
»0 Lieutenant General William Odom,
Hudson Institute:
o Mr. Gates "is the right person for
the job"
o His real challenge will be to
"convince the president that he
has to reverse a policy that is
tuming out to be the biggest
disaster in American history"
o Mr. Gates will "depend heavily
on the chainnan of the joint
chiefs, the joint chiefs and the
commanders in the field" and
"he'll have to re-staff himself, but
I think he'll be extremely well
treated and extremely well and
honestly served by the senior
military"
}o;> Melvin Goodman, senior fellow at the
Center for International Policy and
director of the center's National Security
Project and worked with Mr. Gates at the
CIA:
o Mr. Gates was "guilty of
politicized inteHigem:e"

 o "He is not fit for this particular
position" because of his lack of
military experience
o His memo to Bill Casey
suggesting military action against
Nicaragua "tells you about Gates'
reliance on force and what he
would do to ingratiate himself
with a master, such as Bill Casey"
MSNBC: Tucker with Tucker Carlson
11/30/06 16:03:49
Afghanistan, for example, in the early '90s, But 1
don't think he'll have much problem.
MSNBC HardbaIl11130/0617:23:S2
HOST: The Pentagon has already said that to
address some of those very problems, we're
going to be sending another 3,500 troops into
Baghdad, presumably taking them from other
parts of the country, but possibly calling up more
reserves from the United States -- 3,500, does
that really make any difference?

SCARBOROUGH: Michael, it seems that a lot
of analysts have been looking at the Baker
commission and some of the trial balloons have
been floated since the election and have been
talking about how Bush 43 was going to begin
deferring to some of the lieutenants from Bush
41 's administration, and, specifically, James
Baker. Again, it didn't sound like George W.
Bush was persuaded this morning to move that
direction. What's the headline coming out of
this? That James Baker's commission is, in fact,
a bust?
MICHAEL HIRSCH, NEWSWEEK: I think it's
going to be a bust in that it's sort ()f
consensusing itself, ifl may use that verb, into
irrelevance. I think the one legacy of the Baker
study group is going to be, actually, Bob Gates,
the newly named secretary of defense, who, of
course, was on the Iraq study group, is from the
Jim Baker Republican wing of the party, and is a
counsel for management over vision. He's
obviously going to be in there with Condi Rice
preaching pragmatism. And so you will see some
long impact there, long term.
SCARBOROUGH: Does Gates breeze through
nomination process when Democrats take control
of Congress?
HIRSCH: I don't think he'll have much trouble..
There will be those who will bring up all the old
sores, Iran contra, what he did while he was
director of the CIA, what happened in
GEN. WAYNE DOWNING: No. I think it's a
drop in the bucket, I do not think that American
forces are the key to that problem over there. I
think the Iraqis are. Quite frankly, David, I'd
rather see 3,500 more top quality advisers go
into the Iraqi anned forces and into their special
police units.
[ think we'd get much more mileage out of that. I
think we'll get some kind of a short-term fix, but
David, rve said this for a long time. The entire
United States anned forces, every one of them
going over there right now could not secure that
country and solye these problems. It's an Iraqi
pro~lem, we've got to belp them, but we cannot
do it for them. They have to do it themselves.
SHUSTER: And for that reason, the
Baker/Hamilton Commission, which is expected
to come back with their report next week,
apparently according to leaks, they're going to
suggest that 75,000 U.S. troops start a
withdrawal sometime next year. What sort of
impact would that have? Would that provoke the
kind of chaos that the Bush administration fears
with that proposal?
DOWNING: Well, we'll have to see. In many
respects, David, that dove tails very nicely with
what you hear Maliki saying. You know, Maliki
is a smart guy. You know, there's a lot of
question, is he the right guy, is he not the right
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But he and these other Iraqis, these are not wrestling with the issue of Iraq. We've talked
bumbling clowns. They know what's going on. about a general staff, the entire U.s. military, the I
They know what is going on in the United States. command structure sitting primarily in the
Certainly a draw-down of 75,000 by say the end Pentagon, not delivering victory, caHing for I
of next year, 12 months from now, they may be patience. We have the Pentagon right now,
able to absorb that. apparently, scrambling to come up with some
I sort of riposte to whatever the Iraq Study Group I

But at some point, David, I think we all comes up with.

I recognize the United States is going to have to
come home. What we wanl to do is not leave
precipitously, and leave the Iraqis with the
I ability to win and be successful in this struggle.
I And of course, you know that it's much more
than security forces, it's much more than the
military. I mean the political dimension, they
I have to solve these very, very difficult political
problems. The different factions, they have
I economic problems, economy, infrastructure, all
these have to be solved, David.
I that is about as eloquently and accurately as
I CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight 11/30/06 18:44:59
DOBBS: U.S. strategy in Iraq to some appears to
be on the verge of major change. The Iraq Study
I Group is likely to recommend our troops be
shifted from combat operations to a support role
I for Iraqi forces. But this week, the United States
is sending more troops to Baghdad, in order to
fight insurgents and terrorists.
I GRANGE: Well, as history proves, without that
Joining me now, General David Grange. General
I Grange, what do you think of this idea to move
troops within iraq and reposition them in
Baghdad?
I effort, besides a new strategy -- I mean, the
. BRIG. GEN. DAVID GRANGE (RET), CNN
I MILITARY ANALYST: Well, two critical areas
in Iraq. One is the Baghdad metropol itan area,
and the other is the Anbar province. And in
I Baghdad, you have a very tough situation where
someone has to provide security. The people are
I going to support whoever provides that security.
The Iraqi army and police are not doing it, so
they're sending American GIs. in there.
I And so, now is the time not to rob Peter to pay.
DOBBS: You know, you and I-have·~ and
I indeed the nation -- have been talking about,
I
What are we dealing with here as we approach
the fourth anniversary of this war's beginning?
I
GRANGE: WeB, I think the biggest problem,
Lou, is that the nation is not at war. You have the I
United States Anny at war, you have the Marine
Corps at war and the rest of the government
agencies, and everyone else is not at war. And I
you can't win a war unless you have unity of
effort. And that's the problem. I
DOBBS: You know, General Grange, I think
anybody has put that. So what do we do? And
how can a nation of conscience, a democratic
nation of conscience, ask, as we do and as we
have institutionalized, a military to go to war in
which there is not a shared burden, a shared
sacrifice? And in the instance of Iraq, in my
judgment, as we have discussed before, certainly
no clear strategy for victory?
unified effort, we have not won in the past. We
have either had a tie or we've lost. And so, that
has to be done. And I j ust -- it bothers me
considerably that we're not going to put forth the
strategy's got to be to take down bad guys, like
al- Sadr and others that are keeping the Iraqi
govemment from being successful, and get on
with the mission and accomplish it. Without a
timeIine; otherwise, if you use a time, time
becomes the mission instead of the effects you're
trying to achieve becoming the mission, and you
won't win that way.
Paul through other places in Iraq, to reinforce .
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 you donlt leave a void, you take down the
important objectives and win this thing.
CNN Anderson Cooper 11/30/0622:19:35
COOPER: A source has told CNN that the Iraq
Study Group's going to recommend a gradual but
what they call meaningful reduction of U.S.
troops as early as January. Do you think, first of
all, that that is a good idea?
CARTER: Well, it's better than nothing. I would
prefer a much more rapid withdrawal myself and
I don't know what the, you know, what the
recommendation will be until I see the written
report. But to wait until January to start gradual
redeployment with no end in sight, I think, is
slower than 1 would prefer.
COOPER; I mean, there are some who say, look,
any sort of withdrawal and the president sort of
reiterated this today that any kind ofwithdrawai
is basically endangering the future of Iraq, that
it's going to embolden the terrorists and it's going
to basically just weaken the future of the country.
CARTER: I don't agree with that at all. I think
that a finn commitment to withdraw at sometime
in the future, I don't want to put a particular date
on it, wiIl.send a clear message to the Iraqi
government that they have to act more firmly on
their own. And I have always felt that just a mere
presence oru.s. ~- United States troops, you
know, in Baghdad and in the troubled areas is an
incentive for the terrorist acts to continue. So I
think just getting U.S. troops out of the -- you
might say the trouhle zones will automatically
reduce violence to some degree...
COOPER: Another thing the Iraq Study Group is
expected to talk about is the notion of having
open and perhaps direct communication with
leaders from Iran and Syria. There are those who
say, look, little has actually been accomplished
in the past by U.S. presidents, including yourself
in some cases, trying to talk to these regimes
directly. Why would talking -- I think you
support it now. Why?
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CARTER: Syria and Iran are brought in. They
won't be a disturbing factor if they are also in
conjunction with or in hannony with Egypt and
Jordan and Saudi Arabia and the United States
Wid other countries which have already been
named. They will be part of a compact of nations
that are interested in the future ofIraq. And I
don't think it would be likely that Iran or Syria
would tum down that opportunity if it was
extended. I don't think this would imply that the
United States and Iran has to sit down across the
table with each other and start negotiating about
the future ofIraq. That is not in the cards at all.
COOPER: In the history of mistakes that
administrations have made, how big do you think
this Iraq operation has been?
CARTER: Well, obviously, it will be judged in
retrospect after the whole thing is over which
may be a few years in the future, but up until this
point, it's been a horrible mistake. One ofthe
worst mistakes we have made. I would say it
would compares - you could argue both sides
with Vietnam. But, the main thing was that it's
been a quagmire in Iraq. It hasn't succeed so far.
The violence is escalating, Americans have lost
their lives. Rut r think the worst thing was the
abandonment of Afghanistan. We had a good
chance there after the soviets withdrew and we
came in to stamp out the Taliban policies and to
wipe out al Qaeda~ We had unanimous support
around the rest of the world. All ofa sudden, we
could have had the whole world on our team
rebuilding Afghanistan. Giving them a glimpse
of a good life in the future. I think that would
have contributed to the possibility of a
permanent democratic state of their choice. And
I think all of that was abandoned in favor of Iraq.
That adds to the seriousness of the mistake of
going in to Iraq.
NPR All Things Considered 11/30/06 17:12:52
SIEGEL: I'd like to hear both of your reactions
first to what was in the New York Times today.
that is, the notion that the Iraq Study Group is
going to call for a gradual pullback of American
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infer from that the outlines of a rea! policy or a
compromise between the two parties as
represented on the Iraq Study Group? Michael
O'Hanlon, what do you think?
Mr. O'HANLON: Well to start with even though,
of course, I haven't seen the report, I'm not that
wowed by what I'm gathering so far. This strikes
me as essentially least common denominator sort
of thinking in the sense that we'd all like to get
out of Iraq. The Bush administration itself has
always had a plan to get out in six or 12 months
Or at least begin to reduce. That's always been
the hope.
There's always been a Pentagon plan that would
have that sort of a drawdown beginning six to 18
months from wherever we were at a given
moment in time and even though the reasoning
behind this group's report is slightly different and
a little less of a stay the course sort of mentality
than President Bush, the implications for our
presence seem equally vague, always hoping that
some time in the medium term future we can
begin a drawdown.
It doesn't really amount to a whole lot of oomph.
as far as I'm concerned, from what I've seen so
far. But I want to add that caveat, that I haven't
yet seen the report.
SIEGEL: Did you assume that the drawdown
will be conditional upon improved Iraqi military
and security force performance and therefore
exactly the same situation that we're in right
now, or is there a change there?
Mr. O'HANLON: Well, that's the sort of thing
I'm most distressed by if these initial reports are
accurate. I think that our policy should depend
on what the Iraqis do. And of course, as you say,
historically President Bush has been saying as
the Iraqis can stand up we can stand down.
But there's also another twist that could be added
at this late date which is ifthe Iraqis don't make
some big political compromises, the idea of an
indefinite Americ.an presence doesn't make much
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sense. So if the Iraqis want us to stay, they
actuaIly have to do better things and do more
effective things in terms of government. It's in a ­
way the flip side of the stand down argument on
the military front.
And I think, in other words, we should try to
create leverage. We should try to use American
policy to create leverage and make the Iraqis
make compromises across the
Sunni/ShialKurdish divides that are going to'be
necessary if there's any hope of curtailing this
civil war. And from what I can tell, the study
group report is not trying to create that sort of
conditionality and therefore I'm concemed about
the overall tenor of its recommendation.
SIEGEL: Reuel Marc Gerecht, your reactions to
the reported recommendations soon to come
from the Iraq Study Group of a gradual
withdrawal of U.S. forces, no deadline. What
does it strike you as?
Mr. GERECHT: Well, r think in part I agree
with Michael. It's not particularly overwhelming.
I mean, we'll have to wait until the 6th to see the
full report. But it certainly isn't suggesting
anything terribly new, as Michael noted. I mean,
the Bush administration, General Abizaid, since
the summer of 2003 has certainly been hoping
-one could, you know, reduce forces. But the
reality on the ground has not allowed that.
I mean, what wasn't suggested in the New York
Times piece was the group coming together, at
least approve of some type of surge in Baghdad,
some attempt to get military control on this.
I would disagree with MichaeL There is no
political solution to this at the time being. There
has to be a military solution first, and I thought
perhaps there would be some qualified
endorsement of a surge or even get that out of
the military, but we didn't see that in the Times.
We'll have to see if in fact there is some ofthat
in the final report. But what we have now, I think
could be qualified as a dud.
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NPR: Talk of the Nation, 11/20
NEAL CONAN, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal
Conan in Washington.
The day after the midterm elections, President
Bush abruptly dismissed Secretary of Defense
Don Rumsfeld and nominated Robert Gates as
his replacement. Gates rose from an entry-level
job at the CIA to become director of Central
Intelligence in 1991. He also served the first
President Bush as deputy national secwity
adviser.
Now 63, Gates left Washington to become
president ofTexas A&M University but spent
part of the past six months as a member of the
Iraq Study Group debating new approaches to a
war gone bad. Gate's confrrmation hearing
before the Senate Armed Services Committee is
set to begin next Tuesday, one day as it happens
before the Iraq Study Group presents its
recommendations to the president, to Congress
and to the American people.
There are questions for Robert Gates that arise
from his past. Did he politicize Intelligence to
accord with White House policy for example,
and questions about the future? More troops in
Iraq, fewer different kinds of troops, should we
talk with Syria and Iran?
Later in the program, the best holiday movies of
all time. You can e-mail us a nominee and a brief
reason, the address is talk@npr.org. But first,
questions for Robert Gates. What would you ask
him if you could? Our number is 800-989~ 8255
that's 800-989-TALK and our e-mail address is
talk@npr.org.
And we begin with Michael Duffy, assistant
managing editor of Time Magazine. He's with us
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here in studio 3A. Good to see you again,
Michael.
Mr. MICHAEL DUFFY (Time Magazine): Good
to see you, Neal.
CONAN: And Mr. Gates has given at least some
answers in a preliminary form, written answers
to Written questions to the Senate Armed
Services Committee, which will grill him on
Tuesday.
Mr. DUFFY: Right several scores of pages. I
think it's 70 or 80 pages ofanswers. It's fairly
typical ritual before nomination, and he - there
are some clues. They can be red in a lot of
different ways. He talks in those answers about
opening a dialogue with some countries around
Iraq including Syria but particularly Iran, which
he has done previous work on that has notbeen
in the administration policy.
He suggests in those answers that he would have
done the post war, the post invasion very
differently, but he notes that that's with
advantage of hindsight. And 1think he also
suggests at different places in his answers that
there are no easy ways out here. And he does not
seem to be under any illusions about how
difficult this is and that was underscored, of
course, in the events ofthe last couple of days.
CONAN: What was his role in the Iraq Study
Group? That's of course the group headed by
former secretary of state, Baker and the
Democratic congressman - fonner Democratic
congressman from Indiana, Lee Hamilton.
Mr. DUFFY: It's one of the advantages, I think:
of - at the moment that the country has that
Gates was on this study group. He was involved
particularly in the military end of the
conversations. He sort of was part of the - a head
of that little in.group within a group, Neal.
So he knows, more than anyone else I suppose ­
except the other members - the origins of the .
proposals that are being essentially announced
next week. He may in fact playa fairly good roJe
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 in making them happen. They wonlt be new to
him; he'll know the pluses and minuses of them,
instinctively.
CONAN: Let me ask you also a political
question. Robert Gates has been vetted by the
United States Senate for many jobs in the past
unless there's some remarkable change in his
personal situation. That's not likely to do­
disqualify him, and on the other basis of, in
terms of his qualifications, the Senate seems
ready to confinn him.
Mr. DUFFY: I think they might confirm, you
know, a potted plant in order to get, you know,
to move Don Rumsfeld out. But I think Gates
has, you know, does have advantages - he's been
before, a committee before. He will get griHed.
There will be lots of questions about his record
and it could go on for a day or more. But I do
think he will be confirmed.
CONAN: Okay. Now, about the Iraq Study
Group proposals, I mean this is now scheduled to
come out next week. Today the New York Times
published a report that says there's going to be a
call for a gradual pullback. Today, we have
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki telling ABC
News we're ready here in Iraq to take over in
June 2007.
Mr. DUFFY: Right. And they're also called for
the kind of regional talks that Gates was
answering. I think we're going to see more, if
not all, of the details of this report come out over
the next several days. I think the overnight
reports are really just the first round. By the time
we get to next Wednesday, we're all going to be
quite conversant in almost everything, I think,
that is in this lOO-page document.
CONAN: Is there any indication that Robert
Gates is likely to take issue with the W.hite
House, with the president on issues, for example
of talking with Iran and Syria?
Mr. DUFFY: Well, he's going to be working for'
President Bush and I think secretaries of defense,
no matter where they come from, or who they
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work for inevitably work for the guy at the lOp.
And I suspect even Bob Gates is going to take
his orders from the White House.
CONAN: Has he the reputation ofan
independent man or is he somebody who salutes,
says yes sir and fills thejob?
Mr. DUFFY: Well, he's worked for 5 different
presidents, from different parties in different
functions. A lot of people in Washington are
placing all kinds of hopes in Bob Gates right
now. The New York Times.want him to be one
of them. The New Realists want him to be one of
them. It's a little hard to know what he's going
to turn out to be. I think Gates, if he read, you
know, heard all these comments, he would say,
it's all true. I've been on all sides to some of
these issues but it's a brand new ballgame now.
CONAN: And you described him in a piece you
wrote as a person who believes himself to be a
transfonnational figure. What did you mean by
that? What does he mean by that?
Mr. DUFFY: I think what he would say is that in
the most recent two jobs that he's had about
running the CIA in the early 1990s and then the
Texas A.&M as president. He has tried to shake
those institutions up. At a time when neither of
them wanted to be shook up and he made some
progress, not as much as he would have liked at
both places. But he sees himself very much as
someone who likes to do that and is capable of it.
CONAN: What questions do you have for
Robert Gates? If you'd like to join the
conversation, give us a phone call, 800-989­
8255, 800-989-TALK. E-mail is
Let's begin Luis, Luis calling us from Unica,
New York.
LUIS (Caiter): Yes. Can you hear me?
CONAN: Yes. You're on the air.
LUIS: I'll keeplhis within 30 seconds. The
overarching question that I would pose to him
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 has to do with the concept of Unitarian authority
that has been propounded by the Bush
administration in which the executive seems to
be thinking that they have the authority not only
to appoint but to dictate after the appointment
has been made. The conduct of other officials
within the Executive Branch and therefore could
potentially authorize misleading conduct so the
question would be, what his view is of this
concept of Unitarian authority of the executive.
CONAN: Usually referred to Michael Duffy's
unitary authority of the president. And I'm not
sure it applies that closely to the Department of
Defense, which of course, a cabinet position and
a secretary of defense appointed by the president.
Mr. DUFFY: I think they're all kinds of theories
that might be applied but I think any defense
secretary going forward as well as the present.
The only way they're going to be successful in
the final two years of this administration is that
they work closely with the Congress particularly
on Iraq. There is much more, I think, whatever
they may be saying in public today and
tomorrow, I think this is going to be much more
of a partnership if its going to be able to succeed.
And I don't think they want to talk about that
theory but I think it is the reality.
CONAN: Luis, thanks very much for the call.
LUIS; Thank you.
CONAN: And let's see if we can get another
voice into the conversation. Joining us now is
retired lieutenant general William Odom,
formerly the chief of the NSA, the National
Security Agency from 1985 to 1998, and he's
been kind enough to join us here in studio 3A.
Here's currently a senior fellow at the Hudson's
Institute. General, good to see you again.
Lieutenant General WILLIAM aDaM (Hudson
Institute): Thank you.
CONAN: What questions would you have for
Robert Gates?
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General ODOM: Well the question [ would most
like to have the answer to - he probably can't
give a candid answer at this point - and that's
how convinced he is that we have to out of Iraq
and get out pretty soon? And whether or not he
recognizes that as long as we're there we're so
paralyzed that we're not going to make progress
on anything else'!
CONAN: So you immediately want to take him
into executive session and get him
(unintelligible).
General ODOM: Well there are some other
questions that I would put to him and I would
expect to get an open answer. If anything has
been demonstrated about our poor structure by
the Iraq war is that we're far too heavy in
maritime forces and to sort on land and tactical
air forces. And I would want to know if he's
willing to address that balance. There's never
been a better time to do it because [ think the
Congress has at last recognized that and they
might well be willing to vote for it.
In the past, the lobbies for the maritime forces
have been able to prevent that. I would also like
to know his vie\V on Iran and the non­
proliferation policies because it seems to me,
rather unambiguously the case that we pursue
non-proliferation in a way that accelerates non­
proliferation rather than achieves it. both in the
case of North Korea and Iran.
CONAN: Accelerates proliferation is what you
mean?
General ODOM: Yes. I mean, our threats of the
use of sticks, regime change, etc., has caused
both of those states to want nuclear weapons in
the worst way so they can deter us from using
those sticks, and I'd like to see some flexibility
on that from him. And I think he would probably
say yes, I am going to be flexible on that. Given
what we know, he's been willing to sign his
Dame to (unintelligible) relations report on Iran.
CONAN: As you look at his record - obviously,
we tend to think at this moment of the secretary
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There are other issues at the Pentagon: billions of
dollars in appropriations, what kind of future for
us it's going to be.
General ODOM: That's right. You can ask him
about a lot of those. Another structural issue that
I would raise in this connection is whether or not
he will follow the redeployment plans that
Rumsfeld's initiated, which essentially denude
Europe of land forces.
And if we do that, NATO will not train up these
new member forces very welL The alliance will
become more and more an empty shell, which it
is approaching today, and unless he's willing to
take that on, I see the Atlantic Alliance in severe
periL r think we're also risking trimming down
thc forces and moving them back in the Far East
from Korea. So I would want to know on those
two fronts, too.
CONAN: Let's see ifwc can get a quick
question in. This is Chuck in San Francisco.
CHUCK (Caller): Thanks very much. I was
wondering - or a question I would love to hear
the new secretary answer would be whether he
thinks it's appropriate that the military seems to
be getting tacked with almost a nation building
mission along with the traditional military
mission in Iraq, and it seems like, you know,
there's a kind of a political economic
reconstruction almost diplomatic dimension of
the job they're having to do out there and if
that's appropriate and ifso, if they're getting the
training they need to be able to do it.
CONAN: Yeah, the army is being trained now
for counterinsurgency and for nation building as
Chuck suggests.
General ODOM: Well, could I respond to that?
CONAN: Yes, please.
General aDaM: The idea that the anny not do
that kind of activity is new, and in all of its years
of experience throughout the whole of the 19th
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Century - that kind of activity nation building,
governing local areas that they had recently
conquered or taken under authority was a major
part of their activity. There was a civil affairs­
civil government element - when we invaded
Mexico - 1845 and 46. We had a civil affairs
operation in Pyongyang, North Korea in the fall
of 1950.
It's become a fad that starts, I think: back under
the Clinton administration, and it's been really
taken up by this administration to be against it.
CONAN: Chuck, thanks very much for the call.
We're going to continue with questions you
would ask Robert Gates if you could. We'll talk
more with Michael Duffy from Time magazine
and with retired general, Lieutenant General
William adorn when we come back. Also,
Melvin Goodman will join us with some
questions of his own,
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Right now we're talking about Robert Gates, the
man selected by President Bush to replace '
secretary of defense Donald Rwnsfeld. Gates
faces confinnation hearings and plenty of
questions during his confirmation hearings next
week. Today, what question would you ask
Robert Gates? Our guests are Michael Duffy,
assistant.managing editor at Time magazine.
Also still with us, army Lieutenant General
William Odom, retired. He served as director of
the National Security Agency. He's now with the
Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. If you'd'
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like to join the conversation: 800-989-8255, 800­
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And General adorn, you worked in intelligence.
Robert Gates worked in intelligence. The CIA
has a very different culture than that of the
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Pentagon. Is he the right man for the job?
I
General aDaM: I think he is. In fact, it's hard to
come up with a better choice among those that
I emergencies.
would be available and acceptable to this
administration. And I've known him for a long
I time and I've seen him mature. I know that he's
I
turned down a couple ofjobs that this
administration has begged him to take, so you
can't accuse him of now having excessive ca'le
I of Potomac fever and just wanting a job.
I And I think his sense of history probably has
already made him remember Clark Clifford's
I role in the Johnson administration. He came in
and replaced Secretary McNamara and quietly
I behind the scenes began to tum the war around
in a big way in Vietnam, a war that was not in
I our interest but we pursued it anyway and that's,
I think, very (unintelIigihle) of the situation
I today.
I So, I think he will bring that viewpoint, and if he
wants a place in history he'll try to play that role.
I The real question I would have about him is ­
and for anybody - can he work in a way that
I convinces the president that he has to reverse a
policy that is turning out to be the biggest
I disaster in American history, but a policy in
which this man has so firmly hamessed his horse
I that it's very difficult to see him emotionally,
psychologically being willing to accept that kind
I of a change. I think that's the real challenge that
Gates faces.
I
He has a little advantage in that he's close to
Baker and to the father of the present president,
I so he can't bejust seen as a personal enemy or
one who would easily tum into a personal enemy
I
and a mistrustful person of the president.
I
CONAN: Let's see if we can get another caller
on the line. This is Bill. Bill calling from Idaho.
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BILL (Caller): Hi, thanks for taking my call. I
CONAN: Sure. I
BILL: My question for Mr. Gates would be how I
he plans to fix what appears to me to be a .
staffing emergency in our military and make it so I
that we can have our reserves on reserve and
have our national guard available for domestic I
I
CONAN: The situation, Michael Duffy, of the
National Guard and the reserves is becoming I
more and more of a hot-button issue here in
Washington, D.C. I
Mr. MICHAEL DUFFY: Last week or two I
weeks ago, General Abizaid, the CENTCOM
commander, was asked on Capitol Hill I
repeatedly: Could he send - could we send more
troops if we decided to do that? And Abizaid
said, repeatedly, though a bit sotto voce, I simply
don't have them. I don't have any I can send. I
can send them for a while but I can't keep them
there for very long. I think he was talking
months, certainly not years.
CONAN: And there was a proposal floated to
send three battalions of combat engineers to
Baghdad, but noOOdy's mentioning where those
battalions may come from.
Mr. DUFFY: Yeah, they may actually send a few
more to train and redirect some ofthe troops that
they have into training purposes and away from
combat. I think also the Baker Plan anticipates
some of that. But there's simply is no bench left
without seriously degrading readiness and
rotation levels, which are important.
CONAN: Bill, thanks very much for the call.
Here's an e-mail we got from Paul in Columbus,
Ohio: I would simply ask Mr. Gates to give his
definition of success and what the practical
affects on the ground in Iraq would be as a result
of that success. And success - these words,
General adorn, success, victory, stay the course

 - that's already been expunged from the
president's lexicon, but also civil war - all of
these taking on enormous symbolic freight here
in Washington.
General ODOM: The most I think you can
achieve in Iraq with any surety is to pull out your
troops. I don't think there's any way to prevent a
tot of the untoward things happening which were
foreseeable and which the president and his
cabinet officiats have said they werc not going to
allow to happen. Those were going to happen no
matter how tong we stayed. So I'd say the best
measure is whether he can get our troops out
without taking a lot of casualties, without falling
into warfare and having to fight their way out,
much the way we did in the last days in Vietnam.
CONAN: As you look at his job ahead, are there
areas on which - very experienced men - but are
there areas in which he's going to have to play
him some catch-up ball?
General ODOM: I think he will depend heavily
on the chainnan of the joint chiefs, the joint
chiefs and the commanders in the field. That's
the wisest thing for him to do. They have the
most experience now, and I'd say the record thus
far shows they've been more prudent in their
behavior than the civilian leadership, and he'll
have to re-staffhimself, but I think he'll be
extremely well treated and extremely well and
honestly served by the senior military.
CONAN: General Odom, thanks very much for
being with us today. Bill Odom, a retired
lieutenant general in the United States anny,
fonnerhead of the NSA from 1985 to 1988, now
a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, was kind
enough to join us here in Studio 3A.
Also with us in the studio is Melvin Goodman.
He's a senior fellow at the Center for
International Policy and director ofthe center's
National Security Project. He was an analyst at
thc Central Intelligence Agency from 1966 to
1990 and worked with Robert Gates on Soviet
foreign policy during the 80s. He testified
against Robert G~tes in, hearings in )991 when
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Gates was nominated to become director of
central intelligence, which he was eventually
confinned and served in that role. And Melvin
Goodman, nice to have you on TALK OF THE
NATION.
Mr. MELVIN GOODMAN (Senior Fellow,
Center for Intemational Policy; Director,
National Security Project): Thank you, Neal.
Good to be with you.
CONAN: And what questions would you have
for Robert Gates?
Mr. GOODMAN: Well, I would start with Iran­
Contra because this raises very important in
issues of integrity, and I think we've jumped
ahead to Iraq without looking at the background
of the character of this man. Wejust passed the
20th anniversary of the revelation of Iran-Contra
and remember that Gates got into trouble in 1987
, when he was nominated to be CIA director and
had to withdraw his nomination because no one
believed him when he said he knew nothing
about Iran-Contra. This begs questions about his
testimony in April 1986 when he was named
deputy director to Casey and he was asked about
Iran- Contra...
CONAN: Bill Casey, the former director of
Central Intelligence.
Mr. GOODMAN: Former director. And we
know from documentation and from the Walsh
special prosecutor ofIran-Contra that Gates
knew about the HA WK's deliveries. He knew
about the exorbitant prices that the Iranians were
being charged that set up the diversion of profits
to the Contras. He knew all of this and revealed
nothing.
So I would ask him what has he learned from the
Iran-Contra escapade - his role in it. And since
the motto at the CIA - and I entered the building
every morning for 24 years - is To Know the
Truth. Why didn't he make a greater effort to
learn the truth - this very zealous man, this very
tenacious man, this man with a great memory ­
how come he remembered nothing?
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And so when you get to his 1991 nomination to
be CIA director, which he passed, nevertheless
he attracted more than 31 votes more than all the
votes against all ofthe CIA directors in history
because 31 people didn't believe him about Iran­
Contra and they didn't believe his role about
politicizing intelligence because they had
evidence that he clearly politicized intelligence
on the Soviet Union, on anns control in
Afghanistan. These are serious problems.
CONAN: Explain to us what you mean by
pol iticizing intelligence.
Mr. GOODMAN: Politicizing intelligence is
very basically putting a spin on intelligence. It
isn't done by policymakers, it's done by
intelligence officials. This is how we got into the
war in Iraq in the first place. That was with
politicized intelligence. The CIA did a terrible
job. The White House made it worse, but it's
kind of interesting that they're turning to a man
for a solution to a problem that was created by
politicized intelligence who not only has a
tendency toward politicization but a tendency
toward over-reliance on force and a tendency
toward not telling truth to power.
Gates was guilty of all of this in the 1980s when
he served his master at that time, William Casey,
the CIA director. And one final point about
fitness. No, he is not fit for this particular
position because when you look at the really
effective secretaries of defense - and I would put
Harold Brown and Bill Perry at the top of my list
- they had experience in military weapons
acquisition, military refonn, service rivalries and
industrial experience. Gates has none of that and
I don't think the Texas A & M experience really
counts as a test, and I really have no idea what
Michael is talking about when he talks about
Gates as a transfonnationalleader.
When he came back the CIA in 1991 he tried to
give up most of his - the intelligence on military
affairs to the Pentagon and the Defense
Intelligence Agency. So Gates ~s just not that
brave character, and to compare him to Clark
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Clifford, well I'~e met Clark Clifford. Bob Gates
is no Clark Clifford.
CONAN: Michael Duffy, if you want to get back
in on that transfonnational aspect.
Mr. DUFFY: I think Gates would think of
hi~self as a transfonnational aspect. I think
that's part of his, sort of calling card at the
moment. I do think these are going to be issues
that Melvin raises that will be all over this
hearing next week. There are ten senators who
voted against him 16 years ago who are still in
the senate. They're all going to probably give
him a hard look this time.
Mr. GOODMAN: Twelve actually.
Mr. DUFFY: Is it 12?
Mr. GOODMAN: Twelve.
CONAN: Anyway. Let's get another caller on
the line, and this is Rose. Rose, calling us from
New Jersey.
ROSE (Caller): Yes, thank you for taking my
call.
CONAN: Sure.
ROSE: I would like to simply ask Mr. Gates why
he will not come forth on the issue ofthe
October Surprise. I have personal knowledge of
this cause I worked in a club in Manhattan where
this all happened. And ...
CONAN: This would've been back in October
1980.
ROSE: October of 19...
CONAN: Seventy-nine, yes.
ROSE: Yeah. And I had work~d there the...
CONAN; Well, the October surprise would've.
been for the election, which was in 1980.
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 ROSE: Yes, yes. And in the spring of that year,
this whole crowd came in and were basically
putting Iran Contra together. You know, Iran
Contra was set far, far before it was actually
admitted to. And this man has to be loyal to
people. Now he was working for Jimmy Carter.
How loyal was he to Jimmy Carter, to come over
to the Republican side and plot with these people
the mess that we are now in?
I mean, this war situation hasn't been created
overnight. This situation cooked for a long time.
And it didn't happen in '84 or '86, it happened in
'79.1 saw these people, you know, making their
plans, unfortunately.
CONAN: Rose, thanks very much for the call.
We appreciate it.
ROSE: Thank you.
CONAN: Okay. The October Surprise, in 1980?
Mr. GOODMAN: Well, Rose is confusing Iran
Contra and the October Surprise. In 1980, Bob
Gates was sort of an assistant to Brzezinski. And
he was aware of all of the...
CONAN: Zbigniew Brzezinski, then the...
Mr. GOODMAN: The national security advisor
to Jimmy Carter. And of course, Carter was
desperate to do something about the hostages
before the eleclion, because the election was
going to tum on that issue· and of course, they
knew that. And a lot of people felt - and I've
talked to many people who believe this, I don't
think it can be proved - that Gates was the
source to the Republicans, who brought them
infonnation about what the Carter administration
was planning to get the hostages released and the
kinds of discussions they were starting up with
the Iranians.
And then Reagan and Casey, and others, did
their damedest to get the message to the Iranians
- they should do nothing until the Reagan
administration gets into power.· And remember,
this is the kind of thing Gates has always done in
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the past to prepare himselffor the next job, So is
it plausible? Of course. But do we know this?
Not really.
But Iran Contra came four years later.
CONAN: And I guess the precipitating factor for
Iran Contra was the Congress's passage of the
Boland Amendment, which prohibited aid to the
COnlras in Nicaragua, which was not passed until
after the election in 1980.
Mr. GOODMAN: Exactly. But what's very
important about the Boland Amendment is, two
weeks after it was passed, Gates wrote a secret
memo to Bill Casey, recommending the use of
airpower against Nicaragua - which would've
been a violation of a111aw that the United States
was involved in that time, in Central America,
was far to the right of Ronald Reagan and Bill
Casey - and fortunately was ignored.
But it tells you about Gates' reliance on force
and what he would do to ingratiate himself with
a master, such as Bill Casey. There were other
memos like this, rec'ornmcnding force.
CONAN: We're soliciting your questions for
Robert Gates. Give us a call, 800- 989-2855. E­
mail talk@NPR.org. You're listening to TALK
OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And let's get Dan on the line. Dan in Fleetwood,
Pennsylvania.
DAN (Caller): Yes. I'd like to ask just one
question. I'm 71 years old, I served in the Navy
fOUf years. I'd like to know if Mr. Gates has ever
been in the military. And if not, what did he do
during Vietnam and how did he set aside his
military obligation?
CONAN: Michael Duffy?
Mr. DUFFY: I believe he was briefly in the Air
Force, and then quickly moved into the
Intelligence Training Program. And J would
guess this is mid-60s.
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 CONAN: And he was an analyst at the CIA, not
a"field operator.
1\-1r. DUFFY: Correct.
CONAN: So he would've been based,
presumably, either at an embassy or here in
Washington, D.C., for the most part.
Mr. DUFFY: Exdusively in Washington ...
DAN: But was he in the military?
Mr. DUFFY: Yes. He went into the Air Force in
1966 and he was slated. for a position in
intelligence and strategic affairs. In other words,
assigned to a missile launch site, somewhere in
the far West. But he found a way to do his Air
Force obligation by coming to CIA as an analyst.
And that's where we served together as Soviet
analysts in '67 and '68 and for the period after
that. So as far as his military experience - he has
none.
And I think this is part of the weakness in terms
of his fitness. And frankly, I don't know where
he's going to draw on people he will need in that
eoring, because they're going to have to clear out
the entire Rumsfeld staff. It's not just going to be
Rumsfeld who's going to have to go, it's going
to have to be Steve Cambone - the deputy
director or undersecretary for intelligence - and
people like that.
And Gates doesn't have a wide circle of
associates, so this is going to be an interesting
challenge for him.
DAN: Thank you for taking my call.
CONAN: Appreciate it, Dan.
DAN: Thank you. Bye, bye.
CONAN: Bye, bye. Let's go to now to
Cathy(ph). Cathy, caJling us from North
Carolina.
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CATHY (Caller); Yes. Thank you for taking my
call.
CONAN: Sure.
CATHY: I would like to ask a question of Mr.
Gates, about Afghanistan. All the talk is about
Iraq, because that seems to be where the crisis is,
but we seem to lose sight of the fact that we've
had troops in Afghanistan for two years longer.
And the situation there has not only, not gotten
any better, but it's deteriorating. And I just
wonder if we have, as a nation, resigned
ourselves to a pennanent presence in
Afghanistan, or if there is any indication, within
the military community, of perhaps a change in
the status of our presence there.
CONAN: And, Michael Duffy, of course,
Afghanistan a major subject that they've just
completed NATO summit in Riga.
Mr. DUFFY:"Yeah. Well, there's a change
contemplated. and it's in the addition of troops.
It's not a reduction. They've increased the
number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, from
about 10,000 a year ago to closer to 16,000 now,
because they have huge trouble in the southeast
part of the country with the resurgence of the.
Taliban.
CONAN: So, Cathy, did you want to ask him if
he would keep those troops there - continue the
mission?
CATHY: I'm talking long teon. I mean, that
additional troops is to address the current
problem with the resurgence of1he Taliban. But
is there a long-tenn plan, or are we just going to
stay there and occupy as we've done in South
Korea, for the, you know, foreseeable future?
CONAN: Did you want to get in on this,
Melvin ...
Mr. GOODMAN: Well, we don't have any long­
term plans. We don't have one for Iraq and we.
don't have one for Afghanistan and it's not clear
that Bob Gates is going to change that. Let's give
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 Donald Rumsfeld some credit. Donald Rumsfeld
learned, in 2001, that the military had no plan to
deal with terrorism in Afghanistan and didn't
want to get involved in Afghanistan.

That's how the CIA jumped in to Afghanistan.

And the CIA provided the real heroes of the war
against aJ·Qaida and against the Taliban. But
there was no staying power on the part of the
United States. So the same mistake we made
after the Soviets left and the mujahideen
emerged into power, and Jetting that country just
deteriorate and go into total chaos, we're in the
process of doing that again, cause the TaJiban is
back in that country in tremendous strength and
are operating very effectively. This is a serious
worry and a challenge for Bob Gates.

CONAN: Cathy, thanks very much. Appreciate

it.

CATHY: Thank you.

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 SECRETARY RUMSFElD-DECEMBER MEDIA

Friday, December 1st

Bradley Graham-Off~ce Tour-for upcoming book

Union League Speech-Philadelphia

Friday, December a1h

T own Hall Meeting w/CJCS

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Military Analysts Lunch (off the record)

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Awards Ceremony

American Supports You Summit

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Farewell Message to the Troops-Pentagon Channel Taping

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Thanks for helping host the conference calls this morning. Receiving
positive feedback ...

Mary Matarin: "I came on a18:35 and the a&A was already in progress.
Very helpful. Thank you."

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""Thanks for letting me listen in this morning on teleconference with MG
Caldwell. 1have sent a synopsis to Speaker Gingrich."

VFW Calf: 16 members called, including, Colorado, North Dakota, Hawaii,

Oklahoma, Kentucky and VFW National Executive Director Bob Wallace. To
our knowledse, today's call was the first-ever MNF-l to VFW Q and A
session like this.

As a follow up, we sent all 50 chapters MG Caldwell's press conferen<;e

transcript from today, MG Caldwell's most recent op-ed and the Emb.
Baghdad/MNF-I current ~'PAC.

As Mr. Wallace urged, we will continue to work proactively with the

members - hosting future calls, providing them with materials they' can
use to communicate with their members and other initiatives.

Opinion Leader Call: Nine calleo, including: Vin Weber, Clark &

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Weinstock, Washington, DC; Ron Weisbrook, American Enterprise Institute,

Washington, DC: Cliff May, Foundation for Defense of Democracy,

Bethesda, MD; Linda Chavez. Creators Syndicate, VA; Ari Fleischer,

Ari Fleischer Communications, Pound Ridge, NY; Rich Galen, Washington,

DC; Victor Hanson, Media Services, CA; Mary Matalin, Alexander, VA; Tom

Boggs, Patton Boggs, Washington, DC.

As a follow up, we sent all invited guests MG Caldwell's press

conference transcript and the JPAC. This is another group we'll continue

to work with on OIF and other opportunities throughout 000.

Full attendance lists are attached.

Next steps with MNF-I: We're working with LTC Martin-Hing to have LTG

Chiarelli talk to retired military analysts next week, before he rotates

out. We're working with American Legion to host a call with MG Caldwell

along the same lines as the VFW call today.

Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome to make this program as

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Subject: Lunch w/Secretary Rumsfeld.

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Secretary Rumsfeld mentioned this morning about getting the "talking heads" in for lunch ­
wondering if Thursday 7 December would work? What is a better name for them.??
11:30am-ll;45-PA Prep
11:45am-12:45 - Talking Heads Luncheon

Let me know - thanks,

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28,20061:33 PM

To: Ruff. Eric Mr OSD PA

Subject: Re: Friday

Eric: Thanks. Just sent message to Nelson. Best, Jed.

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 From:­ Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, November 28,200612:59 PM

To: 'jec:lbabbin"

Subject: Re: Friday

~~ii~(t:W00!:;~~~"8ji~u~h;h~~yb~o~b;=~~d~~e~:~' Col
Casey is in b'dad and clo

Mg caldwell, whom I believe you spoke to as _part of his briefing to the analysts, might be
available too. He's been out talking about the-civil war issue.

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Sent: Tue Nov 28 12:50:44 2006

Subject: Friday

Eric: I'm subbing for Bill Bennett 0600-0900 EST Friday. Would Casey or Abizaid like to

come out to play? Please let me know. Best. Jed .

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From;­ Barber, Allison Ms aSD PA

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Folks, not sure it you have this already. Dorrance had me send out a response to nyt
editoriai to military analysts and got this as an updated email for wayne downing.

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SUbJect: Rapid Reax Rpt for 11/27 and Sunday Clips - No RR Items for this moming

Here are the clips. Apologies for the formatting (computer problems) .

CNN Lou Dobbs:

Itt(. Syndicated columnist Miguel Perez: i §GOin9 bigi" jV which Gen. Abizaid
has suggested - is the right answer
,,< "New York Daily News~ columnist Errol Louis: Where the troops go is just
as important as how many go

CNN With Wolf Blitzer:

I/~ Gen. DeLong:
o Doesni It support the draft
o Gen. DeLong: Bringing in more troops to Iraq wonl It help unless therel Is a
new or more competent government in place
,,« Gen. Grange:
o Believes in Borne kind of national service/support, but not the draft
o Gen. Grange: Doesnj It support adding troops to populated areas, but
rather, to the borders of volatile areas, like the Iranian/Syrian border
o Both the Army and the Marines are strained; the military /§needs to
rebuild itself i" for the current and long ·tern situat.ions
CNN Lou Dobb$ Thie Week 11/26/06 18:48:00
PILGRIM: Joining me now, Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman, "New York Daily News"
columnist Errol Louis and syndicated columnist Miguel Perez.
And welcome to all of you gentlemenjK

PILGRIM: Let me read you something that General Abizaid said this week. 1\nd he said, "1
could see a series of options coming tOgether where you might have a short-term increase
for a good reason." -- increase in troops -- "It would have to be tip.d to a specific
plan. \I

As you suggested, there are many plans. The pentagon has one, tne go big. go long, go
home. Do you believe that General Abizaid is signalling that he wants to go big, bring in
more troops and that he sees this as perhaps the way to go?
PEREZ: I think that going big is the way out. And I think that's the signal that he's
sending, absolutely.

LOUIS: There are, I think, a lot of maneuver type questions as well. Whether or not -­
where are you going to put those -- if you go big, where do you put those troops? Are they
going to be on the Syrian border? Are they going to be trying to make a statement to Iran?
Are they going to be supporting the Kurdish development in the northern part of the
country? Where they go is almost as important as how many are there.
PILGRIM: And you have Charlie Rangel suggesting perhaps a draft on top of this. Is the
political will there of the Americans?

ZIMMERMAN: You know, I must tell you the American people have shown repeatedly the
strength and courage and commitment to fight the war on terror. What we're not seeing from
our politi~al and civilian leaders is the proper planning and execution of the plans ·to
fight the war effectively.

It t a really not a question of to me where the military goes. It brings back memories

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to me of what our military leaders said in Vietnam, just a bit'more escalation. If we're
I going to get there, we need to have a plan in place and we need to have an accountability I
in place to get the job done. I
I
PILGRIM: All right, gentlemen. we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back. I
I
I I

I CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer 11/26/06 11:45:17 I

BLIT:zlER: Welcome back to "Ldte Edi.tion," I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington.
I This week it was reported that an ongoing pentagon review is considering I
three options for the way forward in Iraq: Go big with more troops, go long
I with fewer troops but a continued presenCe for a longer period of time, or I
simply go home. Joining us now, two top retired U.S. generals. In Tampa, I
I Florida, the. former deputy of the 0.5, military Central Command, retired
I Marine corps Lieutenant General Michael DeLong, and in Oak 'Brook, Illinois,
Brigadier General David Grange. He's also our CNN military analyst.

I
I Generals, welcome back. I

I And General DeLong, I'll start with you. Charlie Rangel, the Democratic I
congressman from New York, made aome waves over the past week suggesting,
I and I'll read to you what he said last Sunday. He said, "I' don't see how
anyone can support' the war and not support the draft." He wants to reinstate \

I the military draft. What do you think about that idea?

I
I LT. GEN. MICHAEL DELONG (RET), MARINE CORPS: Well first of all it's not new
from the representative, but I don't support that. The current way that we
I
I do husiness right now, the military, we've got the best young men, best ,
young ladies, the best force that we've ever had. I joined in the late '60S
I when they had a draft. I came from the Naval Academy and watched the
I services grow. And each service brings its own unique style, but the way
we're doing it right now with the all-volunteer force is by far the way to
I go.

I BLITZ3R: What about you, General Grange? What do you think?

I BRIG. GEN. DAVID GRANGE (RET), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Well, I think there
should be something with national service. J believe that deeply, especially
when they just released from washington, D.C., the National Civic Health
Index showing a lack of sense of service or participation, volunteerism,
trust in others. And I think that it's more than just the military. I think
I the sense of service is a national issue for just the civic health, the
I civic engagement, and if you look at homeland security, there's many
organizations and agencies that need support. So I do believe in something,
I but not the draft.

I BLITZER: All right. I think that that's a prevailing view among many current
and retired U.S. military officers. Congressman Rangel is going to pursue
I this in hearings when the new congress convenes in January.
I Let's talk about various opti9ns right now. General DeLong, I'll start with

Senator John MCCain. He wants the u.s. military to deploy thousands more

I adaitional forces to try to ease the crisis, the Chaos, in Iraq ri;ht now.
Is that the answer, to deploy another 20, 30, 50,000 American troops?
I
I DELONG: I listened to your program before, and 1 think both gentlemen had a
good point. The issue right now in !ra.q is the Iraqi army is pretty well
I trained. They've got some esprit. The Iraqi military, or the Iraqi police
force' is pretty well trained. Not as much as esprit. But you have a
I government ~h4t cannot control either one right now.
I So bringing in more troops, I don't know what good that would do. r talked
to John Abizaid and listened to him, and have talked to the other people
lover there right now. And I've been over there. I think theY're doing what
I they need to do right now, ~t unless they get a different government, or,a
government that can control the security of that country, I think they're
I going to have a problem.
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BLITZER: What do you think, General Grange?

G~GE: Well, right now, r believe there's a four- to six-month critical
window in order to get this thing in a positive position before the United
States and the elected Iraqi government. I have five points, but two to
answer your question. One is, I believe that the surge in training -- in
other words, it's not just numbers going from ten advisors to 20 in each
group but going to 10 to 20 with the right specialties in leadership.
Because the toughest thing is not just to teach these Iraqi soldiers ·to
shoot, move and operate, but to teach them the sense of loyalty to the
government and loyalty to the people they serve. That's the hardest thing to
make happen.
BLITZER: well, let me interrupt, General Grange., Because we heard from the
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the DIA.
Lieutenant General Michael Maples testified the other day before Congress,
suggesting that so much of the Iraqi police force, the interior ministry and
even the military are now riddled with Shia death squad members, and that
this is becoming a huge, huge problem for the Iraqi military and police
force that you have these Shia death squad members, these militia already
deeply ingrained into the security forces.
GRANG8: Well, no doubt in my mind that they are infiltrated. You train the
police and the Iraqi military to be more proficient. You're also training
infiltrators. But the majority, I think, you still have some that are very
loyal to the government.
I think you've got to pick the toughest, most loyal generals right now to
get On with some of these operations on the Iraqi side. It's critical.
The other point, though, I wanted to make on troop increases. I wouldn't put
more American troops in the cities and in the populated areas, but I would
deploy several brigades ot American croops on the periphery, on the
Iranian/Syrian border in Anbar Province, to demonstrate resolve and will and
to do the unexpected, because that's what it takes to dissuade Iran militias
and some others right now,
BL!TZER, General DeLong, since you're suggesting it's mostly "a political
lack of will on the part of che Iraqi gover~ment, Senator Carl Levin, the
incom~ng chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is suggesting, you
know What, you've got to put pressure on the government. And one way of
putting pressure on them is over the next four to six months to start
Withdrawing U.S. forces. Maybe they will get the message to gather up the
political courage and will to deal with the death squads and the militia.
What do you make of senator Levin's proposal?
DELONG: It's interesting. I ~ean, it's an option. But the issue beeomes, it
is politiGal right now. If you ask the Iraqi government right now, make this
happen, and they ~o out to the police forces in all the different provinces,
and the army, as you said, it depends on whether they are going to follow
that. The leaders, may not follow them that day. It may be a J<urdieh
company. It may he a Shiite battalion, and they're not going to do what
they're told.
Right now, from what I've seen, the Iraqi government does not have complete
control over the security of the country. And so, in order to do some of
these things you suggest, you've goc to get ~- I'm saying that it doesn't
appear to me -- as good as it may have been, that democr~cy may not work in
Iraq. ¥ou need to have something else that will grip these groups of tribes
and the three large groups of people and somehow bring them together under a
stronge~ government, whatever "that is.

BLITZER: General Grange, I want you to react to what the incoming, the new
commandant of the U.s. Marine Corps, General James Conway, told reporters
this past week about the strain on the U.S. Marine Corps right now, the
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current tours of duty in Iraq and elsewhere. Listen to this. I

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) I

GEN. JAMES CONWAY, U.S. MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT: I think we may lose some of
I
those folks. I think that the families, the young Marines, sailors will say
I
that's just more than I think,' you know, I'm willing to bear, and it could
have some negative consequences for us in that regard. I
(END V:I:DEO CLIP) I
,
BLITZER: And it's not just the Marines. It's the U.S. Army. as well, because
if you send back these troops for a second or third or fourth tour of duty
in Iraq. it puts an enormous strain not only on them but on their families. I
GRANGE: Well, that's absolutely correct. I agree with the commandant, it's
I
Marine and Army. Remember, now, some tours and special operation~ in the
I
Ma~ine Corps may be seven months, where some National Guard units have been
activated maybe 22, 14 months. I
But the bottom line is. it's back-to-back tours with a little bit of time in
between where they can't train, refit, go to school. This is a very highly
I educated military that's constant,ly in training, and most importantly the
time with the families. missing holidays, missing birthdays, weddings, all
I
I these different types of things. I
I It goes back that the military is too small. It was screwed up after 'the

I Berlin Wall fell in '89, when we started downsizing. And we're living with

those results right now. The military needs to rebuild itself, not only for
I the cur~ent crisis but fer the looming operations that we have in the future
that !'m sure are going to happen.
I
BLITZER: And that's where Charlie Rangel where we started. and his desire to
I reinstate the draft may playa role down the road. Generals, unfortunately,
we have to leave it right there. We'll continue our discussion down the
I road, as well. Thanks very much for coming in, General DeLong and General

I Grange.

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Subject: RE: For the Record I
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RE: For the
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If this is sent to me, I can forward to the analysts.

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Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PAl

OSD PAl Whitman, Bryan Mr aSD FA
Subject: Re: For the Record

Done.

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Subject: For the Record
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I told Sec Def we'd put out a For the Record on the internet if the Arm)' dragged their
I feet.
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Can we take the letter and turn it into a product that we put on the Internet and give to
I surrogates--military analysts and the like.
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I The talking points in the letter are all good. It just needs to be reformatted and
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distributed.

I Zt should not be in the form of a letter or signed by anyone.

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To:
Subject:

Nab ... 1 want to get some things done before I leave. Looks like things are pretty much
together for the conference c~lls next week. I'm trying to gain Borne momentum on a call
between Caldwell and the American Legion for the following week. I am just waiting on a
response from Shawn first to see 1~ they'll be availahle.
I'll,probably leave around 4ish. Not sure I'll be able to get much done after that time
anyway.

asD PA

vember 22, 2006 12:05 PM

CTR aso PA

Re: followup to query

Ok, excellent. Thanks. For some reason I couldn't see those on my bb. I will forward to

caldwell.

Thx ... And shouldn't you be leaving the office soon?? Thought, they were cloeing the place

up at noon!

Ha , y thanksgiving.

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CTR OSD PA
OSD PA
Sent: Wed Nov 22 ~2:03:lB 2006
Subject: RE: followup to query
Got it! Please read below. Let me know if anything is unclear.

Is it accurate to write:
"The Iraqis hold in prison about 16,000 insurgents. a.nd the American hold separately about
14,000."

Can these blan~s be filled in:

"During a 50-day period in sept-oct, US forces in Baghdad captured 1,330. Of these, ---­
were released and •. - were held for trial before an Iraqi jUdge. of those held for trial,
--- were accused of being sunni terrorists and --- were accused of belonging to radical
Shiite mili tia groups."

2006 1.1:57 AM

Hi. Do me a favor ... Can you tell which ·sentences below" he's talking about?? I'm not
showing any on the bband don't want to forward to caldwell if there's nothing for his
staff to check. Hake sense??

~~J~I
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Sent: Wed Nov 22 10:35:31 2006

Subject: fo11owup to query

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~M~)0E01
On 11 October, MajGen Caldwell told me he had some people working on my query
below. My deadline is upon me and I ~o not want to get my figures wrong in the Atlantic

piece due to close next week. Could you kindly ask the general if his staff could check I

che sentences below and fill in the blanks? Thanks much, Bing P.S. Attached is my op-ed in

yesterday's WSJ.
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From: JedBabbi n~~~~~?I1:t~;ji\j:;~;i:1

Sent: Tuesday, November 21,20069:01 AM
To: Ruff, Eric Mr aso PA
SUbject: Re: Iraq Options: Today's TAS

Couldn't. Was in London. How was it?

Jed Babbin
(home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

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From:' Ruff. Eric Mr OSD PA
Sent: Tuesday, NiveroQi( f1, 2006 8:58 AM
To: 'jed babbin<£§lt$:X;t}/:yX)
Subject: Re: Iraq Options: Today's TAS

Did you go to the spectator dinner last week?

21 08:45:54 2006
Options: Today's TAS

Nothing good visible from here. Hope you all have a great Turkey Day. No other columns
this week: just lots of family, friends and too much food. Best, Jed.
The American Spectator <http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id;l0657>

. (home office)
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From: Bing West [westf@~~~~1{:;~':m!;Wtt:;,e11i\t~}~}i:;,i!1

sent: Tuesday, November 21. 2006 7:48 AM

To: bingwestlist

Subject: Structural Change in Iraq

THE WALL ST. JOURNAL

Force Multiplier
By HANS BINNENDIJK and BING WEST

iV(JVl! mber ] 1, 2006; Page A 16

The reassessment of U.S. strategy in Iraq should radically alter the combat mission of the American
troops serving there. The key policy change is to embed five times as many U.S. combat advisers into
Iraqi battalions. This will, on the one hand, reduce the size and casualties of U.S. forces, and on the
other, strengthen the Iraqi army -- the only institution that can stop the creeping civil war. A war of that
order will eventually degenerate into a regional catastrophe. The U.S. has three unpalatable choices:
withdraw, choose sides or make a last effort to avoid it. Withdrawing now will trigger that war.
Choosing sides with Shiites against Sunnis will label America as a murderer when the inevitable
atrocities take place.

So what would comprise a serious final effort? The diplomatic elements include discussions with Syria
and Iran, multilateral aid and enfranchising Sunnis by sharing oil revenues, amnesty and moderation of
the de-Baathification rules.

But any diplomatic package will fail unless Iraq's security forces restore order. The only way to rapidly
do that is to shift platoons from American battalions into 140 Iraqi army battalions and critical police
stations. Currently the U.S. has about a dozen military advisers working in each Iraqi battalion. These
advisers spend their time as managers. They are too few to give combat advice and moral reassurance
out on the streets during daily operations.

As a result, Iraqi platoons, lacking self-confidence, restrict their patroliing in the dangerous areas where
they are most needed. To infuse combat confidence in each Iraqi battalion, we propose embedding
about 60 advisers -- by transferring a reinforced platoon from every U.S. infantry battalion in Iraq. Each
American soldier and Marine so deployed would be a force mUltiplier, greatly increasing the
effectiveness of the Iraqi soldiers. The total number·of advisers would expand to 20,000, plus additional
support. Air and artillery strikes would be on call. Additional U.S. battalions would be needed to
provide Quick Reaction Forces should the embedded forces need them. Special Forces commandos
would still seek out at Qaeda operatives anywhere. U.S. units would maintain security in parts of
Baghdad and to other key cities.

The huge increase in advisers would be offset by a drawdown of American conventional battalions and

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base support units. American-only patrols are becoming counterproductive, with fewer direct enemy
engagements, more sniper and lED attacks, and niore alienated Iraqis. In return for the embedding, the
U.S. would insist that Iraqi officers accused of malfeasance by their advisory teams be relieved of duty.

By shifting missions from American-only patrolling to embedded combat advisers, the overall U.S.
troop requirement might be cut nearly in half during the coming year. But the effectiveness of the
mission should increase, based on past experience. In Vietnam, the Marine Combined Action Platoon
(CAP) program deployed over 100 squads to live in hamlets with Popular Force units. Large areas were
patrolled at low cost and 60% of the Marines involved extended at the end oftheir tours. Last year in
northwest Iraq, the American commander in al Qaim replicated the CAP experience by integrating his
battalion into local police and army forces and driving al Qaeda out of the city.

Many U.S. commanders will resist a major structural change that breaks down battalion combat teams.
The embedded units will patrol heavily in dangerous areas. The Iraqi Army has to take on the militias
and the police units who side with them. If the U.S. dramatically increases the advisory effort,
strengthening the army, the risk emerges ofcreating a strong man, not a Western-style democracy; yet
given the consequences of failure, these risks must be taken.

Restoring security in Iraq trumps all else. In the spring of2004, Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, then
commanding the Marine division in Anbar province, intended to initiate the combined platoon program
on a major basis. The eruption of the extended battle for Fallujah preclud~d that. Combined platoons
were a good idea 30 months ago; today, they are vital.

Mr. Binnendijk is the Theodore Roosevelt professor at National Defense University. Mr. West is
author of "No True Glory: A Frontline Account ofthe Battlefor Follujoh " (Bantam, 2005).

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Frank RDML OSO PA: Thompson Jonathan Mr OS'.J PA; Wilkie, RObert, CIV, OSD-LA
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No 11/2t reaction items beyond those in the Bird.

CNN Anderson Cooper, Michael Gordon ofNYT: ,

~ The Baker-Hamilton commission is likely to endorse an increased effort to train the Iraqi
anny... but we don't have enough advisers there right now
~ Agrees with Mr. Kissinger that increasing U.S. forces ·aren't the primary solution • it has to be a
combination of things, including increasing forces and talking with Iran and Syria
~ The changing of the Defense Secretary does "open up some possibil ides," but there "are not a
whole lot of new ideas out there"

Fox The Big Story with John Gibson, Max Boot of Council on Foreign Relations:
~ Thinks there is a push for a temporary troop inctease to get volatile areas under control, then a
long-tenn reduction - it's the "least bad option out there"
~ I mean, to me, it's a wonder that there is as many people willing to serve in the Iraqi anny as
there are, because there aren't a lot of Americans who would be willing to serve under the kind of
conditions they have to fight under. I think there would be a lot more if we provided better
training and better equipment for them.

Fox The Big Story with John Gibson, Col. David Hunt: ,
)0> Our troops aren't "being allowed to do their jobs now" ... the U.S. government is not "fully
engaged" in Iraq, otherWise there'd be a "much better outcome"

CNN Paula Zahn Now:

~ Charlie Rangel: The people that are enlisting are enlisting because they don't have better
options. lbat's evident in the "$4 billion setting up recruiting stations in the areas of the highest
unemployment, offering up to $40,000 to enlist, and, in addition to that, $70,000 in education,
and upping the age, since they couldn't get enough recruits, from 26 to 39"
~ Duncan Hunter: "The voluntary military is working" - the combat units are reenlisting, "and
we're meeting more than 100 percent of our goals for reenlistments and across the board"
~ To help quell the situation in Baghdad, we need to move the 27 trained Iraqi forces where
there's no violence into Baghdad - "that will mature them as a fighting force"

MSNBC Tucker Carlson, Charlie Rangel:

~ If we are going to increase troop numbers for Iraq, "if s unfair just to hRve the same troops going
over, over and over" .

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~ A draft is "not supported by anyone who wants to be in harm's way"

MSNBC Tucker Carlson, Col. Jack Jacobs:

)0 "The only way to get consensus about service is if you have a political culture that values
service. And we don't have that at the moment"
~ "It would be deleterious to drag into the service people who don't want to be in the service"
~ We need to at least double the amount of troops in Iraq we have now - but that alone isn't
enough - we also have to focus more on the counterinsurgency mission

CNN Anders()J.l CO()I!U 11/20/06 23:10:17

Michael, you were in Iraq just recently, as -- as I was as well, spent a month there. What's your
'.~, assessment of the situation on the ground?

MICHAEL GORDON, CHIEF MILITARY CORRESPONDENT, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": I think
the situation remains a very difficult one.

I think the U.S. forces do make a difference in containing the sectarian violence. But they can't be the
ultimate solution, as everybody recognizes, and as Mr. Kissinger said. .

ROBERTS: Right.

What·- what do you think is needed there? Some tinkering around the edges to try to turn the plan in a

different direction, or do they need a grand change in strategy?

GORDON: It may not matter so much what I think. But I .- I ··1 think it's clear there can't be anyone

solution to this problem,

It can't be a purely military answer.

ROBERTS: Mmm-hmm.

GORDON: It can't be purely diplomatic.

I think what people are striving for is really a package that will have all elements, military, diplomatic

and political.

ROBERTS: You know, some of the commanders that I spoke to believe that Donald Rumsfeld leaving,
Gates coming in, may put ~ new pair of fresh eyes on the situation there, may lead to some changes that
they believe might take it in a direction.

What are the people you're talking to saying about the whole shift of power al the top of the Pentagon?

GORDON: Well, it does open up some possibilities, as does the White House recognition that they need

a course correction.

I think the things on the table are pretty logical. There are not a whole lot of new ideas out there, They

can be connected in new ways. One is a surge in American forces· in Baghdad. Clearly, that would have

some short-term benefit. General Abizaid said as much last week.

But, you know, there's a constraint on this. It would be have to be a relatively short-term deployment...

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ROBERTS: Mmm-hmrn.

GORDON: ... perhaps six months, because the American military is limited in its size.

Another would be a diplomatic opening to Iran and to Syria, as Kissinger and the Baker commission is
expected to propose. That might have some benefits in perhaps reducing the amount of cxtcmal
interference in Iraq.

But there has to be a combination of efforts that, all put together seek to change. in a positive direction,
I

what is really kind of a downward situation in Iraq today.

ROBERTS: James Baker, who is going to be one of the co-authors of that report -- Lee Hamilton also in
there -- and Robert Gates was a member of the Iraq Study Group.

In addition to recommending intensive diplomatic engagement with countries like Iran and Syria,
Michael, what else do you expect that report is going to contain?

GORDON: Well, there's one thing that everybody agrees on. It's sort of the lowest common dominator,
but, again, it makes sense. And that is stepping up the effort to train the Iraqi army. That's what people
are saying in the Pentagon. That's what General Abjzaid said. That's what the Baker-Hwnilton
commission is likely to endorse.

The effort to train the Iraqi anny and the Iraqi police, unfortunately, has not been all that successful.
There are a large number of troops, but they can't get them to go to Baghdad. There's a serious problem
when it comes to the political loyalty of these forces.

And the U.S. really doesn't have enough advisers in Iraq right now with the Iraqi army. They have
maybe II or 12 per battfJlion. A battalion could be 600 Iraqi soldiers. What they're talking about is
doubling the number of advisers, and pushing them down to the company level, to try to make the Iraqi
forces more effective.

Fox News The...B~.nwit,b...John GibsOll....ua.oL1l.612:.3.6132

With me now, FOX News military analyst, retired U.S. army colonel David Hunt and Max Boot, senior
fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations. He's the author of the new book, "War Made New."

So Max, when you look at these three options, go big, go long, go home, is there one that jumps 'out as
the one the Pentagon ought to follow?

MAX BOOT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELAnONS: Well, I think they're trying do John is to
combine the first two options, because I think there's a realization that if we simply go home now, Iraq
will become an even bigger disaster than it is.

But the question is what can we do right now given that our current force level is not achieving the
desired outcome? SQ what I think they are trying to do is to go for a temporary increase in troop strength
so that we can try to get at least Baghdad under- control, perhaps smash the modest militia and some of
the other militia groups that are causing so much trouble. But then set the stage .for long-tenn reduction
in U.S. force levels to a level where they might be more sustainable over the long term and to transition

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from a primary combat in addition to a primary advisory mission. And given where we are today, that
might be in fact the least bad option out there, and that's the one that seems to be the panel picked by the
chainnan of the Joint Chiefs seems to be opting for.

GIBSON: Colonel Hunt, it seems to me the one of these three options that seems least likely is go long.
Go big and end it or go home, does it strike you the same way?

COL. DAVID HUNT (RET.), FOX NEWS MILITARY ANALYST: Yes, I don't see any .- I don't think
we're capable of increasing the number of soldiers very dramatically right now.

We're at $7 billion a month right now. And if wanted more soldiers, we'd have to go almost full up with
national guard and reserves. We have guys on their third and fourth tour. There's another option. It's
called get it right now.

I think the problem you've got is that soldiers are not being allowed to do their jobs now. We've got
Muqtada al-Sadr with 20,000 militia. He's controlling 32 seats and the govenunent of the United States,
John, is not engaged fully in this war. The CIA, the intel and the Department of Defense, but the rest of
this govenunent does not know it's at war. If they did, I think we'd have a much better outcome with a
fully-engaged U.S. government in Iraq.

GIBSON: You know Max, I noticed today Fareed Zakariawriting in "Newsweek, n and he's a
commentator on television, as well. What be said was kind of eye popping. He said, tum the U.s. troops
loose. They're over there fighting with their hands tied. That they really could go over the Mahdi anny
and go after these militias and just go out shooting, something would get done. Is he right about that?

BOOT: Well I think clearly something has to be done about the anny and some of these other militia
groups which are raging out of control. You know, it's a very delicate calculus when you're in a counter
insurgency because you don't want to just use force indiscriminantly because you could wind up killing
a lot of innocent people because we know that the guerrillas hide among the civilian population.

But at the same time you can't allow law and order just to disintegrate as it has been doing for the last
year or so. And the militias are the big part of the problem and I know certainly that U.S. troops feel
hand-cuffed in dealing with it. I mean, this is a problem with Muqtada al-Sadr going back three and a
half years. We had opportunities three and a half years ago to get rid of the guy, to kill him or put him in
jail and we didn't take them because we thought the political situation would co-opt him. But instead
he's becoming more and more dangerous. And sooner or later, we have to confront that danger if we're
going to get Iraq under control.

GIBSON: Colonel Hunt, one of the things I don't understand is how come Muqtada al~Saetr can train
20,000 Iraqis in his militia, but the Iraqi government can't train Iraqis to be Iraqi soldiers?

HUNT: Well the militias aren't very weB-trained. They just have a gun. The problem with Iraqi soldiers
is we've trained them pretty well, but they can't have military. I mean, the Iraqi government isn't strong
enough to support the Iraqi military or the Iraqi police. So Sadr can give an AK-47 or an RPG to
somebody and call them a militia and have a road block, whereas a military of police take a lot more
training and support. The issue though as Max already said, Sadr had a 600-man militia.

GIBSON: He had a 600-man militia. We allowed it to become a 20,000. man militia.

Max, the -- there is a suggestion. here, though, that what's really going on is that Iraqis don't really want
to serve in the Iraqi army. They're not as dedicated as the militiamen are to their cause.

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BOOT: Well, to put it in perspective, John, I mean, you have to realize how incredibly dangerous it is to
serve in the Iraqi army, because our troops over there ride around in armored humvees. They spend most
of their time in these heavily fortified bases. The Iraqis don't have any of that. They don't have enough
body armor. They don't have enough equipment. They don't -- they ride around in open pick-up trucks
against these insurgents, who just blow them up. They take terrible casualties.

I mean, to me, it's a wonder that there is as many people willing to serve in the Iraqi army as there are,
because there aren't a lot of Americans who would be willing to serve under the.kind of conditions they
have.to fight under. I think there would be a lot more if we provided better training and belier equipment
for them.

And to me, this is the most mystifying thing of all, is that we're willing to spend $98 billion a year for
our own forces in Iraq, but we're only spending about $4 billion or so for the Iraqi forces. We haven't
provided the kind of support and .- that we need to really stand up these forces, so they can take on these
militias and terrorists.

GIBSON: Max Boot. Max, thanks very much. Of course, check out Max's book.

Coming up: They've been up,·they've been down, now they're going up again. Will rising gas prices
keep you off the road for Thanksgiving? We have

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ZAHN: You obviously believe a draft is necessary if we potentially will enter a military conflict in -- in
Iran, and maybe even North Korea.

When you say you don't blame the Democratic leadership, doli't you wish they had more backbone on
this one?

RANGEL: I don't care what the leadership does. The American people voted in the midterm election.
They either don't know why we're in Iraq, but they certainly want us to get out of Iraq.

You have never heard the president of the United States make a patriotic appeal for all Americans to
volunteer to stop terrorism from coming from Iraq to the United States. And we all know that the people
that are enlisting are enlisting because they don't have better options.

Ifthat wasn't so, the military would not be spending $4 billion setting up recruiting stations in the areas
of the highest unemployment, offering up to $40,000 to enlist, and, in addition to that, $70,000 in
education, and upping the age, since they couldn't get enough recruits, from 26 to 39. So, we know
what's going on. Is it difficult to talk about? Is it awkward? Yes. It doesn't take away from the patriotism
of those that are fighting. But, if the war is worth fighting, what's the objection for everyone making a
sacrifice? ..

ZAHN: Why are you so opposed to Congressman Rangel's idea to bring back the draft? .

DUNCAN HUNTER: Well, first, Paula, I am opposed to the premise upon which he bases this idea.

And I have -- I have heard Charlie. I like him. He was an old 2nd Division man from Korea.

But his argument is to the effect that .- that only people go to war who have to go. And I can tell you

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that, after 9/l1, I came back to San Diego, to my hometown, and I - and I,had a son who was in the
high-tech industry, good job, wife and baby, and Jsaw him numing up the mountainside. I said, what are
you doing?

He said: I quit my job. I'm joining the Marines. We're going to go get them.

And - and he did, subsequently, two tours in'Iraq as a Marine officer.

Secondly, the voluntary military is working. I just looked at all the statistics. And the combat units, the
people that go into combat -- and you would think, if anyone was -- that did -- would not want to
reenlist, it would be the guys in combat. They're reenlisting. And we're meeting more than 100 percent
of our goals for reenlistments. And we're meeting enlislInent goals across the board.

ZAHN: That may be true, but a lot of people think that misses the point. Even General Abizaid, who's in
charge of the operations in Iraq, has said, if you brought in 20,000 more troops now, you simply can't
sustain that. The -. the Anny is too small and has been too weakened. '

HUNTER: Well, here's what we have done, Paula.

When the Clintons walked out of the White House, they cut the U.S. Army from what was 18 divisions
to 10, cut it almost in half. We have increased the Anny now by 30,000 troops. Now, in Iraq, it's true
that we need new troops. We need more troops in Baghdad.

And I have got an answer for that. We have got 114 Iraqi battalions that we have trained and equipped
that are in Iraq. Twenty-seven of them are in places where there's no fighting to speak of going on. We
need to take those Iraqis that we have trained and equipped that •• who have weapons, have
communications gear. We need to saddle them up and move them into Baghdad. That will mature them
as a fighting force.

That will help them. It will help the Iraqi people. And it speeds up the time when America can leave.

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CARLSON: You've been on a couple times on this show over the last week gallantly defending Nancy
Pelosi and explaining that Democrats really are unified. With that in mind, [ was amazed to read Nancy
Pelosi essentially disavowing your plans to reinstate the draft. She said yesterday on television that you
"don't have jurisdiCtion" to do anything like that and she doesn't support it even if you did.

Why? Why doesn't she support your idea?

RANGEL: Well, first of all, the committee haven't organized. And I don't ask anyone to support my
legislation until we have to support it.

Recently, General Abizaid said that for those who want to send mote troops to Iraq, that we don't have
the resources to do it, that we would have to increase the active service. And so either that means going
deep into the reserve, the Marines and the Anny are not meeting their goals - they have $4 billion that
they're spending in recruiting, especially setting up recruibnent in cities that have the highest
un~mployment or the poorest communities. They're offering $40,000 in some cases as a bonus, $70,000
in educational benefits, and they're not reaching their goals.

How are they going.to do this unless they have the draft?

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CARLSON: But I'm confused, Mr. Rangel, because you don't support them doing it. That is, you don't
support, as far as I know -- at least you didn'tlast week -- support sending more troops to Iraq. So why
would you want to increase the size of the military?

RANGEL: Well, I would think that if they recognize we have this shortage, that people would be lesS
prone to make the decisions to put the military as an option on the table if they thought that it just won't
be my communities that would be affected, but everyone in the Congress, in the Pentagon, in the White
House, and throughout the country. I am thoroughly convinced that if we had.a draft, we would not be io.
Iraq today.

CARLSON: But wait a second. Two points.

One, the Pentagon, because of, in fact, your complaints; has studied this question very specifically:And
they found that -- that those serving in combat in fact don't come disproportionately from your
community, as you put it. They tend to be Hispanic, middle class, or white, actually. That's what the
Pentagon discovered.

And second, isn't it a pretty democmtic system that we have now? If you support the war in Iraq, you
know, you join the military. If you don't, you don't I mean, that's pretty democratic isn't it?

RANGEL: No. First of all, that's just not so. I have statistics to show in higher-income communities we
don't have anyone that's enlisting. And the poor communities in the city of New York is where we have
our casualties and where we have enlistees.

And really, you don't need any report to know that kids from affluent families...

CARLSON: Yes?

RANGEL: ... that have an opportunity economically do not really consider going to Iraq and being in
hann's way as an option. Now, when I was 18 and dropped out of high school and didn't have any place
to go for employment, I, too, sought the Anny. And so, $40,000, $70,000 for education is not as
voluntary as you might want to make it.

You don't have the options that more affluent people have. And that's a fact.

CARLSON: But wait •• but wait a second. Isn't •• I mean, you're essentially making a philosophical
case that, if you're'going to have .- a draft would require policymakers to think: through their policy,
right?

RANGEL: Yes.

CARLSON: It would require all of us to support a war effort in order to have a war. But isn't •• a
voluntary Army the means to do just that. Again, it's perfectly democratic if you support it and you join
it. If you don't, you don't.

RANGEL: Well, let me say this. I love my country like anybody else. I served in the Anny, I got shot,
the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, and I would have rather not have had that option.

CARLSON: But you served duting -. there was a draft, of course. You served in Korea.

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RANGEL: I enlisted.

CARLSON: OK.

RANGEL: ] enlisted. And I'm just saying that, once you're in, the patriotic thing to do is to do what you

are told to do.

CARLSON: Yes.

RANGEL: But when you're out, we have to wonder why would there - in the·first place, lowe it to the

military.. Kids that are going over there three or four times, and this is not what they're voLunteering to

do -- and if we are going to expand our ability to introduce military troops, I'm saying it's unfair just to

have the same troops going over, over and over.

We've got about 150,000 troops over there, one-third of our National Guard. You don't believe that the

National Guard's people should be going over there two or three times.

CARLSON: No, I don't. I think irs awful. I think irs one of the many tragedies of this war.

I don't support it. It makes me feel sad and sick to my stomach, I agree with you...

RANGEL: And so what you're saying is...

CARLSON: But hold on. But your idea is taking it·· for a draft, irs not supported by the people who

run the military.

RANGEL: No, it's not supported by anyone who wants to be in harm's way.

CARLSON: Exactly.

RANGEL: But what I'm saying is that, ifirs in our national interest, everyone should be prepared to

make a sacrifice and not go to the communities and offer money and college education benefits for those

people who really can't afford not to go.

Now, you know that makes sense, Tucker,

CARLSON: But that's just not the truth, Mr. Rangel. There have been -- I mean, this is a subject, again,

thank to you that has been studied exhaustively. And the people serving in combat positions are not

again -- this is a matter of fact, not of conjecture -- disproportionately from poor backgrounds. They're

just not. That's just not true.

RANGEL: Listen, I am glad, if nothing else, that there be studies. But if you believe .those on the way to

Harvard and Yale are volunteering in the military, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn that] want to sell

you.

CARLSON:] already bought it.

Mr. Rangel, thanks a lot....

COL. JACK JACOBS (RET.), MSNBC MILlTARY ANALYST; Good to be here with you.

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CARLSON: A draft? I mean, do people who think seriously about the military think that's a good idea?

JACOBS: No, they don~t think it's a good idea for a number of reasons. It would be nice if we did have
a draft to the extent that we had universal service.

I came in to the Anny in the first place because I believed then and I believe today that everybody owes
some sort of debt to the country that keeps them free. I grew up in the post·World War II generation. My
father served in the second world war, and so on.

But the only way you're going to be able to get consensus about service is if you have a political culture
that values service. And we don't have that at the moment. And it wouldn't work because it's politically
infeasible.

CARLSON: But as a military matter would it work? Would it make the anned services more effective or
not?

JACOBS: We need - we have 300 million people in this country.

CARLSON: Right.

JACOBS: We have 1.6, 1.7 million people active duty under arms. We need more than that in order to
accomplish our worldwide missions, but we don't need 100 percent of the kids between the ages of ] 8
and 26 to serve. We can't use all of them, and it would be deleterious to drag into the service people
who don't want to be in the service.

We've done very well so far with an all-volunteer Anny, but we need more of them. And 1 don't know
how to bridge the gap between those stal~arts we have now -- we have the best-anned, best·equipped,
most intelligent, best· educated soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines we've ever had in the 40
years I've been -- more than the 40 years I've been following it.

How you get from that number that we have now to the number we really need, which is significantly
more, but not all the kids we've got...

CARLSON: Right.

JACOBS: ... between 18 and.,.

CARLSON: Well, by making the benefits more appealing. That seems to have been the trend. You
know, you heard Charlie Rangel say a minute ago they're paying, you know, these signing bonuses and
luring, he was saying, poor kids into the military.

Is that true?

JACOBS: But, it's not·- no, it's not true. I mean, we are paying bonuses and we are giving kids the
opportunity to select their first port •• or station where they're going to serve, or the military
occupational specialty, or any kind of a number of other specialties where they can -- where they can
excel in the services.

But these are not kids who otherwise would wind·up on the dole. I mean, these are first class people.

CARLSON: Right.

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JACOBS: I've spent a lot oftime going to Iraq and Afghanistan and visiting the kids, and at post camps
and stations around the world. These are first class people.

So we're not dragging unceremoniously or luring unceremoniously kids :who otherwise would be on the
dole. These are first class people.

CARLSON: Finally, what's the really number of troops needed in Iraq? You hear·· you know, people
throw these different nwnbers.

Ifwe are going to pacify Iraq, how many more men do you think we would need there?

JACOBS: Well, unfortunately, the number we needed before is not the number we need now.

CARLSON: Right.

(CROSSTALK)

JACOBS: So we need a lot more now given what's happened over there.

But at the moment, I think we need certainly at least twice as many as we have now. But not only
numbers -- nobody's focusing on the mission. It's not enough to have lots and lots of people there. We
have to be doing the things we need to do in order to make it work.

And that is to conduct a proper counterinsurgency operation in the way in which we really know how to
do it.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

My apologies if some of you are receiving this a second time. Many of your email systems rejected the message

due to its size: I am resending without the attachment. If you would like a text only version of the power point,

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Subject: Invitation to the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Joint Non-Lethal weapons Program'would like to Invite military analysts to Moody AFB, Georgia tQ

participate in an Active Denial System Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration on 29 Nov. 2006. This

would preceed a media day that will occur the following week.

The poe for JNl \flIP is She can t)e reached by callinJ~~mJ~\;~f}~!:'~);(tV~WfW;'l
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attending shOUld conta no later than 12 p.m, Nov 22 to confirm attendance and make loglsitcal

coordination. I have attac e an overview of ADS for your information.

The ADS supports numerous military missions ranging from checkpoint security, perimeter security, area denial,

port protectIon, Infrastructure protection, and clarification of.intent (IdentIfyIng combatants from non­
combatants). The ADS is a designated DoD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTO). The ACTO

program expedites the transfer of advanced technologies and operatlonal concepts Into capabilities for the

warfighter.

The ADS display is part of a broader exhibit of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNlWP). The JNLWP

exhibit also showcases a variety of other non-lethal capabilities ranging from non-lethal munitions to systems for

stopping vehicles and vessels.

Please let me knOl.'l if you need more information. Please feel free to connect directly with
answers to logistical questions.

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 RETIRED MILITARY ANALYSTS

Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics
Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News
Lieutenant General Michael P. DeLong (USMC, Retired) Fox News
General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Lieutenant Colonel,Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News
General Ronald Fogelman (USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) NBC
Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) - Fox News
Brigadier General Oavid L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN
Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired) MSNBC
General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired) Lehrer Newshour
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) Fox, CNN, BBC, Radio
Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN
Dr. IeffMcCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS (mostly radio)
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News
Major General Burton R. Moore (USAF, Retired)
General Thomas S. Moonnan. Jr. (USAF, Retired)
Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)
Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired) - Fox News
General Joseph Ralston (USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant General Erv Rokke (USAF, Retired)
Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox News
Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN
Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN. Retired) - Fox News
Major General Perry Smith (USAF, Retired)
Captain Martin L. Strong (USN, Retired)
Captain Robert R. Timberg (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) - Fox News
Colonel John Warden (USAF, Retired)
General Larry D. Welch (USAF, Retired)
Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired) - Atlantic Monthly, Freelance Writer
General Charles E. Wilhelm (USMC, Retired)
General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute

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SUbject: Evening Clips from 11/16~The evening was heavy on Hoyer, light on DoD
Attachments: Clips from 11.16.06.doc

C. NPR All Things Considered, Ted Koppel reponing: Mr. Gates has proposed talking with Iran, and the Baker
commission may be headed that direction. as well
,. CNN Lou Dobbs, Gen. David Grange:
Q (Regarding Gen. Abizaid'!; testimony): "We have this four- to six-month window, 1

believe, to actually have a chance to win this thing"

o Thomas Ricks: It was "striking" to see Oen. Abizaid "get beat up" during testimony - the
"lack of deference toward the military" is a major ongoing shift
> MSNBC Hardball:
o Steny Hoyer: Mr. Gates will "get careful consideration, and properly so"
o Rep. Roy Blunt; (111 respollse to a question nbout who would be a good Secretary of Defense if Mr. Gates
doesn't get confirmed): (Duncan Hunter) served. He would be a great secretary of defense but h.e is going
the be a great leader for Republicans on defense issues in the House.•. but it's "in everybody's best interest
to have that hearing, to get Gates confinned and to get a new look at tile Pentagon.....
o AI Franken: The Bush Adm inistration "has been lying" all along... it was just yesterday, "finally, that
General Abizaid said we didn't send in enough troops, General Shinseki was right"

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 !,;lips froID 1l/16/06

» NPR All Things Considered, Ted Koppel reporting: Mr. Gates has proposed talking with
Iran, and the Baker commission may be headed that direction, as well '
~ CNN Lou Dobbs, Gen. David Grange:
o (Regarding Gen. Abizaid's testimony): "We have this four- to six-month window,
I believe, to actually have a chance to win this thing"
o Thomas Ricks: It was "striking" to see Gen. Abizaid "get beat up" during
testimony"':' the "lack of deference toward the military" is a major ongoing shift
~ MSNBC Hardball:
o Steny Hoyer: Mr. Gates will "get careful consideration, and properly so"
o Rep. Roy Blunt: (In response to a question about who would he a good Secretary
of Defense if Mr. Gates doesn't get confirmed): (Duncan Hunter) served. He
would be a great secretary of defense but he is going the be a great leader for
Republicans on defense issues in the House... but it's "in everybody's best interest
to have that hearing, to get Gates confirmed and to get a new look at the
Pentagon ... "
o Al Franken: The Bush Administration "has been lying" all along... it was just
yesterday, "finally, that General Abizaid said we didn't send in enough troops.
General Shinseki was right"

the bipartisan committee headed up by fonner

NPR: All Things Considered, November 16
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS
CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
Robert Gates, newly nominated as defense
secretary, will soon weigh in on waging the
war in Iraq and on U.S. relations with Iran.
That country is the focus of a new
documentary from NPR senior news analyst
Ted Koppel and the Discovery Channel. The
documentary is caIled Iran: The Most
Dangerous Nation. It took Koppel back to the
scene of the 1979 hostage crisis. That event
prompted his launch Of the ABC news
program Nightline... ,
Ted Koppel: Which brings us back to Robert
Gates, named by President Bush to succeed
Donald Rwnsfeld at the Pentagon. Not only
has Gates long been an advocate of
reestablishing talks with Iran, it's believed that
Secretary of State James Baker may propose
just that as a step toward disengaging the
United States from Iraq. But now that it
appears that Washington may be ready, will
Tehr.m be willing? Don't coum on it. At least
not if the price is giving up their nuclear
technology.
CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight 11116/06 18:51:54
LOU DOBBS: Give us your best military
insight into what in the world we should be
doing there?
GEN. DAVID GRA."-.lGE: We have this four­
to six-month window, I believe, to actually
have a chance to win this thing. And the
winning may not look the way we like it but
it's not leaving where we're going to be a loser
and so are the Iraqi people and this region of
thc world. So we have to do something.
Talk about who has the blame. I don't
understand why we're so concerned about that

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·piece of it. Why can't someone just lead these
things to victory? Get the military back on its
feet the way it should he to take on the
challenges of the 21st century. Which is quite
apparent. This is not an easy challenge for this
country.
DOBBS: Let me ask you straight up. What in
the world is West Point producing amongst
this group of generals, this war has taken
longer than World War II. Not a single
general has been fired and every general talks
about patience. And General Abizaid is sitting
there sounding like a politician instead of a
general when he's standing before Congress.
Tom Ricks, you both answer that if you
would.
GRANGE: Go ahead, Tom.
THOMAS RICKS: Well, General Abizaid J
think got hit pretty hard yesterday. It was ,
striking to see the leading Republican
candidate, Senator McCain and the leading
Democratic presidential contender, Senator
Clinton, both beat up on General Abizaid. I
have not seen that in several years.
The lack of deference towards the military is
another one of the major shifts that is going
on politically and I think is going to be a
major story over the next couple of years.
MSNBC HBrdha1l1lf16/0619:31:07
MATTHEWS: Okay, let's move ahead here.
If Gates doesn't pass muster because he gets
caught in the loop on Iran~Contra or
something, would you go along 'with Duncan
Hunter as a fallback for him? Would you
support him for Defense chief?
STENNY HOYER: I am not going anticipate
that appointment.
MATIHEWS: I think it is going be a tough
round of hearings on Gates up here. Your
party's out for blood, and you're not going let
Gates skip in there, just because you're faced
with Rumsfeld when you' ve got another
choice you can go with.
HOYER: That is the Senate decision, but I
think clearly Gates is going to get careful
consideration, sure, and properly so. ,.
MATTHEWS: OK, let me ask you a personal
question. If Bob Gates gets bumped because
oh lot of inquiry in this Congress -- and a lot
ofDemocrats, 1 know, are hungry to do this -­
and they go after him on Iran- Contra, any
role he played in that loop, do you think
Duncan Hunter would make a good
substitute? Would you rather go back to
Rumsfeld?
REP. ROY BLUNT (R-MO), MAJORITY
WHIP: Well, we'd miss Duncan Hunter
leading us in the armed forces efforts we've.
got here. Duncan Hunter...
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS; He's running for president. If
he doesn't get this job, he still wants the other
one,
BLUNT: Duncan Hunter honors the mililary.
His son is serving. He served. He would be a
great secretary of defense but he is going the
be a great leader for RepUblicans on defense
issues in the House.
MATTHEWS: I'm sure they're causing
trouble here, but r do think that this Gates
hearing is going to be tough as nail, because I
know this is the first shot the Democrats have
had at the Iraq policy and they are going use
that opportunity to really naiJ him on that and
nail him on his past. It is not going be fun.
BLUNT: Well, you know, I think for us to
really have the kind of review of this policy
we wantto see happen, it is in everybody's

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 ·best inwest to have that hearing, to get Gates

confirmed and to get a· new look at the
Pentagon...

MSNBC Hardball IJ/16/06 19:43:54:

AL FRANKEN: A philosophy is different

from an ideology. With an ideology, you

know all the answers. With a philosophy, you

have a .- you have convictions and beliefs,

but you go based on evidence.

And that was the problem with this

administration and Iraq. They have been lying

to us from the beginning. They have been

telling _. you know, it was yesterday, finally,

that General Abizaid said we <Iidn't send in

enough troops. General Shinseki was right.

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with Retired Military AnalysIs and the Civilian Defense Experts. We view thjs as a solid opportunity for him to
address recruitment and retention numbers. The numbers are high for both sO I feel this is a chance to create
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Here are my notes on what I think SecDef WQS inclined to let us move forward on:

Television:
FOX -- Brit Hume
CNN -- Larry King Live
PBS -- Charlie Rose
f\lBC -- Tom Brokaw

Radio:
Sean Hannity
Laura Ingraham

Internal:
Pentagon Channel
Townhall

Opinion Leaders:
Military Analyst Session
Journalist Lunch

Speeches:
Union League Speech
Farewell Address - Focus on the troops
Award Ceremony - Department accomplishments

Op-Eds:
Transforming government
Tne World in Their Shoes

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Subject: Rapid Reax Rpt for 11/14 - No major reaction items: headlines & clips below
Attachments: Clips from 11.13.06.doc ';,..

Good morning. Morning TVIRadio Headlines focus on killing of 20/abduction of 150 in Iraq (AP report& universities
ordered closed); Blairmtg with ISG; Congressional "power drive;" MLK memorial groundbreaking. NPR/Wires
report on 3M Marine guilty pIca ro: Hamdania; .
RumsfeldlGates not in lOp of the news.

In the clips­
)00 Fox's Big Stol)' with John Gibson, Micllael O'Hanlon: Suggestions that because Gates has suggested talking to Iran
and Syria, thallhis is where the Iraq Sludy Group is headed
);> NPR's Talk of the Nation, Author George Packer: Gates could change the Irllq policy, as he's been skeptical of it so
far
). CNN Lou Dobbs, Correspondent Jeanne Meserve: Reporting on criticism &urrounding Gates' use of CIA

intelligence: notes &ome who voted against him in the hearing later changed their minds

o John McLaughlin, CN)\,' National Security Adviser: Galc:s was vel)' careful, made sure he did not slant
intelligence
o Melvin Goodman, fanner CIA Soviet Anillysl; The intelligence was corrupt
Note that on the C~'N Lou Dobbs clip which discusses the allegations surrounding Gates
(skewed intelligence), the screen behind Dobbs showed a photo of Gates reading "Fit to
Serve?"
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.'Clips from Monday
}- Fox'::; Big Story with Jolm Gibson, Michael O'Hanlon: Suggestions that because Gates I
has suggested talking to Iran and Syria, that this is where the Iraq Study Group is headed I
~ NPR's Talk of the Nation, Author George Packer: Gates could change the Iraq policy, as
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he's been skeptical of it so far
» C~'N Lou Dobbs, Correspondent Jeanne Meserve: Reporting on criticism surrounding I
Gates' use ofelA intelligence; notes some who voted against him in the hearing later I
changed their minds
o John McLaughlin, CNN National Security Adviser: Gates \\'ClS very careful, made I
sure he did not slant intelligence I
o Melvin Goodman, fanner CIA Soviet Analyst: The intelligence was corrupt I
Fox the Big Story with .John Gibson NPR, Talk of the nation. November 13
11/13/0617:06:19 HOST LYNN NEARY: Andjust one last
JOHN GIBSON: Michael, on the Iraq Study question. I mean how much do you think
Group, one of the members was Bob Gates, Robert Gates as secretary of defense,
who has now been named to fill Rummy's job assuming that he is confirmed, how much do
at the Pentagon. Since Gates has been tapped you think his approach might change our
for the Pentagon, and his views are known, policy in Iraq?
especially about dealing with Iran, dealing
with Syria ~. he recommends we sit down and Mr. PACKER, George Packer, author of
negotiate with them -- doesn't that sort ofteH Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq: I think it
us where that study group is going? will change. I think he's very skeptical of the
administration's policy. I talked to him in that
MICHAEL O'HANLON: Maybe. But I think meeting I had with the Iraq study group, and
I you're right that Baker will probably want to he asked some verY skeptical questions about
I
do the same sort afthing. But you have to the way things are going. And I think he's
say, how much can we really negotiate with going to have a lot of leverage.
I Iran? What are they going to give us, and But J also want to say, we have friends and
I what are we prepared to give them? allies in Iraq. And if we simply pull out
without any contingency plans for rescuing
I
We're not going to say to Iran, OK, go ahead those people, then we win have compounded
I and build your nuclear bomb, as long as you betrayal and failure in Iraq, and our
I keep your mitts off Iraq. That's not credible. policymakers need to keep that in mind.
I I think all we could reasonably compromise ­ CNN Lou Dobbs Tonigbt 11/13f06
I - we could say, of course, to Iran, we're not 18:30:25:
I
going to invade. They should know that LOU DOBBS: On the eve of what many
already, but we could make that more hope will be a new political era in
I explicit. We could say we're not going to put Washington, old charges are rising and
I bases into Iraq any time soon of a pennanent flying. Political manipulation of intelligence
nature. Those are the sorts of things we could during the Cold War. Th()se, the allegations
I being made against Bob Gates, President
promise.
I Bush's nominee to replace Rumsfeld as
I That's not going to get us a whole lot. So I defense secretary. Jeanne Meserve reports.
think it will be one element, but not the (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
I decisive element in a new strategy.
I

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·JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND MESERVE: Though 31 senators voted

SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice­
over): With flawed intelligence on Iraq still a
raw nerve, old questions about whether Bob
Gates has skewed intelligence for political
purposes may be creating new problems.
SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), MICHIGAN: For
me, the important thing with Mr. Gates is
whether or not he is independent, whether or
not he is going to speak truth to power.
MESERVE: Accusations that Gates slanted
intelligence date back to the 1980s. On
Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union and
Nicaragua's Contra rebels, some accuse Gates
of distorting analysis to support the policy
goals of those he worked for, including then
CIA Director William Casey.
After an assassination attempt made on Pope
John Paul II, for example, a CIA study said
the Soviets werc involved. But there was
never proof.
MELVIN GOODMAN, FORMER CIA
SOVIET ANALYST: It was politicization. It
was corrupt intelligence. It was total spin.
against Gates, he was confirmed.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISER: He took very much
to heart the. perception, whether real or not,
the perception that he was slanting
intelligence, and, in his perfonnance as its
director, was meticulous in ensuring that he
did not do so.
MESERVE: Mclaughlin says he never saw
Gates skew intelligence. But Melvin
Goodman believes Gates is still what he calls
a political wind sock, adjusting his views to
the political winds.
GOODMAN: Will he tell truth to power? He
never has before. Will he do it now? Well,
look, I don't know. I'm inclined to think that
he can't, and that he certainly won't.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MESERVE: Although Carl Levin, who you
heard in that piece, is the ranking Democrat
on the House Armed Services Committee,
which will vote on Gates' nomination, the
current betting is Gates will be confirmed -­
Lou?

MESERVE: Critics went public in 1991,
, when Gates was nominated to be CIA
director.
JENNIFER GLAUDEMANS, FORMER
CIA SOVIET ANALYST: Mr. Gates
politicized intelligence analysis and is
responsible for an overall degradation of the
analytical process.
MESERVE: Gates rebutted, saying his honest
assessments were why the first President
Bush nominated him.
GATES: And I think one of the reasons he
appointed me to this job was that he knows
I'm going to tell him exactly what I think and
exactly what CTA thinks, and not shade it.
DOBBS: Well Jeanne, let's go to the facts of
the matter. Gates ran the CIA. What
distinguished him in that role and what do his
detractors say about his conduct as CIA
director and what can be factually supported?
MESERVE: Well needless to say, there are
differing opinions of how he did in that job.
But one thing I'd note, some of those senators
who voiced opposition to him in 1991 later
changed their mind about him and decided he
had not been such a bad pick. Interestingly,
Carl Levin was one ofthose who voted
against him in 1991, you heard him today
saying he wants some more information.
DOBBS: OK, Jeanne, thank you -- Jeanne
Meserve from Wasbington.

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Sent: Monday. November 13. 2006 11:51 AM
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SUbject: Here We Go (Again): today's TAS

If Republicans don't re-earn the label, "the stupid party" they can make considerable gains in meeting
the usual suspects on the ideological battlefield.

(home office)
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From: JedBabbin@i~;~~~.?~Y{(,{M;,
Sent: Sunday, November 12,20064;45 PM
TD: Ruff. Eric Mr OSD PA
Subject: Re: Personal and Confidential

Great; thanks. All this will factor into Thursday's Rep column.

Jed Babbin
'(Home Office)
(Mobile)

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Liberal groups expect postelection results

Activists who helped Democrats secure Congress make clear they intend to get
their reward.
By Peter Wallsten and Janet Hook
Times Staff Writers

November 12,2006

WASHINGTON - After toppling the long-dominant Republicans in a hard­

fought election, the Democratic Party's incoming congressional leaders have
immediately found themselves in another difficult struggle - with their own
supporters.

Some of the very activists who helped propel the Democrats to a majority in the
House and Senate last week are claiming credit for the victories and demanding
what they consider their due: a set of ambitious - and politically provocative ­
actions on gun control, abortion, national security and other issues that party
leaders fear could alienate moderate voters and leave Democrats vulnerable to
GOP attacks as big spenders or soft on terrorism.

The conflict underscores the challenge facing the Democrats in line to lend
Congress - Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco in the House and Harry Reid of
Nevada in the Senate. Each has pledged in recent days to "govern from the

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. center," a~er a campaign in which anger over the Iraq war and GOP scandals
helped theIr party attract some unusually conservative candidates and a large share
of independent voters.

Turning offthose new voters could undennine Democrats' hopes of solidifying

their new majorities and taking the White House in 2008. But to the leaders of
interest groups whQ are core supporters of the Democratic Party, and who had
been barred under Republican rule from the inner sanctums ofpower, the new
Congress meanS a time for action, not compromise.

Lobbyists for the American Civil Liberties Union, for example, are all but
counting on Democrats to repeal the most controversial provisions of the Patriot
Act, the anti~terrorist law pushed by the White House that some critics call
unconstitutional. They also want to end President Bush's domestic wiretapping
program.

"We are not going to let them off the hook," said Caroline Fredrickson, the
ACLU's legislative director, of the newly empowered Democratic leaders in
Congress.

"We will hold their feet to the fire and use all the tools we can to mobilize our
members."

Similar vows are coming from lobbyists for abortion rights, who want to expand
family-planning options for poor women and scale back Bush's focus on
abstinence education, and from gun-control advocates, who hope to revive a
lapsed ban on assault weapons. Labor unions, a core Democratic constituency, are
demanding universal healthcare and laws discouraging corporations from seeking
inexpensive labor overseas.

''It's been kind ofa drought for 12 years, and there is some pent-up energy,t' said
Bill Samuel, legislative director for the AFL-CIO, the labor federation that has
long been a Democratic Party stalwart and spent- millions of dollars on get-out-the­
vote activities.

Several of the labor movement's less-controversial goals, such as raising the

minimum wage and allowing Medicare to seek discounts on drug prices, are found
both in the AFL-CIO's brochures and on a Democratic leadership wish list '
designed to appeal across ideological lines.

But labor officials said they expected Pelosi~ Reid and others to go further.

The day after the election, labor leaders declared a mandate for their causes and

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. called on the new Congress to immediately reverse anti-union policies enacted by

the Bush administration and promote affordable healthcare llfor all. n

"Welre realistic about the congressional timetable, but we have our own view
about why people went to the polls I " said Samuel. "We think it had to do with
their unhappiness with Republican inaction on the economy .... They're expecting
Congress to tackle these issues, not play short ball."

Eli Pariser, executive director of the political action committee associated with the
liberal activist group MoveOn.org, warned that Democratic leaders would be ill­
advised to ignore the party's base.

itA huge number of people were involved in putting them over the top," Pariser
said. "There's a huge group of people engaged and energized and ready to support
Pelosi and company when they boldly lead - and to hold them to account if they
stray."

Pressure on Democrats is especially acute to redirect U.S. policy in Iraq. Many

Democrats say the issue was the most important one driving the party's victory.

Democratic lawmakers have not unified behind a single Iraq policy. If they could
find common ground with Bush on a continued troop presence, they might fend
off GOP efforts to label them as weak on national security - but they would
probably infuriate a growing antiwar movement that helped propel the party back
into power.

UArnerican voters have done their job; now it's time for Congre~s to do theirs,"
said fonner Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Maine), national director of the antiwar group
Win Without War. "The message couldn't be clearer. It's time to start the orderly
withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Our eyes are on the new Congress."

Other interest groups are pointing to Tuesday's results as vindication of their

particular causes, and as proofthat Democrats should embrace their issues rather

than shun them as too liberal.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which advocates abortion rights,

pointed to victories by like~minded candidates in conservative states and a
rejection by South Dakota voters of an abortion ban. The result, the group says,
should be that Democrats view their causes as mainstream, rather than part of a
liberal agenda, and should devote more money to contraception and other family­
planning options opposed by religious conservatives and scaled back by the
administration.

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"I honestly believe there was no bigger winner in this election than Planned
Parenthood Action Fund and women's health, \I said Planned Parenthood President
Cecile Richards, referring to the group's political ann.

At the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the leading gun-control

advocacy group, President Paul Helmke has high hopes for the assault weapons
ban - and he can list races where candidates backed by his group defeated those
supported by the National Rifle Assn.

But Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., acknowledged that
his challenge was to convince Democrats that his cause was not "radioactive."
Many Democratic strategists have come to believe that supporting gun-control
laws alienates rural voters and many independents.

I1Guns are a tricky issue," Helmke said. 11But the elections show there's nothing to
be afraid of."

Still, the issues of abortion and guns underscore the tough decisions facing Reid
and Pelosi as they try to please the party's core supporters while appealing to
centrist voters.

The party's winning formula this year, after all, required candidacies from cultural
conservatives such as Rep.-elect Heath Shuler in western North Carolina and
Sens.-elect Jon Tester in Montana and Jim Webb in Virginia.

A preview of the tussle that awaits Reid and Pelosi has been playing out on the
Internet since election day. with liberal bloggers decrying party centrists as out of
touch with the Democratic majority. The complaints have been serious enough to
draw Reid's attention, prompting him to host a conference call after the election
with more than a dozen of the country's most prominent liberal bloggers.

Reid himself has learned to navigate these issues in order to win election in largely
rural Nevada. He calls himself pro·gun and, according to a spokesman, opposes
abortion except in cases of rape and incest and when the woman's life is
endangered.

In the Senate, matters are further complicated by the fact that at least five
Democrats - nearly 10% of the caucus - are considering presidential bids in
which they may need to win the liberal base to gain the nomination but then
campaign to the center in a general election.

Republicans have already said they intend to take back power in 2008 by
portraying Democrats as big-government tax raisers who would rather safeguard

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, civil liberties than interrogate terrorists.

Conservatives, though splintered over Imq, immigration and other issues, had
succeeded in keeping power since 1994 in part by forging a coalition built on
compromise and shared goals - a practice that Democrats have yet to perfect.

Senior Democrats say they will figure out a way to bridge the divide.

"Tension is inherent in politics, and maybe a little bit of tension is goOd/I said
Reid spokesman Jim Manley. "But on the Gore, fundamental issues, everyonels in
line.II

Wary that the interest groups' demands may tum off the centrist voters who put
them in the majority, some Democratic pragmatists are preparing to press for
greater independence.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman ofthe committee that designed
the party's Senate campaign strategy, is publishing a book in January that is
expected to layout a plan for ]ong~tenn Democratic dominance. He is expected to
embrace a philosophy somewhere between the Democrats' old New Deal reliance
on government and conservatives' outright disdain for government.

Schumer signaled as much after the election when he called on the party to "push
aside the special interests and always keep our eye on the average American
family."

peter. wallsten@latimes.com

janet.hook@latimes.com

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Eric: Thanks. Best, Jed.

Jed Babbin
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Sent: Sunday, November 12,20062:42 PM
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will do~ jed. eric

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sent: Sunday, November 12( 2006 1:54 PM
To: Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA
Subject: Personal and Confidential

Eric: I'd be very grateful if you'd pass this on to Mr. Rumsfeld. Many thanks. Best, Jed.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Of the many things that must be on your mind today, writing a book isn't likely to be one
of them. But some time, I suspect sooner rather than later, you'll want your memoir of the
past few years (and more) to be published, Whether it's with my usual publisher or
another, I'd consider it a privilege to be your ghostwriter, co.author~ biographer or work
with you to figure out what other arrangement would suit you. (Regnery, publisher oftwo
of my books, has asked me to get the word to you that they'd be eager to "do a book" with
you). Please think of me when you start thinking about a book. In admiration and with
respect, Jed Babbin.

Jed Babbin
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Mobile)

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Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:01 AM
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SUbject: Veterans Day 2006

Dear Friends .
Veterans day 2006....a time of reflection.... and fun too....
" Dick the Dog" and J went and saw the Veterans Day Parade down Duval Street here in Key West.... It
featured a U.S.Coast Guard element ( the Navy didn't send anyone... I guess they can't march... }. Anyway. it was
wonderful seeing the Para<le of Coasties, as Cam! my Daughter, and her Hubby Barnaby ( my wonderfUl Soo-In­
Law) are proud serving Coasties....allhough. my super Son snd his Fiancee Susan are U.S. Navy Reservists
( haVing served on active duty for 8 years plus too)..... aoyway. it was wonderful to see people whooping It up
praising our service men and women amidst the Stars and Stripes......
Then, "Dick the Dog" and I went and saw the speed boats.... million doUar plUS nOISY ass loomy boats...painte<l
up like clown boats....( you can tell I'm a sailor ).... amidst allot of beautiful women professing to be "Models
".....ummmmm!
Anyway, it was fun... I 10lie Key West for all the activity....just fun...
Later, I returned to the ARK ANGEL as the sun was setting ( notice the sun at the bottom of the mast in the
picture)....sat on the deck...drinking a Mike's hard Lemonade... thinking about the servicemen and wornenl have
served with and met ... my War Hem Father. .. others of import to America and to me personally... that serve<J
under our gloriOus Flag... J remembered that I was MadNae'ed from Vietnam to CiarkAF9 the Phihppines.... on 11
November 1967....... it was a somber mornenLa delicate moment.. .. a quiet and respectful one as the sun
disappeared. Alii could think about... was the prayer..."Praise GOO from whom all bounty flows" .
Best Regards,
ANDY

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proud.... they were dedicated and good....always doing the hard stuff and doing It well
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All,

Today MG Caldwell conducted an "on the record" conference call with several Defense

Analysts coordinated through OSD. Below Is the list of participants in the interview. Attached

you will find his prepared remarks for your use.

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Retired Military Analysts:
Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN
Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
Major General Timothy Haake (USAR, Retired)
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Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired)

Lieutenant General Thomas Mcinerney (USAF, Retired)

General William L. Nash (USA. Retired)

Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired)

Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN. CIA, Retired)

Captain Martin L Strong (USN, Retired)

Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired)

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 Good morning to you all. I appreciate the opportunity to chat with you again.

I'm sure aU of you have been paying attention to the election returns back home.
They signal that America Is In a period of transition. Here In Iraq we continue to

see a country that is also in transition. With transition comes change, and with

change comes challenges. These challenges are sometimes perceived as

setbacks, When In fact they are actually signs of growth.

We can see these signs of growth in the Iraqis' capacity to govern, in their

capability to provide security. and in their commitment to revitalize their

economy. Throughout this period of transition, we are firmly dedicated to helping

the Iraqis achieve our common goal - an Iraq that can govern, defend and sustain

itself.

Now I'd like to focus our discussion on an area seeing a lot of change - the

security situation across Iraq. As you are aware. this year we once again saw

historically elevated levels of violence during the month of Ramadan.

And as expected, there has been a downturn in violence followIng Ramadan­

although we certainly do not yet consider this a trend. Last week the number of

casualties nationWide decreased slightly by 2% compared to the preVious week.

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 · The time frame is too short to draw any definite conclusions, but we will of

course continue to monitor these numbers.

Another area where we continue to see change is the diminishing capabilities of

AI Qaeda In Iraq. Their forces are being challenged by the combined focused

efforts of the Iraqi Security Force and the Coalition. We 'continue to see evidence

that our efforts are achieving results against their ability to finance and execute

their crimes.

Sectarian violence however, remains a challenge. We continue to see operations

by death squads and illegitimate armed militias. But It is important to remember

that to date the problem is largely localized. More than 90% of reported incidents

of se~tarlan violence occur within 30 miles of the capltal of Baghdad. And there

are some promising developments. The Prime Minister continues to oversee

efforts to gain support among tribal sheiks and religious leaders for

reconciliation and unity.

Back where you are, I know that the resignation of the Secretary of Defense has

received quite a bit of coverage. At MNF·I, we look forward to working with a new

Secretary after the Senate confirmation process. We are aware there will be

changes on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon a period of transition will occur, but

we also heard the President's commitment to sustaining our partnership with the

people a~d government of Iraq.

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 The Iraqi Government continues its efforts to become the lead partner in

providing true security for its people. They continue to take positive steps to

increase the capabilities of the Iraqi Security Force. These developments are

having a real impact on the dally lives of Iraqis. The Iraqi Security Force is much

better trained~ better equfpped~ and much more effective than It was just two

years 8g0. We must continue to train and equip the Iraqi Security Forces and put

them In the lead. We're making great progress along those lines. Currently we

have trained and equipped approximately 319,000 personnel. Our goal has been

a Force of 325,000, but just last week, the Prime Minister announced an initiative

to grow the lraqi Security Forces by approximately 30,000. This growth will

improve flexibility and responsiveness. I can provide you with more detans as we

discuss the growth later. The effects of that growth are also being compounded

by an acceleration of the timetable for Force Increases and deployment. We

remain committed to supporting these Iraqi initiatives.

This transition of responsibility for security to Iraqis Is important to the people

here, and I thlnk to Americans as well. The Iraqi people are counting on a more

vigorous force to help them achieve the unity, security and prosperity we all are

working towards.

This leads me to another important topic. As Iraqis are counting on their

uniformed services. this week America recognizes the Importance of its

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 servicemen and women, past and present. With Veteran's Day almost upDn us

and of course, this month being the official month of the military family, a9 you

go out and speak on TV and radio. I encourage you to give a shout out to our

veterans. both those who have served and those who are currently serving, and

especially to the family members back home. The United States is a nation with

25 million living veterans. We currently have 1.4 million men and women on active ­

duly, and they are joined by 1.2 million serving in the reserves. Those Soldiers,

Sailors. Airman and Marines can spend long periods of time away from their

families. We're a mllitary at war, supporting a nation at war. Our young men and

woman serve willingly to. preserve the freedoms of Americans. Our military has a

tough mission and service members need the support of husbands and wives,

children and parents, brothers and sisters. Our families, veterans, and

communities are what make our mllitary and this country strong. I encourage

you to remind people of that fact when talking to the media.

With that, I will be glad to take your questions.

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From: Caldwell VVllUam B MG MNFI DCS STRATEFF [william. caldwell

Sont: .... mber 09, 2006 2:46 PM
To: (:M; aso PA
Cc: toso PA' Vi ' ~~~t,:;;;C;O.1 aso PA; Ballesteros, Mark J L Te aso PA
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~~l&~M!(@I-· wanted to make sure you knew that I have brought on~l~lj!f'i:W;i1if: in ;:t:1;\185 my new
.. 'PAO ... he will be my interface with the pres., work the press cO"fej.e~cesl trips .....really
anything that deals with the press.

He is a seasoned PAO, has a brother serving over here too •• tremendous outgoing personality
and loves what he does.

Please feel free to contact him at anytime, with any Ideas. Will make sure he knows that he
speaks for me and can make commitments on my behalf.

Thanks again for your assistance today - you did a terrific job pulUng it aU togetherl

Vir - Bill Caldwell

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Enjoyed working with you today. Attached you wJII find MG Caldwell's

prepared remarks. .

Also just wanted to ensure the off the record comments were kept as
such. The two topics included Iranlen support to specific groups and
the Iraqis high tolerance levels for violence. All other comments were
in fact on the record. Just wanted to clarify. .

Could you please send me the final list of folks who participated in the

conference call.

Finally, do you produce a transcript from the interview that we could

get? We would appreciate any help in obtaining a transcript.

Once again thanks for settinglhis up and for your flexibility.

F;;'-~:' . OSO PA [mailto~~1~~?)m~\{;;:M\;;:iWK:i\,it:;iI;:W@;Wi:i1ilWi;Wj:\1

Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 8: 19 PM
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Cc: STRATEFF: MAJ MNFI STRATEFF
COMMS DIV QSO PA
Subject: FW: MENTS

sir,
thanks again for a great call today. general mcinerney would like a copy
of your prepared remarks from the call, jf you'd be willing to pass them
along to him. he will not share It witn anyone, but would like to have
them for his own reference. i will be happy to send them to him if you
are ok with that.
you,

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Can you ask Bill Caldwell if he will give us his prepared remarks that

he read before the O&A?

Not a problem if he does not w~nt to.

Thanks. Good session.

Tom

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excellent. will do, sir. thanks.

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sir,

thanks again for a great call today. general mcinerney would like a copy of your pr~pared

remarks from the call, if you'd be willing to pass them along to him. he will not share it

with anyone, but would like to have them for his own reference. i will be happy to send

them to him if you are ok with that.

th~pk you,

2006 2:46 PM

Can you ask Bill Caldwell if he will give us his prepared remarks that he read before the
Q&A?

Not a problem if he does not want to.

Thanks. Good session.

Tom
Thomas G. McInerney

Lt. Gen. USAF (ketl

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E-Mail Addtess: On file

Company Name: OSD

Host's Name: fbltoj.h,:;;;tl Major General Caldwell

Conference Name: OSDfPA Liaison (IO:30A) Military

Conference Title: Milit'!Y Analyst

Participant Information

1. Captain Chuck Nash Fox News

2. Colonel Jeff McCausland CBS News
3. Ll Oen Tom Mcinerney Fox News
4. Major General Don Shepperd CNN

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10. Todd Vician OSD
11. Major General Paul Vallely Fox News channel
12. Bin~ West Reuter
13. ~b1t$»Ui+i.'<{'!HtJ DOD
14. Brigadier General David Grange McConnick Tribune Foundation
\5. CSM Steve Greer Fox News
16. Jonathan Thompson DOD

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From: MAl F. Andy Messing [ndcf~~~m?iitt;M'l!:!,~i;,;!:i:i\:~~1

Sent: Thursday, November 09.200612:38 PM

To: Gregory Walker

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Cc: thomas. r. pickering ~~~~~)~f\jH\i!X;W(X1iJJoh n Wag helstein

SUbject: Ed Bradley of CBS 60 Minutes I

Dear Friends...
Ed Bradley {along with George Crlle who also just died 6 months ago )... who helped El Salvador Vets get
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recognition for combat seNice in that conflict.. .. in 1993 with TWO 60 minutes pieces { one being a follOW-up to

move DOD oft'a the dime ).... just passed away. Pray for Ed's family. His efforts brought honor to the

honorable ..... I

Best

ANDY Messing

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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:55 AM

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Subject: RE: CONFERENCE CALL TODAY

yes. i was going to give it a half hour and then start the round of calls... will divy up with list and get james and
donna's help. then we'll have a good idea by about 1000.
ks

From:~~~I~):):;:Jnl;;i!(/CS&j:;ji?eJ OSD PA
sen~tT~~\~9~x!~ovember 09,20068:54 AM
Toi·~1{$~:}ii:Y+H<;;'4 OSD PA
Subject: RE: CONFERENCE CALL TODAY

Do you want james/donna to call through list and give heads up?

I worry that few will participate on short notice and/or check emails.

~';~&~~1~~l;';!:i;u!:j;tt;,m;;';M OSD ~~----'-_._._ ..

sent: Thursday, November 09,20068:49 AM
Subject~ CONFERENCE CAll TODAY

MEMORANDUM

To: Retired Military Analysts

From:
Public Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: November 9, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, TODAY, November 9, 2006from 10:30-11:00 a.m.
Major General William Caldwell, the Coalition Spokesman in Iraq, will provide you with an update on
operations in Iraq.
To participate in this conference call, please dia ld ask the

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operator to connect you to the Analysts conference call.

PJeas~R.....s..Y...£. to at call her at

We hope you are able to participate.

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From: ~~~~f;~'W!\,~I;i,:njt,':[:\\i:li\Mi;WjosD PA
Sent: Wednesday, November 08,20063:01 PM
To: Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA
SubJect: Please call Jed BaOtlln

~il~~W:lfi:~ji;i;:~:),:l!:j;f;@;)1
Confidential Assistant to the
As~islant Secretary
of Defense for Public Affi'6iumijr~s ==
1400 Defense Pentagon E~"~M;ii }il
Washi ton, DC 20301-1400
(main)
(privat
(c)

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From: Abbott, Catherine COL OSD PA

Sent: Wednesday. November 08, 2006 12:58 PM
To: Ruff, Eric Mr aSD PA
SUbject: Please call Jed Babbin.~{

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 SUbjeet: MG Thurman Conference Call w( Retired Military Analsyts
Location:

Start: Thu 1119/2006 10:00 AM

End: Thu 11/9/2006 10:30 AM

Recurrence: (none)

Invited Retired Military Analysts:

Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Fonner JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics
Admiral Dennis C. Blair (USN, Retired)
Commander Peter Brookes (USN, Reserve) Heritage Foundation
Lieutenant General Frank B. Campbell (USAF, Retired)
Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTe, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News
Lieutenant General Michael P. DeLong (USMC, Retired) Fox News
Major Dana R. Dillon (USA, Retired)
General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News
General Ronald Fogleman (USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (CSAF, Retired) NBC
Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) - Fox News
Lieutenant General Buster Glosson (USAF, Retired)
Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN
Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
Major General Timothy M. Haake (USAR, Retired)
Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Admiral David E. Jeremiah (USN, Retired)
General Jack Keane (USA, Retired) ABC
General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired) Lehrer Newshour
Colonel Glenn Lackey (USA, Retired)
Admiral Thomas Joseph Lopez (USN, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) Fox News, CNN, BBC, Radio
Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN
Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS (mostly radio)
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News
Major Andy Messing Jr. (USAR, Retired) - Fox News
Major General Burton R. Moore (USAF, Retired)
General Thomas S. Moonnan, Jr. (USAF, Retired)
Major General Michael 1. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)
Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired) - Fox News
General William L. Nash (USA, Retired) Council on Foreign Relations
General Glenn K. Otis (USA, Retired)
General Joseph Ralston (USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant General Erv Rokke (USAF, Retired)­
Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox News
General H. Bugh Shelton (USA, Retired)
Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) C~

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 Lieutenant Colonel Carlton Sherwood (USMC, Retired)

Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN, Retired) - Fox News
Major: General Perry Smith (USAF, Retired)
Captain Martin L. Strong (USN, Retired)
Captain Robert R. Timberg (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) - Fox News
Colonel John Warden (USAF. Retired)
General Larry D. Welch (USAF. Retired)
Mr. Bing West (USMC, Retired) - Atlantic Monthly, Freelance Writer
General Charles E. Wilhelm (USMC, Retired)
General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Retired) US Naval Institute

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From: &~;~,(~~;t "t'· \;':'~:(ii:;::I:;:\~'!'!~bSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:15 PM
To: .. DPA
Cc: SO PA
Subject: RE: [U] FtE: Thursday Pentagon Brief

Sounds like a good idea to me, unless Mark has any objections. Mark?
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OSD PA
ovember 07,20061:58 PM
SD PA
Ce. SO PA
Subject: fW: [U] REi -rhursday Pentagon Brief

hi. why don't you plan on sitting in on this. you can see how it's done.
thanks

From. i', OSD PA

sent: Tuesday, November 07,2006 1:57 PM
To: Vielan Todd M LtCol OSD PA
C :rc 41D PAO'; Ballesteros, Mark J LTC OSD PA
OSDPA

SUbject: REi [U] RE: Thursday Pentagon Brief

todd, thanks for your help in coordinating this.

we will set the call for 10:30 (de time) on thursday. i will send out the invite first thing in the morning, in the

meantime, here is the agenda with a list of those who wiU be invited for mg thurman to look over. i will open the

call and welcome everyone and explain the groundrules (is mg thurman going to be on background or on-the­

record? up to him. caldwell and casey tend to go on-t!'le-record unless there is something they want to tell them

for their own knowledge. the analysts always respect it if the general asks them to keep something on background

or off the record).

i will then turn it over to mg thurman and allow him to make some brief remarks (as brief or detailed as he would

/ike to go. it's a pretty good assumption that most of the analysts will not have just watched his pc). he can then

open it up for q&a. '

i will send out the list of rsvp's about an hour before the call.

anything else anyone needs from me?? (dia'·in number is on the agenda)

From: Vidan, Todd M LtCol OSD PA

Sent: Tuesda , November 07, 2006 9:02 AM
To SO PA
Ce. LTC 41D PAO'; Ballesteros, Mark J LTC OSD PA

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Subject: PN: [U] RE: Thursday Pentagon Brief

Hi l~;~'~~i~r;! ,. ' .
Can YOll arrange an analysts call with MG Thurman, the Multi-National Division-Baghdad commander? I believt'
they're looking for the same group that MG Caldwell spoke with last week. MG Thurman is doing a Pentagon
press brief from 0900-0930 this Thu rsday. I assume we could start the analysts call shortly after that.

His PAO is LTC,~;~r'

:~Y·:~:.::·:;·::
with contact info below.

Thanks,
Todd

U Col Todd Vician, USAF

Defense Press Officer

Office of Assistant Secreta of Defense (Public Affairs)

From:~~1'f~1~@WiM!i;1':W:;.;i,{:W;i;::!M;n;1LTC 41D PAO

sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:20 PM

To: Vician, Todd M LtCol OSD PA

ee: Ballesteros, Mark J LTC OSD PA

SUbject: RE: [U] RE: Thursday Pentagon Brief

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Todd,

The, CG did agree to speak to some military analysts that MG Caldwell approached him about. Do you have any

information on who would participate?

vIr

LTC ~§){~)+'!}i;;Xi}~n;:/;'i;:t;itt<;f~;'i!1i;'1
Public Affairs Officer . ..
Multi-National Division-Baghdad
Camp Liberty, Iraq

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
If this e-mail is marked FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY it may be exempt from mandatory disclosure
WIder ForA. DoD 5400.7R, "DoD Freedom oflnfonnation Aci Program", DoD Directive 5230.9,
"Clearance of DoD Infonnation for Public Release", and DoD Instruction 5230.29, "Security and Policy
Review of DoD Information for Public Release" apply.

From: Vlclan, Todd M LtCol OSD PA [mallto:todd,vldan

Sent: Tuesda~ November 07,200612:39 AM .
To:~I?R§X~(}3;;EV:iXXiiN:%:ni'\;il LTC 410 PAO
Subject: RE: [UJ RE: Thursday Pentagon Brief

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Thanks·· we'll stick to the brief. We're 8 hours behind y'all again, so I guess that means we start at
1700.your time on Thursday.

Todd

Lt Col Todd Vician, USAF

Defense Press Officer
sa (Public Affairs)
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From: ~~;~(~~'<~@:ii;i'~~';;\;;:;':i::i'~:ii"i:j,;J,;));,hC 410 PAD [marlt
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:01 PM
To: Viclan M LtCol OSD PA
Cc: ... LTC vV CORPS PAD MNC-I V CORPS PAO; Ballesteros, Mark J LTC OSD PA
Subject: U] RE: Thursday Pentagon Brief

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Todd,
Thanks. Given the current environment around here, \ think we'll decline the radio interviews. We're in the
middle of RIP right now. We'll execute from our DVIDS at the MND-B MOC.

l TC Jonathan B. Withington
Public Affairs Officer
Multi-National Division-Baghdad
Camp liberty, Iraq

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
If this e-mail is marked FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY it may be exempt from mandatory disdosur~
under FOIA. DoD 5400.7R, "DoD Freedom of Information Act Program", DoD Directive 52'30.9,
"Clearance of DoD Infonnation for Public Release", and DoD Instruction 5230.29; "Security and Policy
Review of DoD Information for Public Release" apply.

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From: Vlcian, Todd M LtCol OSD PA [mallto:todd.vician
•..

Se • . 06, 2006 9:33 PM

To LTC 410 PAO
C C : i LTC vV CORPS PAO MNC-I V CORPS PAO; Ballesteros, Mark J LTC OSD PA
Subject: Thursday Pentagon Brief

Hi t~}(~)i/<[ji:;~;\:;;j'iXl
We have all the info on MG Thurman we need for prepping for Thursday's press brief at 0900 EST. Do you need
more info from us? Here's the latest list of reporters (a few might have changed since your Boss l:lid the briefing
with the press here in September).

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From: ~~),e~*;';i.r,N;;jn';:j 'i" ':;IOSO PA

Sent: Monday, November 06,2006 5:18 PM
To: OSD PA
Subject: FW: academic experts

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sent: Wednesday, September 27,20063:18 PM
To:~Blt51?':fY;;t/:8+»:t;bl OSD PA
SUbject: RE: academic experts

Category I: Experts

Iraq experts most quoted in the newspaper

• Anthony Cordesman (CSIS -230 hits in last six months)

• Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings -186 hits)

Other experts the experts consult

• Eliot Cohen (SAIS)
• Andy Krepenevich (CBSA 68 -hits)
• Jeff White (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
• Bruce Hoffmann (RAND)
• Kalev Sepp (Naval Postgraduate School)
• Mike Vickers (CBSA)
• Tom Donnelly (AEI)
• Jeff McCausland (Dickinson College)
• Stephen Biddle (Army War College)
• Noah Feldman (NYU)

.• Bob KiJJebrew (consultant)

• Reul Marc Gerecht (AEI)

Category JI: General defenselforeign policy "wise men"

• Barry McCaffrey (West Point)
• Robert Scales
• Richard Sinnreich
• John Hamre (eSIS)
• Kurt Campbell (CSIS)
• Loren Thompson (Lexington Institute)
• Sam Nunn
• William Cohen
• Madeleine Albright
• Wesley Clark

(':ategoO'Jlllntluencers ~neral pundits)

Influencers who generally support the Iraq war

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• Newt Gingrich
• Charles Krauthammer
• Bill Kristal
• Fred Barnes
• Jim Woolsey
• David Brooks
• Jim Hoagland
• Fouad Ajami
• Victor Davis Hanson
• Nonnan Podhoretz
• David Ignatius

Lnfluencers who are skeptical but perhaps persuadable

• Fareed Zakaria
• Peter Galbraith
• Lawrence Kaplan
• Tom Friedman
• Fred Hiatt
• Gideon Rose

~~-~~~~\~~;:i~t~i~@reij!~'~(0iIoSD PA [manto :~g~~~rM'i':l i:,1;;:!';)F,;\;;),:gM:;11:lii~

sent: Wednesday, September 13,20067:22 PM
TO:~){~JY;;:?/)!?
Cc: Chafin, Oaude H.i
Subjec:t: Re: academic experts

Hi,

great way to segment into groups.

At first glance: Emphasis on I and :2 for short tcnn, with 3 and 4 in our backpocket, for when needed.

Could I please call you this week to explain?

Fr
To\ OSDPA
CC: Chafin, Claude H.
Sent: Wed Sep 13 17:47:052006
Subject: RE: academic expel1S

What arc the criteria?

I do not have 1I formal list, but assemble coalitions of the willing depending on how far across the aisle we are trying

to reach.

Are we talking:

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(1) reliable surrogates

(2) gnJdging supporters
(3) usually fair-minded critics
(4) unavoidable critics'!

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To: ~~)'(~Jjj,;;2;;;!',;;i'i;'i;';;;;i"!;j 0 SD PA';
Cc: Chafin, Claude H.
Subject: RE: academic experts

is the right person to ask. I'm looping him in.

Hi, ~~;~!~?,'ii.)t~IDorrance wants me to put together a list of militarylforeign affairs academic and think tank
experts that 000 will periodically bring in for briefings, add to our email list and keep in contact with.

I'm bettin re tlte people to go to at White Hcmse? Should I reach out 10

them?

Please let me know.

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From:' Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA
Sent: Monday. November 06,200610:44 AM
To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA
Cc: TI1ompson, Jonathan Mr OSD PA
Subject: FW: Visit to JTF GTMO

by way of background, gordon and paul have spoken t~ several folks in dod about gtmo, and
they have visiteQ the facility at least orice, strictly to interview people down there.
they are very much interested in telling "the other! story" about gtmo and believe in its
importance. they also have had good chance to interact with the military and believe the
guards and interrogation staff. etc., are doing wonderful work. thanks.

~~~~:~ii~[~~0W~~000i;~~-~A
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 e :42 PM
To: Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA
Subject: Fw: visit to JTF GTMO
;
Hi. Thought you'd be interested to see that there i~ movement on the gitmo book. Feel free
to weigh in, as rdml harris is asking for pa to si~ off. (See gordon'S email - first in
the chainl Th){~~~~~~,:1 l

2006
GTMO

~P)(§)i'iDf /tN;;'~ dates ok with me,
WRT Commissions, that is'not
DC. Coord with Gordon, too,
much of that, but that is OK
HH
but you will have to rUrl this through SC, DASD/DA and ASD/PA.
our lane ... Gordon can ~iscuss with BrigGen Tom Hemingway in
for best dates within t~e ~-16 window. I will be gone for
as BG Leacock will be he~e while I'm gone.
I
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C1V, ~ASD.PA: Leacock, ~dward A BG

Harry B, RDML USSOUTHCOM ~TFGTMO

,
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l'd like to start the process on working area clearan~e and transportation to visit the
JTF on 9-16 December 2006. LTC (Ret) John Rudisill willi accompany me as he did on our
previous visit. I mentioned these dates to Adm Harris ~nd he is comfortable with them.
We've still got some open areas in our research to fil~ prior to finali~ing the manuscript
to the publisher. Accordingly if we could meet with the Commander and Deputy, Paul Rester,
the new Colonel who is head of the Joint Detention fac~lity, and with the legal people
that would be a great start. 'As is usual, we'll probab~y discover new leads to follow up
once we're on the ground.

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So~e areas of interest would be any progress On Mi~itary commissions or other legal
developments.

Pleas~ let me know if you will be able to process this request with existing information
(i.e., personal data on file from our last visit) ~r if you will need for us to update it.
i
We would like to take the Saturday, 9 Dec rotator oft of NAS JAX and return there on the
16 Dec flight.

Appreciate your help with this request,

a.ll the beat I

Gordon Cucullu

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JedBabbln
Sent: Monday, November 06.2006 7:51
To: tmcinerney" . ashct
USAGirI1957..: INSSI
ladd.wheeler tiNl kerson
SUbject: After Bush: a new conservative renaissance

i
There's not a moment to lose: The conservative coalition n~eds to revive itself now to win in 08.
. !

Jed Babbin
(home office)
. (home fax)
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 From:' RUff, Eric Mr OSD PA

Sent: Friday, November 03.2006 12:17 PM
To: 'Thomas McInerney'
SUbject: RE:TALK

okay, tom. i'll let the fellow know and i'll give him you phone info.

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From: Thomas McInerney [mail to: tmcinerney~~{&~~!ZY{ii1.:i:LZ:;m;''{i :1
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:47 PM .

To: Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA .

Subject: FW: TALK

Eric
Fox says OK on al Arabiya TV if you would like me to.
Tom
Thomas G. McInerney
Lt. Gen. USAF (Ret)

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From: Jed Babbin~~¢~~(,~::;;~Mi;;M;il

Sent: Thursday, November 02, 20069:21 AM
To: tmcinerney@~;~$~!;c;j'1;';i.i::~fjli\,liilnashct au RM41516<4~:~~~0fi;j@1~;! '
USAGirl1957 WSSIroberth6ca
ladd.wheeler 'lkers0rt~),(~X);;Yn;;;jShepDonald mg root~~~~~&;,@;Y;n:,m;',1
groothousen
SUbject: Election count down - Today's Rep

If you believe the Washington Post, this election isn't about what John Kerry said. But
that's preCisely what it's about: the liberal elitist attitude that slanders our troops and
belittles what they do.

(Home Office)
,.,. (Mobile)

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Sent:
To:
Cc: .

Some ammunition against the nattering nabobs.

Gen. Jac:.k Keane (former vice chief of the Army) appreciated the myths piece Matt K. and Juli worked on.

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This is the second nice email he's sent recently (really liked the Newsweek Afghanistan rebuttal also).

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;~~;;~ack-'~~ane [mallto:jkeane@,~¢~~~;, :~,;;::D;, i )"<)'<';";{1

Sent: Wednesda~, November 01,2006 l:H PM
To: K§)(~X~;~)!j;fX";0';i;!;mti)ilOSD PA
Subject: RE:

Excellent piece of work, very useful.

All the best,

Jack Keane

From: Defense-Leaders List on behalf of Pentagon Communications

Sent: Wed 11/1/2006 11:26 AM
To: DEFENSE·LEADERS-L@DllC.MIL
Subject:

Attached please find the most recent DoD update from the Department of Defense
Office of Public Affairs.

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 From:'
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To;
SUbject:

Worth Readingllllllllll

Osprey Media
Paul E Vallely
Military s st "Stand up America"
vall
tel:
fax:
www.ospreymedia.us

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Sent: Monday, october 30, 2006 5:16 PM
To: Thomas G McInerney: Paul Vallely: WSSlnter: Bill Cowan
Subject:. Fw: Iraq -- There's Nothing Left to Try; 'End Game' Beyond US Control

Iraq -- There's Nothing Left to Try: 'End Game' Beyond US Control

** The Shi'ite majority is itself divided -- mostly along personality lines. All of the
major Shi'ite political groups are backed by their own militias, and all have very strong
ties back to the Iranian Pasdaran predating 2001-03. They are far less dependent upon the
US than we like to believe. None of them will support a comprehensive amnesty ~. nor
should they, since they are being pressed to include the Sunnis in the government without
an amnesty and with influence beyond their numbers. Political leaders like al-Maliki also
have learned, like Karzai and all past western clients, that they must distance themselves
from if not openly confront Western leaders on behalf of their supposed "national
interests" because they are inherently suspect as lackeys and puppets. Whether or not they
really are is immaterial -- in politics perceptions matter more than facts, especially in
the disinformation age. The only way al-Maliki will change is to further align with and
effectively empower the Shi'ite Islamist .
(Khomeini'ist) militias that are the only force keeping the security services from
completely collapsing, and are at least seen to be the only defenses against the Bunni
Islamists, foreign fighters, and Kurdish separatists.
*. The Kurds are realizing that they are extremely vulnerable because the great American
experiment to craft a secular, pluralistic democracy in Iraq has failed, and that as the
most isolated minority and the one most closely associated with secularism, democracy, and
the US. They are in danger of being wiped out -- and Washington is largely ignoring this
grim reality.
The Kurds could wind up like the Hmong and other mountain folk in S.E.Asia when we bailed
out -- forced to flee or brutally repressed. The Kurds would love to "make a (reasonable)
deal" -- but aren't being offered one. The sunnis want to keep everything Sadd~m grabbed
for them, if not more, whi1e not being able or willing to promise anything like security
or even cooperation. The Shi'ites are essentially treating the Kurds as if they are a
temporary nuisance whom they will deal with as soon as the US leaves.
** The Sunnis are not willing or able to make a deal with the government.
The Shi'ite dominated government essentially sees the Sunnis as hated exploiters who are
now getting their just desserts. The Sunni tribal chiefs and clerics have proven unable
or unwilling to do anything ·about the insurgents and their attacks on Shi'ite civilians.
They demand much, but cannot or do not "deliver the goods." For their part, the Sunnis are
demanding far more than their numbers or strength would entitle them to, promise little in
return, and can't deliver what they promise. The tribal chiefs don't really control'
things -- the real leaders among the insurgentlterrorists are widely dispersed and of
necessity well-hidden, because they don't trust the government to keep its side of any
deal (with good reason), and need to keep their identities Secret. The tribal chiefs are

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 little better than intermediaries. While the Sunnis want amnesty, they won't "settle" for
amnesty. They want power and control because that, not majoritarian democracy, is their
only avenue to restoring the comparative well-being they had under Saddam .
•• The US had MANY chances to avoid this situation. .
-- IF the US had "finished the job" in '91 instead of kowtowing to the UN, etc., the
Shi'ites back then probably would have welcomed the US as liberators along with the Kurds,
as this was before Saddam's post-DS pogroms and the resulting ties between the Arab Shi'a
and Iran. But Bush Sr and his team were toc'infatuated with diplomacy, the UN, and his
neo-Wilsonian dreams or "New World Order."
-- By 2003. the us had fewer, costlier. and,riskier options. but still had some better
options than the absurd CoA chosen by the Bush Administration after congress stupidly
granted them a carte blanche. The US had 3 options:
(1) Focus on fundamental continuity while eliminating the Hussein family, the Special
Republican Guards, 'and the Tikriti elite -- leaving the secular Ba'ath regime intact but
under new. more malleable military leadership;, Or,
(2) Go the "total war" route, occupying and governing Iraq until such future time as a new
generation of post-Saddam Iraqis had been trained and educated to lead a pluralistic,
market-oriented secular democracy (but this would have been far too costly and time­
consuming, not to mention imperialistic, for impatient Americans); or,
(3) The US could even have conquered the country and broken up into a loose confederation'
under overall US control, with the Kurds retaining their de facto independence, aShi'ite
Arab semi-autonomous statelet under Allawi but carefully supervised by the US, and a Sunni
semi-autonomous statelet perhaps tied to Amman (of course, this would have also required a
degree of supervised/controlled ethnic cleansing to move the shi'ites south & out of
Baghdad and the Sunnis south out of the major Kurd cities where they'd been sent by Saddam
to Arabicize them) .
•• Sadly, all of those options are essentially foreclosed at this point.
The best the US can now hope for is that the Shi'ite-Sunni sectarian war will absorb the
attentions of the Islamists on both sides for a while.
--SteveD

-----Original Message----­

There's One Last Thing to Try

This past August and September were the two deadliest months on record for Iraqis, and

October is set to exceed even those levels.

By F~reed Zakaria

Editor, Newsweek International

October 30, 2006

American policy in Iraq over the past two and a half years has been a mixture of nation­

building and counterinsurgency, nei.ther with much success.

But the united States is now facing an even more difficult task: ending a civil war.

People in washington have decided to postpone any pOlicy rethinking until the midterm

elections are done, because we don't want politics to interfere with this process. After

that, the hope is that the Hamilton-Baker stUdy group will report its findings. Then we

can begin making some of the moves it recommends. There's just one problem: conditions on

the ground are deteriorating rapidly.

Violence in Iraq has become largely sectarian in nature and has drastically worsened in

the past two months. The International Organization for Migration estimates that 9,000

people every week are being driven out of their homes. The Iraq Casualty Coalition, which

calCUlates Iraqi deaths based on local press reports, says that August and September were

the two deadliest months on record for Iraqis, and October is set to exceed those levels.

One more symbolic explosion-another Samarra bombing, say-could set off a chain reaction

that will make things completely uncontrollable.

The rising sectarian violence is poisoning the atmosphere for any possible reconciliation

or deal, Every week, new killings mean new reasons for vengeance and diminished prospects

for compromise.

Anocher dangerous new trend is the rapid disintegration or political authority across the

country. As the vacuum in security and authority widens, political leaders in Baghdad are

losing control of their militias and cadres across the country. Local gangs are asserting

power in their neighborhoods 'and making money in the protection business. They will not

easily give it up. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently made an analogy to Algeria'S

civil war, pointing out that it took 13 years before that conflict burned out. But Algeria

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 had a unified, competent government facing a reasonably unified, competent insurgency.

That's simple compared with Iraq's chaos.
Histo~ically, outside forces can do little in such circumstances. The proposal floating
around various policy circles, for stepped-up regional diplomacy or a regional conference,
is a fine idea and should certainly be tried. But will syria and Iran. really help
stabilize a pro-U.S. government in Iraq? And do they really have the power to switch off·
the violence there? .
Iraq's basic problem is an internal one. Its major parties need to commit to a power­
sharing agreement. Such a deal appears highly unlikely. Iraq's governing majoritY-Shiite
religious parties and the Kurds-seem wholly averse to making significant concessions to
the Sunni minority. The Sunnis, beset by their own radical elements. and lack of
leadership, seem unable to present a united platform or to rein in the insurgents. And the
United States seems to lack much power to make either side move.

The most disturbing recent event in Iraq-and there are many candidates for that
designation-was the decision by Iraq's single largest political party, SCIRI, to push
forward the process of creating a Shiite "super-region" in the South. This was in flagrant
defiance of the deal, brokered by U.S.
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad before the January elections, that brought majorSunni groups
into the political process and ensured Sunni participation in the voting. It is a frontal
rebuke to President Bush, who made a rare personal appeal toSCIRI's leader, Abdul Aziz
AI-Hakim, on this issue.

Perhaps the most critical element of a deal to end Iraq'S violence is .a broad and
comprehensive amnesty. Almost no civil war or sectarian strife has ever ended without one.
And yet every time amnesty gets discussed, powerfUl shiite voices veto it. (Congressional
Democrats and Republicans also have engaged in demagoguery on the issue, compounding the
problem.) Another is an oil-revenue-sharing agreement. along the lines advocated by Joseph
Biden and Leslie Gelb. This project moves forward and backward in fits and starts.
Additionally, attempts at reversing, even modestly, the massive de~Baathification of Iraq
have proved virtually impossible. Overwhelmingly. the evidence suggests that the major
players in Iraq have neither the intention nor perhaps the capacity to forge a national
compact.
Can the United States regain some leverage to force things forward? There is one last
thing to try: privately but forcefUlly threaten a reduction of u.s.
support for the current government. Nothing else-not the promise of aid, arm-twisting by
the American ambassador. phone calls from President Bush- seems to have worked; It could be
an honest conversation that explains to Iraq's governing coalition that American support
cannot be unconditional.
Without the American military, this Iraqi g~vernment would likeiy fall, and many of its
members' lives might be in danger. Perhaps that will focus their minds.
Of course, there is a good chance that even this won't work. At that point-a few months
from now-we will have to be willing to follow through on the threat. That does not mean a
complete withdrawal. But American forces should be reduced and repositioned so as to
create a much smaller, less active, less ambitious and, one hopes, more sustainable
American presence in Iraq.

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From: Dan Senor

Sent: Mondav, October 30, 2006 11:54 AM
To: ~;~;~:{~d'0;@'iiii(e;!·]M)~;;"1 aSD PA; dansenor
Cc:. Lawrence, Dallas B Mr aso PA
SUbject: RE: guantanamo

Sounds good,

Thanks.·

All the best,

-Dan

From: SO PA [maUt
Sent: Mon 10/30/2006 8:39 AM
To: Dan Senor; dansenor@"":.a=)(=$.)""'i?""'U""()=:;:r"";{;"":;=ij;"">X=;;1
CC: Lawrence, Dallas B Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: guantanamo

great. I'll keep you posted. glad you're interested. i'li try to give you a little more warning for the next trip!
thanks

From: Dan Senor [mailto:dan~~l;f~WE:~:Mi!M\i lUi} j':v~m:ji;!:mrM\i;;1

. Sent: Mond~, October 30, 2006 8:21 AM
ToKg)(~X,<iC)Xl;{;,\%V:loSD PA; dansenor@yahoo.com
Cc: Lawrence, Dallas B Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: gual1tanamo

H~~~t~~i,y)iil
Many thanks for this invitation. I would like to visit Gitmo, but unfortunately cannot go this Weds. Please let me know
when you think the next trip will be as it takes shape.

And apologies for not following up with you sooner.

·A" the best,

-Dan

From OSD PA [mail

Sent: Mon 10/30/2006 5:32 AM .
To: Dan Senor; dansenor«<1;;;;',b"")(";;$;J""'/i,"";X""iii\""/\"";Fi"",,=XH
Cc: Lawrence, Dallas B Mr OSD PA
Subject: guanUlnamo

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hi dan,
j w~nted to follow up with you on the previous emalls j sent you. we have a seat on our flight down to guantanamo
on wednesday, november 1st - if you are interested and available?? i will need to get your information by noon
today to submit the country clearance message. please get In touch with me as soon as possible if you'd like, to
join us.
" you,

~~~~~t;tJr:,;;\j:g,aRfi;':,!'1
Public Affairs
Office of the Secretary of Defense

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 From:' PaulVallely [vallely@~;!&~{;;!~;:';~(~jmiWii;t2:;UI
Sent: Sunday, October 29.200610:10 AM
To: 'Kenneth Timmerman'
Subject: RE: Timmerman/Frontpage: Sabotaging Iraq

Ken: This is a great article and right on target. Have been saying the virtual same things
since 2003. It all went downhill (for the most part) when the decision was made to install
the CPA and Bremer and we became occupiers rather than liberators. The Military
then had to pick up the ball and try to recover .....

Harlan - I have never agreed with him on ,about' anything .

Osprey Media
Paul E Vallely
Militar at "Stand Up America"
vall
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fax:
www.ospr

- -- - -Original Message- - - - - " , b : )

'From: Kenneth Timmerman [mailto:timmerman.road 00
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:32 AM
To: KRT 4bis- TV & Talk Radio
Subject: Timmerman/Frontpage: Sabotaging Iraq
The Path to Iraqi "Failure"
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontP~geMag&zine.~om I October 26, 2006

Harlan Ullman, who frequently touts himself as the "academic mentor of Condoleeza Rice,"
believes that the United States has "lost" the war in Iraq, and that the administration's
handling of Iraq has been "a catastrophe" since the U.S. "lost control of events on the
ground" in April or May 2003.
In an interview with Australian television earlier this month, Mr. Ullman joined Bob
Woodward and Congressional Democrats in accusing the president of refusing to recogni2e
reality. "Iraq is a disaster. It is a disaster at every level. and to think that they've
got a functioning government and to think that the situation is better today than it was
in 2003 or 2004, or 2005, is unbelievable," Mr. Ullman said.

"We have a catastrophe on our hands," he went on, "and ,the only guy in town who seems not
to be able to recognize that. sadly. is the president." The U.S. was on "a stupid course"
in Iraq and needed a radical change of direction, he added.

Harsh words, indeed. They come in the midst of an election season where RepUblicans are
having to defend a war in Iraq that opinion polls say has become widely unpopular.

The only problem is, Mr. Ullman and the war critics are wrong. And this type of pseudo­
critique from a man who wants us to believe that he is a treasured advisor to Republican
policy-makers raises questions about Mr. Ullman?s own political agenda. Is he hoping to
convince voters to oust RepUblicans in November's midterm elections?
NO, we have not "lost" Iraq. Anyone who thinks we have has never set foot in that country
or the Middle East, and thinks we are engaged in some kind of railed law enforcement
exercise akin to routing out the mafia in Hudson, County. New Jersey (something U.S.
Senator Robert Menendez D-NJ, knows quite a lot about. or so I'm told).

Does Mr. Ullman really believe that the Democrats "cut and run" alternative would better
serve our national security interests than continuing to train the Iraqi army and the
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 Iraqi police, than continuing to help them to bridge the sectarian divide and .to track
down terrorists and kill them?
Does he believe that sitting back and doing nothing in 2002, and allowing Saddam Hussein
not only to remain in power but to escape from international sanctions, would have been
better than the risks and the costs of war?
Because that is the policy that the state Department Arabists and that other protege he
sometimes claims, former secretary of state Colin Powell?
were pursuing at the time, with rousing support from the French. They called it "smart
sanctions." But there was nothing smart about it.
The U.S. effort in Iraq is nothing short of historic. It is massively ambitious, and was
dramatically necessary, something for which all Americans and all ~iddle Easterners should
be thanking this president for the next five generations.
Not only has the war in Iraq rid the world of a gathering threat, . which was that of a
Saddam Hussein closely allied to international terrorists, armed with long range missiles
and a variety of unconventional weapons. This war has also changed the po1~tical landscape
of the Middle East.
And that may be what Mr. Ullman and his friends the "pragmatists· and the Arabists at the
State Department - fear the most.
Instead of treating the symptoms of the Middle Eastern malady, which State and its Sunni
Arab allies have done since the end of World War II, President Bush has gone to the heart
of the matter, which he rightly calls "the freedom deficit."

The State Department Arabists and the pragmatists have long argued that Arab dictators are
a necessary evil. Islam prepares MUslims for submission, they say. It is not America'S
mission to change the Arab world. If the Arabs wanted dictators, let them have them. (And
besides, some of those dictators pay very well, especially if you are a senior State·
Department official about to retire and embark on a new life as a talking head, think
tanker, or international consultant).
Here's where the real problems began in Iraq. It was not with the Coalition military
operation to ou~t Saadam Hussein. Nor was it with ·our noble efforts to help· freedom-loving
Iraqis ·to stand up a government in the immediate aftermath of Saddam?s demise.
It occurred on May 16, 2006, when the State Department Arabists and the CIA ghost­
whisperers who stood looking over their shoulder told the seven members of the Iraqi
Leadership Council that they were toast.

That meeting was led by L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. "Viceroy," who had just arrived in
Baghdad four days earlier.
In his account of the hours that preceded this monumental historic error, for which he
takes full credit as if it were a tremendous success, Bremer gloats at the prospect of
firing the Iraqi freedom coalition.
Allowing Iraqis to run their own country so soon after Saddam?s ouster was a "reckless
fantasy," Bremer writes on page 12 of his autobiography (My Year in Iraq, published
earlier this year by Simon & Schuster). "I'll let them· know that we're not about to turn
over the keys to the kingdom," he told his Arabist aide, Ryan Crocker.
In fact, the only "reckless fantasy" at work here was that of the Arabists, the CIA, and
Jerry Bremer, who believed the United States could become an imperial power, rather than
fulfill our historic destiny as an exporter of freedom and (sma11-r) repUblican values.
The seven-man Iraqi Leadership Council had been elected at three successsive conferences
of hundreds of delegates representing all the major political parties in Iraq, except for
Saddam Hussein's Baathists. But that wasn't good enough for the Arabists or the CIA or
Jerry Bremer.

Why? Because the ILC was chaired by Ahmad Cha1abi,· a man who has been accused of everY
perfidy in the book - Iraniart agent, convicted felon, intelligence fabricator, you name
it. These allegations are not only a pack of lies: they were motivated by the very people
who brought us the "disaster" in Iraq of which Mr. Ullman complains: the State Department
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 Arabists and their CIA helpers.

Instead of empowering these Iraqis and the established political constituencies they
repre~ented (around 80 percent of the Iraqi population). Ambassador Bremer preferred
direct, imperial-style rule.
By doing so, he transformed the U.S. liberation of Iraq into an occupation.
If we are paying a price today for "mistakes" made in Iraq, this was the first and the

biggest mistake, the one moment that irrevocably changed the way Iraqis viewed the United

States. .

And it was perfectly foreseeable at the time.

When Chalabi was informed of Bremer's decision to cast aside the Iraqi Leadership Council

on May 16. 2003, he turned to Bremer?s messenger (British ambassador John Sawers). and .

said, "OK, in a way YOU're doing us a favor.

Now you're goihg to have to take the blame for everything that goes wrong."

prophetic words. Foreseeable future. Tragic failure.

But please, Mr. Ullman: don't wring your hands for a president you say is in a "state of

denial."

The only ones in that state are the State Department Arabists and their helpers at CIA,

the Democratic party. and the Scowcroft Group.

Is Iraq difficult? You bet. We do difficult. We are the United States of America.

Original article: http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aBP?ID~25138

Kenneth R. Timmerman

President, Middle East Data project', Inc.

Author: Countdown to'Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran Contributing editor:

Newsmax.com

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Website: www.KenTimmerman:com

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From:;)" i{PSD PA
Sent: October 27. 2006 2:22 PM
To: OSD PA
Subject: FW: al qaeda threat to saudi Oil fields

fyi

From: Vidan, Todd M LtCol OSD PA

Sent:Fri~D-);,,<:>ctOber 27, 2006 12:01 PM
To~/@XT,;/',doSD PA
Subject: RE: al qaeda threat to saudi 011 fields
. . .

e a;~ aware of the notice distributed by the Royal Navy Maritime Trade Operations Dubai office, and
we support the recommendation that commercial mariners be especially vigilant while transiting the
Gulf.

In response to recent threats to oil infrastructure in the Gulf, including public statements by Ai Qaeda
leadership, coalition forces are taking prudent, precautionary measures and focusing maritime security
operations in the Gulf on these possible threats. ,

Terrorists have demonstrated their intent to attack oil infrastructure in this region through previous
attempts such as the attack on Motor Vessel Limburg in 2003, the attempted suicide boat attack on the
Iraqi oil terminals in 2004, and the attempted attacks at Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia and in Yemen earlier this
year.

These operations are nothing new. Coalition maritime forces routinely conduct maritime security
operations in the Gulf. These operations deny terrorists use of the maritime environment as a venue for
attack, or to transport personnel, weapons, or other material, and complement the counter-terrorism and
security efforts ofregionaJ nations.

Coalition forces work closely with all GCC nations on efforts to help set the conditions for security and
stability in the maritime environment. We defer to those nations to de~ribe their participation and
cooperation with coalition efforts.

Coalition ships conduct MSO throughout the region. In the central and southern Arabian Gulf, coalition
martimeforces are led by Commander of Task Force 152, Italian Navy Rear Adm. Emilio Foltzer.

BACKGROUND ONLY:
Acting on information received, Coalition naval forces, operating in supportof Saudi and Bahraini
forces have deployed units to counter a possible maritime threat to the oil facilities at Ras Tannurah.

Coalition, Saudi and Bahraini u!1its in the general vicinity are focusing on presence and deterrence in the
approaches to Ras Tannurah.

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Merchant vessels calling at Ras Tannurah should keep a listening watch and are asked to respond as
directed to any instructions from Coalition warships.

Merchant vessels are also advised to maintain a vigilant self protection posture and are encouraged to
report any suspicious activity

rl
Todd

U Col Todd Vician, USAF

Defense Press Officer
e (Public Affairs)

From: ~~J(~!i!i(!t);'{;:~:}(:mOSD
sent: Fridav, October 27,2006 11:53 AM
PA
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Subject: al qaeda threat to saudi 011 fields

hi. i just got a call from jed babbin. he is going to be on kUdlow tonight and want to be prepared if they ask him
about the aq threat to saudi oil fields. have you heard anything on this? anything we could share with him... even
background info??
thanks
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Public AffaIrs

h retary of Defense

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From: Ruff, Eric Mr 050 PA

Sent: Friday, October 27,2006 10:58 AM
To:
SUbJect: RE: Smith I Bucci Mtg Notes - 10126

the fact is, thes analysts have contacts all over the building. particularly since most are high level retired officers..
that's one take. additionally. when the vice or cno have something that they or their service is driving, these folks
do get on and brief the analysts.

access to the sd is what these analysts don't have. it may be that there is not an realization that when the sd
takes 20 minutes from his sked to meet with the analysts, he is coming in to see them after they've had a full two
to three hour program, filled in by the cjcs or vice, service secretary or two, and an undersecretary or two.

my two cents worth, for what it's worth.

that's a bit of a frustrating answer on the rt. the retired military analysts will not come in the building if they're not
meeting with secdef. It's fine for our other groups to focus on other mil/dod leaders, they will be happy as clams.
the mil analysts are a different story. they've always only come 11'1 to meet with him. i don't see us having success
getting interest if they don't have access to the boss.
thanks
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From: ~~~~~!JA;m;;;tW:'i~i!:wnf;::;\1 OSD PA

Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:52 AM
To: Whitman Bia" Mr OSD PA; Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA;
t~)(~X;');:%;i:X\~:,::~;,:%;gjOSD PA; ce Dall Mr 050 P
Thorp, Frank RDML 050 PA .. .... OSD PAl :1i\OSD PA
Cc: Bucci, Dr. Steven av 5 ; m , rrance HON OSD PA; Abbott, Catherine COL OSD PA
Subject: Smith I Bucci Mtg Notes· 10/26

Non
Responsive

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• American Spectator - Hold

• lnstapundit - Dr. B will find an hour in late November or early December

• Stem Magazine - If PA deems attractive and there is a need to do foreign press While at the NATO summit, we tTlay
decide to participate. Additionally. PA needs to develop a PA Plan for Riga.

• Military Analysts RT - Will not work for next week. Surrogate team should also reach out to CJCS, VCJCS. ADM
Mullen. etc. SD should 110t be your only focus. We should try these outreach events with other high-level leaders as
well.
',./.,.
• SO will tape messages on Tuesday, November 7th • These tapings will include messages for Veteran's Day,
Thanksgiving and ChristmasfHoliday. '

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From: JedBabbin~~M§),';;im:';v%1
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:37 AM
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SUbject: Today's Rep: Media Drowning in the ,Election Wave

No matter who's the winner on November 7th, the media will be the losers. They've
sacrificed their last bit of credibility, taking sides openly this year.

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From: ~~~{~~.@:{;;i@;\M';g"WUj;M:W@loSD PA
Sent: Wednesday, October 25,20063:52 PM
To: RUff, Eric Mr OSD PA; Smith, Dorrance, HON, OSD·PA
Subject: FW: Journalist Lunch

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Sent:H'lfllednes(jaryl October 25, 2006 3:44 PM
To:~~)(~Xi:!'i/'ii\r0;ri)WOSD PA
Subject: RE: Journalist Lunch

We will give you a full sweep, but here's one that I saw earlier today:
A strategic lunch with Mr. Rwnsfeld
By Austin Bay
Wednesday, October 25,2006

A Pentagon press lunch with the secretary of defense is a rare privilege, especially for a columnist from
fly-over country.

I've watched Don Rumsfeld perfonn on television. He treats stand-up press conferences as sparring
rings, where he's the heavyweight champ and reporters are lightweight chumps with glass jaws.

Maybe lettuce and tomatoes mellow Big Don. Rumsfeld seems much less combative with a salad plate
plopped in front of him. As the lunch and conversation progressed, I noticed he never picked up a knife,
but I've no doubt the man can wield sharp cutlery. The glinf in the eye is the clue. Sgt. 1st Class Bowen­
- the Korean War vet who taught Cadet Bay how to use a garrote -- had the same steely gleam.

I left it to the Beltway journalists to ask those personality-juiced queries that generate sensational gossip.
Here's an example: "Mr. RumsfeJd, are you going to resign after the election?"

Since my scribbled notes include a splotch of asparagus soup, I'll have to paraphrase the SeeDers snarl,
"I certainly wouldn't tell you if] were."

Undeterred, I decided to ask a question that goes to the heart of America's ability (or inability) to win
long-term, multidimensional 21 st century wars.

My question: "Mr. Secretary, based on our experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and the limited
interagency and non-governmental organization (NGO) participation in that operation, how do you see
'Unified Action' evolving for futme conflicts?"

Forgive the military jargon -- at one tillie J was Col. Bay -- but the question is essential. It also altered
the luncheon ambiance. As I asked it, I saw our very steady chainnan of the joint chiefs, Gen. Peter
Pace, pass Rumsfeld a careful stare. .

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"I'll tell you we're better at it now than we were five years ago," Rumsfeld replied. He acknowledged
that "challenges remain" in achieving Unified Action and that effective Unified Action is critical to
winning 21 st century wars.

He's right -- we are better at it than we were. However, I know we aren't as good at it as we need to be.

The politically deft SecDef finessed the question - and it was finesse, not dodge. The military jargon
masked a heavy political hand grenade I was rolling toward the Beltway. You think Harry Reid's land
" deal or Mark Foley's messages are big stories? How about a stinging pre-election turf battle between
Defense and the departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Commerce arid Agriculture, complete with
zinger accusations of who is or isn't contributing to the war effort?

I know, that's quite a claim, which is why I need to translate the mil-speak: Unified Action means
coordinating and synchronizing every "tool of power" America possesses to achieve a political end ­
like winning a global war for national survival against terrorists who hijack economically and politically
fragile nations and provinces.

People understand the role of soldiers and cops in a war, but in 21 st century wars where economic and
political development are detenninative, an arborist at the Department of Agriculture and a Commerce
Department trade consultant can be powerful contributors to "Unified Action." .

Restoring Iraqi agriculture provides an example. Saddam Hussein's economic and political policies
damaged agriculture in the land that eight millennia ago spawned the Agricultural Revolution. (Heck of
an achievement, huh'?) Agriculture; Commerce and several NOOs have expertise and programs that are
helping revive Iraqi fanns. Still, problems occur when trying to tailor programs to meet specific local
needs - like, who pays for the program and who is ultimately in charge of oversight and coordination.

While serving in Iraq in 2004, I met a young U.S. Army captain who was ruMing a successful small­
scale date palm restoration project. What we really need are joint development and security teams,
where agricultural and economic specialists work with that captain "in the field" on a sustained, day-to­
day basis. We need to decide who is in charge of that team (the captain or the arborist?) and how we
fund it.

Our system for "Unified Action" is still largely a Cold War, 20th century relic designed to prop up
governments (so often corrupt and ill-led), instead of helping individuals and neighborhoods become
economically self-sustaining and self-securing. Winning war in the Age of the Internet means improving
neighborhoods and individual lives. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and micro-finance whiz
Muhammad Yunus Wlderstands this.

We are in a long, global war, where economic and political development programs must reinforce
security and intelligence operations -- and vice versa.

We've been improvising "joint development and security operations," and we've learned from our
improvisation (Rumsfeld's "we're better than we were"). '

But it's time to quit improvising. Effective "Unified Action" requires re-engineering 20th century
Beltway bureaucracies - which means thoughtful, sophisticated cooperation between the executive
branch and Congress.

That means getting past the sensational gossip and confronting an essential issue.

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Au.rtin Bay Au.rtin Bay is author ofthree novels. His third novel, The Wrong Side ofBrightness, was published by
Pu~nam/Jove in June 2003. He has also co-authoredfour nOll-jiClion books, 10 include A Quick and Dirty Guide to War:
Third Edition (with James Dunnigan, Morrow, 1996).

Be thefl/'sl to read Austin Bay's column. SiJQl.JJJU9J!..(I)f and receive TownhalJ.com delivered each morning to your inbox. Sign
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rhe Secretary had lunch with the following journalists on Monday~~;~£~~i';:~·Mit.;lt,i!T:Hti;'@lasked me to email you
their names and ask if you would be on speciallook-oul for anything they may write this week.

~~r;~0;;~BM'. :\:1:;nl·
Austin Bay

Jed Babbin

Kate O'Seirne

Mark Steyn

Cal Thomas

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Sent: Tuesda October 24,20068:13 PM

To: ~)( OSD PA; Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA; Smith, Dorrance, HON, OSD-PA
Subject: Jed Babbln's blog

October 24, 2006

LW1~tnvitb.RJill),s.Wd and Pac~
Posted by JED BABBIN I E=M.lJi.LIhi~ I pJ;rmalink I Email RC£

Yesterday, along with four other journalists, I lunched with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and
Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We had a wide-ranging discussion on North
Korea, Iraq, and the reports that there was a coming change in administration policy toward Iraq. Mr.
Rwnsfeld said that the President had asked him to stay out of politics in this election, and he was
determined to do just that. Several of us tried to nudge or kid him into it. and the most we could get was
a "nice try" or two.

Rumsfeld explained that the conference the president held last weekend with him and our top generals
didn't signal a major shift on Iraq. This conference wasn't something out of the ordinary and in the two
or three others held before the president had used this session to talk through ideas with his top advisors.
As to the idea that the Congressionally-created Baker-Hamilton "Iraq Study Group" might recommend
major policy shifts, Rumsfeld demurred. He said that outside groups such as that one can often be
helpful by bringing new viewpoints to the analysis. The Baker group - which interfaces mostly with
National Security Advisor Steven Hadley _. has met with Rumsfeld at the White House and will be
. coming to the Pentagon for more discussions in mid-November.

I asked if the Baker group was trying to answer the right questions. Are we talking about Iraq without
talking about a regional solution? Rumsfeld said he wasn't familiar with. the mandate Congress had
given the Baker group. When I pressed him that too many people want to talk about Iraq without placing
it in context he said, "I think it's awfully hard· I know some people would like to do it - but it's awfully
hard to look at Iraq and not look at it in the context of the world we live in, and the area that it is in, and
the activities ofIran and Syria and the broader question of the Shia-Sunni interaction that's taking
.place." The problems of the Middle East are, inferentially, regional and cannot be solved within the
borders of any single nation.

Asked ifhe was planning to resign after the elections, Rumsfeld said that ifhe were, he'd have spoken to
the president about it and that no such discussion had taken place. .

We talked about North Korea and the ability of the world to achieve its nuclear disarmament. Mr.
Rumsfeld said that the problem had been the lack of cohesion among the international community and
that the president's approach intended to create that cohesion and thus the leverage to accomplish the
necessary solution. Rumsfeld was quick to explain that the problem of nuclear North Korea was much
different than the problem posed by Iran. He gave us copies of what is now his favorite picture. It's a
night time satellite photo of the Korean peninsula taken (apparently repeatedly or in some time-lapse
fonnat) from February I - March 3 I , 2006. It shows nearly half of South Korea bathed in artificial light,
and alI of North Korea - except the capital, Pyongyang - utterly dark. "If you think ofNorth Korea, it is
very different from Iran. There's people who are starving. They have people who are going in the
military who are under five feet and less than one hundred pounds. There's a lack of nutrition in the

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country." The sort of deterrence that worked before may work against North Korea, though Rumsfeld

said the principal danger from North Korea is proliferation: "He'll sell anything."

Much of the discussion centered around the ability of America to fight a long war. Both Rumsfeld and
Pace used the example of the Cold War to illustrate their conviction that America does and will continue
. to have the ability to stay in the war against terrorists until it's done. Rumsfeld elaborated.

He said that Americans were raised - "socialized" was the word he used - to believe that our military can
.win any war by going out and defeating a nation or an army. But times have changed. He said oflraq,
"There's no way the military can lose. There's also no way the military can win all alone. That isn't the
nature of it...There's no major army, navy, air force to'go and attack and destroy." In wars like this, there
will be no "clean wins."

How long will it take? How will the American people sueP0rt a war such as this? Rumsfeld said, "We

have to be smart enough and wise enough as we were in the Cold War to recognize the danger, and to

recognize that it takes perseverance."

Gen. Pace added, "We're back to the common understanding of the threat. The American people are

willing to withstand a long-tenn challenge as exemplified by the Cold War and the Soviet Union...The

good news is that since 9-11 we haven't been attacked here at home. What that means is that some

Americans don't yet grasp fully the very real nature of this threat to the survival of the nation."

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From: . Ruff, Eric Mr OSD PA

Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:46 PM
To:
Subject: ~~:~'~~~eW"~jY,;));;(1

Jed, it has been a pleasure working w/you over the past two years. You and I both know
that perserverance pays off. I'm glad you were able to make it today. Feel free to call
me is you need amplification. etc. Thanks.

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From: JedBabl:lin :§i(@)J(@'iiiUI <JedBabbin"
To: Ruff, Eric Mr OSD FA '
Sent: .Mon Oct 23 21:03:41 2006
Subject: Thanks
Eric: Many thanks for including me in the lunch today. It was great. And will be· .
writing/blogging from it tomorrow. Best, Jed.
Jed Babbin
(Home Office)
(Mobile)

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From: JedBabb In«ii~,~\~~:;K::W!:i;\:)

Sent: Monday, October 23,20068:16 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas e Mr OSD PA
Subject: Re: Rethinking Iraq: Today's TAS

Dallas: Thanks. I'm great, and ~~~~~'~;;';~'lsupport is still w~nderful. Let's talk soon. Best, Jed.

(home office)
(home fax)
mobile)

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From: Lawrence, Dallas B Mr OSD PA

Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8: 13 AM
To: 'JedBa bbin@l~;~~~~f:i/M:'M'(j\aj%i;j1
Subject: RE: Rethinking Iraq: Today's TAS

How are you doing these days my friend?

How has our outreach been ~n the past month to you guys?

I handed off the outreach to a new person who was blOU9~t on board and we sent~~l~~';~ver there as well to
help out. I just wanted to make sure you were still getting the same, if not better, level of outreach from us
Thanks!

D/lllall B. Lawrence
DireetOl', Off'jc" of Cou1lrllmit~, HduLi(ln.~ &. Pnhlic l,iuii\ol1
Uoil,ell Sl.ole" Dl;l )Hrlmll'll I of Def('lIse

Iraq hasn't gone in the direction we planned because we've ignored the fact that it's only
part of a much larger war. Revision of policy is a good idea, but only if we base the
revisions on answers to the right questions. And that we are not doing.

(Home Office)
(Mobile)

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Thanks so much .,

Stay informedl: b.tt-pllLwww:.mn.f-iraq.coml

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Deputy Chief, Strategic Communications
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"Clearance of DoD Information for Public Release", and DoD Instruction 5230.29, "Security and Policy
RevieW of DoD Information for Public Release" apply. .

colonel,

i'va attached the rough draft of the transcript of the call. please note, it has not been double checked for accuracy

against the tape, and we do not transcribe off-the-record comments.

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Mr Thompson and

Please email to us soonest the transcript of MG Caldwell's Retired Military Analysts Conference
call transcript. We'd like to use it to assist GEN Casey for his PC with Ambassador Khallizad.

Colonel. USAF
Deputy Chief. Strategic Communications
Strategic Effects, MNF-I

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Subject: Conference call with Retired Military Analysts

Colonel,

Please find attached (and pasted below) the agenda for the call with Retired Military Analysts in a half hour. The

RSVP's' have received so far are on the second page. The dial in number is also on the Agenda. Please let me

know if you have any questions.

Thank you for your time.

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As 0£8:30 a.m.

Conference Call
Retired Military Analysts
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006 TIME: 9:00 - 9:45 a.m.

AGENDA.
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction (GUIDELINES)

\OSD Public Affairs

9:01 a.m. Update on Situation in Baghdad

• Major General William Caldwell

9:30 a.m. Q& A

• Military Analysts

9:45 a.m. Conference Call Concludes (GUIDELINES)

Note: Dial-in-telephone numbers are . .

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Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG) American SPectator
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon CuculJu (USA, Retired) Fox News
. Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News
Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) Fox News
Conunand Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired)
Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney. (USAF, Retired) Fox News
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) Fox News

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From: . Barber, Allison Ms eSD PA

Sent: u r 22, 2006 1:32 PM
To: .~. :';'itr/i{it/{(' eSD PA
SUbject: Re: [U] RE: Conference call with Retired Military Analysts

Just landed. Ouch.

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Sent: Sun Oct 22 13: 02 :23 2006
Subject: Re: [U] RE: Conference call wi~h Retired Military Analysts
Thanks, abo Wasn't that so nice of him??\HopefullY we can get him to do more! :) Are you
k safe and sound??

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Sent: Sun Oct 22 11:31:18 2006
Subject: Fw: [uJ RE: Conference call with Retired Military Analysts
Wow. Way What a nice vote of confidence in your work

Sent: Fri Oct 20 23:52:07 2006

Subject: [U) RE: Conference call with Retired Military Analysts
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

thanks ·for making this all come together. Thought it was a very productive
session. Jonathan .Thompson was right in recommending this venue one we need to sustain
at some frequency which I will talk with Jonathan about.

Again - appreciated your help, and trust you also received the materials to forward
onto the Analysts.

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 Vir - Bill Caldwell

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USE ONLy it may be exempt from mandatory disclosure under FOIA. DoD 5400.7R, "DoD Freedom
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AFPS; Barber, Allison Ms DSD PAl Bryan Whitman
Subject: Conference call with Retired Military Analysts

Colonel,
Please find attached (and pasted below) the agenda for the call with Retired Military
Analysts in a half hour. The RSVP's I have received so far are on the second page. The
dial in number is also on the Agenda. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you for your time.

vir,

of Defense

As of 8:30'a..m.

Conference Call
Retired Military Analysts

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006 TIME: 9:00 - 9:45 a.m.

AGENDA

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 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction (GUIDELINES)

OSD Public Affairs

9:01 a.m. Update on Situation in Baghdad

::;:,. Major General William caldwell

9:30 a.m. Q &A

Military Analysts

9:45 a.m. Conference Call Concludes (GUIDELINES)

Note: Dial-in-telephone numbers are

Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG) American

Spectator

Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News

Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News'

Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) Fox News

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News

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General William F. ftBuc:k" Kernan (USA, .Retired)

Major. General James ~Spideru Marks (USA, Retired) CNN

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, ~etired) Fox News
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA. Retired) Fox News

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 MG Caldwell (from Iraq)

Conference call with military analysts
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Note: call was on the record except for some portions on background (those portions not
transcribed)
Transcriber:

Caldwell: I guess the first thing to start off with is obviously from the press conference
yesterday (Oct. 18) that we did over here in Baghdad. There has been a lot of question
about what mayor may not have been said, and I just really wanted to help fltst, clarify
that, that there has been a question about whether or not we feel Hke the pian has been a
failure. And that is not the case at all. I think talking to (inaudible) especially everybody
Wlderstands anytime you devise a plan, you put into implementation of it, you are
. constantly reassessing and re-evaluating it. That's what we have been doing from the
beginning. We are continuing to do that with this plan, and when we said yesterday that
we are going back and continuing to refine it,that's exactly what we are doing.

We are going to make adjustments to it. We are talking with the government of Iraq on a
weekly basis of what we call the Ministerial Committee for National Security, and then·
of course the CG (commanding general), General Casey, does it on a even probably
infonnal basis directly with the prime minister, too.

So those are things that are ongoing that perhaps they portrayed it as some kind ofjust
dramatic shift that is going to occur, and it's not. You know I was talking really at the
tacticllllevel, tactically what we are looking at within the plan.

We do want to make some adjustments and refinements to it. We are going to do that,
and we will continue executing the plan.

Our theme that we keep kind of using is the fact that violence and progress do co-exist
here in Iraq. That's something General Casey said back in Washington about two weeks
ago. It's something we've recognized over here - that we're not going to have one before
the other, that in fact they are both going to have to be worked in parallel to each other.

We're going to have continue working on progress within country - with the rebuilding

portion of it, with the governance piece, with the economic piece, simultaneously we're

dealing with the levels of violence that we experience at different intensities at different

times at different areas.

But obviously, our overall goal is eventually to build the government ofIraq to where it
can handle its security itself, where, you know, it's self reliant to handle the levels of
violence. And there will be varyingievels of violence that are still always going to occur
here, even when it reaches a point when we are quote-unquote "successful" and have
achieved the desired end state. You'U have heard different people refer to it as, you
know, a country that's at peace with its neighbors, lives in peace and security, but in fact
we recognize the fact that it's going to be many, many years before this country sees a

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 level of violence that's more normal to we're used to in America and what Westerners
would want to see. There is going to be some sort of ievel of criminal that is still going to
be here, then you're going to have some sort of sectarian violence still at some low level,
and you're probably still going to have some level of terrorist activity, insurgent activity
that is still going to occur.

What we have to do is develop the Iraqi Security Forces to such that they are able and
capable of handling those three various levels of violence, bringing them down to some
level to where the security forces are just above them, and can handle it, and that's the
point which we'll be allowed - or able - to disengage our forces.

Ultimately what's going on is there's a need for a political solution more than a military
solution at this point. Any place we go in and we have conducted operations just as
anybody has seen for many, many years, we are able to control the situation where our
forces are present. But to ultimately bring the security, the relative security and prosperity
this country it's going to take and require a political solution to what's going on.

There is a tremendous amount of dialogue that is occurring. You've heard that the prime
minister had this 24-point plan in June; he's had already now two of his national
reconciliation conferences, they've announced a third one is going to be on Nov. 4, that
they are going to do, we're not sure the final one. We know that he is working his four­
point plan he outlined about two weeks ago, figuring out how to put that into place, and
working with the various political factions and the different sectarian elements here.

But he is engaged in dialogue and working with all the different sects, and that's exactly
what has to occur if we are going to eventually come to some political solution for this
country. Because it is ultimately up to the Iraqi people to rebuild and secure their own
country; that's not something that we are going to be able to do completely for them; we
can only set the stage to allow that to occur.

The prime minister did announce the formation of a special committee here about two
days ago - or a couple days ago now - that will address the issue of militias and also take .
on overseeing the reform of the security ministries; specifically the ministry of defense,
interior and the INIS - the Iraqi National Intelligence Service.

And those are ongoing and there was initial reports that were due back out to the prime
minister this week. Already we've seen some things occur, such as the two national
police division commanders that have been removed from their duties and assigned other
duties, which is a very positive step forward with the government doing that type thing,
because that needed to occur at the very top in both those cases. It was something we saw
that would be a very positive step forward, but they made that on their own. It truly
wasn't us forcing anything in the background; that was a decision they took unilaterally
and executed. We were in tremendous agreement with the decision they made, obviously,
and very supportive of it.

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 We have said that the spike in violence that we are seeing would occur during the
Ramadan period; we announced it well before Ramadan even started. We have seen it for
over the last two years; historically, it's about a 20 percent increase in the level of
violence in terms of attacks, although that doesn't necessarily equate to casualties, some
set number. but it does in terms of the amount of activity. Over the last two years it's
increased; we're seeing a 22 percent increase already in the first three weeks of Ramadan
compared to the last three weeks before Ramadan. So that is in fact occurring as we
thought it would. And we just yesterday got a tremendous spike in VBED (vehicle-borne
explosive devices) activity across the country. I want to say it was 17 altogether different
activities occurring between vehicle IEDs and suicide-vehicle IEDs. And we can provide
more detail - approximately 25 killed, about another I want to say about another 80
wounded, but I can get those exact figures here momentarily for you.

So that did occur, and again, this is on the night of (inaudible) power, and we though we
would see the spike there, in fact we did, just like we thought we did yesterday. But that
will (7continue).

You heard what happened at Balad. Initially the press was portraying this as a tough
situation that the government showed some kind of failure almost or something when in
fact, when it was all finally said and done and I had the opportunity to talk with one of
the ground commanders on site, it actually turned out to be a fairly good news story in
tenns of how the Iraqi leadership in that area reacted and responded to what occurred.

It started with the Iraqi army having killed an AQI (al Qaeda in Iraq) figure - a Sunni
AQI member. In retaliation for that about 24 hours later, you know, we fOWld a bWlch of
Shi'a who were killed in retaliation forthat, 14 of them to be exact. And then the very
next day we ,Saw 26 Sunni that were killed for that. And right away the mayor of Balad
placed the city on a curfew. They called together a meeting with team leaders, started
talking about how to diffuse this situation. The next day they saw some indirect fire in the
city; one more person was killed. And then on the 18th, they had a major conference of
just over a couple hundred ~ 100,200 people - that came together, inclUding everybody
from the provincial governor, the vice governor of the Salah ad Din Province, to the
mayor, to the police chief, to some local sheiks -about seven or so local sheiks came in;
they brought in the Iraqi army deputy brigade commander, the local Iraqi army battalion
commanders, we were present - the Coalition forces were present but not at all involved.
And they all came together and signed a pact and agreed to stop what would have been a
cycle of violence that would have continued had there not been immediate response and
action by the leadership of that province. They took charge; they stopped it; and we have
not bad another incident since then. .

The numbers were grossly exaggerated initially from what we had heard in the news in
terms of what the casualties were. We actually went to the local hospitals and verified the
numbers, so it was somewhere around about 14 Shi'a and about 26 Surmi, so about 40
people who were killed in the sectarian violence based on that (one mortar?) from the
direct fire.

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 So there was no real reporting on that, although we did talk it at the press conference
yesterday, and then stated in fact we were pleased to see them taking charge and going
through that piece.

I could go on. I'd be glad to talk to any specifics you all would like to. I can go
everywhere from talking legislative actions the governor of Iraq is working and kind of
where we are and how we see that playing out. The president, Talabani, did just post on a
web site his legislative actions that they want to accomplish through the rest of this year,
2006, and then what they want to work into the beginning of 2007. It's a timeline of
events. In fact, in ties in very closely to everything we've been talking - we being the
U.S. mission and Coalition forces - have been talking to the leadership over here about.
B\lt it's those kind of activities that when you watch them occurring again gives us·
tremendous hope and promise for the future": the fact that they're government is
functioning; the Council of Representatives is meeting, they're having debate. They're
going through the first - their second read, and then voting on these laws. They have
passed a couple of key critical pieces of legislative actions, such as the investment law,
which was huge, and they're now working out also things like paying back debt they owe
to the Turkish government which will allow for the borderto be reopened and fuelto
come across, which they are going to need throughout this winter time period, but they
were in arrears for about 200 miJIion dollars, and they've managed to figure out how to .
get money out of their system and start paying back the government of Turkey.

We see things like an international exposition that took place in late September up in
Irbil; about 800 companies from 20 different cOWltries showed up there for that event,
you know, people who were interested in investing and establishing businesses over here.

We know that September they also passed their fuel import liberalization law, which is
really, really important that they did, and that should start helping with the black market
sales, and improve the fuel supply and reduce corruption by opening more the energy
sector to private investment, which is something they desperately needed to do, too,
because corruption within the whole fuel business was very - was rampant, and things
like the fuel import liberalization law will help set better market prices; it will allow for
better distribution so the black market - the lucrativeness of doing that will now
decreasing over time.

Anyway those are - I mean, and I can go on some other things. We can talk about the
regions law if you want, that they did pass, although I am not an expert I can at least talk
it some. But the two that we're still focused on very heavily is the hydrocarbon law and
the de-Ba'athification. Both of those are going to be very important to be dealt with, and
discussed, and hopefully addressed by the Council of Representatives before the end of
December when they are scheduled to go out of session again for two more months, and
then come back in session in March.

With that, I'll take any questions anybody has, and I'll open it up and try and address
things: But we were just a little concerned that after the press conference yesterday that it
was kind of portrayed as if we felt that tbe plan was failing; and I think that anybody in

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 the military that has served a couple of days at all understands that what we do is we in
fact revise, which is nothing new. We constantly reassess where we are; we have taken
this overaLL assessment of whether the conditions are still the same under which we
developed the plan; if they are not, we make revisions to our plan to adjust to the
conditions that exist. And that's exactly what we're going through right now as we
continu~ doing some detailed analysis of this plan.
,
So we are very comfortable with where we are. We know that we've got to do some
work; we've been doing it. And I think we'll see some minor modifications to the plan
here in the very near future.

And with that, I'll take any questions anybody has.

Question: You said you were comfortable ~ith the plan, but there was a report in the AP
. that a major terror leader had been arrested by American forces, and the prime minister
had ordered General Casey to release him, and he had been released. I wasn't aware that
(prime Minister) Maliki could order General Casey to release people suspected of
murder.

Caldwell: What the person you are talking about is Sheikh - he has a real long name­
Sheik Mazen Abdul KhaLiz £1 Saaezi - and we did, we picked him up at about 0330 in
the morning of the 17111, for allegedly being involved in illegal activities that are operating
outside of the law. And the very next day at the request of the prime minister he was
released. And the prime minister made the request and the Coalition forces did release
him. J am not sure J would call it being ordered; but the prime minister did make the
request that he be released and we released him. He did in fact sign a conditional release
fonn in which he promised to support the government oflraq and disavow future acts of
violence when he was finally released.

But anyway, that did occur, and our position on that is this is a sovereign nation, the
prime minister is in charge, if he makes the determination that he wants somebody
released from custody and the request comes in, General Casey made the decision, or J
should say really, it was probably - I'd have to find out exactly who made it, but it was
prime minister, General - I mean the ambassador, General Casey made the decision and
(inaudible) their request to go ahead and release the person.

Q: To follow up on that, you know, it has a very bad odor over here, because we

understand this guy. you know, has been involved in planning or maybe even making

attacks on American soldiers. Is there some protest we made to Maliki? Is there some

thing we've said that, you know, you can't demand that we release guys with blood on

their hands?

(Off the record)

Q: How would you describe what you are doing right now tactically when we talk about
going against the militias? Are you indeed just conducting sweeps for arms and the

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 torture chambers and that type of thing? Are you actively trying to bring down the
militias as U.S. forces?

Caldwell: I'll go back on the back record. I'll tell you, we know that within this city there
are, you know, (Anny Maj. Gen.) J.D. Thunnan probably said it best, there's at least 23
different militia groups that operate within the city of Baghdad. I mean, he's got them all
by name, can tell you generally where they are located. We track them as best we can by
intelligence to understand who they are, what their goals are and everything else, but we
clearly stand by the position that if you are in fact operating outside the law we are going
to come after you.

We have a very - we have a special cell that has belm fonned, put together':" General
Casey did this several months ago, that does nothing but monitor, track and help us target
those who are involved in sectarian violence or extrajudicial killings, specifically within
the Baghdad area. And there's a lot of resources that are used in that targeting effort, and
that's why on any kind of weekly basis, you are going to find we're picking up several
cell leaders and anywhere from 10 to 30 cell members in locations across the Baghdad
area. And we do show that normally just about every press conference, or every other
press conference, kind of where we are in terms ofthe operations over the last two weeks.

But J think one of the most important things is we all realize that ultimately this whole
militia thing is going to be solved by a political solution, not by a military solution.
Kinetically, we'll continue to operate on when we know they're operating outside the
law, but we really have are ultimately going to have to have the prime minister, through
his efforts, find a political solution to this militia issue here that exists.

Q: As far as the U.S. casualties are concerned, can you give me some estimation of how
many of U.S. casualties are a result of lEDs and ambushes and not as a result of direct
combat? I mean the questions that we're getting a lot of times are are we killing as many
of them as they're killing of us, just to be as plain as we can be?

Caldwell: We don't obviously publicly talk about where the majority of our casualties are
coming from, although you could probably put it together by taking all our press releases
(inaudible) casualties and you would start seeing a trend that obviously - you know, we
are very concerned about lEDs. There are a lot of attacks on us. Most of the attacks that
occur against the Coalition forces do not produce many casualties because they're just
not very effective against us and it's a variety of factors, you can imagine, from our body
armor, to our gear, to our protection, to our responsive, to our suppressive fires, so that­
although the largest number of attacks (will?) occur against Coalition forces right now on
a daily basis, most are very ineffective in tenns of producing the equivalent number of
casualties. Although we have seen as we all know as of yesterday there were 73 U.S.
casualties - deaths, specifically, already in this month.

We do know that if you go back and you look in the month of September within the
Baghdad area detained - I know that the Multi-National Division-Baghdad themselves

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 detained over 750 people and killed over another 80, but - in the month of September
that is.

But we don't normally go through and talk a lot about the casualty figures; we have been
very concerned about not getting into some body count. If you go into this month of
October we are in a very high glide path having detained already well over 580 at this
point and have already killed over 30 insurgent activities within the city of Baghdad
itself; this is not countrywide, obviously we've got other operations that are going on by
our specialized forces, our Marines out west, and other places, too.

But that's just within Baghdad city. So there's been a tremendous amount of activity
within the Baghdad area when you start looking at those kind of figures, if that helps put
some of that into perspective for you.

Q: I think there's been an awful lot ofmisreporting about what the president's said about
Iraq versus Vietnam. I understood him to only say that there's a parallel in that the enemy
is trying to influence public opinion. I didn't Understand him to say anything more than
that. What was your understanding ofwhat he said?

Caldwell: That was my exact understanding, too, and I had carefuIly read the text. It was
a question that was given to him and he didn't come up with that, he was responding to
somebody asking about that; he said, yeah, I think yOll could make that analogy or
something like that. When asked a question when he specifically was talking about it in
tenns ofthe media and how that can tum public opinion and how it was used back then,
in fact did turn public opinion. We have already seen on jihadist web sites within the last.
week, at least I know of two occasions right now - there may be more, we're having our
teams look, where in fact they have already come out and stated that elections are going
to be occurring in the United States next month, and we need to continue to inflict as
many casualties as we can on the American forces, because that will force the American
people (inaudible - that will?) want to leave, or something like that, by doing that. So
they recognize themselves and are already talking to themselves on their web sites about
the importance ofthe media, inflicting American casualties and how that can be
perceived by Americans during the election period. And we did mention that yesterday
during our press conference, that we think that's one ofthe three kind of reasons now
why we see an increased focus and effort against Coalition forces in terms oftrying to
produce casualties against us.

Q: That's great, thanks.

Q: Following up on the detainees, the troops refer to it as the catch-and-release program

because something like 80 percent of all the detainees are released within four months.
When you're using the word detainee, is that what you mean, that we can expect the vast
majority of these people to be released back out on the street? Or do you mean arrests
that will actually result in prison terms so these same guys won't be back out in the
streets?

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 Caldwell: Of that number, if you take September and October within Baghdad, you
know, we're at 1,300 or so, one thousand three hundred or so that were picked up at least
detainees. They will go through the process of producing the evidence that they have
against these folks, and if it sufficient then they will put them in the detention system. But
you are correct, at this point they are not into the detention system.

I am not quite sure, and I was trying to think - I was talking to Jack Gardner today about
where his current statistics stand in terms of how many people - yeah, he right now has
about 13,700 people in the detention system. Now those are the folks that are being held
because in fact there is sufficient evidence to continue holding for a long period of time
and they will not be (immediately?) released.

I think you know that the month of June that we did release - the prime minister did ask
and they went through the system and did release quite a few and that's part of the whole
reconciliation process, about 1,500 or so as I recall were released. And in fact at that
point we were about 14,500, went down to about 13,000.

(Inaudible) how many people do go through the central criminal court oflraq. They are
charged, like last week, they administered one more death sentence and quite a few
prison sentences and then they move out of our detention system and into the Iraqi prison
system. But right now we do have about 13,000 people in our system.

Q: Do you know how many the Iraqis have?

Caldwell: Boy, I don't know that answer. I can try to find out; I've just not asked that
question before. I know we don't 'readily have it here; I've not seen it in anything before,
but we can ask that question.

Q: Thank you.

(cross talk)

Q: Sir, I just want to let you know that everybody back here on this caLL and all the
wounded soldiers I talk to On a weekly basis couldn't be prouder of what you're doing
and what the rest of you guys do from over there. We truly appreciate you've got our
back and warm hearts and support and regards to what goes on.

Q: Here, here.

Q: Amen.

Caldwell: Well, that's great. I sure appreciate that. You know it does amaze me when
you go out and talk to young kids, at least one day a week I get out and spend time with
some unit out here just so that I am maintaining my situational awareness and can talk
from anecdotal stories from young men and women out there. I am just continually - they
see the difference down at their level. When you talk to them, they actually feel like they

NY TIMES 5436

 are making a difference. They can see it; they can feel it. And as I keep telling them that's
the most important thing. Well, that's great to hear. Thanks.

Q: Hooah.

Q: On the other side, you know, I talked to a sergeant the other week, and I am hearing
more and more that these rules of engagement have restricted the soldiers far too much;
that our forces can't be ruthless enough, even to the point back to releasing these
detainees, the sergeant told me he was with the Iraqi forces and they still get fire from
mosques and they can't do anything about it. So that's on the other side of the equation,
that we are just not ruthless enough on bringing this enemy down. The government
leadership over there is so weak. that they can't even disarm the militias or order them
disanned to the point where anybody caught with a weapon would be basically
eliminated.

So that's the other thing that we're getting back; and that's frustrating to hear that we're
running the same routes and getting more wounded and killed by lEDs and there's
nobody seizing the momentum or changing the momentum enough. It's visual, anyhow.
That's just a comment and observation. .

Q: Well you know, you are right. I can understand your frustration. One of the real
challenges is the nature has changed over here. Inthe last six months I've been here it
truly has gone from more to a non-kinetic fight to a kinetic fight. And that's a difficult
and hard thing because there's still places where you need to be very violent and very
kinetic, but there's more than ample other situations where we need to keep asking
ourselves do we need to be - do we actually need to bust that door down that house when
we go in, or can we knock on the door? I mean, (inaudible) intelligence that unless we
blow the door off the hinges and knock it down with a battering ram or whatever the case,
we are putting ourselves at grave risk. And when we have seen in Baghdad when
different units have done it differently, but one of the Stryker units, I was just amazed at
the attitude of the people, the atmospherics. You know we do a lot of internal
atmospherics out there in the neighborhoods.

I was amazed at the difference between one and the other, it was truly by the attitude the
commander had taken, to the point where he tells his people, look, you're not going to
run them off the road, I want you every now and then let them go by first, you don't have
to make them always yield to you; exhibit a little more courtesy to the citizenry; do knock
on the doors when we are doing these searches, don't batter down the doors. And there
was actua.lly some real positive results of that that occurred.

Now, true, there is the risk always that there's going to be that suicide element out there,
either a vest or a car, that will take advantage of that ability to have a little in closer
contact with the Iraqis themselves. But the payoff from that also at least in this one area
does appear to be tremendous for the unit that was operating there. So, the nature is
changing and that is hard for some ofthege young troops that have been operating very
kinetically to tum and operate less kinetically. Because it is frustrating, because we move

NY TIMES 5437

 - as we go towards a more political solution now than a kinetic solution that's also a very
difficult mindset to change, and it's a lot more frustrating, I know for those in the unifonn
down there - it gets hard holding, as we watch this political process try to take hold and
the prime minister try to move it forward, he and President Talabani and everybody else
as they are making these strides. But there are activities - (inaudible) across the board.

You know the conferences two weeks ago the prime minister had, with all the tribal
elements from out in al Anbar sitting on that - the prime minister made some promises
and he follows through - already I think we delivered about $11 million out there since
that conference now to projects that the money was promised earlier and now finally has
moved in and the people out there are seeing that. We see the tribal elements coming
together out there - they do not want aI Qaeda out there. We see them in fact taking on aI
Qaeda and fighting them, we're seeing some of that start to occur.

So the dynamics of this whole thing, let the prime minister work these different elements.
As you know yesterday he met Sistani and Sadr both down in Najaf. When you look at
the comments Sadr made after that conference some very positive in tenns of wanting, or
at least stating publicly that he was going to let the system work and support the prime·
minister.

So the prime minister is reaching out trying to touch all these different elements and
come to a political solution which is going to be the ultimate - only way this country is
going to achieve that unity that it needs.

Q: Thank you.

Q: Is there any sort of - the Iraqis seem to arise to the occasiori whenever they have a
date certain. I mean, they did very well in the January elections, they did very well in the .
December elections. Is there any sort of impetus to having maybe a date imposed on
when they tum over - or when they assume control of provinces or other milestones
along the way so they do seem to perfonn better under those circumstances?

Caldwell: You're exactly right. There has been if you look historically (inaudible)
milestone, they tend to perform a little better. They seem to get focused (inaudible). We
are seeing that with some of their It;gislative initiatives. This thing that President Talabani
posted on to the web site, when you look at that, and we've gone through it in fairly good
detail over the last few days. If in fact all of these laws that they say they are going to
achieve in 2006 - (inaudible) it's a one-law page thing the council president he discusses
the security situation the frame ofthe political timetables what the heading is, but it's
everything from the law for the (IEeI?), the elections piece, the law concerning the
elections and the governance and specifying the date to hold them, a law concerning oil
or as we call the hydrocarbon law, a law concerning de-Ba'athification, a law concerning
the flag logo and national anthem, a law approving (inaudible) dealing with militias. I
mean, if in fact they meet all these timetables like they have just agreed to and (off the
record portion).

NY TIMES 5438

 Q: Can you give us that web site? (Discussion of web sites.)

(other off~the-record discussion)

NY TIMES 5439

From:'
Sent:
To:

Cc:
SUbject:

Its jed bahhin and mark steyn

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Lunch w/secDef- Attendees

Good Morning All,

We have received the Attendees for the SecDef's "JQurnalist" Lunch on Mon. 23 Oct @
12:00pm-l'OO.

Mark Stein

Cal Thomas
Ted Babbin

Kate O'Beirne
Austin Bay

PA Prep wiD. Smith is still at 11:45am-12:00.

'PA: Please contact attendees with information above.

Thank you,

vir

//S:rGNEO//

SSgt. US~F

Military Admin Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

NY TIMES 5440
 Staff Writer to Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

CIV SO
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SO; Barber, Allison,'CIV, OASO-PA'
Whitman, Bryan, BEB, OASD-PA:p~(e):!'{'(/;
CIV SD: Ruff, Eric, SES, 050- Merritt Roxie T. CAPT, OASD-P
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11:4Sam-PA Prep

12:00pm-l:OO - Lunch

SeeOef does not plan to depa:t for TOY until late on Tuesday 24 October.

Let me know if this does not work - thanks,

resend

. NY TIMES 5441
Asa result of the :pA Meeting today Dr. Bucci asked me to find time for a "Journalist N
lunch.
First. open dates are:

Monday 23 or 30 October 12:00pm-l:OO

Or ihursday 2 November 12;30pm-l:30

Let me know which one works best as I won't be able to hold all three - thanks,

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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 20062:12 PM

To: Lawrence, Dallas B Mr OSD PA

SUbJect: FW: White House Invitation - Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Just an FYI

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From: Steven J. Greer CSM (Ret) [rnailto:steven

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Subject: RE: White House Invitation- Tuesday, October 17,2006

~~l'}~W{;:Mi'l thanks. much appreciated.

I do have an issue I'd like your professional advice on.

My non-profit foundation presents an award In honor of a very close friend of mine who was KIA hunting terrorists
In Afghanistan in Oct 03. MSG William Carlson and 1served in the Rangers and Special Forces together and he
went on to Delta Force. After 9/11, ·Chief" as he Was called, was one of the Special Operators who liberated
Afghanistan in 01/02 and who fought at Tora Bora and elsewhere. He was in Afghanistan fighting more than year
and a half before retiring at 20 years. Instead of enjoying his retirement (like me!) Chief joined the CIA and within
in months of leaving the Army, he was back in the same mountains hunting terrorists with a clandestine
operations team. He was killed in a very tough fire fight while tracking AQ.

My twin brother was with him In Delta Force and tells me that during the raid on Mullah Omar's home, Chief
picked up a small brick from the house and I'm told the brick ',s in the Oval office today? At any rate, Chief was an
Irreplaceable warrior. My foundation created the award in 05 to honor his legacy and remind the public that
freedom is not free.

Bottom line, we'd like to present the Award to the President.

A bit long winded ... can you point me in the right direction to make this happen? Chief left behind a great wife and
two bOYS. They would be prOUd to see POTUS receive this award I Chiefs honor.

Thanks ... hate to toss this at you. Just thought you might know who I might contact.

Thanks

VIr
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sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:25 PM

To: Steven J. Greer CSM (Ret)
SUbJect: RE; White House Invitation - Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Sir· Thank you for joining us. You are we'come at the White House anytime. Please do not hesitate to contact
me if I can ever be of service.

Regards,

NY TIMES 5443

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From: Steven J. Greer CSM (Ret) [mallto:steven

Sent~Tuesday< October 17,2006 11:29 AM
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j' I'm the guy you spoke with on the way out the door with Wayne Simmons. Just wanted to thank you again
for the invite. Keep pressing the fight my man.

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From:' ~g~~fgikiW,:\t:},::(i;:ri(;jlLCD R OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:12 PM

To: Ruff, Eric Mr aso PA

SUbject: Next GTMO media outreach trip

Mr. RUff,

As per your request, this is the manifest for the group this week that was bumped till nextweek.

The plane was bumped due to the Chairman flying to Miami for the SOUTHCOM Change of Command.

VVed,O(:tQb~r 18.th
1) Blanquita Cullum (Radio America)
2) Leonard Leo, Executive Vice President, The Federalist Society
3) Helena Cobban (Christian Science Monitor)
4) Jed Babbin
5) Dan Suskind, Producer Michael Reagan Show
6) Deroy Murdock, Syndicated columnist, Scripps Howard News Service

7) Matt Labash, Weekly Standard

8) Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a columnist and senior consultant for the Gerard Group
.International, a Massachusetts-based counterterrorism and homeland security firm.

9) Tucker Carlson, MSNBC

NY TIMES 5446

 From:' Paul Vallely [vallely~~J~~ft;<: ;n;W1;'j;!;j;\:;l

Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:55 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: Fallen Heroes Statue

I'll get Denny to join us for the presentation if that will work!!!

"Stand Up America"

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Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:16 AM
To: Barber, Allison Ms eSD PAl paul vallely
Subject: RE: Fallen Heroes Statue
General,

I would love to make this happen, and will begin working on it today. Do you happen to
have the full dimensions on the statute? Also, when would you like to display it (for how
long)?
I am glad to know you are back up and around, we are all better for itl
Next time you are with Denny Rehberg, myoId boss, please give him my best.

Dallas B. Lawrence
Director, Office of community Relations & Public Liaison united States Department of
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From: Barber, Allison Ms eSD PA
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:07 AM
To: 'paul Val.lely'
Cc: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSO PA
SUbject: RE: Fallen Heroes Statue

Hi paul
This is a beautiful statue. I will ask dallas to get his team engaged so we can find the
appropriate venue for a presentation.
More soon
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To: Barber, Allison Me eso PA
Subject: FW: Fallen Heroes Statue

Allison: See below e-mail that I sent to Eric Was not sure to whom this should go
for approval and action.

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 Best
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10. 2006 11:42 AM
To: 'Ruff, Eric, SES, OSO'
Subject: Fallen Heroes Statue

Eric: My wife and I have commissioned the first Bronze statue to honor the Fallen Heroes
in the Global War On Terror. See attached Photos. We would like to present this to
Department of Defense and have it displayed there on behalf of the Vallely Family and the
Soldiers Memorial Fund. This .is a half life sized (approximately 3 ~ feet tall). This is a
first class sculptor by the famous sculptor Ken Bjorge.
We would like to present this to the SecDef and JT Chiefs, if it can be arranged. Any time
with in the next 90 days will work. The statue is completed and we would ship it ahead of
time to the pentagon .

We were initially going to present it to the White House and President. but I feel it
would be more appropriate for presentation to the Military.

Best

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From:' Paul Vallely [vallely@~!~g{;{n',: ;;;i;i!X;;;;;~) i;[;1
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:32 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: Fallen Heroes Statue

The measurements on the half size Fallen Heroes sculpture are:

40 n H X 32" W x 32"D.

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-----original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA .[mailto:Dallas.Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:16 AM .
To: Barber. Allison Me OSD PAi Paul vallely
Subject: RE: Fallen Heroes Statue
General,
I would love to make this happen, and will begin working on it today. Do you happen to
have the full dimensions on the statute? Also, when would you like to display it (for how
long)?
I am glad to know you are back up and around, we are all better for it!
Next time you are with Denny Rehberg. myoId boss. please give him my best.

Lawrence
office of Community Relations & Public Liaison United States Department of

-----original Message----­
From: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:07 AM
To: 'Paul vallely'
ec: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: Fallen Heroes Statue
Hi paul
This is a beautiful statue. I will ask dallas to get his team engaged so we can find the
appropriate venue for a presentation.
More soon
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Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:59 AM
To: Barber, Allison Me OSD PA
Subject: FW: Fallen Heroes Statue
Allison: See below e-mail that I sent to Eric Was not sure to whom this should go
for approval and action.

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Sent: Tuesday, october 10, 2006 11:42 AM

To: 'Ruff, Eric, 8ES, 080'

Subj.ect: Fallen Heroes Statue

Eric: My wife and I have commissioned the first Bronze statue to honor the Fallen Heroes
in the Global War On Terror. See attached Photos. We would like to present this to
Department of Defense and have it displayed there on behalf of the Vallely Family and the
Soldiers Memorial Fund. This is a half life sized [approximately 3 ~ feet tall). This is a
. first class SCUlptor by the famous sculptor Ken Bjorge.
We would like to present this to the SeeDef and JT Chiefs, if it can be arranged. Any time
with in the next 90 days will work. The statue is completed and we would ship it ahead of
time to the Pentagon .

We were initially going to present it to the White House and President, but I feel it

would be more appropriate for presentation to the Military.

Best

PV

Fox News Channel

Osp1::'ey Media

Paul E vallely

Militar

vallely

tel:~K

fax: .';~.';:

www.ospreymedia.us

Add me to your address book ...

chttps:llwww.plaxo.com/add me?u.1288S160S93&vO=5113S5&kO&745169159~vl.0&kl=5

11356> Want a signature like this? <http://www.plaxo.com/signature>

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From: ~~~:&~n!m;J~m:!i;JW;;;;Wt"Iwr,mpsD PA
, Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:13 PM
To: Barber. Allison Ms OSD PA; Smith. Dorrance HON OSD PA: Ruff. Eric. SES. OSD
Cc: t~;~K~z@;:;\r;!;':N,:W11 elV, OASD-PA '
Subject: RE: analysts with seedef

Great Idea. If It's Ok.~~!~~~:1coUld test waters and have them save the date.

From: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:39 PM
To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA; Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD; PA
Subject: analysts with seedef

Hi
Might consider adding bob scales and don shepperd on the trip with seedef. Fox and enn military analysts. If
interested, someone might want to call them to have them ·save the date"

ab

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From: ~~J;~,~t \i}, (m! OSD PA

Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:54 PM
To: Ruff. Eric Mr OSD PA
SUbJect: FW: Outreach Recommendations for 5 weeks
Importance: High

hi. wanted you to have this... but you didn't get it from me! :)
~~?&~?@!)ii::1 .

From: Thompson, Jonathan SES OSD PA

sen • Fr' cber 20, 2006 12:35 PM
To: OL STRA
050 PA; . . MNFI SfRATEFF COMMS DIV'; Merritt, Roxie, AFIS-HQ;
·,05D PA
.
SUbject: Outreach Recommendations for 5 weeks
Importance: High

Want to try and prioritize our media and outreach desires between now and the end of November. Priority of
course is to have MGC, CG and other leadership there brief/talk/discuss over the next several weeks. Recognize
your principals' time constraints, but we need to reach beyond usual suspects, often and in concerted method.
For example could we add the following:

Week of 23 October - in addition to MGC Press Brief

• Civilian Defense Academics and Thought Leaders: 20 minute brief by MGC, CG/Zal or MG Cichowski
• Iraq and Defense Bloggers (3-5): 30 minutes with MGC or other senior leader
• Radio: Continue at least 2 GO inteNiews with National outlets
• Regional Radio: Maintain program

Week of 30 October - in addition to MGC Press Brief

• Media Pundits and Opinion Writers: 20 minute pre·brief by MGC prior to weekly PC
• Iraq and Defense Bloggers (3-5): 30 minutes with MGC or other senior leader
• Radio: Continue at least 2 GO interviews with National outlets
• Regional Radio: Maintain program

Week of 6 November - in addition to MGC Press Brief

• Defense Experts Group (former DoD civilian executives: 30-45 minute brief by MGC. MG Cichowski or CG
• Iraq and Defense Bloggers (3-5): 30 minutes with MGC or other senior leader
• Radio: Continue at least 2 GO Interviews with National outlets
• Regional Radio: Maintain program

Week of 13 November­
• Military An8/y$tsfTalking Heads: 45 minute pre/post brief by MOe, or other senior leadership
• Iraq and Defense Bloggers (3-5): 30 minutes with MGC or other senior leader
• Radio: Continue at least 2 GO inteNlews with National outlets
• Regional Radio: Maintain program

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 RE: "Journalist" Lunch w/SecDef- Attendees Page lof4

From: Abbott, Catherine COL OSD PA

Sent: Friday, October 20, 20063:37 PM
To: Haddock, Ellen (Katie), Col, OCJCS/PA
Cc: Smi Dorrance HON eso PA; Ruff. Ene Mr QSD PA;,,~I~
::':\;i/T? aSD PA
SUbject: FW: "Journalist" Lunch w/SecDef- Attendees

Katie, .
I just checked with your office and they told me that Gen Pace is in the bUilding at this time, but there is
something on his sChedule in th udio from 1200 - 1230. Is this something that can be rescheduled? Please
let me know ASAP. Thanks<~1R"

SD;

Good Afternoon All,

TheSecDefhas requested the CJCS' presence at the "Journalist" Lunch on Mon 23 Oct@ 12:00pm-l:00.

"If the CJCS is unavailable/unable to attend, we will have to reschedule.

Attendees are:

CJCS

Mark Steyn

Cal Thomas

Jed Babbin

Kate O'Beirne

Austin Bay

Thanks.

vir

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 RE: "Journalisttl Lunch w/SecDef- Attendees Page 2 of4

/ISIGNEDI/

,SSgl, USAF

Military Admin Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

Staff Writer to Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

Fax:

NIPR:

SIPR:

Good Morning All,

We have received the Attendees for the SeeDers·Journalist" Lunch on Mon. 23 Oct @ 12:oopm-l:00.

Mark Stein

Cal Thomas

Ted Babbin

Kate O'Beirne

Austill Bay

FA Prep wID.Smith is still at 11~45am-12:00.

*PA: Please contact attendees with information above.

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 RE: "Journalist" Lunch w/SecDef- Attendees Page 3 of 4

Thank you,

vIr

IISIGNEDII

SSgt, USAF

Military Admin Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

Staff Writer to Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense

~~~~~?'M;{,;i,l;,;,\i(jji;'1
CIV SD

sent: Thursda October 05,20062:42 PM

1
~:;~~r~~;~:'f~:~,Ci~s~~~~~~~ ~~!:~~~f'i~~ii:~'~I~~: 8'~f~~;~!;':
050; Merritt, Roxie T. CAPT, OASD-PA; Lawrence Dallas OASD·PA· BllCCI

~ai~f:~~~:;.h:~~6~~\'~;~b:::~:' , . O:J~~A::~';
HON, OSD-PA; Bucci, Dr. Steven CIV 50;
Ol OSD PA;
~§2(~X«FY;!:;NOSD PA; Abbott, Catherine COL OSD PA

Subject: RE: "Joumalist" Luneh w/SecOef

I am hOlding Monday 23 October for the next "Journalist" lunch:

11:45am-PA Prep

12:00pm-t:OO - Lunch

SeeDef does not plan to depart for TOY until late On Tuesday 24 October.

Let me know If this does not work - thanks,

YNl SD; aV,OASD·

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 RE: "Journalist" Lunch w/SecDef- Attendees Page 4 of4

resend

As a resu/l of the PA MeetIng today Dr. Bucci asked me to find time tor a "Journalist" lunch.

First open dates are:

Monday 23 or 30 October 12:00pm-1:00

Or Thursday 2 November 12:30pm-1 :30

Let me know which one works best as I won't be able to hold all three - thanks,

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From: Ruff, Eric Mr QSD PA

Sent: Friday, October 20,2006 10:52 AM

To:' ~RM~~~;;)j};W;'I;;;j;1iN:;MlOSD PA

SUbject: RE: Conference call with Retired Military Analysts

:;~:' we'vi rt °
',t, ~et better at giving me and sgt~~)J~+(;i:ja heads up on the ca"s with the analysts. i haven't
spoken to;~,;~)iii'!F bout whether she knew of the call and It's entirely possible that somebody told the pa
principals' meeting yesterday that this call was on. that doesn't help me jf i'm traveling and don't hear it i know
your circumstances have you dOing a ton of work 50 ( understand the challenge. but... thanks. (blw, is there a
transcript? )

From: ~~tt~X!!~U),t!;;\;n'i(\j!1 OSD PA

sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:37 AM
10: ~~JmJ;;Y@Y+?i;;3jt>4:0LSTRATEFF'
.
Cc: Thompson, P

Colonel.

Please find attached (and pasted below) the agenda for the call with Retired Military Analysts in a half hour. The

RSVP's I have received so far are on the second page. The dial in number is also on the Agenda. Please let me

know If you have any questions.

Thank you for your time.

tary of Defense

.As of 8:30 a.m.

Conference Call
Retired Military Analysts
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006 TIME: 9:00 - 9:45 a.m.

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 Page 2 of 3

AGENDA

9:00 a.ID. Welcome and Introduction (GUIDELINES)

• OSD Public Affairs

'):01 a.m. Update on Situ'ation in Baghdad

• Major General William Caldwell

9:30 a.m. Q& A

. • Military Analysts

9:45 a.m. Conference Call Conc)udes(GUIDELINES)

Note: DiaJ-in-telephone numbers are:~)

,:,

..... ----- --_.­

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Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG) American Spectator
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu (USA, Retired) Fox News

Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News

Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired) Fox News

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News

General William F. "Buck" Kernan (USA, Retired)
Major General James "Spider" Marks . (USA, Retired) CNN
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF. Retired) Fox News
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) Fox News

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From: Barber. Allison Ms 050 PA

Sent: Friday. October 13, 2006 4:39 PM
To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA; Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD;~!~0~~~:';WMi8;;;>i';:'ii1;:j;1 OSD PA
Subject: analysts with seCdef

Hi.

Might consider adding bob scales and don shepperd on the trip with secdef. Fox and cnn military analysts. If

jnterested, someone might want to call them to have them "save the date"

ab

4/9/2008

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From: Kimmitt, Mark T elv OSD POLICY

~i~~~0~~li·';iMjtDf~~~~a~OJ.6 B~~~e~~ared
Sent:
To: Young'; 'Hilary White'; 'Gary Thatcher'; Lawrence,
Dallas Mr OSD PA; 'Dan Seno"; 'Dan Senor'; 'Rob Tappan'; Kimmitt, BG Mark T. (USA);
'Mark Kimmitt': 'Tom Basile'; 'Joe Pally'; 'Beth Marple'; 'Dave Mingey'; 'Mike Spires'; 'AI Eisadr';

l..~.Ov.~n.~. h.irl~?~~~n~~~r~~E~~:'~~l~~~:~ ~~~~~i~(~:N~0i;~~8!~~:;

.. O
. .. t.,. . .
~~(~)Y:')CIV OSD LA; 'Rob Tappan'; 'AI EI Sadr'; 'Usa Gates'; ~~~~~~~p~e~'b~;~~;}il
'Kristl Clemens'; 'Krlstl [... .

Cc: ~~~~~~;~}'i2~:'i'g:001ens'; 'Dave Mingey'; eliza'm~~~~~?i';'i0~'~"1

Subject: RE: Rajiv's response to Dan

Jim "What's-his-name" was Jim Krane

Kimmitt

From :~~~~~;,;;X

;~~~~~i~xB8~j@j2'1 Thomas J. Basile; I~ared

Young'; 'Hilary White'; 'Gary Thatcher';
Lawrence. Dallas Mr OSD PAr 'Dan Senor'; 'Dan Senor'; 'Rob Tappan'; Kimmitt. BG Mark T.
(USA); 'Mark Kimmitt'; 'Tom Basile'; 'Joe Pally'; 'Beth Marple'j 'Dave Mingey'; 'Mike
Spiros'; 'Ai Elsadr ' i Goodwin Robert SES SAF/MRM; I Robert Goodwin" I Greg Edqar r 1 I Gordon

m;1~:t:~~~:F~~;1~~~:~:qI:~::~~~;:~~;~~:~;~::~U~;iwif{;j!';:~t;

SUbject: RaJ~v's response to Dan

Rajiv responded today to Dan's op-ed by writing a post

on a super-liberal biog, Talking Points Memo Cafe,
edited by Bush-bashing ~ber-liberal Josh Marshall. It
seems that Rajiv is now a "guest blogger" on
Marshall's plog, which makes Rajiv's liberal bias no
longer a question but a certifiable fact. It'd be like
a Washington Post assistant managing editor guest
hosting for Rush Limbaugh. I cannot believe that the
post allowed him to write on such an openly partisan
blog ... r suppose he'S just the Gort that makes a great
assistant managing editor at the Post these days.
Anyway, here's Rajiv's response:

wrote:
:> I watched Rajivtalk about this on C-Span's "Book
:> Notes" recently and remember a conversation we had
:> in
:> Baghdad.
;)

> Rajiv que~tioned me abou~ the resumee of the

:> Strat-Comm staff in particular, saying we looked
:> more
:> like political loyalists rather than experienced
:> communicators, even after I told him that I was a

NY TIMES 5462

~ former newspaper reporter, a public affairs

:> specialist
:> in the Army, was deployed to Bosnia and came to Iraq
:> directly from working in a Abu Dh~bi-ba5ed Middle
:> Ea'st
:> think tank. Still, since Ialse happened to have
> worked for a Republican congressman and a. governor,
:> and supported President Bush. I was a partisan who
> had
:> nO bUsineSs in the CPA,
>
:> I then asked Rajiv and that AP reporter, Jim
:> whatever-his-name-was, why their editors sent them
:> to
:> Iraq rather than more experienced reporters. The
:> answer: 'they didn't want to come.

:>.Bottom line: Many of the low-level to middle

:> management appointees in the CPA were in their late
:> 20s and early 308 because, with a few exceptions,
:> older folks with families didn't want te voluntarily
> leave their wives anq kids and head to a war zone.
> Again, with a few exceptions, many of the other CPA
:> officials there were a little bit older, already
:> raised their families 'and didn't have any children
" at
" hame .. The same can be said of the reporters whe
:> covered the CPA.
>
:> And of course people who volunteered to serve in a
,. ,war

:> zone would, believe it the mission. The same cannot'

:> be

.> said for the reporters who were there.

> Rajiv's book only showed the world what bias we had

> to

" deal with everyday,

,.

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" > Great piece. Thanks for sending.

:> :>

> >

:> :>

> " Thomas J. Basile

:> :>

:> > Principal

,. :>
,. ,. Empire Solutions consulting L.L.C.
,. "
,,:> <http://www.EmpireSolutionsLLC.com>
:> ,. www.EmpireSolutionsLLC.com
,. ,. 5~9-573-~5B9

:> "
:> ,. 518-729-4471 fax
" :>

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 :> :>Senor; Dan Senor; Rob Tappan; Mark Kimmit; Mark

:> :> Kimmitt; Tom Basile; Joe
:> :> Pally; Beth Marple; Dave Mingey; Mike Spiros; Al
:> :> Elsadr; Robert Goodwin;
:> :> Robert Goodwin; Greg Edgar; Gordon James; Brian
:> :> Leventha 1; Brian (work)========
: ~~{~~~1fIT!mfha 1 ; Lisa Gates; ~~l;~~ligi;t\:m:l:f%:;' :xnml
:> > Tom Basile; Rob Tappan;
:> :>' Al El SadrI Lisa Gataa; Clem.n~; Kriati
> > Clemens; Kristi
:> :> Mingey; eli
> :> Ce: hfwhitei
:> :> SUbject: Response to R~jiv
> :>
> :>
:> :>
:> :> Hey all,
:> :>
:> :> Thought you guys would be interested in seeing
:> Da.n's
:> > piece in the wash Post
:> > today responding to Rajiv's book on the Green
> Zone:
:> :>
:> :>
> ;>
> :> The Realities Of Trying to Rebuild Iraq
:> :>
> :> By Dan Senor
:> :> Tuesday, October 10, 2006; A2l
:> :>
> :> A recent excerpt from a new book by Rajiv
:> :> Chandrasekaran of The Post paints
:> :> a highly distorted portrait of the postwar
:> :> administration of Iraq. Given
> > that the article has prompted some senators to
> call
> > for a government
> > investigation into the hiring practices of the
:> :> Coalition provisional
:> :> Authority (CPA), it's important to correct the
:> > record.
> :>
:> > Chanarasekaran's thesis is that young and
> inexperienced neoconservative
:>
:> > political hacks and Bush loyalists ran and ruined
:> > the occupa.tion of Iraq. In
" > pinning the shortcomings of the reconstruction
» effort on the mishaps of a
> " handful of low-level policical appointees, he
:> :> vir~ual1y ignores the fact
" " that the senior tiers of the CPA were popUlated
:> with .
> " a bipartisan and
:> > generally nonpolitical corps of experts.
> "
> >His book makes no mention, for example, of Richard
:> "Jones, who was the CPA's
:> > chief of policy and Ambassador Paul Bremer's top
" " deputy. A career diplomat,
> > Jones had served as President Bill Clinton's'
" " ambassador to Lebanon and
:> :> Kazakhstan, and he was ambassador to Kuwait when
" he
> " relocated to Baghdad. He
> " was at the center of practically every decision
3

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 ;. and
> > every meeting about the
;. :> Iraqi political process from the moment he
;. arrived.
> ;. Indeed, during the first
;. :> major crisis in Fallujah, Jones was the CPA's lead
:> :> negotiator with the
;. :> city's Sunni leadership, as was reported widely .
. > ;.
> > Nor does Chandrasekaran discuss Ryan Crocker, a
> > striking omission since
> > Chandrasekaran once described Crocker as Bremer's
:> > "top political aide" [newEl
:>:> story, July 13, 2003]. Crocker, the senior State
:> :> Department official with
;. :> responsibility for Iraq before the war, le4 the
;. :> CPA's political
> > reconstruction team. A fluent Arabic speaker
> widely
;. ;. regarded as among the
:> ;. State Department's most distinguished Arabists,
> > Crocker had served as
:> :> ambassador to Syria and Kuwait under Clinton. He
;. is
:> :> a consummate
:> :> professional diplomat, neither inexperienced nOr
:> an
:> :> ideologue. And he was
:> :> extraordinarily influential in the early months of
> :> the occupation; along
:> ;. with Bremer and senior British envoy John Sawers
> > (another Middle East
:>:> expert, who had come to the CPA from his post as
> > ambassador to Egypt) ,
> :> Crocker played the most influential role in
> :> selecting the Iraqi Governing
> > Council in July 2003. But reading Chandrasekaran's
> :> book. you would be left
>:> with the impression that Crocker had nothing to
;. with
> >
Iraq -- he does not
> :> even get a mention.
> :>
> ;. Chandrasekaran ignores countless other CPA leaders
> who also fail to
>
> :> substantia~e his one-sided thesis, inclUding Gen.
> > Keith Kellogg. the CPA's
;. ;. chief of operation~. Kellogg is a retired
:> lieutenant
> > general whose 32-year
;. :> Army career included two tours in Vietnam and
> > service as the 62nd Airborne
> :> Division'S chief of staff during Operations Desert
:> > Sbield and Oesert Storm.
> > He was succeeded by Vice Adm. Scott Redd, who
> served
> ;. as director of
>
message truncated

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Transcript - send to~~~?~@'~,rhen done!! Thanks Sir (UNCLASSIFIED) Page 1 of3

From: . ~~),:{~lirt!:'IN:l\(Hi!jclv, OASD·PA

Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2D06 6:12 PM

To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD;~~R~JNt!i!'};':\,'CXi:'!C%;;"1 OSD PA

Subject; RE: Transcript· CSA roundtable (UNCLASSIFIED)

i let him know that we have contacted col hunt in the past and offered to put him on the list. he declined.
ks

Classification: ~NCLASSJFIED

Caveats: NONE

~~@~~?'i)'\n;ii;:(i~
. FYI· not sure of the methOdology for putting this list to ther, but I noticed that COL (Ret) David Hunt· Fox News
was not on your list. His email IsD.t!l,lnt1.;Z~.1§

Phone is

He's my fonner battalion commander and I know he is appreciative of any info you folks provide.

VR• •

co/. K~J,~~tG¥:tiI~i!;il;}ffJ
Chief, Media Relations Division
Off;ce of the Chief of Public Affairs
1500 Army Pentagon, Rm
Washi ton D.C., 20.310­
Work

• •~ITJOSD PA;

sir,

no problem. here is a list of those it went to.

4/9/2008

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 Transcript· send t en done!! Thanks Sir (UNCLASSIFIED) Page 2 of3

thanks.

-~-_ ..-..... __ .... _-

From&~~~%~;;!%Wgil LTC OCPA
sent: ThurSda~, October 12, 2006 5:34 PM

To:Kp)(~Xjqi,):~))j1 eIV, OA ­
ce Eric, SES, 05D- OSD PA
COL CSA;i(
COL OCPAi'iJIi';Y/hi:/YUi LTC CSA .
Subject: RE: Transc.ript • CSA roundtable (UNCLASSIFiED)

Classificatiun: UNCLASSIFIED

Ca veats: -ft)tj'(J" .

I don't have an issue with this. What I sent was the raw transcript that didn't correct some of the grammatical
errors or fill in some of the inaudibles. Could you send me the list of who you send it out to?

Thanks,

sir,
thankS for sending (and for scrambling to get the transcript dOne!). osd·pa would like to send this out to the
military analysts (retired talking heads), understand your request not to use the material in briefings, etc.. however
it was on the record and has been quoted (and misrepresented) by the media. It would be Incredibly helpfUl to
send it out to the military analysts'whO can quote it in the correct context and correct the record,
'please let me know if you have concerns with this and i will bring them to the attention of my leadership.
thanks
!I~&~l .
..... _,,_._._ __
.. .. _. ... ~

Classification: J.!N~LASSIFIEp'

4/9/2008

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 Transcript send t~~~~~~.r,lwhen done!! Thanks Sir (UNCLASSIFJED)
r Page 3 of3

Caveats. FOOt)

All,

Here is the full transcript of the CSA's media roundlableyesterday. Just a reminder thallhis information is 10 be
used as background and preparatory material only If there are any quotes or soundbites that you wish to use in
presentations or briefings attributed to the CSA please contact myself in order for me to verify that the information
is still accurate and val/d.

Thank you foryour patience,

Classification: UNCLASSJFJED

Caveats. FOUO

Classification: UNCLAS$.!.EUm

Caveats;-f{)UO

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Caveats: NONE

419/2008

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 From:' Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: T 12,20066:09 PM

T(l: b AFIS~HQIPIA

SUbject: Re:3

,Great. Thanks on all 3.

Ab

;;~~:1~M~'080;000H088f~:8~~;IS-HQ/P!A
To: Barber, Allison Me OSD PA

Sent: Thu Oct 12 17:50:56 2006

Subject: 3 FYI!!

FYI III ~ re; attachment below -' We continue to help K~lt!Y};1 just as we did when she worked
for Dallas. We know that when she asks for something it's always ~or a ~ood reason. If
we're swamped, we negotiate the deadline.
~y;~~ ~ I han a good conversation wi t~ ~~),t~lXW£(iij;:,!(i;j·\;t<iil (she worlts for ~pMBl(;J
~~}(~}},':.X::i:l after the All Hands mtg. She J.S enthusl.astl.C that IRM now reports to a DASO and
that there will be some direction.

Non
Respon
sive

~~~~~~1~I~00ill288Bi~i~-~~;-PA
~~~~)($)M!M(00~U'E:(X;1 o~;~;e~~~: p~ 006 5: 41 PM
CCt ~bW6tA:;::'!/X{,! ;;!i:;;!'X{';!'!{;'!H AFIS-HO!PIA: CIV, OASD-PP.; CTR,
QASD-FA
Subject: Mil Analysts

Hi

Attached are two clips with Col. McCausland and Gen. Grange. We'll continue
to monitor for any additional coverage with the military analysts. Please
let us know if you need anything else.

Thanks,

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From: ~~~:\~!;Wi!Mn'ii!iM;@CIV, OASD·PA

Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:16 PM

To: lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Subject: RE: analyst

ok, i'll ask if we can add him... can you find out if he's available on the 18th? or i'm happy to call him if you want
me to.
thanks
\ ..

From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Thurscla October 12, 2006 1:22 PM
To&~~(~x:!VJ;;m:\;';;MifjClV,
E OASD-PA
Subject: RE: analyst

Ahh I didn't know you were here. Id like to send dan senor. fox news analyst

n.
nulla!' Luwrell(:e
JHrj·(:I.(n". OFfice vf Coml(Jtlllh~' nd<ll.iOIl~ & f'uhlie Ulli.~on
Un.ired SllItN' n" lu,'lnwnl of Ddim'H'

next trip to gitmo is the 18th, who is the analyst YOU'd like to send? cully stimson has been driving the list of

invites. so i'm not sure if they are willing to invite anyone else. i can make the pitch, but basically, pa has not been

calling the shots on these trips, .

let me know when you're avail tomorrow and j'lI stop by.

. ks

---------- ----_. -- - ._--------------­

From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
sent: ThUTSda~ October 12, 2006 12:59 PM
To~~)'~~X';·{(;:1£\\i::!f\11 av, OASD·PA
SUbject: analyst

'Mlen you get back Friday can you please stop by to discuss the foia issue, Also, when is the next analyst trip to
grtma, ive got someone from fox to send. Thanksl

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From: aSD PA
Sent: Thursday, October 12,2006 1:53 PM
To: Ruff, Eric. SES, aSD
Cc: ~~1,~~%!:i0~:f;f0:i;1:H;:tr1j;M:;!::1\~9t 050 PA
Subject: Please call Jed Babbin,

K~W\~0NXi:i:f§n;,m'i:{:;ii:i1
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 From:' OSOPA
Sent: Thursday, October 12,200611:39 AM
To: ~i~, ~orr~Rc~ HON OSD PA
Cc: nr;:tffi'.nill,xHlliTIi«>il OSD PA
SUbject: Journalist lunch

. I hear a snowflake is coming on this - asking for details.

Confirmed to date:
Austin Bay
. Jed Babbin
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7he Pentae0n, ~~~~J:;!,;w<m
Wasliingto1z, tDC ~0301

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From: ~~,~~~{:,;;;d:{j!\',;:::mn:plV,OASD-PA
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 200611:11 AM

To: RUff, Eric, SES, OSO

Cc: ~~~:\~~!lfWf'&ijJiIrWW':~im;WilosDPA

SubJect: RE: schoomacher comments

on hold with schoomaker's office now. there is no transcript, but i think they are wor1<ing on one as we speak. will

-
get it out asap.
~ks

- ---_.. _--_._------_._-----_._--------­

my advice would be to go to the source .- schoomacher's press people. they must have a tape. and, it might be
on the army website. he spoke at a newsmaker breakfast, i believe. if you don't have luck with these, t1)l bg tony
cuculo's office. thanKs.

From:~~tf~?i\:10!7{;,Xi!@ ClV, OASD·PA

sent: Thursday, October 12,2006 10:55 AM

~&pj!iwi~~~l{;;~~~t;:,iJgSD PA .
Subject: RE: schoomacher comments

eric.

i have several people looking for his comments. no one seems to know where he said them or to whom exactly he

was speaking. none of the stories I'm seeing say, either. i have~~;~\~I1W;lteam looking to see If there is a transcript,

but from what i can tell. it wasn't a press briefing, so there may no a fuJI transcript. as soon as we find

something. i will let you know.

nks

-_._--------­
Prom: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

~~~~(;~~~i~:~!,'~:~~,~~b2plj~W;;~~i!~:j OV, OASD·PA

Subject: schoomacher comments
Importance: High

we need to get the transcript of sChoomacher's comments to the military analysts. his comments about planning
for the pOSSibility that the army will need to have force levels in 2010 about where they are today have been
mischaraeterized by some media reports. hoping that fran harvey is going to be able to get on brian and the JUdge
andlor laura ingraham's show. that transcript would be helpful for those analysts as well, but we snouldn't wah to
get those guys schoomachers. the analystG will be able to read what pete said and b/c they are military, they'll
get It. please let me know when gen schoomacher's words have been sent. thanks.

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Paul Vallely [vallely

Sent: Thursday, October 12, 20069:12 AM
To: Lawrence. Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: Radio Show TOday

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Subject: Beginning ,of our "People Who Care" Series..... Surprise'

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From;' Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: Thursday, October 12, 20069:07 AM
To: lawrence, Daflas Mr aSD PA
Subject; FW: Fallen Heroes Statue

Attachments: image001.gif; Fallen Heroes Statue 1.jpg; Speaker Hassert and Rehberg with Fallen Heroes
Statue.jpg; Fallen Heroes Bronze 2.JPG

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From: Paul Vallely fmailto:vallely¢;:::;,.'i';,.:t; A/i::;;:}:/,.,.,:,:, .
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:59 AM
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Subject: FW: Fallen Heroes Statue

Allison: See below e-mail that I sent to Eric Was not sure to Whom this should go
for approval and action.

Best
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From: Paul Vallely [mailto:vallely
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:
To: 'Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD'
Subject: Fallen Heroes Statue

Eric: My wife and I have commissioned the first Bron~e statue to honor the Fallen Heroes
in the Global War On Terror. See attached Photos. We would like to present this to
Department of Defense and have it displayed there on behalf of the Vallely Family and the
Soldiers Memorial Fund. This is a half life sized (approximately 3 ~ feet tall). This isa
first class SCUlptor by the famous sculptor Ken Bjorge.

We would like to present this to the SecDef and JT Chiefs, if it can be arranged. Any time
with in th~ next 90 days will work. The statue is completed and we would ship it ahead of
time to the Pentagon......

We were initially going to present it to the White House and President, but I feel it
would be more appropriate fo~ presentation to the Military.

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PV

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 From:"
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:

From Col Tom Taylor for consideration He knows that I am involved in the Oitmo
Project. See below. I have copied his e-mai+ as well.

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Sent: Wednesday Octob~r 11, 2006 9:34 PM
To: paul vallely~!:iI(~X/;'}!,i'X)/?;in/i\:{);::j'i(i
Subject: Oitmo commissioners

Hi Paul,
Enjoy your postings. Presuming that your politics give you some unusual access to
policy makers. I wonder if you would express this opinion, if you agree with it, to DOD.
~ere'e a sugge~ted letter to Rummy(might ae well got to the top!).

Dear Mr. Secretary,

With the commissions for Guatanamo detainees soon to be formed, may I suggest that
they be comprised entirely of retired field grade Officers from all services. There is
already a DOD procedure in place for bringing them back on active duty.
The .advantages of retired commissioners would be threefold. First, their experience
would not include combat service in the battle areas where the detainees were captured;
whereas those of active duty officers quite likely would, grounds for possible challenge'
by defense attorneys. Second, the services need every active duty officer for current
operations. Like all good officers they don't want to be sidetracked from assignments
where they feel they can do the most and for which they are trained. ~rompersonal
experience I can relate that to be appointed to a court martial meant rolling my eyes.
Third, retired Officers ~- their careers completea -- would be immune from any allegation
of command influence.
You~s faithfully,

P.V.

Thanks for your .help, Paul. Sometime l'd like to communicate with you about how
PSYOP must be our foremost weapon against Al Qaeda.
Tom Taylor

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From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

Sent: Wednesday, October 11,20064:35 PM
To: . ~~~t~*':;';":@ii;Mi';j1;;;:;R(1';!M;g1(! OSD PA
Subject: FW: Today's TAS: Republicans at Bay?

here to serve.

From: JedBabbinl~;~~?;j;,;
sent: Monday,
To: tmcinerne
U5AGlrl1957

It's like the lottery, guys. You can't win if you don't pJay. As Casey Stengel wouIda said,
"can't anybody here play this game?"

Home Office)
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From:'
Sent:
To:
SUbJect:

Do you have his contact Info?

;])irecwr; OSD }ld"van.ce ana:Metiia (}{f:fations

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From:' ~R,~'t~l'M$f;:;;(i';'~i!Iji)M;:!j AFI $-HQ/PIA

Sent: Wednesday, October 11,2006 10:13 AM
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA; Lawrence, Dallas Mr aSD PA
Subject: Dan Senor's piece ran yesterday and it was
in the Bird-first opinion item

The Realities Of Trying To Rebuild Iraq <e2006101046{)881.html>

(Washington Post) ...Dan Senor

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From: ."i%WTj\'i,Wi", MW'POL MNFf CMD GRP PAO

Sent: Tuesday,October 10. 2006 10:52 PM
To: Casey George GEN MNF·I CG; Caldwell William 8 MG MNFI DCS STRATEFF; Wright Rudy
BG MNFI STRATEFF
Cc: MAJ MNF-I CG Aide-de-Cam . COL MNF·/ CMO GRP XO; ~~'~~*'%;,"pnl
MNFI CMD GRP (CIG); OASD·PA; Ruff. Eric, SES, OSO;
LTC MNFI STRATEFF COMM DIV
Subject: Transcripts from Defense Analysts interview with General Casey 061010
Attachments: General Casey Defense analysts interview OS1010.doc

Sir, transcripts from today's interview. Key comments are bolded. vr

(General Casey opening statement)

The situation is more complex now than in'the two-plus years I've been there. What we have been
seeing since the elections, especially since the bombing of the Sarnarra mosque, is the primary conflict is
evolving from an insurgency against us to a struggle over the division of the political and economic
power among the Iraqis. There are several different groups that are trying to influence that process in
negative ways. The Sunni extremists, al Qaeda and the Iraqis that are supporting them, the Shiite
extremists, the death squads and some of the more militant Shiite militia.

Then the resistance. When people talk about the insurgency, primarily the Sunni resistance, the ones
fighting us, and then Syria and Iran are being are being unhelpful in a lot of different ways. Iran in
a more active role, Syria in a more passive role. All of that together makes for a very difficult
situation. Add the intensities of Ramadan and the struggle for control there in the Baghdad area and it's
a very difficult situation and probably will be a difficult situation for a couple more months.

That's it. Violence and progress co~exist in Iraq. If you think it's all just violence you are making a
mistake.

The new government has been On the ground here a little under 150 days. And I think you all
recognize having three government transitions in two years didn't help with continuity problems.
They are working hard building the capacity to govern with our help but it is a slow process. The.
Prime Minister is focused on what I think is the most important thing his administration can do
and that is and that is reconciliation. When we talk we talk about three things: unity, prosperity and
security. If you want prosperity you have to have security, and if you want security you have to have
unity, The prime minister recognizes that and he is moving out and trying to achieve that. .

Just a couple of words on the development ofthe security forces and other growing, positive, concerns
there. Right now we have six of the 10 Iraqi Divisions are in the lead. Thirty 006 brigades and almost
90 of 112 battalions are in the lead. That's a good thing. I'll remind everybody that puts us a little
over 75 percent through what I would say is the second step in a three step process,: First step
. being the training and equipping. You fonn them, organize them and give them their weapons; you
make units out of them. Then you make them better. You put them in a position where they can
conduct counter insurgency operations with our support. Then the next step is what is going to take
place over the better part of '07 is putting them in a position where they can do it independently and that
will continue to go on. On the police side we're doing OK at the local level in most of the places in the
country. Two of the provinces have transferred to provincial Iraqi control. What that says is the police

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are able to maintain domestic control in that province. We just started the National Police Reform
program where we took the 1st Brigade off line and had them training down in Numaniyah where they
were basically being re-blued. You'll remember that the National police were fonned basically as
infantry and didn't have any police training. We're going back and doing that. Unfortunately, 1 think
you saw where approximately 400 of them got poisoned. We've sent some VET teams down there. It
looks to be the water, but they are continuing to go through it. There are also some rumors that people
have died. Nobody has died; at least that's what I was told this morning. ltwas a classic case of food
poisoning. They gave everybody 96 hours off and we'll restart the training and continue the program.
The other thing about the national police I think you read the Iraqi Minister puHed a brigade, the 8th
Brigade offline because they were found to be complicit in the kidnapping-or some of the people were
found to be complicit in the murder and kidnapping of some people just in the last week or so. That's a
big step by the Minister. They have already replaced the brigade commander and he is already having
an impact. So that process is continuing

So, bottom line, tough situation. And I suspect through Ramadan and over the next couple of months
it's going to continue to be a difficult situation. That said, we continue to make progress at the political
level and at the security level all around the country. Tough business, but I think the great Soldiers,
Sailors, Airmen and Marines are well up to it and doing a. magnificent job. With that I'll turn it over to
you guys for questions.

(Jeff McCauslin) It was great to see you out there and you're doing well. Question for you: are we
moving toward a real confrontation with al Sadr and his militias. We've done a lot of neighborhoods;
patrol those neighborhoods in Baghdad. We haven't gone into Sadr City yet. We have this on-going
situation in Diwaniyah, which seems, at least the way it's reported over here, focused on Sadr and the
Medhi anny. Without giving away anything operational, is that the way we are going, is that the next
big step to confronthis militia?

(General Casey) One, all militias have to be confronted and disbanded over time. The prime
minister and the leaders in Iraq understand that until the Iraqi security forces are the dominant security
forces in the country that they are not going to have the kind of country that they want. That said, the
strategy for dealing with the militia is at least two tracks. One is a political track and one is a military
track. I think you'll find with the PM as with any political leader is going to try and use all the political
means possible to resolve things and use force as a last resort. We'll continue to work with him on that.
My personal "iew is there are enough of these guys on the militia side that are just hard guys Bnd
they are going to fight on until they realize they don't have any military options. So I think force
is going to be a part of it. We are not chompingat the bit to do it and we are working hand in hand
with the prime minister so that we have a balanced approach, but it's got to be done.

(Bing West) Thanks again for your gracious hospitality. I just got back from another month in country.
I was on the road with 9 battalion and 9 police units, and a universal complaint they had was about the
current rules of evidence and the difficulty in anesting insurgents and making the arrest stick. Are there
going to be any movements politically to suspend habeas corpus and make it easier to arrest some of.
these guys?

(General Casey) Bing, I don't know that there are any specific initiatives to remove habeas corpus, but
they do have some expanded authority under their emergency law and under their anti-terrorists law that
they are using. That said, the rule of law institutions are very under developed. It is difficult to get a
guy, with evidence, get him to jail, get him to trail, get him convicted. It happens; I think you have read
where they executed the death penalty on a few of these folks. Until we an the Iraqi government make
some strides on the rule oflaw institutions, the court system and then do some work on eliminating
corruption at the local level, I mean I'm sure they told you they put a guy in jail, they pay a bribe and the

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guy is back on the street. We have a lot of work to do there with the rule of law program with the Iraqis
but I don't know of any initiative to suspend habeas corpus.

(Don Sheppard) The question I get most often - everybody realizes things are going very tough and it '
takes approaches both on the political and military side. They keep asking, "what new is going to be
done" and I tell them there isn't much left that's new to be done. There is no magic bullet. Its steady
pressure and sticking with it. Go after these guys and the militias in concert with the politics and the
military.

(General Casey) We are constantly evaluating, roe-evaluating and asking oursel'\les "is what we
started out doing six months ago stm applicable to the situation tbat we have now. We have to
,-."','
balance that for the need for a broad, overarching scheme that gets us where we are going. I started back
in July '04. There was like on battalion in the Iraqi Army. Now you got these guys out there, almost 90
battalions leading the effort. That process has got to continue. Frankly, we are on a de'\lelopmental
tlmellne witb the military and tbe police and tbe security institutions and ministries where I think
the Iraqis are going to be pretty dose to be able to assume security responsibilities I tbink by the
end of '07. They recognize that and it's part of this Joint Committee for Achieving Iraqi Security Self
Reliance (JCAISR) we are work through with the Iraqi's right now. Obviously, conditions based and all
the rest of that. The way the process has been moving that's going very well. Now, is anything new and
different? We continue to adapt our tactics, techniques and procedures. If you guys have anything idea
about a new approach I would be happy to listen to them.

(unknown analysts) Afollow up to that, what should we make of the rhetoric attributed to Sen. Warner
about the 2-3 months? Is there anything magic about two to three'months (referring to a comment that
the Iraqi leaders need to get their arms around the problem or Congress might be forced into a situation,

(General Casey) I haven't seen all of Sen. Warner's comments. I talked to him when he was there. I
certainly didn't say anything about 2-3 months. So, there is not~ing magic about 2-3 mo~ths. I think
if he is expressing a sentiment that the Government needs to get their arms around the sectarian violence
problem quickly - I would very much agree with that. But, I don't think you can put any specific
timelines on that and I don't know where that came from.

(JeffMcCausliin) J don't have any magic solutions for you, but our problem I can tell you is in
describing this changed, complex environment. We all keep getting beat up l'm sure by the comment
that "as the Iraqis build up we were supposed to build dovm." WeB. the Iraqi's are building up and we
all know the Iraqi Anny is a good news story, but we are not building down. The trick is to explain, as
you just did, that this is the most complex security situation and that's a tough thing for people to
understand back over here. In the short tenn at least, to you expect an up tick in U.S. forces? We saw
where the 172d was extended. at least one other brigade was extended, we are moving one other brigade
of the 1st Cav. out early. Is there a possibility in tre next few months of an up tick in U.S. force levels
to try and get our arms around this sectarian violence problem?

(General Casey) I don't have any plans to do it right now. But, as we've said many times we are
constantly looking at this and watching it. I hear the same thing about "standing up and standing down"
and "we're not doing anything" I want to remind everybody that: one, we have already off-ramped two
brigades with associated support-that's about 12,000 folks less. People get all lost in the rotations.
We are in a state of rotations tbrough December. You'll see the number drop back under 130
thousand once we get done with all the rotations. One of the things the Iraqi Security Force
development allowed us to do is reposition force in Iraq away from areas they had taken control over..
So, we were able to do this without increasing the total number of brigades in Iraq, The other thing to
remind them is the "stand up" is a three-part process and we are only 75 per:cent through the

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I
second step. There is more to do. I
Frankly, what happened as I look at the situation in late June early July it became clear to me that both
the security forces and the government were not at the level they needed to be at to have a quick impact I
on the overall sectarian situation in Baghdad. Under our own mantra that "we are going to do what it
take~ to help the Iraqis win here" I reversed myself and put three more brigades into Baghdad and it did
have an immediate impact on the situation there. I
(Jeb Babbin) What are you hearing back, Maliki and any of his guys in terms of their concerns? Are
they worried about our politics, do they s~ a threat coming up in reductions and so forth being forced
I
on them. Are they feeling the pressure?
I
(General Casey) I think they recognize the patience, at least among the American public, may he
waning. And that contributes to a sense of urgency that, frankly they already have. They
recognize that this is their best chance here to put their country on an irreversible road to democracy and I
economic development and they need to take advantage of it in this window. There is a general sense
that they need to get on with things and frankly they are stepping up and taking a lot of initiative here
and it's hearting to see. I
(Jeb Babbin) To follow up on that, in you opening comments you said our great friends in Syria and Iran
were being either actively or passively unhelpful, can you give us any more specifics about that? I
(General Casey) I would say the situation coming out of Syria is about the same as it's been. They
are giving safe haven to Ba'athists and they are allowing terrorists and foreign fights to transit
Syria and come in to Iraq. We think tbat is the primary route for terrorists and foreign fighters
to come into Iraq. They are Dot doing anything to stop it that we can see. Frankly, when you talk
to Iraqis who have lived in Syria and know what the government is capable of they tell you they
could 9top it if they wanted to. .
I
On the Iranian side, again there is no doubt they are prOViding weapons, training, money to Shiite
extremist groups that are being used against theCoalltion and against the Iraqi security forces
I and frankly to kill Iraq civilians.

I (Bing West) Relative to reconciliation with the SU/Uli resistanoe, throughout al-Anbar you k.eep hearing
the Iranian Shiites and the Iranian Prime Minister. Can we expect over the next months that Maliki will
demonstrate something publicly to ally the concerns throughout al-Anbar that he reany doesn't care
I about them?

(General Casey) I think you can Bing. He just chaired a session on Saturday with some al-Anbar
I Sheiks where he addressed them; he's released some of the money to them that had been promised by
the previous government. In my discussions with him he recognizes that bringing al-Anbar into the fold
is an important part of the reconciliation strategy. That said, you have been out to al-Anbar as much as
I anyone, it's going to take a lot of convincing to bring some of those folks in.

I (Chuck Nash) Got a friend of mine who was working over there right after the faU of Baghdad. He
spent about a year over there, transition over to the State as a contractor. Came back to the states for
nine months and he just when back for a three-week trip. His assessment is that the reconstruction
I efforts are wrapping up and that the Army is packing up and pulling back. It gives him the. impression
that everybody is packing up to come home.. Have we changed anything over there that would give
some who was familiar with the way things were several years ago that kind of impression?
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(General Casey) I think probably; We just finished obligating a1 of the IRRF money by the end of the
fiscal year. We have started 3,500 of the total 3,900 projects and finished 2,800-plus of the projects that
were paid for by the IRRF. One, we don't need the numbers of people to go out and inspect the projects
because there are just less projects going on. I think. we will have started all of the projects by next
summer. Some of the projects are large-scale projects that require a little more work up front. But yes,
we have made very good progress frankly in executing the economic projects. What you are seeing is
some down-sizing, but we are going to keep what we need on the ground so we continue to monitor the
projects all the way through to completion. That may have been what he wa.s seeing.

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 General Casey interview with Defense Analysts

October 10,2006

(General Casey opening statement)

The situation is more complex now than in the two-plus years I've been there. What we
have been seeing since the elections, especially since the bombing of the Samma
mosque, is the primary conflict is evolving from an insurgency against us to a struggle.
over the division of the political and economiC power among the Iraqis. There are several
different groups that are trying to influence that process in negative ways. The Sunni
extremists, al Qaeda and the Iraqis that are supporting them, the Shiite extremists, the
death squads and some of the more militant Shiite militia.

Then the resistance. When people talk about the insurgency, primarily the Swmi
resistance, the ones fighting us, and then Syria and Iran are being are being unhelpful
in a lot of different ways. Iran in a more active role, Syria in a more passive role.
All of that together makes for a very difficult situation. Add the intensities of Ramadan
and the struggle for control there in the 'Baghdad area and it's a very difficult situation
and probably will be a difficult situation for a couple more months.

That's it. Violence and progress co-exist in Iraq. If you think it's all just violence you
are making a mistake.

The new government has been on the ground here a little under 150 days. And I
think you all recognize having three government transitions in two years didn't help
with continuity problems. They are working hard building the capacity to govern with
our help but it is a slow process. The Prime Minister is focused on what I think is the
most important thing his administration can do and that is and that is
reconciliation. When we talk we talk about three things: unity, prosperity and security.
If you want prosperity you have to have security, and if you want security you have to
have unity. The prime minister recognizes that and he is moving out and trying to
achieve that.

Just a couple of words on the development of the security forces and other growing,
positive, concerns there. Right now we have six of the 10 Iraqi Divisions are in the lead.
Thirty of36 brigades and almost 90 of 112 battalions are in the lead. That's a good thing.
I'll remind everybody that puts us a little over 75 percent through what I would say
is the second step in a three step process: First step being the training and equipping.
You fonn them, organize them and give them their weapons; you make units out of them.
Then you make them better. You put them in a position where they can conduct counter
insurgency operations with our support. Then the next step is what is going to take place
over the better part of '07 is putting them in a position where they can do it independently
and that will continue to go on. On the police side we're doing OK at the local level in
most of the places in the country. Two of the provinces have transferred to provincial
Iraqi control. What that says is the police are able to maintain domestic control in that
province. We just started the National Police Refonn program where we took the 1st
Brigade offline and had them training down in Numaniyah where they were basically
being re-blued. You']] remember that the National police were fonned basically as
infantry and didn't have any police training. We're going back and doing that.
Unfortunately, I think you saw where approximately 400 of them got poisoned. We've·

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sent some VET teams down there. It looks to be the water, but they are continuing lo go
through it. There are also some rumors that people have died. Nobody has died; at least
that's what I was told this morning. It was a classic case oHoad poisoning. They gave
everybody 96 hours off and we'll restart the training and continue the program. The
other thing about the national police I think y()U read the Iraqi Minister pulled a brigade,
1J1
the 8 Brigade off line because they were found to be complicit in the kidnapping-or
some of the people were found to be complicit in the murder and kidnapping of some
people just in the last week or so. That's a big step by the Minister. They have already
replaced the brigade commander and he is already having an impact. So that process is
continuing .

So, bottom line, tough situation. And I suspect through Ramadan and over the next
couple of months it's going to continue to be a difficult situation. That said, we continue
to make progress at the political level and at the security level an around the country.
Tough business, but I think the great Soldiers, Sailors, Ainnen and Marines are well up to
it and doing a magnificent job. With that I'll tum it over to you guys for questions.

(Jeff McCauslin) It was great to see you out there and you're doing well. Question for
you: are we moving toward a real confrontation with al Sadr and his militias. We've
done a lot of neighborhoods; patrol those neighborhoods in Baghdad. We haven't gone
into Sadr City yet. We have this on-going situation in Diwaniyah, which seems, at least
the way it's reported over here, focused on Sadr and the Medhi anny. Without giving
away anything operational, is that the way we are going, is that the next big step to
confront his militia?

(General Casey) One, all militias have to be confronted and disbanded over time.
The prime minister and the leaders in Iraq understand that until the Iraqi security forces
are the dominant security forces in the country that they are not going to have the kind of
country that they want. That said, the strategy for dealing with the militia is at least two
tracks. One is a political track and one is a military track. I think you'll find with the PM
as with any political leader is going to try and use all the political means possible to
resolve things and use force as a last resort. We'll continue to work with him on that.
My personal view is there are enough of these guys on the militia side that are just
hard guys and they are going to fight on until they realize they don't have any
military options. So I think force is going to be a part of it. We are not chomping at
the bit to do it and we are working hand in,hand with the prime minister so that we have a
balanced approach, but it's got to be done.

(Bing West) Thanks again for your gracious hospitality. I just got back from another
month in country. I was on the road with 9 battalion and 9 police units, and a universal
complaint they had was about the current rules of evidence and the difficulty in arresting
insurgents and making the arrest stick. Are there going to be any movements politically
to suspend habeas corpus and make it easier to arrest some ofthese guys?

(General Casey) Bing, I don't know that there are any specific initiatives to remove
habeas corpus, but they ~o have some expanded authority under their emergency law and

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under their anti-terrorists law that they are using. That said, the role of law institutions
are very Wlder developed. It is difficult to get a guy, with evidence, get him to jail, get
him to trail, get him convicted. It happens; I think you have read where they executed the
death penalty on a few of these folks. Until we an the Iraqi government make some
strides on the rule of law institutions, the court system and then do some work on
eliminating corruption at the local level, I mean I'm sure they told you they put a guy in
jail, they pay a bribe and the guy is back on the street. We have a lot of work to do there
with the rule of law program with the Iraqis but I don't know of any initiative to suspend
habeas corpus.

(Don Sheppard) The question I get most often - everybody realizes things are going very
tough and it takes approaches both on the political and military side. They keep asking,
"what new is going to be done" and [ tell them there isn't much [eft that's new to be
done. There is no magic bullet. Its steady pressure lind sticking with it. Go after these
guys and the militias in concert with the politics and the military.

(General Casey) We are constantly evaluating, re-evaluating and asking ourselves

"is what we started out doing six months ago still applicable to tbe situation that we
have now. We have to balance that for the need for a broad, overarching scheme that
gets us where we are going. I started back in July '04. There was like on battalion in the
Iraqi Anny. Now you got these guys out there, almost 90 battalions leading the effort.
That process has got to continue. Frankly, we are on a developmental timeline with
the military and the police and the security institutions and ministries where i think
the Iraqis are going to be pretty dose to be able to assume securi1y responsibilities I
think by the end of '07. They recognize that and it's part of this Joint Committee for
Achieving Iraqi Security Self Reliance (JCAISR) we are work through with the Iraqi's
right now. Obviously, conditions based and all the rest of that. The way the process has
been moving that's going very well. Now, is anything new and different? We continue
to adapt our tactics, techniques and procedures. If you guys have anything idea about a
new approach I would be happy to listen to them.

(unknown analysts) A follow up to that, what should we make of the rhetoric attributed to
Sen. Warner about the 2-3 months? Is there anything magic about two to three months
(referring to a comment that the Iraqi leaders need to get their arms around the problem
or Congress might be forced into a situation. .

(General Casey) I haven't seen all of Sen. Warner's comments. I talked to him when he
waS there. I certainly didn't say anything about 2·3 months. So, there is nothing magic
about 2-3 months.. I think if he is expressing a sentiment that the Government needs to
get their arms around the sectarian violence problem quickly - I would very much agree
with that. But, I don't think you ~an put any specific timelines on that and I don't
know where that came from.

(Jeff McCausliin) I don't have any magic solutions for you, but our problem I can tell
you is in describing this changed, complex environment. We all keep getting beat up I'm
sure by the comment that "as the Iraqis build up we were supposed to build doWn." Well,

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. October 10, 2006

the Iraqi'sare building up and we all know the Iraqi Army is a good news story, but we
are not building down. The trick is to explain, as you just did, that this is the most
complex security situation and that's a tough thing for people to understand back over
here. In the short teno at least, to you expect an uptick in U.S. forces? We saw where
the 172d was extended, at least one other brigade was extended, we are moving one other
brigade of the 151 Cav. out early. Is there a.possibility in the next few months of an up
tick in U.S. force levels to try and get our anns around this sectarian violence problem?

(General Casey) r don't have any plans to do it right now. But, as we've said many
times we are constantly looking at this and watching it. I hear the same thing about
"standing up and standing down" and "we're not doing anything" I want to remind
everybody that: one, we have already off-ramped two brigades with associated support­
that's about 12,000 folks less. People get all lost in the rotations. We are in a state of
rotations through December. You'JI see the number drop back under 130 thousand
once we get done with all the rotations. One of the things the lraqi Security Force
development allowed us to do is reposition force in Iraq away from areas they had taken
control over. So, we were able to do this without increasing the total nwnber of brigades
in Iraq. The other thing to remind them is the "stand up" is a three-part process and
we are only 75 percent through the second step. There is more to do.

Frankly, what happened as I look at the situation in late June early July it became clear to
me that both the security forces and the government were not at the level they needed to
be at to have a quick impact on the overall sectarian situation in Baghdad. Under our
own mantra that "we are going to do what it takes to help the Iraqis win here" r reversed
myself and put three more brigades into Baghdad and it did have an immediate impact on
the situation there.

(Jeb Babbin) What are you hearing back, Maliki and any of his guys in terms of their
concerns? Are they worried about our politics, do they see a threat coming up in
reductions and so forth being forced on them. Are they feeling the pressure?

(General Casey) I think they recognize the patience, at least among the American
public. may be waning. And that contributes to a sense of urgency that. frankly
they already have. They recognize that this is their best chance here to put their country
on an irreversible road to democracy arid economic development and they need to take .
advantage ofit in this window. There is a general sense that they need to get on with
things and frankly they are stepping up and taking a lot of initiative here and it's hearting
to see.

(Jeb Babbin) To fonow up onthat, in you opening comments you said our great friends in
Syria and Iran were being either actively or passively unhelpful, can you give'us any
more specifics about that?

(General Casey) I would say the situation coming out of Syria is about the same as
it's been. They are giving safe haven to Ba'athists and they are allowing terrorists
and foreign fights to transit Syria and come in to Iraq. We tbink that is the primary

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October 10,2006

route for terrorists and foreign fighters to come into Iraq. They are not doing
anything to stop it that we can see. Frankly, when you talk to Iraqis who have lived
in Syria and know what the government is capable of they tell you they could stop it
if they wanted to.

On the Iranian side, again there is no doubt they are providing weapons, training,
money to Shiite extremist groups that are being used against the Coalitio~ and
to
against the Iraqi security forces and frankly kill Iraq civilians.

(Bing West) Relative to reconciliation with the.Sunni resistance, throughout aI-Anbar

you keep hearing the Iranian Shiites and the Iranian Prime Minister. Can we expect over
the next months that MaJiki will demonstrate something publicly to ally the concerns
throughout al-Anbar that he really doesn't care about them?

(General Casey) 1 think you can Bing. He just chaired a session on Saturday with some
al-Anbar Sheiks where he addressed them; he's released some of the money to them that
had been promised by the previous government. In my discussions with him he
recognizes that bringing al-Anbar into the fold is an important part of the reconciliation
strategy. That said, you have been out to al-Anbar as much as anyone, it's going to take a
lot of convincing to bring some of those folks in.

(Chuck Nash) Got a friend of mine who was working over there right after the fall of
Baghdad. He spent about a year over there, transition over to the State as a contractor.
Came back to the states for nine months and he just when back for a three-week trip. His
assessment is that the reconstruction efforts are wrapping up and that the Army is packing
up and pulling back. It gives him the impression that everybody is packing up to come
home. Have we changed anything over there that would give some who was familiar
with the way things were several years ago that kind of impression?

(General Casey) I think probably. We just finished obligating al ofthe IRRF money by
the end of the fiscal year. We have started 3,500 ofthe toml 3,900 projects and fmished
2,800-plus of the projects that were paid tor by the IRRF. One, we don't need the
numbers of people to go out and inspect the projects because there are just less projects
going on. I think. we will have started all of the projects by next summer. Some of the
projects are large-scale projects that require a little more work up front. But yes, we have
made very good progress frankly in executing the economic projects. What you are
seeing is some down-sizing, but we are going to keep what we need on the ground so We
continue to monitor the projects all the way through to completion. That may have been
what he was seeing.

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Gordon Cucullu [colonelgordon

Tuesday, October 10,20068:38 PM
To: gcrdon
Subject: Gordon on N Korean nuclear

Hi, Friends, here's a link to a piece that ran today on Front Page Mag addressing the North Korean

nuclear issue.

Be sure also and read Frank Gaffney's excellent article in the same issue.

All the best, Gordon

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Sent:
To:

Cc: COL MNF·I

SUbJect: FW: agenda

Sir,

Your interview today, 1440-1505, with approximately 11 Defense Analysts via telephone conference.
Highlighted areas are notable quotes, should make news. Following is a summary of the Qs and As
(transcript to follow): .

• General started with saying how this is the most complex environment he has seen since taking
command. Has evolved from terrorists threat to sectarian violence since the bombing of the
mosque in February.
o Syria and Iran are being unhelpful. Add to that the intensity during Ramadan and the threat
is very high
• Reminded everyone the GoI has only been in place less than 150 days. The Prime Minister is
focused on reconciliation and rightfully so. He understands you have to have security-prosperity.
unity for the country to work.
• Violence and progress coexist in Iraq. Making progress against a backdrop of violence.
• Asked if military operations were moving toward a showdown with Sadr forces, CG said all
militias need to be confronted via a political and military track. The PM is trying to use a/l the
political means possible before using military options. The military is not "chomping" at the bit,
but there are some hard I iners and eventually they will need to be engaged.
• Reference removing "habeas corpus" in order to allow Soldiers to arrest, and convict, criminals
(current rules too stringent), General Casey said no. Said it's more thanjust that, there needs to be
more work done in the area of Rule of Law such as functioning courts, lawyers, judges. More
work there will greatly help. .
• Asked what new can be done to win the battle, General Casey said he is constantly adjusting the
plan and making adjustments as necessary. He sees the ISF assuming security responsibility by
.the end of 2007. Processes such as the JI CASIR (sp) where provinces and functions are turned
over to Iraqis are working and need to continue.
• Regarding Sen. Warner's comments about a change possible in 2~3 months if the situation does
not improve, General Casey mentioned there is nothing magic about 2-3 months timeline. He bad
just met with Sen. Warner in Iraq and that timeline never came up.
• As to the "As they stand up, we'll stand down" saying; seems as if they are standing up and we
are staying-CO mentioned we already did two brigade "off ramps" last December. Thinks many
people are confused by the "chum" in theater. With all the current transitions. Said that troop
levels will drop below l30k in December once dust settles. Right now has riot intention ofasking
for more troops. However, under the mantra "We'll do what it takes" he will do what is
necessary.
• Concerning the Gol feeling the pressure to perfonn as a government, General Casey said they are
very aware and they already have a sense of urgency. They realize this is their last best chance to
form a govenunent. .
• Regarding Syria and allowing TIFF into Iraq and Iranian influence. General Casey said that Syria

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is allowing the TIFF into the country and they could stop it if they wanted to, they have control of I

their boarders. Iran is providing money, weapons and training that ultimately kills Iraqi citizens.

Here are the attendees fortoday's call. I

Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Mr; Jed Babbin CAP, Fonner JAG) American Spectator, Real Clear Politics, national radio I

Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired) Heritage Foundation

Lieutenant Colonel Tim J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox News
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF; Retired) NBC

Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retired) CNN

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News I

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) Fox News, CNN, NPR, Moody Radio

Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) • CBS

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News I

Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)

Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired) - Fox News

Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) - CNN

I

Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN, Retired) - Fox News

Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) - Fox News

Mr. Bing West (Fmr ASD, Retired) - National Review, Atlantic Monthly

Major General Tom Wilkerson (USMC, Retired) - U.S. Naval Institute

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Sent: uesday, OCtober 10, 200610:48 AM

To: Ruff. Eric, SES, OSD

SUbJect: RE: Conference call Oil TUESDAY

there w~n~t be, sorry. for two reasons. first is: we don't have anyone to do the
transcr~b~ng. second is: the recorder frit%ed out about 2 minutes into the call ... i've
fixed it for the casey call thia afternoon and ~ill have a back up! ugh.
thanks
~,~:1~~;l
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From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: Tuesday, October 10. 2006 7:07 AM
To: ~§)(~J;U')fi>n',ili?@ CIV, OASD- PA
Subject: RE: Conference ca.ll on TOESDAY

is there a transcript? thanks

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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:19 PM

To: Ruff. Eric, SES. OSD

Subject; RE: Conference calIon TUESDAY

i asked if you had been contacted. but i did not get,a 'response. i should have called you
myself. sorry about that.
you didn't miss anything. dr. gilroy gave the good news and then maginnis'asked how corne
the influencers (moms. counselors. eoaeh~s, ete.' were reluctant to recommend military
service. he said the impression is that it's mostly moms who are concerned about the war,
and we are working on marketing products that talk about the nObility of service. that was
the extent of the call. only lasted about 15 minutes or so.
thanks
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FrOml Ruff, Eric, SES. OSD

Sent: Frida~ October 05. 2006 7,15 PM

To, g~J{$XW!+i;@h;!!;>;::1 CIV, OASD- PA

Subject: Re: Conference calIon TUESDAY

Did you guys try and call me today for the other call? Thanks.

~;~~~i~~10P0SB~00~aE~~~~~isD-PA
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SUbject: Conference call on TUESDAY

MEMORANDUM

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 To: Retired Military Analysts :.:" ..

From;

Public Affairs

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: October 6, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior 000 Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, TUESDAY, October 10, 2006, from
2:30-3:00 p.m.

General George Casey will brief you on current operations in Iraq. His biography is
attached for your review. This call will be On Background.

To participate in this conference call, please dial "'·';'>"'''''and ask the operator to
connect yo~ to the Analysts conference call.

Please <mailto or call

her at

We hope you are able to participate.

~~~;:\w: ;;;j;X/W [;;\[:1

Public Affairs

NY TIMES 5499

 From:' Brookes, Peter [Peter. Brooke

Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 20067:3
To: Brookes, Peter
Subject: Brookes' Newest Column: "Korean Fallouf'

NEW YORK POST

KOREAN FALLOUT

By PETER EROOKES

October 10, 2006 ~- IT appears that North Korea'S kooky leader, Kim Jong 11. did exactly
what he said he'd do: conduct Pyongyang's first nuclear-weapons test.
Sadly, ~e've got more than Pyongyang's (worthless) word on this: Seismic data seems to
confirm the explosion, though some suggest it was a ruse - a large conventional explosion,
not an actual underground nuclear blast.

If it was a nuke, what's the likely global fallout? The consequences are deadly serious

for American interests - and a watershed event for international security as Pyongyang

becomes the ninth member of the once-exclusive nuclear-weapons club.

Take Northeast Asia. Relations among the regional major powers - Japan, China and south
Korea - were already tense. North Korea's atomic firecracker certainly won't help.
Japan and South Korea may feel obligated to go nuclear themselves. Japan,' with a large
nuclear power industry and a top-notch sciencific community, cou1d go nuclear in a flash.

South Korea similarly. While the South Korean government is generally conciliatory toward
the Norch, tr Seoul's historical rival Tokyo 'goes nUClear, it m1gnc teel compelled to Cio
so as well out of pride as much as for security.
The u.s. pledge to consider an atomic attack on either Japan or South Korea by North Korea
as an attack on America was clearly intended to deter Kim as well as to encourage the
others to hold off on splitting daily atoms. But even if Japan and South Korea decide
against the nuclear option, they might instead engage in a conventional arms buildup to
deter North Korea.
Such a significant arms buildup would affect the security policy of other Northeast Asia
powers. China, Taiwan and/or Russia might respond in kind - resulting in a dangerous
conventional lor nuclear) arms race.
~~d we have a lot at stake in the region'S stability with 70,000 troops based in

Japan/South Korea, and another 10,000 sailors at sea in the western Pacific at anyone

time. (And major economic interests, too.'

A North Korean bomb also encourages other rogue states - and stateless groups - to try to
follow suit; indeed, Kim might help out. Iran is the bisgest concern. Pyongyang has worked
closely with Tehran on ballistic missile~ and nuclear issues in the past. The sharing of
scientific data from North Korea's underground blast might shorten the timeline for Iran
to achieve nuclear statehood. (Heck, Syria could conceivably become a North Korean nuclear
client, too.'
Of course, the worst scenario of all is for a1 Qaeda or another nUke-seeking terrorist
group to come' knocking on indigent North Korea's door with a wheelbarrow of cash. While
transferring a fully functional nuclear weapon to terrorists is extremely riSKY business
for any state, the possibility isn't limited to the realm of pUlp-fiction thriller~.
North :Korean nukes also expose us to a growing threat. Pyongyang must still "weaponize"

ita test rig into a bomb/warhead - as well as perfect missiles capable of reaching the

United State5. But it may be able to do this in the coming years.

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At this point, diplomacy or even economic sanctions are unlikely ~o w~~k NorLn KOrp.~ baek,
When it comes to nukes. few nations have ever disarmed. The only practical answer is
containment. military decerrence - buttressed by missile defense - and strong regional
alliances.
Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Peter Erookes is the au"Chor of n). Devil' s Triangle:
Terrorism. WMD and Rogue States."

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Subject: Today's TAS: Republicans at Bay? I

It's like the lottery, guys. You can't win if you don't play. As Casey Stengel woulda said, I

"cari't anybody here play this game?"

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From:' Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: Sunday, October 08,200611:09 PM
To: Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA
Subject: Re: Hi

Thanks for the help

Ab

-----Original Message----­
From: Whitman, Bryan SB5 OSD FA
To: Barber, Allison Ms eSD PA
Sent: Sun Oct OB 23:07:59 2006
Subject: Re, Hi

Just talkes to ~~~~W too. We have not confirmation. Any statement on this would come from
other parts of the government first.

-----Original Message----­
~~~r~}{~W,08]~«;;'i~'ml~~~~~:5~~~A~\hitman, Bryan SES OSD PA
Sent: Sun Oct OB 23:05:47 2006 .
SUbject: Re: Hi

Hi bryan

Do we have an official line for the military analysts on this?

Thanks
A.b

;~~~~O~ijE~~0J1*$~j~~~~-;~SD-PA
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Sent, Sun Oct 08 22:56:07 2006
Subject: Hi
Are you up?? :) jeff mccausland just called. Cbs says so korean news agency is reporting
nk tested their nuclear weapon. He wants to know if we have confirmation I called
the duty phone, but it's off. Any idea who I could call??
Thx

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From:

Sent:

10:

• Washington Times - Hold until later

• Leaders Magazine - Hold untijlater

• Instapundit - Timing issue, Hollen to contact Fran Harvey on his interest level\

• WH Radio Day - SD'~ participation will remain from 1300-1400 on Oct. 24

• WSJ. Chris Rhoades - Bucci will check on its slatus in front office

• CRS, Charles Osgood- Decline

• CBS Letterman - Declin~

• Austin Bay / Cal Tnomas I Kaplan - Journalist Lunch is scheduled for Monday, 10/23. Please provide potential guest
names to Smith for review.

• MSNBC, Rita Cosby - Decline

• Blum Piece - Det!ine

• Sunday Times of London - Not at this time.

• Brad Graham - Add Bucci to list of interviewees. Also please confirm the planned publishing date:

• Ayrna Ent. - Decline

• Inauguration of House of Sweden Ceremony & Gala - Decline

• Military Analysts - Tentative on SD calendar. Smitlll Bucci need proposal to review

on I entia SSlstant to the

Assistant Secretarv

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From:;;;,::,),;1 CIV, OASD-PA

Sent: Friday, October 06, 20067:04 PM
SUbject: Conference call on TUESDAY
Attachments: Casey, General George W 2006.doc

MEMORANDUM

To: Retired Military Analysts

From: ~~}~r~~\';!;I';';~'10mi;iil
Public A airs
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: October 6, 2006

Re: Conference Call ",·ith Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, TUESDAY, October 10, 2006,frClm 2:30-3:00 p.rn.

~.' General George Casey will brief you on current operations in Iray_ His biography is attached for your
review. This call will be On Background.

To participate in this conference t.:all, please dial' ask the operator to connect you to
the Analysts conference call.

at call her at!

We hope you are able to participate.

~~;~¥~~i;M·[:i~Eili);,tfi,·'~
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 Genera~ George W. Casey, Jr.

Commanding General

Multi-National Force -Iraq

General Casey became the Commanding

General.Multi-National Force - Iraq, July 2004.

General Casey was commissioned a second

lieutenant of Infantry from the Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service in 1970.
Throughout his career, he has served fn
6"-_
__ operational assignments in Germany, Italy,
Egypt and the United States. He has
commanded at every level from platoon to Division. His most recent assignment was as the 30th
Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.

His principal staff assignments have been as a: Congressional Liaison Officer; Special Assistant
to the Army Chief of Staff; Chief of Staff. 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; Operations .
Officer and Chief of Staff, V (US/GE) Corps. Heidelberg, Germany; Deputy Director for Politico­
Military Affairs, Joint Staff, J5; Commander, Joint Warfighting Center/J7, US Joint Forces
Command; Director, J5, Joint Staff; and Director of the Joint Staff. He has also served as a
United Nations Military Observer in Cairo, Egypt With the UN Truce Supervision Organization.

General Casey: commanded a mechanized infantry battalion - 1st Battalion 10th Infantry, 4th
Infantry Division. Fort Carson, Colorado: commanded a mechanized infantry brigade - 3rd "Grey
Wolf' Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. Fort Hood, Texas; served as Assistant Division Commander
for Maneuver and Support in the 1st Armored DiVision in Bosnia and Germany; and commanded
the 1st Armored Division in Bad Kreuznach. Germany. General Casey assumed command of
Mufti-National Force-Iraq on July 1, 2004,

General Casey holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from DenverUnrversity and has
served as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States

U.S. Decorations and Badges:

Defense Distinguished Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)

Distinguished Service Medal

Legion of Merit (With 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)

Defense Meritorious Service Medal

Meritorious Service Medal

Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)

. Army Achievement Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)

Expert Infantryman Badge
Master Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab
Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
Army Staff Identification Badge

(Updated 30 August 2006J.

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Dear M Ruff,

Per your request, attached are several editorial/commentary pieces saying that the Army
recruiting shortfall in 2004-2005 may be a reflection of the war's unpopularity. Relevant
sections and statements are highlighted in the pieces. please let us know if there is
anything else you need.

Thank you,

Uncle Sam Wants You in the worst Way - August 22, 2005
(BusinessWeek) ...David Kiley

Ten-Hut!: The Army's Bungling Recruitment - June 12, 2005

(Washington P06t} ... Don Edwards

Too few good menl Prolonged Iraq war might explain Army and Marines falling short of
recruiting goals - May 29, 2005

(Orange County Register) ... commentary

The Focus at the Defense Department HaD Been On Desperate Recruiters - May 26, 2005

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 {Chicago Sun-Times} ...Robert Novak

The Army's· Recruiting Trouble - May 13. 2005

(St. Petersburg Times) ...Editorial

Recruitment met with Disinterest - March 30. 2005

(Seat tIe Post - Intell igencer l ... Helen Thomas

Rebuilding the Army - February 6, 2005

(Washington Post) ...Ed! torial

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UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU IN THE WORST WAY; The Army is boosting its marketing and

trying new tacks to dose ill recruiting gap

By David I<iley in New York:

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BusinessWeek

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John Bums thought he would be in Baghdad or Basra by now, perched in a Humvee gun turret.
Bums was "juiced" to join up after the 200 I terrorist attacks. But when a friend of his older
brother returned from two tours in Iraq and described in gruesome detail "the absolute hell" over
there. Bums balked. His parents were decidedly coolon the idea, too. So Burns signed up for
community college in Paterson, N.J., instead. Says the 19-year-old, second-year business student:
"It was the right decision for me. Besides, l'm not sold that Iraq is the place to fight terrorism."

With an insurgency raging in Iraq and casualties rising, the U.S. Anny faces one of the toughest
marketing challenges around. Turned off by an increasingly unpopular war, thousands of young
men and women who might typically have joined the military to get an education. jump-start their
careers, or simply to defend their country are standing down. As a result, when the Army
completes fiscal 2005 on Sept. 30, it is expected to be 7,000 short of its 80,OOO-person recruiting
goal.

The shortfall has prompted top brass to pump in millions of extra marketing dollars and to rethink
how they g{) about convincing young Americans -- and increasingly, their parents •• that the
benefits of en listing outweigh the risks.. 'We've been recruiting during an anned conflict," says
Ray DeThome, executive vice-president of Leo Burnett, the Army's advertising agency. '"It's a
complicated sale."

TOWN HALL MEETINGS

The anny acknowledges its traditional approach .- paeans to patriotism and machismo, and
selling military service as R career booster -- is no longer enough. And it's not just the rising body
count. Wary parents have laid down somewithcring fire of their own. "Many grew up during the
Vietnam War and have diflerent ideas about the military than the grandparents oftoday's
recruits," says chief recruiting marketer Colonel Thomas Nickerson.

So how does the Army change attitudes and get recruitment back on track? Throw a lot of money
at the problem, for one. The Anny will spend about $320 million next fiscal year on recruitment
marketing, up from $240 million this year and $200 million in fiscal 2004. 1hat's $4,000 per
recruit if they sign up 80,000 next year·- or mcce than twice what Toyota Motor Corp. spends to
attract a new customer.

A major shift in message is also under way. While some TV ads continue to push patriotism and
adventure, a chunk of the budget increase is going in to ads whose real target is the parents. One,
for example, features a mother reading a letter to her kid's commanding officer about how the
Army brought out the best in her son.

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up this fall for a series of 15 televised town hall meetings in which carefully selected soldiers will
tell positive stories about military accomplishments in Iraq and Afghanistan and answer
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favorable portrayal. On the Discovery Channel's Monster Garage, a show about customizing cars,
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reality show Bound For Glory: The Montour Spartans, former football star Dick Butkus williI)' I
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Ten-Hutl; The Army's Bungling Recruitment

. DQn Edwards
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Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved.

Nearlye,,'ery day, anywhere from one to several U.S. soldiers or Marines die in Iraq, and even
more are wounded. The news doesn't always make the front pages anymore, but the casualty rate
has apparently registered deeply in the consciousness of young Americans and their families. The
result is a dangerous decline in new enlistments that is depleting U.S. military resources and
weakening our capacity to face additional conflicts or threats from abroad.

To keep our forces strong, every soldier we lose or who leaves the service has to be replaced by a
new recruit. Their leaders, meanwhile .- the men who take them into combat /lnd help determine
the outcome of many battles -- can only be replaced by soldiers who gain experience and
undertake many years ofleadership training. For 20 years, the a\l~volunteer Army, with its
enlistment bonuses and generous scholarships. succeeded magnificently at filling its manpower
and leadership needs. Recruits sought entry in such numbers that for a decade it was running
annual surpluses that could be held over to succeeding years.

But when the iraq war began to stretch from months into years, the view of the military as an
anractive option for young Americanll gradually began to change. Recruiting for the Army, the
Army National Guard and the Army Reserve, lIS well as the Marines, has become increasingly
difficult, and recruiters point to the casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan as the primary cause of
the unusual resistance -. including parental threats -- that they're confronting in trying to attract
new enlistees.

The recruiting problems first became apparent in the late summer of 2003, when the surplus of
enlistees disappeared and the Army went into thc next fiscal year without any cushion. Since
then, recruiting numbers have been declining. An alarming trend -- fewer young people signing
up than the Army needs to maintain its strength .- began to develop last fall. Now, the Army has
failed to meet its monthly recruiting goals since February. On Friday, it said that in May it
reached only 75 percent ofa goal it had already reduced from 8,050 to 6,700. The National Guard
and Reserve, which provide more than 40 percent of the Anny forces in Iraq, are experiencing
even more trouble; so far, the National Guard has reached only 76 percent of its recruiting goals
for this year.

Historically, recruiters have had to contact more than 100 prospects for every recruit. This year,
those numbers are going up daily. The Army added 1,200 recruiters last month, and it has
significantly increased its advertising budget and enlistment bonuses, from $6,000 for most
recruits to $20,000. At the same time, it has raised the eligible age for the Army Nationa! Guard
or the Reserve from 35 to 39. Even more telling, the Anny is also accepting more recruits who
are not high school graduates. This year, the percentage of high school graduates among those
enlisting dropped from 92.4 to barely 90 percent,the Anny's stated floor tor the number of
recruits who must have a high school diploma.

With recruiting goals seemingly out of reach for the present, recruiters, who are selected from
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 of stress. More and more, they appear to be bending the rules to meet their 80als. The Army has
become so concemed about recruiting ethics that it suspended all recruiting on May 20 to conduct
a full day of ethics training.

But the real concern for all Americans is the effect that a continuing drop in enlistments will have
on the military's quality. [fthere arcn't enough recruits over the coming months, tile Anny will
not be able to keep its units at fully combat-ready strengths. A classic solution to those shortages
is to take soldiers from other units to bring up the personnel strength of units deploying to
combat. But this causes turbulence in the deploying unit and undermines the unit from which the
soldiers have been taken. When the time arrives to deploy the latter unit, eVen more soldiers must
be transferred to bring it to combat strength. The result is units whose soldiers don't know each
other - exactly the situation the Army has worked so hard to avoid for the last two decades.

Now, the Army's latest desperate attempt to gain recruits is a shortened, IS-month enlistment
policy. A ] 5-month enlistment means that soldiers will receive only basic and advanced
individual training, but none ofthe team and unit training our premier soldiers traditionally
receive. These recruits will be shipped off to war after only five months oftmining, deployed to
units in combat where they know no one. These inexperienced soldiers will be at an enormous
disadvantage and the casualties among them will be bound to reflect that disadvantage.

The IS-month enlistment is exactly the replacement policy the Anny has proudly rejected since
the Vietnam War. This flawed approach was instituted then because of the urgent need to replace
casualties. We ended up with units of inadequately trained soldiers who didn't know each other
and weren't fully cohesive teams. The result was high casualties among the newly arrived,
inexperienced soldiers -- and it will likely be the result again. It would probably be better to
maintain high standards and not reduce training time, even if this leads to temporary shortages.

Meanwhile, the decision to ease standards and accept soldiers who are less·able to operate many
complex weapons has the potential to weaken fighting capability. The Anny already has a
manpower shortage in certaiu critical skills, such as languages and military police. It ha'i
responded with short-term solutions like the "Stop Loss" program, which retains soldiers on
active duty involuntarily after their period of enlistment is over. Soldiers who have left active
Army service have also been involuntBrily recalled. Both these solutions have been implemented
to provide a limited number of soldiers, and they will not be effective in offsetting the shortfall in
thousands of new recru its.

Ironically, these stop~gap measures further contribute to the recruiting challenge, as potential
enlistees are deterred by the prospect of involuntary service on top ofthe fear of combat
casualties.

An equally dangerous challenge facing the Army is the loss of experienced soldiers who leave the
service after undergoing the demands of combat multiple times over several years. Currently,
soldiers expect to get a year away from combat after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. But this
expectation is violated as soldiers retuming from combat are transferred to new units, which are
then sent to the front well before a year is up.

I recently chatted with one such soldier, who told me that after participating in the invasion of
Iraq, he remained there for a year and then returned to the United States, where he was transferred
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 returned from there again. His enlistment ends in less than a year, but he fully expects to go back.
to Iraq before that year is up and to serve another full year in Iraq under stop loss.

In addition to gaining extensive combat experience, this soldier finished two years of college
while in the Army. He is exactly the type of soldier essential to the service's future: self·
motivated, experienced and mature, the qualities the Army cultivates injunior
leaders.Unfortunately, hc told me that he'll leave the Anny as soon as he can •• not from
bittemess, but because he's weary of combat and saddened at the loss of friends.

The {]epnrture of soldiers like tl1is is another serious threat to the Anny's combat capabilities. lt is
the Anny'sjunior leaders -. the squad leaders, platoon sergeants and company commanders·­
who lead the close combat fights that decide battles and wars and, as I saw in Vietnam, whom the
soldiers trust under fire. If this soldier's intention to leave: the Army is part of a developing trend,
then the military's problems could get even worse. Just such a situation developed after Vietnam,
as disillusioned junior leaders left the service ill droves, and years passed before the Army was
able to rebuild itself.

If the Army's recruiting numbers continue to fall, the cascading effect will undermine combat
capability in months, not years. But reversing this trend will be very difficult, and it seems highly
unlikely over the next months or even year or two, until Iraqi security forces are in a position to
take over the defense of their country from U.S. troops. But it's 8 mistake to solve this difficult
short-term problem by adopting policies that could hurt the military for several decades.

Some small steps can be taken. The war in iraq has placed the Army and the Marines in the
cauldron of intense combat, while the Navy and the Air Force are essentially at peace. A decision
to shift Navy and Air Force resources to the Army and Marines could improve the lalter services'
ability to attract recruits, especially if our leadership launched a national campaign calling on aU
Americans to join in the war on terrorism. The military's best hope is to convince America's youth
and their parents that Anny service is still a positive option.

A strong Army fighting force is essential not only to America's worldwide interests, but indeed to
our survival as a nation and the life we enjoy today. But if the deCline in our Army's strength
continues, make no mistake, we could readily Jose that way of life.

Author's e-mail:

don_edwards@Sra.com

Don Edwards retired from the U.S. Anny as 11 major general in 1997 after more than 37 years of
service, including two tours in Vietnam. He is a vice president of the information technology
company SRA Intemational Inc.

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Too few good men II Prolonged Iraq war might explaIn Army and Marines falling short of
recruiting goal.
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The Orange County Register
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Retired Army Lt. Col. Charles Krohn recently told columnist Robert Novak that "Anny recruiting
is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Anny." It might not be that desperate, but the
rc:cruiting problem is serious.

We're inclined to agree with Lt. Col. Krohn, who is also a fonner Pentagon civilian public-affairs
official, that lithe recruiting problem is an unintended consequence of a prolonged war in Iraq,
especially given tbe failure to find WMD."

'[he Army missed its April recruiting goal for the third straight month, and is 10 percent behind
its year-to-date target. The proud U.S. Marines, who usually are able to recruit enough "few good
m.en· when other services are having trouble, missed its recruiting goals in April al so -- fOT the
fourth straight f!lonth, although they are only 2 percent behind their year-fo-date totals.

The Navy and Air force are meeting their recruiting goals for the year.

There are other problems. Pentagon figures indicate that S, 133 troops are missing .~ absent
without leave, or AWOL, including 37 recruiters who have simply given up. Some critics say the:
actual figures are higher than the official figures.

A recent news story noted that last year Army lieutenants and captains left the service at an
annual rate of 8.7 percent, the highest since 2001. An unknown number ofyoung officers who
had planned to make a career of the military are planning to leave when their enlistments are up.

The Army, faced with recruiting scandals ., recruiters hiding recruits' criminal records and
psychiatric disorders or offering unauthorized benefits to make quotas -- took tne extraordinary
step of calling a 24-hour stand-down in recruiting to review proper procedures and retrain
recruiters. Lt. Col. Krohn thinks that amounts to making the recruiters scapegoats for a larger
problem well beyond their control.

Some people believe one solution could be reinstituting a draft, bUllhat seems politically
unlikely. Almost all the top military people we've talked to recently say the military is pleased
with the all-volunteer military, which is in general more professional and more motivated than the
old conscript anny. They believe that it could take years to gear up for a draft, the training would
be difficult, and conscription would bring back problems the military is glad not to be dealing
with these days. '

One of the few members of Congress talking openly about a draft. Rep. Charles Rangel, D.N.Y.,
is candid about his motive. He believes it would be politically impossible for a president to take a
conscript army into wars Hke Iraq.

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 THE FOCUS AT THE: DIlFfNSE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN ON DESPERAT! RECRUITERS

Chicago Sun-Times
Rooert Novak
May 26, 2005
Column, Pg. 45
702 words

Retired Anny Lt. Col. Charles Krohn got himself in trouble with his superiors as a Pentagon
civilian public affairs official during the first 31/2 year!: of the Bush administration by telling the
truth. He is still at it in private life. He says not to blame the mil itary recru iters for the current
recruiting "scandal." Blame the war."

Anny recruiting is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Anny," Krohn told me. Always
defending uniformed personnel, he resents hard-pressed recruiters being attacked for offering
unauthorized benefits to make quotas, In a recent e-mail sent to friends (mostly retired military).
Krohn complained that the "Army is having to compensate for a problem of national scope." The
Army's dilemma is maintaining an all-volunteer service when volunteering means going in hann's
way in Iraq. The dilemma extends to national policy. How can the United States maintain its
global credibility against the lslamists, if military ranks cannot be filled by volunteers and there is
no public will for a draft?

Krohn's e-mail describes the problem: "Consider the implications of being unable to find
sufficient volunteers, ali seen by our adversaries. Has the United States lost its will to survive?
. What's happened to the Great Satan when so few are Willing to fight to defend the country?
Surely bin Laden et alare making this argument, telling supporters victory is just around the
corner if they are a bit more patient. And if they're successful, the energy sources in the Mideast
may be within their grasp."

Krohn says this reality is accepted by recipients of his message. It also meets agreement from

active-duly officers I have contacted but who cannot speak publicly. They ponder how an alJ­

volunteer force can be maintained when generals say there is no end in sight for U.S. troops

facing an increasingly sophisticated insurgency.

Krohn's message goes on to say "the recruiting problem is an unintended consequence of a

prolonged war in Iraq, especially given the failure to find WMD:' He therefore calls for a

"national consensl.L'i to address the root causes" of the recruiling problem - that is, the war in

lraq.

But the focus at the Defense Department has been on the excesses of desperate recruiters, 37 of
whom reflected their frustration in trying to meet quotas by going A WOL over the last 21/2
year!', The official response was a 24-hour stand-down in recruiting to review proper procedureil.
It also has been proposed that enlistments, now usually three to four years with a minimum of 24
months, be cut to 15 months.

The recruiting guru Charles Moskos, professor emeritus at Northwestern University who once
suggested an 18-month tour, now says shorter enlistments will not help. He proposes restoring the
draft, but that is a political non-starter. Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, who as a drafted soldier
won the Bronze Star in Korea, is one of the very few members of Congress who advocate the
draft, He does not hide his motive: A president would bepolitieally unable 10 take a conscript
lI1Jlly into wars such 8S Iraq.

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 In contrast, Krohn is a lifelong Republican who actively supported George W. Bush's presidential
candidacy in 2000. He specified in ttis e-mail that "I'm not now blaming" President Bush or
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfetd for the sitllation. "We have a problem that transcends
politics," Krohn added.

The current Iraq war is America's first prolonged conflict fought entireiy with volunteers. It is a
.more professional and in every way a better army than the conscript anny of Korean War vintage
."', in which 1served, or the conscript army that fought in Vietnam for seven years. The problem was
signaled when the 9/11 attack on America did not generate the enlistments exp~ted. Three and
one-half years later, willingness to face personal peril in Iraq has faded.

That means the problem goes beyond mechanics of recruiting and the details of volunteer service
and is found in the war itself. Paraphrasing Rumsfelds' comment about going into battle with the
Amy we had, Charles Krohn said: "The war we have now is not the war we started offwith, 1t's
much more serious."

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Editorial
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
May 13, 2005 Friday
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The Anny is calling it a "values stand-down." On May 20, recruiters will put aside their routine
work to refresh themselves with the laws and Anny rules on the ethical way to attract recruits.
The move is a response to a spike in abuses by recruiters and comes as the Anny continues to
struggle to maintain its all-volunteer fighting force during wartime.

This is not just a public relations problem. The Army has been hammered by recent reports that
recruiters lied, cheated and looked the other way to enlist unfit applicants. Recruiters reportedly
helped applicants falsify records, hid criminal and medical histories and advised potential recruits
on how to beat drug and aptitude tests. The New York Times, which chronicled abuses across
several states this month, noted the cheating had increased and recruiters had become less likely
to face severe punishment. Anny statistics, the Times found, showed that substantiated cases of
improprielies rose to 320 last year from 199 in 1999, an increase of more than 60 percent. Nearly
one in five of all 7,500 Anny recruiters were investigated !list year.

Recruiters have a difficult job, made harder by the prospect that recruits will be deployed to fight
in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bush administration hasn't made theirjob any easier, sending troops
to the war zone with inadequate annor and no timetable for returning home. The Anny missed its
April recruiting goals and is under the target for meeting its enlistments for the year. According to
the Times, the stress of not meeting goals or acceding to a superior's order to fudge applications is
causing some recruiters career and personal problems.

Aside from the dishonesty, placing an unfit recruit in the ranks could endanger other soldiers. The
recruiters' stand-down next week needs to be more than damage control. The Army needs to
emphasize a zero-tolerance policy for recruiters who mislead young men and women or enlist
people unqualified for military duty. The troops already serving need to have confidence in the
new recruits joining their ranks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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 RECRUITMENT MET WITH DISINTEREST

HELEN THOMAS Syndicated columnist
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WASHINGTON

Disillusionment with the Vietnam War gave currency to the quip: "Someday they are going to
give a war and nobody is going to come."

Forty years later, U.S. Annyand National Guard recruiters are finding some truth to that jibe as
they scramble to fultill their recruitment quotas.

Fear ofdeployment to Iraq is a big reason cited by young people who aren't interested in
enlisting.

Lt: Col. Joe Richard, a Defense Department spokesman, also attributed the crop in Army
recruiting to the improving domestic job picture.

Army recruiters ~ now numbering 6,000 across the country - are making their enlistment pitch to
reluctant parents to encourage their sons and daughters to sign up. Richard said the recruiter telts
both the parents and their child "what it means to be a soldier" and to "do your duty for your
country."

At the same time, the recruiting officer pulls no punches, he said, and will go out of his way to
explain the dangers involved and the sacrifices required by military life.

"It's a critical decision in time of war," said Richard.

Many parents Qre just saying "no thanks," apparently attuned to President Bush's ever-changing
ratiol1ale for the war and to the risks and rising casualty toJ I.

Young people were jumping enthusiastically on the anti-terrorist bandwagon when Bush claimed
that the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that threatened the
United States.

When that pretex.t for war was unmasked, the president tried to justify the U.S. invasion and
occupation of the oil-rich Gulf state as a means of spreading democracy throughout the Arab
world.

There are now some 150,000 U.S. troops patrolling Iraq, with no timetable set for their return
home. There js speculation that some will be withdrawn in Septcmber.

Army Secretary Francis Harvey plans to launch a national grass- roots campaign to drum up
enlistments in the heartland, using luncheon speeches by military and community leaders at
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs.

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 He predicted a drop in enUstees in the all·volunteer Annyfor March and April. The Army was
1,900 short of its goal in February. The quota for this year is 80,000 enlistments.

Harvey told reporters Wednesday that he is concemed· but not giving up. He said he was
optimistic that the Army - which has always met its enlistment goals since 1990· will still
achieve its annual goal by the end of September, which is the end of the government's fiscal year.

But he said he doubted that tile National Guard - which has been in a slump - would mcet its
requirements. The National Guard hoped to recruit 63,000 new members this year.

The Marine Corps also is finding the environment challenging and has reportedly failed to meet
goals for January and February by some 6.5 percent.

Richard predicted that the Marines would meet their quota.

Pentagon officials are trying to sweeten the pot with lump-sum bonuses and college funds up to a
maximum of $70,000 to encourage sign ups.

Black youths. a mainstay in the Anny in Vietnam - look like they're sitting this one out. Edward
Dom, fonner undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, was quoted in The
Washington Post as saying that whites were strong backers of the Iraqi invasion bur that black
Americans were not

There are indications that women also are more hesitant today to join one ofthe military services
than they were in the early days of the Iraq war.

All of which leads to the question of whether a.draft is in the picture if manpower shortfalls
continue in the military services. Pentagon offl<:ials say tbey are not contemplating a national
change ofhcart on that score.

Harvey said: ''The D-word is the farthest thing from my thoughts."

Compulsory military service is politically unpalatable - and more so in an unpopular war.

Although the administration has done B masterfllijob of shielding the public from photos of the
coffins of the dead flown into the Dover, Del., military mortuary, the reality of war is getting
through.

If the Anny continues to be all-volunteer and enlistments keep falling, the good side of the
equation is that it cDuld force Bush and his saber-rattling strategists to slow down before
launching another pre-emptive foreign adventure.

Bush may then try something new - like peacemaking.

Helen Thomas is a columnist for Hearst Newspapers. E-mail: helent@hearstdc.com. Copyright

2005 Hearst Newspapers.

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 Editorial
Rebuilding the Army
616 words
6 February 2005
The Washington Post
English
Copyright 2005, lhe Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved

ADAY AFTER President Bush bluntly ruled out an "artificial timetable" for withdrawal from
Iraq, the Pentagon delivered a so~ring follow-up: While the 15,000 additional U.S. troops
deployed for last Sunday's elections will be withdrawn, the 17 remajning brigades.- 135,000
soldiers and Marines -. will be needed in Iraq at least through the end of this year, That estimate
' .. ;" \
is understandable, given the continuing strength of the Sunni insurgency and the troubles in
preparing Iraqi security forces. (n fact, even the post-election reduction seems questionable, given
that vital infrastructure ano roads in Iraq, and even the highway from downtown· Baghdad to the
airport, remain insecure. Yet the alarming trutlt may be that the adm in/stratton has \ittle choice
but to draw down troops: As it is. the present deployment in Iraq is on the verge of breaking an
undermanned Anny.

On Wednesday, senior military officials gave the late5~ in a series of alarming reports about the
strain on the Army and Marines from two years of fighting simultaneous wars in [raq and
Afghanistan. CllTl)'ing out a fourth rotation of troops into Iraq in the fall will be "painful," Gen.
Richard A. Cody testified before the House Armed Services Committee; he suggested that it
might necessitate breaking a rule that limits reservists to 24 months of active duty. Congressional
pressure obliged the Pentagon to quickly prick that trial balloon, but the troops will have to come
from somewhere. By the time the fall mobilization takes place, all 15 of the National Guard's
most deployable brigades will have been mobilized, nnd some regular units may have to return
next year for a third combat tour. Some are risking their lives involuntarily: "Stop-loss" orders for
of
soldiers completing their service and the recall some already discharged have created a
backdoor draft.

. Predictably, it is getting harder and harder for the Army and Marines to recruit young men and
women willing to bear such hardships, The Marines missed their recruiting goal in January for the
fil'lit time in a decade, and all of the reserve corps except'the Marines missed their recruiting goals
in the first quarter of this fiscal year. The National Guard signed up barely half of the recruits. it
aimed for in January; its commander warned in December that unless it received $20 billion in
new weapons and equipment, tbe force "will be broken." For several years policy experts and
congressmen from both parties have been warning Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that
the size of the Anny must be increased to meet the challenges of the war against terrorism,
notwithstanding his pet doctrine -- developed before Sept. 11,2001 -- of a smaller, lighter force.
Now, thanks to Mr. Rumsfeld's stubb.om refusal to listen, a crisis is at hand.

The Pentagon may finally be conceding some wound: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D.
Wolfowitz told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that a temporary increase of
30,000 troops in the Army would be made permanent in the 2007 budget and that a quadrennial
review of Pentagon doctrine getting underway 'Would reconsider the size of the force. That's a
step in the right direction, but more urgent action is needed. Last month a bipartisan group of
fonner senior defense and security officials and policy e"pc:ns delivered a letter to Congress
recommending an increase in the aetive-duty AI111Y and Marines together of at least 25,000 troops
each year over the next several years. If such a buildUp does not appear in the administration's
budget for next year, Congress should require it -- before the damage to the armed forces grows
any worse.

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From: RUff, Eric. SES. OSD
Sent: Thursda, October 05, 2006 1:00 PM
To: 5gt OSO PA
Cc: CIV, OASD-PA
Subject: FW: Conference call tomorrow

~@;«!J);1iAjm'lplease call me tomorrow on my cell and remind me of this call please call me about 1045 - 1050.
thanks.

From~~~~~~i&fi'%j1!i!0!rJ CIV, OASD-PA

sent: Thursday, October as, 2006 12:51 PM
Subject: Conference call tomorrow

MEMORANDUM
To: Retired Military Analysts

From:
Public Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: October 5, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, FRIDAY, October 6, 2006,from 11 :00-11:3fJ.

Dr. Curtis Gilroy, Director of Accession Policy for the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and
Readiness will update you on FY06 recruiting numbers. This caU will be On Background.

To panicipate in this conference call, you must agree to EMBARGO the information you receive UDtil
the start of the press briefing on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10,2006, at 11:15.

To join the caU, please dial and ask the operator to connect you to the Analysts
conference can.

or call her at ,;

We hope you are able to participate.

4/9/2008

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From:
Sent:
To:

If only the Republ icans could campaign as if they were a politcal party. They don't deserve to win,
but we don't deserve what'll happen if they lose.

Jed Babbin
. . . (home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

419/2008

NY TIMES 5525
From:' Ruff, Eric, SES, OSO
Sent: Tuesday, October 03. 2006 7:58 PM
To: Ruff, Eric. SES, OSD
SUbject: Fw: The Oems' Anxiety Closet - Today's TAS

-----Original Mess
From: JedBabbi
To: tmcinerne
USAGirl1957
wheele 'l, ...,. . .
groothouse
Sent: Mon Oct 02 09:00:43 2006
Subject; The Dems' Anxiety Closet - Today's TAS
This would be very funny were it not GO true. Best, Jed.

The American Spectator <http://www.spectator.org/dep_article.asp?art_idsl0428>

"e".' (home office)

(home fax)
(mobile)

NY TIMES 5526

from:' LawrenC6, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sont: Se tember 28. :20065:42 PM
To: ':'l:S,"

SubJoct: Re: nobodyD4UFDaQP3ye7l

We know sada well. Dan senor could give good info. Know about ~he book. He dOes claim
there were "v/11ld.

;~~~~~ll~B8jEi~0s~s0m----
To: Lawrence. Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Thu Sep 28 17:25:34 2006
Subject: FW: nobodyD4UFDaQP3ye7

Is this true?

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From: nObodYD4UFDaQP3ye7LOO~~'~~ffPig;)
Sent: Wednesday, September 2~7~,~2~O~O~~~~~~
Subjec~: nobodyD4uFDaQP3ye7L

NAME: a.my
LOCATION: AZ
QUESTION:
Mr carpenter The Iraqi General George Sada. who served in saddam Hussein's military, has
written a bOOK, and made etatements that support the White House's claims that WMD did
exist. and were transported out of the country.

Why doesn't the White House address this? Wouldn't this bolster support for our efforts?

Thank you.

NY TIMES 5527

 From:' Merritt, Roxie, AFIS-HQ

~i!ft~~~~i,~, Ma;'~~~·6~,n"".#~'W~
Sent:
To:
Cc: 1CU<,
Subject: FW: NATO Announces expansion of ISAF Control in Afghanistan

Would like to get this heads up to your military analysts and our radio talk show folks. Below is the actual link to the news
alert and J've also pasted in the copy. This IS a big deal. rSAF Is taking over control of operations in Afghanistan. NATO
is doing a press conference later today. Please include the followIng facls/talking points when you send this out.

e Tne u.s. and its Coalition partners have ~ade significant progress. NATO/ISAF will
build on that progress. The NATO!ISAF transition means greater presence and
eapability.
• The US has a long-term commitment to ~fghanistan.
e The U.S. will remain the largest troop corttributor to the overall security
mission in Afghanistan.
• This will be a seamless transition.
• NATO troops have been ope~ating in the southern provinces for some time so. ISAP will
build on the good work of the Coalition and will continue to coordinate international
efforts with tne government to bring in additional
development and reconstruction efforts.

http://www.defenselink.mil/NewsfNewsArticle .aspx?ID;1288&41288"'20000928
NATO Announces Expansion of ISAF Control in Afghanistan
By John D. Banusicwicz
American Forces Press Service

PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28, 2006 ~ NATO defense ministers meeting .in Portoroz, Slovenia, have approved
the expansion of responsibility for the alliance's Intemational Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to
include the eastern portion of the country. ISAF already exercises opertionaJ control in the country's other three
regions.
James Appathurai, NATO spokesman, said the transfer of authority from the coalition to ISAF would take place
in the coming weeks.

NATO Secretary. General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is expected to provide further details at a news conference later
today.

Roxie T. M~rritt

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (Internal Communications)

U.S. Depart~ent of Defense;b,.,.... 'i(~:/

601 North Fairfax Street. Rm&\,l~~l"jA
Aleran i 22314·2007
Phon·
Fax:
email: roxie.merrilt
.WW'N.AmericaSupportsYou.m

I\FIS·HQ/Web Operations

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Sent: "Thursdav, September 2B, 2006 1:43 PM

To: Memtt, Roxie, AFIS-HQ
Subject: NATO Announc~ EKpansion of tSAF Control in Afghanistan

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·,
From:' Lawrence. Dallas Mr 050 PA

Sent: Thursday. September 28,20061:32 PM

To: Barber, Al!ison Ms OSD PA

Subject: RE: surrogate

No one ever responded. This is my "shocked" face

Lawrence
Office of COMlllunity Relations &. Pr.tblic Li.aison United States Department of

-----Original Message----­

From: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5~47 PM

To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PAl Ruff, Eric. SES, OSD;
....( OSD PA, Whitman,
~ryan SES OSD FA
ee: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbject: Fw: surrogate

r think dallas has a great idea here. Very unconv~tional but will make an impact.
Ab

-----Original Message-----
FrOM: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
To: Barber. Allison Ms O~D PA
Sent: Tue Sep 26 16:07:24 2006
Subject: surrogate
What do you think about pitching to the team having don Sheppard and ~om Mcinerny embed
for secdef trip to middle east in october? Maybe just do che two and keep the footprint
small? We could build in time at each stop to peel them off and do interviews with their
network. 2 hits a day for each. Would be a first but might be of interest to try
sOllie thing new.

Dallas B. Lawrence
Director, Office of Community Relations & Public Liaison
United states Department of Defense

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From:
Sent:
To: ,lenslrae71 '" BU RM41516@,~r~~~:\(; @i;i;\ij
Toberthecalc$
ShepConal groot~I~~2;']st;x;n;;;;m

Ladies and Gents: The silly season is upon us, but no one is laughing. And the Repubs
seem lackadaisical. I can't figure why they don't campaign against the media. Methinks
there's a testosterone shortage in the party.

(Home office)
"(Mobile)

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5531

From:' Ruff, Eric, SES, OSO

~~~~~~~a~:~t~~~~~7plif~~!j,:~~t:~:~Xfi'A;XM OSD PA; Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA'

Sent:

To:
Smith, Dorrance HON OSO PA; Whitman, Bryan SES 080 PA '

SUbject: Re: surrogate

M~inerney has traveled w!us b4 - china, mongolia, korea trip.

-----Original Me55age·~··-
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
To:r#M9FgN20jK00!08~ft01qosp PAl Barber, Alli50n Ms aSD PAl smith, Dorrance HON OSD p~;
Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD p~
Sent: Tile Sep 26 18:20:23 2006
Subject: Re: surrogate

Wayne is great. Just as an fyi, Wayne is not entirely on board and his 4 star rank adds
some drama to tr!ps. He also just went over two weeks ago. he is hoping to go back in
january. We could also work him into the secdef xmas trip if folkS wanted. I might suggest
for the first time doing this, we keep the footprint very small. Not only for secdef trip
planners but for the folks in iraq who will have to find things to do for the group when
secdef is in closed door meetings.

;;~~ ~1M~t*itii);I81:0:000;0;i;"f::;~;1~SD
PA
To~ Barber, Allison Ms OSD PAl Smith, Dorrance HO~ OSD FA; Ruff. Bric, BES, OSD; Whitman,
Bryan SES OSD PA
CC; Lawrenoe, Dallas Mr aSD PA
Sent: Tue Sep 26 18:15:09 2006
SUbject: RE: surrogate

IS a good idea. Sheppard is eRN, McInerney is FOX, I believe. How about offer to wayne

downing. to add nhc/msnbc -- he's been helpful.

-----Original Message----­

From: Barber. Allison Ms aSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:47 PM

To, Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PAl Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD;
OSD PA; Whitman,

Bryan SES OSO PA

Ce: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

SUbject: Fw: surrogate

I think dallas haa a. great idea here. Very unconventiona.l but will make an impact.
Ab

-----Original Me$6age~----
From: Lawrence. Dallas ~r OSD PA
70: Barber. Allison Me OSD PA
Sent: Tue Sep 26 16:07:24 2006
Subject: surrog~te
What do you chink a»out pitching to the team having don Sheppard and Tom Mcinerny embed
for seedef trip to middle east in october? Maybe just ·do the two and keep the foctpri~t
small? We could build in time at each stop to peel them off and do interviews with their
network. 2 hits a day for each. Would be a first but might be of interest to try
something new.

NY TIMES 5532

Dallas B. Lawrenoe
Direotor, Office of CommunLey Relations & Public Liaison
United states Department of Defense

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From:' Paul Vallely {vallely@~~&e~'Di;~,18;'J:,i'U;;Mij~i1';1

Sent: Tuesday. September 26. 2000 9:45 AM

To: lawrence. Dallas Mr OSC PA

Subject: RE: HUGO CHAVEZ and Assassination

Dallas, ThanK you for asking. :r am cleaX'ed to travel now so let me know when. t.he.. e-rips are
and 1 will be happy to join. Hope you are well.

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Paul E Vallely
Milita ost • Sta.nd Up America 'I
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www.ospreyme
-----Original Mes$age---~·
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA [mailto:Pallas.Lawrence
Sent: Monda e er 2 2006 9:07 PM
TO: vallely' ',';
Subject: Re:

Gener-al.

So glad to hear you are back on your feetl I didn't want to burden you with invites for
Iraq or gitmo or afghanistan until you were feeling better.
!f yOU're up for it sir I'd like to include you in our next trip.

All the best general.

Vr

Dallas lawrence.

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Peter-:-erookes
Sent: Mon Sep 25 21:57:01 2006
Subject; RS; HU~O CHAVEZ and Assassination

More to add to the 'Bleeding the Dragon" Project that I will exp?se to some degree next
week on Fox .

Osprey Media
Paul E Vallely
Military Anal at/Radio Host "stand Up America"
vallel
tel:

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ml

wayne, you're right on target. ! hope you weren't too terrified when Alan Colm~§ _.
tried to attack you. He's pretty scary.
Seriously I've been writing about Chavez and the ties to N Korea/Iran for more
than a year. The stuff is coming out allover the place now. The N Koreans have an office
only a few blocks distant from Miraflores palace and we know they're not in Caracas to
sell kim chee and d~ied equid.
The Iranians aren't trying to expand their pistachio markets.
Chavez in on a buying spree: MiG 29s. 100,000 sets of AK-47a and an entire
prOduction facility, other armaments. Can intermediate and long-range missiles (such as
the Nodong and Taepodong class) be far behind?
The Iranians are eager to usher in the 12th Iman by bringing on the apocalypse.
Yes, it sounds goofy but so did the 'final solution to the Jewish problem.' As wayne
alludes, this really is closer to WWlr than anything we've faced previously.
Picture a megalomaniacal Chavez with missiles topped with dirty bombs or
fissionable material. That's where all this is leading -to.
And we're debating assassinating this a$$hole?
Gordon Cucullu

Were it not such a serious charge I would find it amusing that terrorist,
Hugo Chavez has now accused President George Bush of ordering h!s aasacsination. .
Right the President of the United States has, as a matter of professional courtesy.
notified the Venezuelan terrorist that he intends to kill him. I am quite certain that the
NY Times has also been notified by the Preaident. Pat Robertson may have had it right last
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,ye~r when he said ~hat ~he demise of the Sout~ American Nazi, aitler clone and best fr'
of FARe, Cuba et. a1. m~ght be the beat solut~on for our hemisphere Wken I \II k: ~end
' . .•• as as ed by
A1 an C0 1mes on Hanm.ty and Calmes 1f I Bupported Pat ltobertson,' s Position I replied" If a
stray bullet fro~ a hunter in Kentucky should find it's way between this guY's tCha~ez's)
eyes, no American should loose any sleep" I was summarily attClcked by Alan and the L ft
http://cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?itemQvenezuela 53 e .
<http://cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item%venezUela_53>

Yet I here we are almost a year later and Chavez has gro,,"on stronger'"
economically and militarily and succeeded in cultivating friendshipe with China. RUssia.
!ran, Syria and North Korea. He has called for the destruction of the uS economy and
threatened the us with decreasing oil imports. Many of my colleagues are convinced that
Chavez was part ot the FARe plot to assassinate President eush when he traveled to
Columbia http://dailyinklings.wordpress.com/2004/11/ Does this mean we should assas8inate
Chavez? ! have to believe in retrospect that if we had the opportunity to "assassinate"
Hitler in 1937, we would have and many, many millions of lives would have been saved.
Remember, NO ONE believed that Hitler could over run Europe in 1937. ~ike Yogi Berra said,
"it's deja vu allover again.'" - -­
Take care.
Wayne
l2JJJ stateD very clearly that:

As it is part of an executive order, the President may modify or rescind

the assassination ban in E.O.
<httpl//www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/~7/122623.shtml>
12333, Section 2.11, by executive order. Except in specific circumstances,
an executive order
revoking a previous order would h«ve to be published in the Federal
Resister under 44 U.S.C.
§ 1505(a) if it is deemed to be an order of general applicability.
However, under 44 u.S.C.
S 1505 (c) :

In the event of an attack or threatened attack upon the continentar United

States and .a
determination by the President that as a result of an attack or threatened
attack­
(1) pUblication of the Federal Register or filing of documents with the
Office of the
Federal Register is impracticable, or
(2) under existing conoltions publication in the Federal Register would
not serve to give appropriate .
notice to the public of the contents of documents. the presldent may,
without regard to any other
provision of law, suspend all or part of the requirements of law or
regUlation for filing with the Office
or publication in the Federal Register Of documents or classes of
documents.
such a suspension would remain in effect until revoked by the PreGident or
by concurrent
resolution of Congress.

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From:'
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Jed, I just saw this and am the runway for the ed's trip to the balkans.
Sorry. Call me via cables· you'd like to discuss options.

;;~~~~~~~~~~i~l~~j:~1.{[;\ji!Mf
TQ: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: Sun Sep 24 21:36:16 ~006
Subject: Monday-Wednesday

Eric: 1'm s\l.bbing for Michael Reagan on Monday thru Wednesday this week, 6-9 pm EDT----­
nationally on Radio America network. Anything you have on your plate? Best, Jed.

(home office)
(home fa.x)
(mobile)

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From: Bonnie [blsciarrettoc¥,'~&~?<'j;W;;xtW01TnWI

Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:34 PM
To: BlSciarrettodi~l,{~li}ii:);;%;+j\'n\l
SUbject: Babbin "Islamic Brownshlrts"

Islamic Brownshirts
By J.~c;f_BabPjD.
Published 9/25/2006 12;08; 10 AM

Of the many wrong lessons the Clinton presidency taught us, the cheap apology Is one that
continues to haunts us. The world became accustomed to America - through our lip-quiverin~i
president - apologizing reflexively for every offense, real or imagined. Apologies have since
become expensive. Because the radicallslamists demand -- and we supply -- an endless
stream of apologies for conduct that Is either entirety justified or inoffensive, they are winning
their campaign of intimidation. Like Hitler's BrONnshirt "Sturm Abteilung," the Islamofascists
seek political dominance by violence and intimidation. And we, like the Weimar Republic
before us, are letting the fascists get away With it.

Some, such as Charles Krauthammer. find irony in those who inflict violence to prove Istam is
a religion of peace. To some, there is humor to be mined from the irony, For the rest of us, it's
among the few parts of this war we can fight personally. We must summon up outrage at
fascists who have intimidated the president of the United States out of calling them what they
manifestly are. President Bush (1 recall only one speech. and only two uses of the term) called
them Islamic fascists. Which happens to be an historically defined and precisely accurate
term. The cacophony of complaints from phony allies such as the Saudis and Islamists here
intimidated the president out of further use of this enormously useful political term..

Now the Pope has drawn death threats from the "religion of peace" because of his reference
to a 14th-century Byzantine emperor's statement about Islam being spread by the sword. The
Pope has been driven to express regret (Without technically apologizing) and is meeting today
with Islamic representatives to calm them. He will fail to mollify them one way or the other
because nothing can. Even if he accedes to their demands they will pronounce themselves
unsatisfied and ask him to do more to prove he respects them more than they respect him. If
my mother's mother were still alive, J've no doubtshe'd have been penning a letter to the
pontiff. In her rounded script, she would have written in the kindest terms she knew. "Dear
Pope Benedict: Enough with the apologies already!" And she'd have been more correct than
the president or the pontiff.

The Islamic Brownshirts are serving the same two purposes that Hitler's did. First, to
intimidate people and separate them from their freedom to speak out against an ideology that
aims to enslave them. Second, to legitimate the use of violence to punish anyone with whom
they disagree. Someone who calls himself a "cleric" - be it Moqtada al·Sadr or some radical
imam in America - has no more right to circumscribe our public debate or the Pope's
speeches than did Hitler. Under the First Amendment, free speech still lives. In too many
nations, Including most of Old Europe, the Islamic Brownshirts have already killed it.

Italy and France surrendered preemptively. Spain fell when the Madrid train bombings caused

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its government to be defeated in an election held a day later. Britain, as Melanie Phillips has
documented brilliantly in Londonistan, gave up free speech eagerly in favor of
multiculturalism. The country that gave us the Magna Carta is now a place in which a street
preacher can be fined about $500 for parading with a sign that says, "Stop immorality. Stop
homosexuality. Stop lesbianism," but Muslim thug Abu lzzadeen (the former Trevor Brooks) is
not spoken to rudely when he incites murder. When France fell in June 1940 Churchill said.
"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is
about to begin." Europe has surrendered to the Islamic Brownshirts. Their battle is over. Ours
has begun.

WE ARE BEING TERRORIZED OUT of our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the
press. The Islamic Brownshirts are workin,9 feverishly to suppress any criticism of themselves
and their ideology. Because the president has (for the moment, at least) fled this battlefield,
we must fight on our own. To begin, we have to recognize, and speak out on, four ground
truths.

First, there is an enormous advantage America has over the nations in the grip of radical
Islam. That advantage is enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights, the freedoms stated in
it inherently incompatible with radical Islam. Every time we apologize for an act such as
labeling the Islamofascists correctly, we lose a bit of that freedom. Islamic fascists are just
that. and we should remind the world of it at every opportunity. Just like those in Germany
and conquered Europe who every night slept fitfully fearing the Gestapo's knock on the door,
the people who live under radical Islam live in constant fear. The oppressed are not our
enemy: the oppressors are.

Second. as Robert Spencer's Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades
documents thoroughly -. quoting at length from the hadith (sayings of Muhammad that
accompany the Koran) -- radicallslamists can offer only three choices to non-believers:
convert to Islam, pay the poll-tax on non-Muslims and live under Islamic law, or war. As
Spencer wrote, "Always remember, 'peaceful coexistence as equals in a pluralistic society'
isn't one ofthe choices," The only answer to this is to Americanize the words of Australian
Treasurer Peter Costello. who said in an August 2005 interview:

"[TJhis is a country, which is founded on a democracy. According to our

Constitution. we have a secular state. Our raws are made by the Australian
Parliament. If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia
law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you. This is not the kind of
country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy,
parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel
comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel
more comfortable with their own values or beliefs."

So it must be here. Anyone who wants to embrace our Constitution and renounce other law,
who wants to be a participant in our democracy and is not hostile to the freedoms we enjoy, is
welcome. Others are not.

Third, America began with a· Declaration of Independence that was written, in part, because of
our "decent respect to the opinions of mankind." But decent respect does not mean that we

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are ruled by others' opinions or law. And when we look at what is happening in England and
Europe, we know we cannot accept that result and must summon our resolve to fight -. by
words and deeds -- its achievement here.

Most importantly, the reigning emotions among radicallslamists are paranoia and insecurity.
They think that anyone who utters the slightest criticism of them, their religion or their
societies must be punished violently. The fourth ground truth is that these emotions are their
problem, not ours. We must use them to our advantage.

The weapon provided by the radicals' fear and insecurity should be used incessantly. Scorn,
contempt, shame and disrespect are what we should heap upon them. Every time we
denounce a terrorist, the denunciation should include every single person, group and
government that shares his beliefs. Civifization owes no apologies to Islamic fascists. Let us
hear no more of them.

TAS contributing editor Jed 8abbin is the author of In.1~eJhftA.iY.'.U-'11:Why tne UN and
Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004) and, with Edward Timperlake,
.s.Mw.dmm: Why China Wants War With the United States (Regnery, May 2006 -- click
.~).

'Bonnie
let Freedom Ring!!

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5540
 From: . Law-rence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:24 PM
To: Latimer, Matthew SES aSD PA
Subject: RE: surrogates

Former cia now fox news analyst. Wayne simmons

Dallas B. Lawrence

Director, Office of Community Relations & Public Liaison

United States Department of Defense

-----Original Message----­
From: Latimer, Matthew SES OSD PA
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:24 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: Re: surrogates

Who is wayne?

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA; .'. aSD PA; Latimer, Matthew SES OSD PA
ec: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA;\
Sent: MOll Sep 25 ~9:22:00 2006
Subject: RE: surrogates
All,

I am sure this is very similar to how a number of our folks feel. Wayne is one that we
can turn to and engage fully. There are a handful of others as well.

From, wssinter~~~M10~[mailto:wssinter~i~~i%%GW~~{N
Sent: Monday, September 25, 200
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA;~m IV. OASD-PA
Subject: Simmons

I am disgusted at what I saw on the news(?1 tonight. I would strongly suggest that you
arrange a meeting with SECDEF asap. Those in attendance should be those like me who,
without question, SUPPORT his leadership for President Bush and America. Thanks.
Wayne

Dallas B. Lawrence
Director, Office of Community Relations & pUblic Liaison
United States Oepartment of Defense

NY TIMES 5541

 From:. Barber, Allisbn Ms OSD PA

SenrMQ~d~B'" ~e~7em~~f 25, 2006 9; 09 AM
To;j§*~*{m&0B;0&0illvP@iliGfosD FA; Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD FA; Latimer, Matthew SES OSD PA
Cc: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA
SUbject: surrogates

Hi mark
There· was a lot of discussion about utilizing some surrogates in this morning meeting.
This is in response to the retired generals comments. Dallas has put together a list of
what we would do with this topic and he is standing by to offer you the ideas and the help
to execute any of them, if you are interested. Some of this falls into new media, and
some into analysis which we can handle.

Please let us know if you would like any assistance on this.

NY TIMES 5542
 From: . Merritt, Roxie. AFIS-HQ
Sent: Monday, September 25. 20065:44 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, ses, eso
SUbject: FW: Couple of interesting items.

Eric.
In my efforts to start developing new outlets for SOme of our products. I am trying to
establish relation$hips with some of the blosgers that are quoted a lot in the mainstream
press. Newsbusters is one of those bloggers. He.has now branched out into a public
access television show that is picked up not only in the New York area but in some. other
public access channels around the country. Are you able to do an interview with him on
October 11th at 6 PM? Interview lasts about 20 minutes. Jed Babbin did an interview with
him recently, It would just be an update about DoD items of interest. If you can do it,
I will get some interview questions and staff the answers for you.

Roxie T. Merritt
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (Internal
~~m~~;~~t;~~:~a~'~tr~:~a:t~~1~~&0i&iense
Alexandria, Vir inia 22314-2007
Phone
Fax:
email: roxie. merritt
www.AmericaSupportSYou.mil

-----Original Message----­

From: Mark Finkelstein [mailto:mark t?'

Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 5:31 PM

To: Merritt, Roxie, AFIS.HQ

Subject: RE: Couple of interesting items.

Hi Roxie:

Very cool to imagine Sec. Rumsfeld being aware of our humble little blog!
As for date for DoD interview on'Right Angle': I would suggest Wednesday, October 11th at
6 PM. Interview to last about 20 minutes.
Tha.nks again,
Mark
PSt Here's the link to our web site to give people a feel for the show:

http://rightangle.clarityconnect.com/

By the way, a .few weeks ago I incerviewed on the show former DoD Undersecretary Jed Babbin

regarding his new book 'Showdown,' regarding what he sees as the threat of war with China.

The webcast of the interview is available at the Archived Webcasts tab on the web site.

It's the show of

7/13: "The Coming War With China?"

www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil

NY TIMES 5543

From: . Major F. Andy Messing, Jr. (Ret)1 NDCF \NDCF

Sent: Monday. September 25,2006 S:13 AM
To: Josiah Williams
SUbject: Fw: Please read this lliltest Op-Ed by Sarah and myself !!

Importance: High

"> Dear Friends ...

> This is in today's Washington Times ....

" It should give us pause ... as we try and spread our ideas ... trying to

> get people in washington to think, is always a challenge •...

> Best

" ANDY
"" " ----.----._-----------------------------------------------­
" > VARIETIES OF DEMOCRACY
" > By Sarah L. Gildea I F. kndy Messing THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> > -----------------------------------.----------------------­
> > "The advancement of freedom is the calling of our time: it is the
calling
> of our country." These words, spoken by President Bush nearly three
" years ago, set out to define U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
> "
"> "> Hence, freedom becomes America's mission. However, promoting it
> " has
> become characterized as our excessive burden in terms of lives,
" fortune
and
" political capital, to the point where the rhetorical push and pull in
" Congress pits the interests of American citizens against one another.
> Yet, lost in the mainly partisan scuffle is the recognition of the
> realities of protracted warfare as it relates to cultivation of
~ democracy. Most
Americans
~ have an unrealistic memory of their own history; of the resolve,
" understanding and effort required to advance freedom.
> "
" >
> > The United states suffered through a divisive and brutal
> > Revolution
to
" begin governing itself democratically. Following this, five long years
" spanned before the Articles of Confederation were introduced. Their
failure
> led to a further seven years of deliberation before the U.S.
> Constitution was instituted.
> >
> "
" > Decades of postwar disorganization and struggle resulted in the
" eventual success of this republic. This ideological commitment has
> been
lost
> on our instant gratification society. Few of us can imagine a
" deliberative process of government lasting longer than an episode of
> the television program ·We~t Wing,· let alone numerous presidential administrations.
> "
:> "
1

NY TIMES 5544
 > " In relation to these facts, Sun Tzu, in "Art of War I " •

> > articulated

the
> knowledge and endurance required of wartime leaders. He contended
> that,
"An
> able military commander strengthens his forces, makes the enemy's
strengths
> his own, has a profound understanding of the dangers of protracted
> war,
and
> aims at ending a military action as soon as possible. Therefore, the

general

> who understands warfare is the key to peace in a country."

> >

> >
> > Accordingly, the general's strategies in a contested country
have a
:> :>
> direct bearing on whether a democracy can even be instituted. This
requires
> a subtle and very focused approach to warfare to reach the point where
> theoretical democratic processes can be addressed. In the case of
> Iraq, ending our conventional military presence as soon as possible
> means terminating it when most appropriate. It requires us to remain
> proactive through alternative strategies; by first and foremost
> setting a democratic example worthy of emulation within our own
> country, offering selective security, sociopolitical .and economic
> advice, and fostering a fledgling civil society with developmental aid.
> >
> >
> > As a nation uncomfortable with intervention, and averse to
> > becoming
a
> warrior state. our impulse to cut and run as soon as elections are
> held is unfaithful to our own state-building experience. Elections do
> not
guarantee

> a perfect democracy. The governments of Vladimir Putin, Robert Mugabe,

Hugo

> Chavez, Fidel Castro and possibly elected Daniel Ortega, are

> testaments to this truth.

> >

> >

> > This does not mean democracy does not exist in these countries.

> Instead, it points to the multifaceted nature of democracy;. its

> ability to be mo~ded and used by the leaders and societies it serves.

> >

> >
" > We need to reorganize our expectations based upon that fact.

> > Fully

> functioning democracies take time to grow. Commitment transcends

timelines,

> and we must continually remember the difference between forced regime

change

> and the amenable installation of democracy.

> >

> >
> " Our military operations in Iraq seem feckless and continually
> > morph
in
> their mission. As this insurgency increases, some foreign leaders
> claim policies designed to promote freedom in the Middle East are
> themselves a hindrance to it. In response to the recent attempted attack on the U.S.
" Embassy in Damascus, a representative of the Syrian Embassy in
> Washington crystallized this view by saying, "It is regrettable that
> u.s. policies in the Middle East have fueled extremism, terrorism and anti-U.S.
sentiment."
2

NY TIMES 5545

 > >

> >

> > These types of seemingly off-the~wall comments are to be

> > expected in

> war. What is truly regrettable is that this perception thwarts our

> ability to have a unified mandate to promote freedom and democracy worldwide.

> >

> >

> > Notably, every country is not designed for the same form of

democra'cy.

> However, every coun~ry's citizens should have che same freedom ~o

> choose their governing format for themselves. As Thomas Jefferson

> treasonously wrote to the British, "Governments are instituted among

> Men, deriving

their

> just Powers from the Consent of the Governed'."

> >
> >
> > Providing this governance is a long, arduous undertaking. It is
> > time
> for Americans to be patient. We must recognize the multitude ,of global
> democratic experiments, even on our own soil, and resist hypocrisY.
> Our experience with democracy is relatively successful, but we must be
> wary of forcing our brand of freedom and democracy on others, or risk
~ disillusionment and failure.
> >
> >
> ;> <i>Sarah L. Gildea is a graduate student at Germany's Erfurt
> > School
of
> Public Policy and is now a research fellow at the National Defense
> Council Foundation. F. Andy Messing is NDCF's executive director and
> is a retired special forces major.</i>
> >.
> ;>
> >
> >
> >
> >
;> >
> ;> ---------------------------------~----_._--------------~---
> > This article was mailed from The Washington Times
> (http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060924-085115-9442r.htm)
> > For more great artiCles, visit us at http.:!!www.w&shingtontimes.com
> >
~ > Copyright (c) 2006 News World Co~munic8tions, Inc. All rights reserved.
~

NY TIMES 5546
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From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr aSD PA

Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:06 AM
To: Barber, Allison Ms aSD PA
SUbject: RE: new medial outreach

I can do whatever he likes. Give him the list. help set up the conference call. etc. HarVey would likely not be him
but bryan witman right? Or we could do it under new media, do a quick 5 minute interview, zap it out via radio
podcast for instant play today. also put it out on the web and also put it up on the sat for local news folks to pull
down and play the clip as they talk about the hearings today. This would have to all happen before noon I think to
be "part of the debate" vice response to it.

nllJlll~ n. Lawl·.mcl~
l)i",,'.,jM. Orfil'e UfCOIlIllHIIl.il:-;Hdali(>n,., i.\' P\Jhlit: LiaislllI
!'1li ll~cJ ttI'Deti'lI""

=---_._--------_.
From: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Sent: Monday, September 25,20069:04 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: new medial outreach

Great ideas.. how do you recommend working With mark on this'?

ab

From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Monday, September 25, 20069:03 AM
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
SUbject: new medial outreach

A few quick ideas for the next 24 hours:

1) Conference call With analysts to directly rebut intel report issues. special emphasis on folks like wayne
simmons
2) Put Monty Meigs out front and center talking about the folly of retired generals speaking out after the fact
3) "Fact Check", release comments by these generals when they were on duty that run counter to what they
are saying now
4) Put Secretary Harvey out front and center to tackle the political side "there is no surprise these are all for
the most part cold war era army generals who opposed Scty Rumsfeld's transformation to a leaner faster
army"

HaHul> n.
].llwrellce
J)irN'lor. Ofl'iet' (If Community Hdllliol\;< & Publil' Liai~(>11
l'"il",) Slal{"~ Jk 'olI"lnwnl ,If f),·I"'IllW

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5547

 Page I of I
, .

From: JedBabbi
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:36 PM

To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

SUbject: Monday-Wednesday

Eric: I'm subbing for Michael Reagan on Monday thru Wednesday this week, 6-9 pm EDT nationally
on Radio America network. Anything you have on your plate? Best, Jed.

Jed Babbin
(home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

4/9/200&

NY TIMES 5548
From:' Ruff, Eric, SES, eSD
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:55 PM
To: Barber, Allison Ms eSD PA; Smith. Dorrance HON aSD PA; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA:
Latimer, Matthew SES eSD PA; Merritt, Roxie, AFIS·HQ; Lawrence, Dallas Mr aSD PA
Subject: Re: town hall push

Way cool, Good work.

-----Original Message----­
From: Barber, Allison Ms eSD PA
To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSO PAl Whitman, Bryan SES aSD PAl Latimer, Matthew SES eSD PAl
Ruff. Eric. SES, OSD; Merritt, Roxie. AFIS-BQ; Lawrence, Dallas Nr eSD PA
Sent: Fri Sep 22 18:18:51 2006
Subject: town hall push
Hi

As a pilot program, we pushed out the video clip of secdef's answer about America is not
the enemy to several New Media outlets. We will see if it penetrates.

Here is where we sent it...

Quick run down

MP3 and Video file and pentagon channel link sent to over 50 radio producers and talent
Video file and pentagon channel link sent to all military analysts, civilian defense
experts and opinion leaders

Video file and pentagon channel link sent to producers of all 3 network news stations and
Fox Cable News
MP3 and Video file and pentagon channel link .push by White House to 90+ Slogs, nationwide
radiQ. and cheir ":Ln case You Missed It" list

Video clip posted on You Tube and Google video

ab

NY TIMES 5549

From: Barber, Allison Ms aso PA

Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 7:s4 PM

To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr eSD PA

Subject: RE: town hall push

w~ have to mana9~ expectations ...

At least we didn't get in trouble for doing all of this without getting permission.

Signed

positivity girl

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr aBO PA

Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 7:31 PM

TO: Barber, Allison Ms aSD PA

Subject: Fw: town hall push

That's it? No "thanks for leaning forward" etc? Ugh.

-----Original Message----­
From: Smith, Dorrance HON eSD PA

To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PAl Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PAl Latimer, Matthew SES OSD PA:

Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD; Merritt, Roxie, AFIS-BQ; Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Fri Sep 22 18:20:41 2006

Subject: Re: town hall push

I'm told by someone who watched it that C SPAN covered the whole hour.
-----original Message----­

From: Earber, Allison Ms eso PA

To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSO PAl Whitman, Bryan SES aSD PAl Latimer. Matthew SES aSD PAl

Ruff, Eric. SES. OSD; Merritt, Roxie, AFIS-BQ; Lawrence, Dallas Mr aso PA

Sent: Fri Sep 22 18:18:51 2006

Subject: town hall push

Hi
As a pilot program. we pushed out the video clip of secdef's answer about America is not
the enemy to several New Media outlets. we will see if it penetrates.

Here is where we sent it...

Quick run down

MP3 and Video file and pentagon channel link sent to over 50 radio producers and talent
Video file and pentagon channel link sent to all military analysts, civilian aefense

experts and opinion leaders

Video file and pentagon channel link sent to producers of all 3 network news stations and
Fox Cable News

MP3 and Video file and pentagon channel link push by White House to 90+ Blogs, nationwide
1

NY TIMES 5550
 radio, and their "In Case You Missed It" list
Video clip posted on You Tube and Google video

ab

NY TIMES 5551
 Page Iof2

From: Barber, Allison Ms eso PA

Sent: Friday, September 22,2006 6:40 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr eSD PA
Subject: RE: Iraq Message

Oh my goodness.

Please save me from this town!!!!!

ab

,------- .-_.._---------------­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:53 PM
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Subject: FW: Iraq Message

Ummm, ok.

llaJlas n. Luwrl:uce
J)ir<·('tnr, oni",I- of COIlUllllility H,~Jal.ions & Publil' Liai"olJ
Fllit:l~d Slal/-,. De .IlIrl:meul of Ddi"l~t'

From
Sent: ray, ep em er ,
To: Lawrence, D~lIas Mr OSD PA
Cc: ~~~:t~)/;k<(}~tFt/i2;U;y?)<Mh/y}i)1
SUbject: RE: Iraq Message

J think that your pUblic liaison efforts to educate and inform should be far and wide in the context of what and to
whom appropriate. Let us know if we can assist.

From: lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA [mailto:Dalfas.Lawrence

Se r 20/ 2006 12:38 PM
To: '
Cc:
SUbject: Iraq Message

Hope this note finds you doing great! I just got back from Iraq late last nig"t after spending a few days with our
military analysts seeing the progress throughout the country and hearing from our senior military leaders, as well
as senior Iraqis. including the Prime Minister, about thelr frustrations about the lack of attention being paid to the
successes on the ground. It occurred to me that it might be worthwhile for our next all political gathering
(especially if there is one before the election) to give our team a briefing on the real progress on the ground. We
have hundreds of defacto spokespeople who all have their own "echo chambers· whether they be at Commerce
or HUD or Education. etc who could benefit from a briefing on the facts of what is happening on the ground. As
everything this year and next is going to turn back to Iraq. anning them with some solid information might be
helpful.

The upshot from OUr military folks (from Casey on down to the young Marine Captain working with the Iraqi

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5552
 Page 2 of2

military in AI Anbar), and from the Iraqi military folks that we spoke with is that the Iraqi military is exceeding
ab<;>ve and beyond all expectations. Conducting independent operations, owning their own battle space, being
ready, willing and able to get into the fight and die for their democratic country, etc. The overarching concern of all
is whether or not the new government can pUll together the social services and national cohesion needed. This is
a good news story for us. As it shows all sides now clearly see the way ahead in the hands of the Iraqis. We
have trained their military. they are s1anding up more and more every day to provide the security blanket
necessary for the democratic government to have the climate to operate in and provide for a better and more
stable country.

In any event, if you think this is something worthwhile, let be happy to lOOk into pUlling together the right group to
present a solid brIef. I could even check to see If we could even do it here in our auditorium, which seats 325.

If there is an interest in this, id be happy to get on it asap.

Best,
dJ

)Janas B. l.awrcJw('

nirl,'"wr, Ofn"c:~ 01' (;OUllllllrL it~' Br·la I inns & }'uhlir: Liili~nl'l

Vuil('o' . ,(.,~ De Hlrlllll':lll (~fDdi'lI~e

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5553

 Page I of 1

From; Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Friday, September 22,2006 6:10 PM
To: Barber. Allison Ms OSD PA

Quick run down

MP3 and Video file and pentagon channel link sent to over 50 radio producers and talent
Video file and pentagon channel link sent to all military analysts, civilian defense experts and opinion leaders
Video file and pentagon channel link sent to producers of all 3 network news stations and Fox Cable News
MP3 and Video file and pentagon channel link push by White House to 90+ Blogs, nationwide radio, and their "In
Case You Missed It" list

III tighten this up Monday with whatever the white house gives me.

Dllllml 8. Lnwn:JICe
n.irer;l(Jr. Offic\' OrC(lTrinllJllil~' R,-JIl1.ion!; &. Puhli<: Liuis(Jll
Unit'ld SIal,), n\~"lrt nwnt or De.I';:IlS('

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NY TIMES 5554
From: . S~~:{~lMif}iji:;Nf:i:i:X!;;'.:W!;~::D';i;:{jbsD PA
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:53 PM
To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA
Subject: Pundit lunch in October - my Ideas

Glen Beck, XM syndicated radio "host and show on CNN Headlines News.

Jed Babbin

Kate O'Beirne

Direct(JI', OSl]) j1d.1-'ance ana.9deaia rJ{,lations

(me (Pentag(Jn, 2(j)554
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From:
Sent:

I have no idea what she means. But ill take it as a ·pass·

I)alla;; n. l,aWfl:JlIJC
Dir"('I.l>l'. Offi"e of COIIIUluoi\). Hdlll.inns & P"hlil' l.iaison

==----------_._--­
5e"t: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:18 PM
TO: Lawrence Dallas Mr 050 PA
Cc: K~U~Wi;}Fn;;ii)u/>'iW;;IiiPi;;·;mU;@i1;w;1
Subject: RE: Iraq Message

I think that your public liaison efforts to educate and inform should be far and wide in the context of what and to
whom appropriate. Let us know if we can assist.

From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA [mailto:Dallas.Lawrence

se . er 20, 2006 12:38 PM
To:
Cc:
SUbject: Iraq Message
~}(~)

Hope this note finds you doing great! I Just got back from Iraq late last night after spending a few days with our
military analysts seeing the progress throughout the country and hearing from our senior military leaders, as well
as senior Iraqis, including the Prime Minister, about their frustrations ~bout the lack of attention being paid to the
successes on the ground. It occurred to me that It might be worthwhile for our next all political gathering
(especially If there is one before the election) to give our team a briefing on the real progress on the ground. We
have hundreds of defac10 spokespeople who all have their own "echo chambers" Whether they be at Commerce
or HUD or Education. etc who could benefit from a briefing on the facts of what is happening on the ground. As
everything this year and next Is going to turn back to Iraq, arming them wIth some solid information might be
helpful.

The upshot from our military folks (from Casey on down to the young Marine Captain working with the Iraqi
military in AI Anbar), and from the Iraqi military folks that we spoke with is that the Iraqi military is exceeding
above and beyond all expectations. Conducting independent operations, owning their own battle space, being
ready, willing and able to get into the flQht and die for their democratic country, etc. The overarching concem of all
is whether or not the new government can pull together the social services and national cohesion needed. This Is
a good news story for us. As it shows all sides now clearly see the way ahead in ~he hands of the Iraqis. We
have trained their military. they are standing up more and more every day to prOVide the security blanket
necessary for the democratic government to have the climate to operate in and provide for a better and more
stable country.

In any event. if you think ~hjs is some~hing worthwhile, Id be happy to look into pulling together the right group to
present a solid brief. I could even check to see if we could even do it here in our auditorium, which seats 325.

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5556

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If there Is an interest in this, id be happy to get on it asap,

Be'st,
dl

4/9/2008

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From: Jed Babbin@~?&~~W~N~m'i;:0;m;WI I

Sent: thursday. September 21, 2006 8:23 AM I

To: tmcinerney nashct GJenstrae77

I
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wheeler !Wilkerson ShepDonal I
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I
Subject: Torturing the law: Today's Rep I

Sen. McCain misses no opportunity to alienate conservatives and the military. This one I

should cost him the 08 nomination. I

g~!ilJ.g_'~1!r.E.Q.l[t!9S -_Arti~le~ • TQaurln.g.111~.la~

I

Jed Bahbin I

:)(Home office)
Mobile) \

4/9/2008

NY TIMES 5558

From: .
Sent:
To:
Subject:

A Special Place in Hell

By Jed Bobbin
Published 9/18/2006 12:08:42 AM

Greater self-love hath no man than to sacrifice a friend's life for his own. Our grateful nation
awards the Medal of Honor to those few whose valor in combat is above and beyond the call of duty.
But what Is the polar opposite of the Medal? It is essential we decide, because Richard Armitage -­
former Deputy Secretary of State -. has earned it for his uncommon treachery, beneath and beyond
the call of knavery.

Begin with the fact that Armitage -- and his boss, Colin Powell - were always outsiders. Powell, by
his own discomfort with Bush's inner circle, was not part of it. But both were high-ranking members of
the administration and owed it political loyalty.

For reasons I have theorized before, the CIA sent anti-war activist Joe Wilson to Niger to
"investigate" the attempts by Saddam's regime to buy uranium "yellowcake" there. On July 6, 2003,
an op-ed by Wilson appeared in the New York Times about his Niger mission and his conclusion that
Iraq hadn't sought uranium from Niger. Robert Novak's July 14, 2003 column disclosed that Mrs.
Wilson -~ Valerie Plame -- was a CIA employee whom Novak described imprecisely as a CIA
"operative." What followed was the most damaging contrived news story since George Bush took
office.

Wilson bellowed -- and the media and the Democratic leadership chimed in ~- demanding a criminal
investigation into the leak of Plame's name. Wilson accused Karl Rove of trying to smear him, and
said Rove should be "frog-marched" out of the White House in handcuffs. The 527 Media -- the New
York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC and ABC -- all covered the story not as even liberally
biased publications, but as political activists making campaign commercials for the Oems.

Schumer and Co. solemnly condemned the smear campaign against Wilson. the White House's
horrific crime of leaking the name of a covert agent, and the hunt'was on for the leaker. The ever­
responsive George Tenet asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and, after
overcoming objections, ;t did. Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to investigate the leak on December
30,2003. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was indicted for pe~ury on October 28, 2005.

(For the record, the Libby indictment says Plame's employment was "classified." Not covert;
classified. Between the two is the gap between a "NOG" -- a "not official cover," covert agent·- and
any desk jockey at Langley.)

Long before the indictment, Wilson's story had fallen apart. His lies about the Niger "investigation"
were revealed by the 9-11 Commission. British intelligence and many others who found that Saddam
had pursued a uranium deal in Niger. But as more and more of Wilson IS claims were disprOVed,
serial liar Wilson and his media pals didn't slow down.

Navv we know, as Paul Harvey might say, the rest of the story. Neither Karl Rove nor Scooter Libby
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 was Novak's source in July 2003. Richard Armitage was. And, at least as of October 1,2003, Colin
Powell knew that. Almost three months later, when Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed on December
30, 2Q03, he knew there was no crime to investigate. No covert operator's name had been divulged.
It is an entirely separate scandal -- one probably including real criminal conduct -- that the Fitzgerald
investigation was even begun despite knowledge that no crime had been committed. Libby's crime, if
there was one, was manufactured by Fitzgerald in the grand jury room. And aU the while Fitzgerald
knew what neither the White House nor the public did: that Armitage was the source.
."~
Armitage is doing an elaborate CYA dance for the 527 Media. He's saying that he didn't know that he
was Novak's source until the day he told Colin Powell he was. He's also saying that he mentioned
Plame casually to Novak. To his credit. Novak is making clear now what his pledge of confidentiality
to Armitage made him conceal earlier. In his September 14, 2006 column, Novak wrote that Armitage
specifically' called him in for an interview he'd been trying to get for two and a half years. Novak
wrote:

{Armitage] had told me unequivocally that Mrs. Wilson worked in the CIA's Counterproliferation
Division and that she had suggested her husband's mission. As for his current implication that he
never expected this to be pUblished, he noted that the story of Mrs. Wilson's role fit the style of
the old Evans-Novak column .- implying to me that it continued reporting Washington inside
information.

It was an act of supreme disloyalty for Armitage to keep the fact that he was Novak's source from the
president -- and thus the public -- for three years. The same goes for Powell. There was no reason
whatever - other than the desire to do political damage to the administration - for Armitage and
Powell to remain silent while the 527 Media and the Oems fired a three-year long barrage of political
fire at the President, the Vice President, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. We expect the Oems and the
political-activist media to do this. But we don't expect the craven, cowardly conduct of Armitage and
Powell.

What they did enabled Fitzgerald to continue his pursuit of Rove and· the rest of the White House
without the restraint imposed by public knowledge of the single most Important fact. There was no
White House conspiracy to "out" Paper Pusher Plame to punish 01' Joe. The non-leak came from
Armitage, not the White House.

Thanks to Armitage, Scooter Libby has lost his job and is now immersed in a criminal case that must
have already cost him millions in tegal fees and will certainly cost him millions more. Fitzgerald is
waiting until 2007 to try Libby.

Thanks to Armitage, the White House has been hobbled by this phony scandal for three years. Its
credibility -- in Congress and in relations with other governments·- was damaged significantly by the
charge of laWbreaking. The Democrats have linked the phony Plame scandal to every other
allegation of abuse of Intelligence they make to discredit the handling of the war. How many times
have we heard Schumer, Rockefeller, Durbin and the rest say. we can't trust this administration, using
Wilson-Plame as proof? The revelation of Armitage's responsibility creates another situation like
Reagan's Labor Secretary, Ray Donovan, faced when exonerated of corruption charges. Where does
the Bosh administration go to get its reputation back?

Armitage's leak was not innocent, idle chatter. And worse, much worse, was his cravenness in not
telling the truth to the president he supposedly served. ArmItage told Powell on October 1, 2003. If he
felt his loyalty to Powell required him to caU his boss on that date, he had a greater loyalty to tell the
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president before the sun set that day. The facts that neither he nor Powell told the president, that
both allowed the Democrats and the media to damage the Bush administration for almost three years
afte~ard and let Scooter Libby's life to be ruined, disqualifies both Armitage and Powell from ever
holding public office again. Let them retire in the ignominy they deserve.

What medal shall we give the man who leaked and remained sHent? Hester Prynne wore the scarlet
letter. For the leaker who hid while the political lynch mob hoisted his president and Scooter Libby,
there has to be a special reward. There's only one name for it: the Armitage Award.

TAS contributing editor Jed Babb/n is the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old
Europe Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004) and, with Edward Timperlalce, Showdown:
Why China Wants War With the United States (Regnery, May 2006 ... clic:k hmJ·

Let Freedom RIng!!

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From;' Gordon, Jeffrey 0 LCDR OSD PA
Sent: Wednesday. September 20, 2006 6:07 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject: FW; Surrogates on one page.doc

FYI

From ... LCDR OSD PA

Sent: Wednesday, september 20,20066:02 PM

To: Gordon, Jeffrey D LCDR OSD PA

SUbject: Surrogates on one page.doc

lD, FYI, VR, Chito

GTMO MEDIA OUTREACH

27 Sept 2006

RADIO

Monica Crowley

Monica Crowley Show

2
4

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 Eileen Byrne

Eileen Byrne Show

Jack Rice

Jack Rice Show

4·

Janet Parshall

"America"

Griff Jenkins

Fox News Talk

Wendy Wang

Talk Radio News

PRINT

Claudia Rossett

Free Lance

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

9
Rich Lowry

National Review
s·

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10

Marc Steyn

Freelance

11 Oct 2006

ThinkTank

Leonard Leo

Frank Gaffney

Radio

Charlie Brennan

180,,( 2006

Media Trip

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5564
 25 Oct 2006

Think Tank

Ed Feulner

Ed Meese

Chuck Cooper

David Rivkin

Lee Casey

Heather MacDonald

1 Nov 2006

Media Trip

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 Garrett, John [JGarrett

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:58 PM
Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
RE: Description of the trip

Thanks very much.

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Pallas Mr OSD PA [mailto:Dallas.Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, September 20. 2006 7:55 AM
To: Garrett. vohn
Subject: RE: Deseription of the trip
I would suggest you describe it as many have in the past. A regular outreach program of
the department of defense that offers retired military television and print news analysts
access to senior leadership and regular bri~fings etc etc.

I have many pictures coming your way this afternoon.

Dallas B. Lawrence
Director. Office of Community Relations & Public Liaison United States Department of

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Sent: Tuesday, September 19. 2006 4:54 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbject: Description of the trip

When the media asks why/how we were in Iraq, how do you prefer we
describe the aSD PA trip/program for military analysts.
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From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSO PA
Sent: Wednesday, September 20. 2006 12:04 PM
To: ~~~~~!'t;X!;;!!!in%nilClv, OASO·PA
Subject: FW: Military analysts in Iraq
Attachments: Military. AnCllysts in Iraq.doc

Here you go. Would you mind sending out a note to the four that came, thanking them for taking the time and
asking tyhem to pleas let us know, in advance if possible. of any and all media they are doing. Let them know it is
for a report we will give casey. Dave has some info from mccasuland. thanks

HallaM n. 'Lo wreJll:e

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sent: Wednesday, september 20, 2006 11:24 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr 050 PA
Cc::~~{fi);j;;;i)%UiTJ;,u:el AFIS-HQlPIA, CTR, OASD-PA
Subject: MIlitary analysts In Iraq

Dear Mr. Lawrence.

Attached are two clips and transcripts from Gen. Wayne Downing on MSNBC and Col. Jeff McCausland on CBS
Radio reporting from Iraq. Gen. Downing discussed the new security measures in Baghdad that may be
Implemented to stop sectarian vIolence Col. McCausland discussed the effect the Pope's recent comments have
had in Iraq.

As of this morning, there have been no reports from John Garren or Bing W~st. We will continue monitoring for
coverage. Please let us know if you need anything else.

4/9/2008

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 Military Analysts in Iraq

General Wayne Downing

MSNBC: MSNRC News Live 13:54:32 - September 19
Anchor: U.S. and Iraqi forces are implementing dramatic new measures in Baghdad as
they try to stop sectarian violence from degenerating into civil war. MSNBC military
analyst retired General Wayne Downing was recently in Iraq. He was meeting with senior
U.S. and Iraqi officials. And while he was there, he sat down with NBC's Mike Betcher.
Mike Betcher: General. you've been here four days. You've seen what's going on right
now. Are we winning, the United States? Is the United States losing? Or is that even the
right question to ask?
Gen. Wayne Downing: Tremendous progress on the military front. The Iraqi army has
stood"up. The units I saw are doing very very well. But, the provision of services to the
people just has not occurred. Primarily because of security type things. But the other
thing is we still have these sectarian political issues that have not been solved.
Betcher; Did the military officials you spoke here, top generals, did they say they think a
political process will work here to make that happen?
Gen. Downing: J talked to not only American generals, I talk to British generals, I
talked to Iraqi generals, I talked to colonels, I talked to people throughout the chain of
command. They're doing what they can do. All of them also expect the politicians to do
what they have to do.
These political parties, these Sunni and Shia parties, they have got to come together and
they've got to solve some fundamental differences that we papered over when we did that
constitution, and they've got to come to grips with that.
Betcher: I'm told by senior military officials here that since Zarqawi was killed, they've
been able to kick the heck out of the insurgency. That the problem is not so much that,
but the sectarian violence. And we've had 200 people killed in the last five days.
Gen. Downing: It is sectar:ian violence. It is the death squad. The Sunni death squads,
the ~.bia death squads, it's the Mahdi Army, and this is what they have to get after now.
Betcher: They're talking about this new plan to build a ring around Baghdad.
Gen. Downing: It will be several rings, which are primarily checkpoints, barb wire
fences, a couple of ditches which will channel people so they can't easily get in and out
of the city without going through some kind of a physical check point. It is a technique
that's not going to go on forever but it will support the overall effort to diffuse Baghdad.
Anchor: That was Mike talking to retired General Wayne DOMling in Iraq:

Colonel Jeff McCausland

WeBS·NY (Radio): News 16:31: 12 - September 18
Col. Jeff McCausland (Taped): Just when you thought things in Iraq couldn't get any
more difficult, along comes the Pope who makes some comments about Islam which
makes things more difficult here in Iraq. About 2 percent of the population ofIraq is
Christians and following the Pope's comments, there have been demonstrations in Basra,
Karbala, as well as here in Baghdad.
The governor today made an official statement .calling on all Iraqis not to attack
Christians in response to the Pope's comments. Having said that, one of the militia
groUps, that is the one headed by [inaudibleJ, have reportedly told his people to attack
Christians.

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From: . Ruff. Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11 :57 AM
To: Gordon, Jeffrey 0 LCDR OSD PA
SUbject: RE: GTMO trips

jd, i think i 5cnt you his email to me about avialability Qates. if you don't have it
let me know. i'd like to call him an invitation vice an "are you available" as we should
know the'dates he is sending us. okay? thanks.
-----Original Message----­
From; Gordon, Jeffrey D LCOR OSO PA
Sent: wednesday, September 20. 2006 11:45 AM
To: RUff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject: RE: GTMO ·trips

Believe so, but I'll have to confirm with him. Will let you know.

ViR,
JD

-----Original Message----­
From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:29 AM
To: Gordon, Jeffrey D LCDR OSD PA
Subject: Re: GTMO trips

Is oct 18 one of the days cal thomas is available? Thanks.

-----Original Message----­
From: Gordon, Jeffrey D LCDR OSO PA
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: Wed Sep 20 11:04:48 2006
SUbject: FW: GTMO trips
FY!

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~:K4)(jjjAifi,iW~'@\\1t;i:Af~:m~~~~~' 2006 !P:27 AM

ee: Gordon, Jeffrey D LCDR osD PA
Subject: GTMO trips

Here are the next dates for the media outreach trips:
Sept 27: Media
Oct 11: Military Analyst (we might allow Charlie Brennan to attend this one)
Oct 18: Media
Oct 25: Military Analyst
Nov 1: Media
From here on out, the goal is to reach the talk show hQsts who are on the "Think Tank"
list first and foremost before we reach out to others who are not on the list. Kosher?

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 1. Confirmed for October ~lth:
Leonard Leo
Frank Gaffney
2. Confirmed for October 25th:
Ed Feulner
Ed Meese
Chuck Cooper
David Rivkin
Lee Casey
Heather MacDonald

3. Still waiting on:

Clifford May
Andrew McCarthy
John O'Sullivan
Anne Bayefsky
Danielle Pletka
Michael Rubin
Fred Kagan
David Frum
Helena Cobban
Glenn sulmasy

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From:'
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Confirmed Retired Military Analysts:

Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC
Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG) American Spectator
Cmdr. Peter Brookes (USN, Reserve) Heritage Foundation
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon CucuHu (USA, Retired) Fox News
Colonel (Tim) J. Eads (USA, Retired) Fox. News
General Ronald Fogelman (USAF, Retired)

Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) MSNBC

Colonel John Garrett (USMC, Retired)

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News
Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired)
General William F. "Buck" Keman (USA, Retired)
Colonel Glenn Lackey (USA, Retired)
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retire.d) Fox News
Major General Michael J. Nardotti, Jr. (USA, Retired)
General William L. Nash (USA, Retired)
Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN
Major General Perry Smith (USAF, Retired)
Captain Robert Timbers (USMC, Retired) U.S. Naval Institute
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA, Retired) Fox News
Colonel John Warden (USAF, Retired)

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From: ' Garret!, John IJGarI'6tt.A~~£!;VW@W@;W;J;1[;lii;!J!Wi:;~VI

Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 20064:54 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbJect: Description of the trip

When the media asks why/how we were in Iraq, how do you prefer we describe the OSD PA

trip/program for military analysts.

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From: . ~pK~~?<rjY!HY;:Y'i1 CIV, OASD-PA

Sent:
To: t~~lgg0%h~iliS~~~~A~D~~~67:55 AM
Subject: Conference Call - Wednesday 9-20

Attachments: Invite.doc; GEN Jones bio.doc

To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: September 19, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Official

We invite you to participate in a conference call, WEDNESDAY, September 20, 2006,from 8:00 - 8:]0 a.na.

The topic ofthe conference call will be an overview ofthe challenges facing NATO in Afghanistan including
the force generation issue and the Taliban.

General James l. Jones, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR)/Commander, United States European
Command (EUCOM) will brief you. (His biography is attached for your review.) This call will be On-the­
ReCord.

To participate in this conference call, please dial!. ask the operator to

connect you to the Analysts conference call. '

PleaslC R.S.V.P. to r call him at

We hope you are able to participate.

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 General James L. Jones

Supreme Allied Commander,

Europe (SACEUR)

Commander, United States

European Conlmand

(EUCOM)

General Jones is the Supreme Allied

Commander, Europe (SACEUR) and the Commander of
the United States European Command (CDR
USEUCOM). From the Supreme Headquarters Allied
Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium, General Jones leads
Allied Command Europe (ACE), comprising NATO's
military forces in Europe. The mission of ACE is to preserve the peace, security, and territorial
integrity of the NATO member nations in Europe.
As CDR USEUCOM, General Jones commands five U.S. components; U.S. Army,
Europe; U.S. Navy, Europe; U.S. Air Forces in Europe, U.S. Marine Forces, Europe and Special
Operations Command, Europe. The European Command's mission is to support and achieve U.S.
interests and objectives throughout 91 countries 'in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and
portions of the Middle East. The command performs a variety of functions including planning
for and conducting contingc;ncy opc;rations such as noncombatant evacuations and humanitarian
relief operations; providing combat-ready forces to both Allied Command Europe and other U.S.
unified commands; and conducting intelligence activities and security assistance.
General Jones spe,nt his fonnative years in France, returning to the United States to attend
the Georgetown University School of ForeiSn Service, from which he earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in 1966. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps in
January 1967. Upon completion of The Basic School, Quantico, Va., in October 1967, he was
ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a Platoc>n and Company Commander
with Company G, 2d Battalion, 3d Marines. While overseas, he was promoted to First Lieutenant
in June 1968.
Returning to tbe United States in December 1968, General Jones was assigned to Camp
Pendleton. Calif., where he ,served as a Company Commander until May 1970. He then received
orders to Marine Barracks. Washington, DC, for duties as a Company Commander, serving in
this assignment until July 1973. He was promoted to Captain in December 1970. From July 1973
until June 1974, he was a student at the Amphibious Warfare School, Quantico, Va.
In November 1974, he received orders to report to the 3d Marine Division on Okinawa, where he
served as the Company Commander of Company H, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, until December
1975.
From January 1976 to August 1979, General Jones served in the Officer Assignments
S~ction at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, DC. During this assignment, he was
promoted to Major in July 1977. Re~aining in Washington, his next assignment was as the

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 Marine Corps Liaison Officer to the United States Senate, where he served until July 1984, He
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in September 1982.
He was selected to attend the National War College in Washington, DC. Following
graduation in June 1985, he was assigned to command the 3d Battalion, 9th Marines, 1st Marine
Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif., from July 1985 to July 1987.
In August 1987, General Jones returned to Headquarters Marine Corps, where he served
as Senior Aide to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was promote4 to Colonel in April
1988, and became the Military Secretary to the Commandant in February 1989. During August
1990, General Jones was assigned as the Commanding Officer, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
at Camp Lejeune, N.C. During his tour with the 24th MEV, he participated in Operation Provide
Comfort in Northem Iraq and Turkey. He was advanced to Brigadier General on Apri123, 1992.
General Jones was assigned to duties as Deputy Director, J·3, U.S. European Command.
Stuttgart, Germany, on July 15. 1992. During this tour of duty, he was reassigned as Chief of
Staff, Joillt Task Force Provide Promise, for operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia.
Returning to the United States, he was advanced to the rank ofMajor General in July
1994, and was assigned as Commanding General, 2d Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantjc,
Camp Lejeune, NC. General Jones next served as Director, Expeditionary Warfare Division
(N8S), Office of the Chief ofNaval Operations, during 1996, then as the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Plans, Policies and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, DC. He was
advanced to Lieutenant General on July 18, 1996.
His next assignment was as the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He was
promoted to General on JW1e 30, 1999, and became the 32nd Commandant of the United States
Marine Corps on July 1, 1999. General Jones assumed duties as the Commander of U.S.
European Command on 16 January 2003 and Supreme Allied Commander Europe on 17 January
2003.
General Jones' personal decorations include: the Defense Distinguished Service Medal
with two oak leaf clusters, Silver Star Medal, Legion of Merit with four gold stars, Bronze Star
Medal with Combat "V". and the Combat Action Ribbon.

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From: .
Sent:
To:
Subject:

Jeff mccauslan with cbs, john garrett with fox.

;;~~Jdi~il'!2wtil?mi0jj0~)Gillf1j-~iv, OASD- PA
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSO PA
Sent: Mon Sep 18 15:25:41 2006
Subject: RE: The Sunday Shows, 09.18.06

Thanks! Who @ls@ is with you?

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD p~

~~~~b}(~~0~~~&ri.;~M~~!0;;e~I~~ ,o~~~: p1:2

5
PM
SUbject: Re: The Sunday Shows, 09.18.06

Harold. Looks like one of our analysts will be on nbc news and msnb tonice. Wayne downing.
Just wanted to give you a heads up.
He did the interviews taped from baghdad this afternoon.

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Sent: Mon Sep 18 15:36:19 2006

Subject: The Sunday Shows, 09.18.06
Major topics: Jnterrog_tion techniques and the Geneva Conventions

The wa.r in Iraq

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From: . Fred Gedrich [ggednch@IM{~!;;;;;%j\;ii!;WjigM
Sent: Monday. September 18.20061:50 PM
To: Lawrence. Dallas Mr eso PA
Subject: Any 000 Sponsored Trips?

Hi Dallas:

Just a quick note to say hello and let you know I'm Interested in any 000 sponsored trips to Afghanistan, Iraq or Gitmo you
may have planned.

I'"e done a lot of radio, television and writing and been a Wnite House guest on several occasions. Wernet at Grover
Norquist a while back. J retired from State Department several years ago and before then worked in DoD. I'm also a
regular at Frank Gaffney's national security meetings and worked with Generals Tom Mcinerney and Paul Vallely on a few
projects. ~!&~t}:!;n;Mf'hjil also has me on list and I've sent her abio.

All the best,

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From: . Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Monday, September 1S, 2006 10:48 AM

To: Vielan, Todd M ltCol OSD PA

SUbJect: Re: Military Analysts

Todd, sorry.to just now be gettin~ back to you. I just landed at kuwait after 4 day~ in
iraq. Did we get back to you on this?

-----original Message----­
From: Vician, Todd'M LtCol aBD PA

~: rO~ D

CC: " CDR, JCS DOM

Sent: on :22 2006

Subject: Analysts

GOod morning Dallas,

~*~~0B0~@f~08yqfrom Gen James Jones's, the EVCQM commander, staff is interested in a

military an~lysts call tomorrow for the general to dis~uss the progress/challenges in
Afghanistan. This would be prior to a Wednesday press brief he's doing.
Is 0800 doable?

I've info'd y'all can work directly.

Thanks,
Todd

Lt Col Todd Vician, USAF

Defense Prees Officer
Office f As s ant secretar (Public Affairs)

;~~~:~~tik~~8mBilli~w~%018a-~DR, JCS DOM

Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 9106 PM
To: Carpenter, Joseph LeOa OSD PAl Vician, Todd M LtCol OSD PA
Subject: Military Analysts
Joe/Todo,

I'd like to present the opportunity for Gen Jones to speak with the stable of mil~tary
analysts Wed morning before he goes on the podium to discuss Afghanistan as I think this
would be a good opportunity to help align the message.

First, would this be a possibility for him this Wed? Secondly, if this is feasible, is it
possible to get a list of the people OSD has on their call list to present to Gen Jones
when he asks who he would possibly be speaking with?
Thanks for the help_
Best,

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From: Bing West
To: Coates Col Robert J IMEF G-l0J J CIV, OASD-PAl Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Fri Sep 15 16:22:14 2006
Subject: Atlantic Monthly article

The Atlantic Monthly I October 2006

The Road to Haditha

How did the heroes of Fallujah come to kill civilians in Haditha? A Vietnam veteran who
witnessed the battle of Fallujah SaYS it's too soon to judge the marines--but not the high
cOlllmand.
by Bing West

A Marine infantry officer in Vietnam, F. J. ftBing"

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West is the author of The Village, a Vietnam classic, and No True Glory: A Frontline
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Account of the Battle for Fallujah, out in paperback in October.

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Toward the end of the savage battle for Fallujah in Decembe~ ot 2004, I met the 3rd
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Platoon of Kilo company in the shattered southern remnants of the city. Lieutenant Jesse

Grapes was justly proud of his platoon, which was serving as part of BattAlion 3/1. A few

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weeks earlier, a half-dozen jihadists barricaded on the second floor of what came to be
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known as the House FrOm Hell had poured fire on four wounded marines trapped in downstairs
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rooms. Instead of backing off, Grapes's men rushed the house, smashing at door~ and

windows and ~ipping apart metal grates to rescue their comrades. They swarmed into an

alcove, dripping red from cuts, gouges, and bullet wounds.

Blood flowed across the concrete floor, slippery as ice. It stuck like gum to their
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trigger fingers, pulling their aim off target as they ducked grenades that sent shrapnel

ricocheting oft the walls.

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Sergeant Byron Norwood poked his head around a door frame. Bangl A round hit him in the
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head and he fell, mortally wounded. The fight swirled on until Grapes wriggled through a

small window and laid down covering fire while the wo~nded were pulled out. corporal
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Richard GOn~alez, the pl~toon's "mad bombex,' rushed forward with a twenty-pound satchel

of C4 explosive--enough to demolish two houses. He placed it on the chest of a dead

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jihadist and ran outside.
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The house exploded in a flash, followed by concreCe chunks thudding down. A pink mist
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mixed with the dust and gunpowder in the air. Grapes was happy to see it.
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He hastily evacuated eleven wounded marines and the body of Sergeanc Norwood, who was trom

a Texas town but whose sharp wit reminded his colonel of New York city-type humox.

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Three months later, President Bush invited Norwood's parents to the State of the Union

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address. When the president thanked them for their sacrifice, everyone stood and
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applauded. Back in Camp Pendleton, the courageous platoon basked in the country's

adulation.

Two marines who had fought in the House From Hell were awarded the Navy Cross, the

nation's second-highest medal tor courage. Fallujah wa~ the most ferocious urban battle

Americans had fought since the Vietnam War.

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In the fall of 2005, Battalion 3/1 returned to Iraq with veterans of the House From Hell.
together with new squad and platoon leaders. In November, the 3rd platoon of Kilo
Company--including several of Grapes's men--engaged in a fight in Haditha in which twenty­
four ~raqi civilians died. President Bush, unaware that this was Norwood's unit. said,
"The Marine corps is full of honoral:lle people who understand the rules of war ... those who
violated the law, if they did, will be punished.' A year after the president had praised
the 3rd Platoon, he censured it.
What happened? What the hell happened? The president, were he a reflective man, might be
asking himself this question.
In March 2003, I accompanied the Marine battalion and British engineers who seized the
pu~ping station just north of Basra that facilitated a multibillion-dollar flow of oil.
The engineers were appalled to find open cesspools. rusted valves. sputtering turbines,
and other vital equipment deteriorating into junk. Reaps of garbage lay outside the walls
of nearby houses. Yet inside the courtyards, tiny patches of' grass were as well tended as
putting greens. That defined Iraq: a generation of tyrannical greed had taught Iraqis to
look out for their own, to enrich their families, and to avoid any communal activity that
attracted attention.
When Baghdad fell that April, the population was in awe of the Americans. When the
American soldiers did nothing to stop the looting, that feeling of awe vanished.
The Iraqi army had melted away, but its soldiers were eager to regroup in order to gain

pay and prestige.

Indeed, the American Commanders working with Iraqi officers reported that they could

easily reconstitute several trained battalions. But in May. the A.llleriCan proconsul, L.

Paul Bremer III, hastily disbanded the Iraqi army and outlawed former Baathists from

government service. Tne Joint Chiefs of Staff did not object. and American soldiers moved

'alone into the Sunni cities west and north of Baghdad.

The insurgency began that summer, as gangs of Sunni youths and unemployed soldiers heeded
the urgings of imams and former elements of Saddam Hussein's regime to oppose the infidel
occupiers, protectors of the Shiite apostates. The Sunnl population sympathized with and
was intimidated by the insurgents, who freely mingled in the marketplaces. The
insurgents' tactics were trial and error: attacks increased as respect for the Americans
and their armor dissipated.
The Americans responded to the low-level attacks with vigorous sweeps and raids .. This was
the wrong approach, because mobile armored Offensives could not hope to neutralize the
insurgent manpower pool of a million disaffected Sunni youths. The American divisions
lac~ed a commander who would curb their instinct for deGisive battle and layout a
counterinsurgency plan. Instead, their inexperienced commander, Lieutenant General Ricardo
Sanchez, expressed confidence that the tactic of offensive operations was succeeding.
In March 2004, the Marine Corps assumed responsibility for Anbar province, the heart of
the Sunni insurgency.
The Marine commander, Lieutenant General James Conway, quickly reportea that the security
condition was terrible, contradicting Sanchez'S optimism. Nine Marine battalions-some
9,000 men in all~re trying to control twelve cities stretching from the outskirts of
Baghdad to the Syrian border. 200 miles to the west.
When the marines moved into one city, the insurgents shifted to another. Elementary
arithmetic showed there were not enough troops for the task. Yet the military chain of
command never sent a fonnal request to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for additio~al
troops.
The commanders in the field were keenly aware that repeated offensives antagonized the
Iraqis. ·We must in all things be modest,· General John P. Abizaid, who commanded all
forces in the Central Command. had said.
"We are an antibody in their culture."

Haditha, a drab city of ~OO,OOO on the Euphrates River 140 miles northwest of Baghdad,
demanded a constant presence to protect its massive hydroelectric dam. The 3rd Battalion
of the 4th Marine Regiment was sent to the city in March 2004. Battalion 3/4 had
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 experienced heavy fights during the 2003 invasion and had hauled down Saddam's statue In
- Firdos Square, an image seen around the world. The battle-tested battalion flooded Haditha
with hundreds of four-man foot patrols.
Insurgents who responded with their standard ~shoot and scoot R tactics were chased down by
squads of marines. Although the mayor had been assassinated the previous summer, the
insurgents were not well organized. A platoon waS ordered to combine forces with the local
police; Lieutenant Matt Danner, the platoon commander, moved his men into the police
station. Joint patrols became the norm.
Th~ joint patrol, known as a Combined Action Platoon. or CAP, was a coun~erinsurgent
tactic from Vietnam, where squads of fourteen marines lived for a year or more with local
militias of about thirty farmers. In my CAP south of DaNang in 1966 we engaged in
firefights every night for the first few months. Then the shooting petered out as the
villagers, coming to trust us, betrayed local guerrillas and began to point out strangers.
In Haditha, this pattern was repeated.
When the first marines arrived, fights broke out every third night; six months later, they
were down to twice a month. Danner had hit on an elementary axiom of guerrilla warfare:
once the police in the CAP were accepted by the population as the strongest fighting
force, information flowed to them. As the Iraqis 1n the police force became more self­
confident, they became more aggressive and more effective.

Th~n, on March 31, four American contractors were lynched in Fallujah, a city of 300,000
ninety miles southeast of Haditha. Rumsfeld ordered the Marines to attack the city, with
the concurrence of Brem~r and the military high command. The division commander, Major
General James N. Mattis--~Mad Dog U to his admiring grunts--demurred. His strategy, he said,
was to repeat the success of Haditha and move in "as soft as fog,' supporting and
reinvigorating the demoralized local police.

Washington overrode General Mattis'S objections and the Marines went in. Simult~neously.
Bremer decided that coalition forces should move against the dangerous Shiite demagogue
Muqtada al-Sadr. American troops were thus engaged on two fronts-against Sunnis west of
Baghdad, and against Shiites in Baghdad and to the south. Calls for jihad swept across
Anbar province, and insurgents besieged Baghdad, reducing it to a few days of fuel and
fresh food.
To finish the fight in Fallujah, Mattis called Battalion 3/4 down from Haditha. ~Some of
the jundis in my Combined Action Platoon were up for the fight,"
Danner recalled, referring to the Iraqis who had joined forces with his platoon. uI told
them they had to guard Haditha and that we'd be back for them. They wanted to come with
us, We had lived together, fought together." While the Iraq~s in Danner's CAP volunteered
for Fallujah, other Iraqi soldiers around the country mutinied to avoid going there.

Televised images of the house-to-house fighting in Fallujah ~tirred anger across Iraq:
After three weekG of fi9hting and confused negotiations, just «s Matti~ was squeezing the
insurgents into a corner, Bremer, concerned about a degenerating political situation,
perBuad~d the White House to pull the Marines out of Fallujah. When the order came
thYough, Panner and his men were bewildered. "Fallujah and the Sunnis out west are a
sideshow," a senior Pentagon official told me at the time. ~We have to get the Shiites to
agree to an interim government in ret~rn for early elections."
Within a month. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other jihadiste had taken control of Fallujah. To
the south, al-Sadr was cornered, but American officials in Baghdad decided not to arrest
him. He slunk away. to emerge later as the leader of the most dangerous Shiite militia in
Iraq.
Danner and his men returned to Haditha in early May and resumed living downtown with the
police, "Mollt of the police we lived with -were local Sunnis, Danner said. "A few were
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tough eno~gh to stand on their own, but eo percent needed to know we Americans were -there
with them and would back them Up.R

In late summer, Danner'3 battalion rotated home, and Battalion 1/8 moved into the Haditha
area. Fresh from the States and eager, the new marines continued tb~ joint policing and
patrolled vigorou.sly. Word of how Americans had fought in Fallujah had spread, and the
insurgents avoided the new m~rines, targeting instead the Iraqi soldiers.
"Ha.ditha. was sinister,' Corporal Timothy Connors. a squad leader in Battalion 1/8, said.
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"On some blocks, people would wave. But mostly they ignored us. like we weren't even I
there. You could sense something was going on. but no one dared shoot at US." The hearts
and minds of the Sunni residents had not been won over, but the insurgents did not
challenge the superior force.
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In October 2004, one month before the U.S. election, Battalion 1/8 was called away from
Baditha to prepare for a second battle of Fal~ujah. The White Bouse had made a terrible
mistake in not letting the Marines finish in April. At the time, Mattis had cited a quote I
from Napoleon to his field marshal: "If yOU're going to take Vienna, then by God. sir,
take it!" Delay played to the advantage of the defenders. and Fallujah was now held by
2,000 die-hard jihadists. To take the city, American forces were stripped from other
cities across the province. After most residents had left. ten battalions fought block to
I
block in a ferocious urban slugfest. The deeper the marines pene~rated into the city, the
fewer civilians they encountered and the tougher the fighting became, with jihadists
hiding among the 30.000 buildings. waiting to kill the first American to open the doot. I
The 3rd Platoon's bloody room-to-room fight in the House From Hell was typical of the
savag~ry of Fallujah II.
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Many of the jihadists, including leaders such as al- zarqawi. fled Fallujah before the
fight and regrouped in the cities the Americans had vacated. In Haditha. two weeks after
Battalion 1/8's departure. insurgents captured the police station and executed twenty-one I
policemen, including the police chief. With the police knocked out. the insurgents became
the de facto government. The deputy police chief gathered his family and 'fled to Bagndad.
"Be was a good man,- Danner said. "The November battle in Fallujah pulled the rug out from I
under the police.
We left them on their own. Without moral support. they collapsed.­

It wasn't un~il late 2004 that General George w. Casey Jr •• who had taken command of the
coalition forces in Iraq that summer, issued a campaign plan that focused on
counterinsurgency, emphasizing the need for a genuine partnership with Iraqi forces. He
inherited a military mess. Bunni jihadists had gath~r~d strength by app~aling to tribal
religiosity. They preached that Americans were infidels crusading aga~nst Muslims and
raising a Shiite army that would oppress the Sunnis.
This greatly complicated the counterinsurgency task. because the Sunnis had to be
persuaded that the new Iraqi army wa5 sec~lar and not sectarian.
rn early 2005, the 'Marines launched an extended campaisn in Anbar province to pry the
Euphrates River valley, which runs 200 miles from Syria to Baghdad. loose from the
insurgents. The intent was to chop up the ~rat line" that allowed foreign fighters to slip
in from Syria. Some unkindly compared the effort to the carnival game of Whac-a-Mole:
until there were sufficient Iraqi forces to occupy the Sunni cities. the Americans could
only jab and punch to keep the insurgents off balance.
In March. the Marines swept through Haditha as part of this operation. searching door ~o
door. The insurqents slipped away. When the Marines left, the insurgents returned. rounded
up nineteen remaining Iraqi police, marched them to the, soccer stadium, and publicly
executed them. A few days earlier, they had assassinated the new police chief and three of
his family members.
The Marines responded by again stationing a full battalion in the area. Battalion 3/25. a
reserve unit from Ohio. The cycle of hope, followed by abandonment, followed by executions
and reprisals had worn down the population. This time the city council retusea to meet
with the Americans. Instead. a delegation asked that no pro-goverrtm~ne messages be played
by the local radio station. The surviving Sunni police had fled.
The Associated Press quoted the American colonel in charge of the Haditha area as saying,
"What I need most now is someone who can say, 'This is a good guy, and this is a bad
guy. '"
In August an English newspaper, !he Guardian, smuggled an Iraqi journalist into Haditha.
'He slipped out to report that the city was tightly controlled by two terrorist gangs. one
answering co a1-zarqawi and the eCher to a local radical. Execuc10ns of suspected spies
had become a sport to entertain the crowds. When the ~mericans arove by on patrol, no one
would poine out an insurgent,

Battalion 3/25 stayed in Raditha for seven months and suffered some horrific losses. An
lED killed fourteen marines in a single blast in Augu$t. the worst such explosion to date
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in the war. Efforts to recruit yet another local police foree came to naught. The
Americans patrolled the Bullen streets alone .
•••
That was the environment Battalion 3/1 inherited in the fall of 2005. A year earlier,
Grapes's men had fought their way through F~llujah, often destroying houses in a city
largely devoid of civilians. Haditha was their first redeployment since then, after a few
months retraining back at C.mp Pendleton in the States. Grapes and several of the officers
who'd fought by hig aide in Fallujah had gone back to civilian life: the platoon had new
leaders, some of whom had not seen combat.'
~fter Falluj.h, the veterans of the House From Hell, like other battle-scarred marines,
had their own way of looking at houses on a street. "I 'don't like to say it. but after a
while, when you have the rifle, and you see how the Iraqis look at you and how they live,"
said Corporal Connors, "then some of our guys feel superior--like the people in Haditha or
Pa1lujah aren't quite 'human like us. You don't think of them the same way. That's not
right, but it does happen."
On the morning of November 19, 2005, a thirteen-man squad mounted in four Humvees turned a
corner and--boom!--the fourth Humvee in the column disappeared in a red flash and a thick
cloud of smoke and dust. A popular', lance corporal, Miguel ~T. J." Terrazas, waS killed­
ripped apart--and two other marines were badly burned.
Back at battalion headquarters, streaming video from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle circling
overhead showed a confused situation, with marines at various locations maneuvering amid
radio chat,ter indicating incoming fire. The remaining ten men in Terrazas's squad
approached a car that had stopped nearby. ~llien the five men inside started to flee, the
marines shot and killed them. The squad leader later reported that his men took fi~e from
a nearby house. They assaulted first one house, and then a second. When the battle was
over, fourteen Iraqi men" four women, and six children had b~en killed.
The tragedy was followed ~y eight months of inves~igations. Iraqis claim that enraged
marines executed the civilians. Defense lawyers claim the deaths were accidents that
occurred while the men were following the Rules of Engagement for elearin~ roome when
under fire. The ROE stipulate ~he circums~ances under which a soldier may employ deadly
force. In the Fallujah battle, Battalion 3/1 was fighting so fiercely that reporters
reterred to the ROE as "Enter every room with a boom.- But in Haditha, unlike Fallujah,
there were civilians in the room.
Time magazine broke the Haditha story in March and presented a balanced report. Then, on
May 17, Representative John P. Murtha held a press conference and declared that the troops
"killed innocent civilians in cold blood," As the leading advocate for ~n immediate
withdra~al from Iraq, Murcha advanced his own agenda by acting as judge and jury.

After Murtha's incendiary remarks, Haditha captured worldwide ~ttention. Many commentators
leaped to conclusions. The European press gloatingly linked Haditha to the massacre at My
Lai in Vietnam, but My Lai was on a much larger scale, with implications that the high
command looked the other way. If in the coming months the press does transpose the
killings at Raditha into a metaphor for the war-as happened with My Lai--the consequences
will be tremendous, and misleading.
A central issue in the Haditha tragedy is whetbe. the m~rines deliberately shot civilians,
or whether they threw grenades into the room first, creating clouds of dust that obscured
the presence of civilians. If the latte~ was toe case, a further issue is whether the
Rules of Engagement permitted such an action. Forty investigators have worked for months
to determine what happened. It remains for the military justice system to sort through the
chaos of battle and reach a, conclusion about individual guilt or innocence.

Many more than a handful of young marines will be on trial as the Haditha killings are
adjudicated. It is too soon to judge these men, but it is not too soon to judge the high
com~and and the underlying policies governing the conduct of the war. As Americans, we
have been fighting the war the wrong way. Haditha degenerated due to a lack of secur~ty
manpower, both ~erican and Iraqi. We didn't have sufficient troops in Anbar province, and
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those we did have were shifted' to fight a battle provoked by feckless senior leadership.
The hardened veterans of Fallujah were sent into ~aditha to operate in isolation from the
Iraqis, rather than in combined unit5, as counterinsurgency doctrine demands. We left our
squads to fight alone for too long on a treacherous battlefield.
Three years after the president declared victory, our military is struggling to keep a

semblance of order, with scant ability to shape decisions in Washington or Baghdad,

General Casey is directing a sound campaign to improve the Iraqi army, but the time has

come for more radical change. When, in 1969. U.S. Army General Creighton Abrams directed a

campaign to invigorate the South Vietnamese army, military skills did not prevail against

political turmoil. Given the persistence of Sunn1 versus Shiite mass murders, military

logic calls for martial law and for placing the untrustworthy police under the control of

the Iraqi army. But Iraqi politicians prefer to keep the police under local control,

shared with Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias, and Pr~sident Bush has chosen to praise

rather than to pressure Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Regardless of how the war began, we are nOw locked in a struggle to the death against

fanatical ~urderers.

We may yet prevail in Iraq by persistence and the weight of resources. But our military,

singularly unimaginative in developing the right tactics to beat an insurgency it refused

for over a year to recognize, has some hard thinking to do about how to fight the long war

against Islamic extremists.

As the legal proceedings play out, we should have empathy for those young marines who were

involved.

Empathy should not cloud judgment or excuse wrongdoing. To consciously kill a child or, in

a rage, execute unarmed men and women would be a criminal act meriting punishment and

diohonor. Sut the world of an infantryman is unlike any other, ana a soldier's motivations

in battle are hard to judge from the outside looking in.

President ~ush initiated the war by authorizing a massive air strike against Vora Farms,

outside Baghdad, becauoe one CIA agent said Saddam was 'there.

The civilians who were at Vora were injured and killed; Saddam was not there, In July,
Israeli aircraft bombed a housing complex in Lebanon, because Hezbollah rockets were

believed to be there.

Thirty~seven children died in that 'bombing.

Civilian casualties are accepted as inevitable in high-tech, standoff warfare. The

infantryman does not stand off. He opens the door, enters the house, and, like Sergean~
Norwood, is often posthumously praised.
The grunt must make instant, difficult choices in the heat of battle. He must keep his
honor clean and resist the sin of wrath when fighting an enemy who hides among compliant
civilians. Those of higher rank must resist the sin of pride, lest they act impUlsively
because they are removed from the gore of battle. And we must also be c.reful not to twist
Had1tha into a larger symbol that demeans the sacrifice of those very, very few who
volunteer to be riflemen.
In his defining new book, War Made New, the military historian MaK Boot has written that
"the most important military unit in the eme~gence of modern states was the humble
infantryman." For two decades, the Pentagon has neglected the infantry, believing that
high technology would win wars. Today, American forces have more combat aircraft than
infantry squads, and mOre combat pilots than squad leaders. Fully 75 percent of our Army
and Marine infantry leave the military after their foui·year tour. They receive no
pension, a tiny educational stipend, and no immediately transferable skills"
Of all those who serve our country, the humble foot Goldie~s sacrifice the most for the
rest of us. They don't see it ~hat way, of course. They have each other; they are their
own tribe. General Casey told me that he has talked to dozens of ~runts about Haditha.
"tJniversally,H he said, "they tell me, 'we hope our brothers get III fair ahake.'"
The URL for this page is
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/2006l0/haditha.

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From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Frida~, Saember 15,20063:36 AM
To: gpM~IiNi'ii1;!0W elV, OASD-PA
Subject: Re: Simmons

What is downings flight status? He is key.

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From: K~.)($)J;m@;:;iii('ii'!:!'i) CIV, OASD -
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD FA
Sent: Fri Sep 15 03:35:03 2006
Subject: Re: Simmons

Can't figure out how to call emirates air from here to make sure it took off. He was
flying direct from jfk to dubai (same flight that wayne missed I'm assuming). I will have
to walk over to the counter and check on it. Chatting wi~h mnf-i ..... They ·almost had a
heart attack -- when they saw wayne, they thought downing. Now that woul.d be a nightmarel

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence Dallas Mr OSD PA
To: rnm$R8SG00$~0N CIV, OASO-PA
Sent: Fri Sep 15 03;29:18 2006
Subject: Re: Simmons
Lol. Any news on garretts flight.

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To: Lawrence. Dallas Mr OSD FA
Sent: Fri Sep 15 03:19:~8 2006
SUbject: Re: Simmons

Fabo .. ,. So's the guy with the giraffe. Uh, excuse me sir, is that a giraffe in your bag
or are you just happy to see me??? :)

-----Original Message-----
Fr : L e Dallas Mr OSO PA
To: CIV,
Sent: Fr~ Sep 15 03:18:05 2006
OASO-PA
subject: Re: Simmons

West is here.

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To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent; Fri Sep 15 03:03:50 2006
Subject: Re: Simmons

In the lounge. Trying to get a handle on west. He was on Virgin air into london, but I
can't find the flight number •. , He is tall and skinny with blonde hair. Light skin, l.ight
eyes. Just imagine another peter rodman, but a little better looking. :~

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To: ~~~~~~&lN(l;l:jtMij!;ifi(':tl' CIV, OASD- PA

Sent: Fri Sep 15 02:59:13 2006
Subject: Re: Simmons
I did with a note that this is why we need dedicated air. What does bing west look like.
He's on this flight right? Any luck on checking on our other 41 You find your lounge?

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To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Fri sep 15 02:57:59 2006
Subject: Re: Simmons
Did you forward to ab7? Or would you like me' to?

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To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA; CIV, OASD-PA
Sent: Fri Sep 15 00:36:30 2006
Subject: Simmons
Dallas
Delta Airlines grounded its planes in Baltimore and JFK causing a 4 1/2 hour delay of my
flight #6006 at 7:00 p.m. Consequently, missed Emirates connection at 11:00 p.m. from JFK
to Dubai and Kuwait. No flights allowing me to arrive before Saturday 16 Sept at 4:00
p.m., only prudent to cancel. Very pissed off and disappointed. Have a safe trip.
Wayne

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Subject: FW:

hi ~tl*i.Y)!{;:;i1

please see below from dallas.

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr aBD
Sent: Thur.sciaxl September 14, 2006 10:52 AM

PA

To: ~,~(~x+!(/tn>;;:C!NM!:1 CIV, OAsD- PA

SUbJect:
~~~~~%~ can you please forward-this to in protocol I dont have his address on my
blackberry

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Spc K~~lg:{t;iil
Today I am leading a trip of retired military analysts to iraq for the week to interact
directly with our troops and then come back to report on tv the progress. Very high
visibility.
Several junior officers and senior enlisted in iraq went above and beyond to make this
trip happen. a high priority for seedef. Without their ef.forts it would not have
happened.
I would like to take .8 few seedef coins {and ~ ean tell you the names of who will get
them) to thank them for their help and to keep goodwill for our next trip in a few months
If coins are not doable, I'd like to look at getting a few of the seedef nice pens or cuff
links today.

please let me know how be this. I have r~~ this by mrs barber and she has approved
the request. Thanks again\

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From:­
Sent:
To:
CC:

Subject:

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Sir,

I am working with Mr Bing West on his follow on embed at the conclusion of his trip with you. We have everything in place
for his embed and been working with MNSTC-I and MNC-I to get everything coordinated.

His embed looks to be On track and there is not any impeding issues.

I have not been working the follow on visit of Col McCausland. However, I have been told by the MNC·1 PA Office that he
has been invited to stay by LTG Chirelli. They are working some more pressing issues at this time and will provide me
more clarification by tomorrow.

As of this time, I don't know What the status of Col McCausland is with MNC-I,

Please contact me if you have any questions,

v.r.

MAJ

MAJ. PUBUC AFFAIRS

PRESS DESK D~R(':CTOR

COALITION PRESS INFORMATION CENTER, MNF·IRAQ

OFF'ICE:

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VWWW,MNF-IRAQ.£QM

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
If this e·mail is marked FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY it may be exemptfrom mandatory disclosure
under FO/A. DoD 5400.7R, "000 Freedom of Infonnation Act Program", DoD Directive 5230.9,
"Clearance of DoD Information for Public Release", and DoD Instruction 5230.29, "Security and
Policy Review of DoD information for Public Release i' apply.

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 From: . Lawrence, Danes Mr OSO PA
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 200611:06 AM
To: ib):($:t\i}intXSpc SO
Subject: Re:

6 would be ideal. I will retuen any not used.

":""i::ssag e - - - -­
. SPC SD
CIV, OASD-PA: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
10:55:13 2006

I can do some coins for you, let me know how many so 1 can set them out.

hi i

please see belOW from dallas.

thanks

~m~$~0;'~:{\1
I?A
2006 10:52 lU'l

Tara, can you please forward this to spc in protocol I dont have his address on my
blackberry
spc Ir(~Jl(;<;',1
Today I am leading a trip of retired military analysts to iraq for the week to interact
directly with our troops and then come back to report on tv the progress. Very high
visibility.
Several junior officers and senior enlisted in iraq went above and beyond to make this
trip happen. - a high priority for seedef. Without their efforts it would not have
happened.
I would like to take a few Beedef coins (and I can tell you the names of who will get
them) to thank them for their help and to keep goodWill for our next trip in a few months
If coins are not doable. I'd like to look at getting a few of the seedef niee pens or cuff
links today.

Please let me know how best to do this. I have run this by mrs barber and she has approved
the request. Thanks again matt.

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From: ' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Thursda • Se tember 14, 2006 10:52 AM
To: 'westf
SUbJect: Re:

And iraq has this?

-----Original Message----­
From: Bin!l West
To: ['&R~F;D'<:%\I Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA; ClV, OASD-PA
Sent: Thu Sep 14 10:50:24 2006
Subject:

Here is letter re: my work for ~t~antic Monthly while in Iraq.

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From: Bing Wesl [westbing@ffl;~5~nBim;j~;;;:i![\i:;!gjJ

Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:35 AM
To: Dan MandeIJ\~~~~?;-Ki;f~WMr';;;:M);(i1Wfl;Wf!'j
Cc: lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: Fwd: !UJ EdItor's letter,
Attachments: pat12B763723

Dan·· can you please wne Maj, . the letter certifying I am working as a journalist? Tx Bing

i: • I am en route to Dulles; do not know how 10 send scanned signed of ground rules; can I sign and
an them to someone in Kuwait?
YM;,!,:}MAJ 124TH ePIC

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Bing,

Looks like everything is coming together, but we still need a current letter from your editor.

We have you going to Tajl on 19 Oct from the Liberty LZ with a return back later that day.

I am still waiting on the final check from MND-Baghdad on the link ups for the 1-61 51 Cav Embed.

And the Marines know you are coming...

I will probably give your credentIal to LT Co'~§J,(~X;:G\jiil to give to you while you are on the Defense

Analyst portion of your trip. That way you will not have to come to the lZ,

But I will need you to send us a copy of your letter and a scanned signed copy of the ground rules,

Thanks,

. UBLle AFj""AtFlS
PRESS DESK DIRECTOR

COALInON P N CENTER. MNF·IRAQ

OFFICE:
DSN:
MOBILE::
lRAQNA;;
V'INiY::L. M&..:lRAQ...cQM

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
lfthi.s e-mail is marked FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY it may be exempt from mandatory
disclosure under FOIA. DoD 5400.7R, "DoD Freedom ofInformation Act Program", DoD
Directive 5230.9. "Clearance MDoD Infonnation for Public Release", and DoD Instruction
5230.29, "Security and Policy Review of DoD Infonnation for Public Release" apply.

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 Mut/I·Natlonal Forces - Iraq
Combined Press Information Center
Intematlonal ZOne
Baghdad, Iraq
NEWS MEDIA GROUND RULES (lAW Change 3, DoD DlrecUve
5122.5)
Ground Rules'Agreement
The following is a listing of ground rules that have been
developed to protect members of the Armed Services from
the release of Information that could potentially threaten their
security or safety during combat operations. These ground
rules recognize the inherent right of the media to cover
combat operations and are in no way intended to prevent
release of embarrassing, negative or derogatory information.
During an operation, specific information on friendly force
troop movements, tactical deployments, and dispositions
that would Jeopardize operational security or lives will not be
reported. This would inClude unit designations. names of
operations, and sjze of friendly forces involved, until
released by the operational unit or Multi~National Forces·
Iraq.
Acceptance of these ground rules is an agreement between
you and the granting commands. You agree to follow the
ground rules and the command will provide support, access
to service members, Information and other privileges.
Violation of ground rules may result in the revocation of your
credentials.
nese ground rules apply to media reporting with MNF~I, to
include Iraqi Security Forces under operation control of the
Coalition
(1) All interviews with service members will be on the
record unless otherwise stated by the designated PAO.
(2) Al MNF-I tactical or field locations and
encampments, a public affairs escort may be required
because of security, safely and mission requirements as
determined by the host commander. Media wlll remain With
military escorts and follow instructions regarding their
activities at all times, until released.
(3) Media must be physically fit and able to carry their
own equipmenUgear. If, in the opinion of the commander, a
media representative is unable to withstand the rigorous
conditions required to operate with the forward deployed
forces, he/she will be medically evacuated out of the area.
(4) Possession of weapons while embedding or reporting
is not authorized.
(S) Possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages
While embedded or reporting is not authoriZed.
(6) Possession of pornographic material while
em bedded or reporting is not authorized.
(7) Filming of MNF·I security badges is.not authorized.
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(8) While in transit to and from an embed or unit Visit, the
media cannot act in a news gathering capacity. Filming.
interviewing or photographing on any installation or
transportation assets is n01 authOrized unless approved and
escorted by a public affairs officer responSible for that area.
(9) Reporting inside of the International Zone is not
authorized without approval and escprt by ePIC personnel, to
include interviews, news gathering, filming and photographing.
(10) Media pool products will be made available to aU
accredited media (U.S. and others) on an equitable, no-fee
basis. Media pool coordinators and bureau chiefs will be
responsible for distributing media pool products. .
(11) Media will not be prohibIted from covering casualties
prOVided the following conditions are adhered to:
(a) Names. video, identifiable written/oral descriptions Or
identifiable photographs 01 wounded service members will not
be released without the service member's prior written
consent.
(b) DOD will release names of KIAs. In respect for family
members, names or images clearly identifying individuals
"killed in action" will not be released. Names of KIAs may be
released 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.
(12) Light discipline restrictions will be followed. No visible
light source, inCluding flash lights and television lights. will be
used when operating with forces at nIght unless specifically
approved by the on-scene commander.
(13) The meclia will adhere to the following guidelines to
ensure operational security.
(a) Media who are provided access to classified information
during the process of covering stories shall be informed, in
advance, of the restrictions on the use or disclosure of such
classified material.
(b) Embargos may be imposed to protect operational security.
(c) If a commander grants media access to dassified material,
the media will ensure ncr classified Information is inadvertently
released.
(d) Disagreements shall be referred to the next level of
command and editors for resolution.
(14) The following categories of information are not
releasable by the by the media since the publication or
broadcast of such Information could Jeopardize operations and
endanger lives.
(a) Any specific numerical information on troop strength, aircraft,
weapon systems, equipment Or SIJpplies to Include amounts of
ammunition Or fuel moved, Unit size may be described as
"company size" "multi.battalion," "naval task force: or ·carrier
battle group." Number or amount of equipment and supplies
may be described in general terms such as "large," 'small:' or
"many." ""
(b) Information that reveals details of future and/or ongoing
operations.
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(c) Information, photography or imagery that would reveal
the specific location of military forces or show the level of
security at military installations or encampments.
(d) Details of .rules of engagement or force protection
measures:
(e) Information on Intelligence collection activities, including
targets, methods and results.
(f) During an operation, specific information on friendly force
troop movements. tactical deployments an~ dispositions, to
include unit designations, nameS of operations, tactics and
size of friendly forces involved, until released by the
appropriate general officer level command.
(g) Location of mission aircraft points of origin, other than
"'and based" or "carrier based." Number and type of aircraft
points of origin, other than "'and based," "many: ·few:
"fighters· or "fixed wing."
(h) Information on effectiveness of enemy techniques,
tactics and procedures including camouflage, cover,
deception, targeting, direct and indirect fire, intelligence
collection, security measures, electronic warfare and
improvised explosive devices.
(i} Information on missing or downed aircraft or miSSing
ships while search and rescue operations are planned or
3. I understand that my agreement to this statement is a
condition of being credentialed to cover MNF·I Military
operations and receiVing assistance for that coverage.
Hold Harmless/Release From Liability Statement
1. I realize that covering security and security
operations carries with It certain inherent risks to life, limb and
equipment.
2. I recognize that MNF·I forces in pursuing the
successfUl aceompl,lshment of their mIssions. cannot
guarantee my personal safety or the safely of my eGuipment.
3. In my capacity as an authorized representative, I
understand and agree that I, and the business, company or
enterprise that I represent, will Indemnify, defend. and hold
harmless and release, acquit and forever discharge the MNF-I
Forces of any liabfJity for any injuries I may suffer or any
damage to any eqUipment that may occur as a result of my
presence In the Iraqi theater of operations.
Name
Job

underway. TItle, _

(j) Information on special operations units, to include their

operations, methodology or tactics.
Employer _
(k) Information on operational, tactical or support
vUlnera'oilities that Could be usecl against MNF-I and/or Iraqi
security Forces to include improvised explosive devices.
(I) No photographs or other visual media showing detainees'
or prisoners' recognizable face, nametag or other identifymg
1 have read the aforementioned media ground
feature or Item. rules and agree to abide by them. I also
{m) No demeaning photographs or visual media will be understand that violation of these ground rules
taken of detainees in a manner that makes the individuals an
may result in suspension or revocation of my
'object of public curiosity or SUbject to public ridicule.
(n) No interviews with detainees are authorized.
MNF-I media credentials and expulsion from
MNF-I operationallU"eas and installations. I
(0) An iactlcs. techniques and procedures witnessed during
operations unless released by a field grade commander, to further understand that if I violate these tenns,
include lED defeating tactics. techniques and procedures. the media organization I am representing Play be
(15) Additional guidelines and/or ground rules may be held accountable fol' my actions, which could
imposed by the local command to protect tactical security.
include forfeiting the privilege of sponsoring
Agreement of Reimbursement
media for MNF:-I press credentials in the future.
~. \ understand that covering combat and other military
operations may require that I be provided certain items n01
Signature ~ _
loeafly available or convenient due to combat conditions.
These items may include, but are not limited to, meals and
air travel into and within the theater of op~ratjons.
Date _
2. I agree to reimburse the Multi·National Force - Iraq for
any Items it may prOVide me while I am in the are~ of
operations.
[ ePIc Staff

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From: . ~~'*;t;0'lt;!i:;X:\·:i;)\;j;lijf;ii;:?Xfa OSO PA

Sent: hursday. September 14. 2006 8:30 AM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
SUbject: Phone Call

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From: . lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Wednesda¥. September 13, 2006 4:04 PM
To: ib}(~>F;n~!'C}2bIC IV, OASD-PA
Subject: RE: RE: [Uj Bing West ItinerarySept 06

Doh!
Dallas B. Lawrence
Director, Office of Community Relations ~ Public Liaison
United States Department of Defense

~~~~~~g'}%040~£8fag~;~-~~SD_PA
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:57 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: RE: RE: [OJ Bing West ItinerarySept 06
fyi, he is not a general. former asd. :l tj

··---original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:52 PM
To: I ain~ West'
cc: tbYml\@:::i,"';?fFJillj CIV, OASD- PA
Subject, RE: RE: [UJ Bing West ItinerarySept OG

General,
I have spoken to Iraq and let them know that I need some official notification from MG
Caldwell's team that as of Monday, September 18th ePIC is taking you on as a media embed,
and your orders as an aso DV expire and you are now on .their dime. I know this seems
laborious. however, I simply can not leave you in country unless I have official
notification you will be ta~en care of. I have asked them to get this to me, and if you
have any ability to push it from your end, that would be wonderfUl.
I know we can make this work.
Best,
Dallas B. Lawrence
Director, Office of Community Relations & public Liaison Onited states Department of

-----Original Message----­
From: Bing West [mailto:westbing
Sent: wednesday, September 13, 200
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbject; Fwd: RE: [U) Bing West It1nerarySept 06
are we set, or do you need additional info? TX Bing

Bing We at < we sthi ng'~~~~J~i~1iq;ii::i:,;;Mj;:iMwro te :

~ Date: Man, 11 Sep 2006 15:09:33 -O?OO (PDT}

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 > From: Bing West <westbing

: ;~~i~~~i;{j'/ii~;'");!W}fX;IWjm8§Hr~
><william.willnoite@iraq.centcom.mil>
124TH ePIC
06

>===
>~*~sB4 once the osd group leaves, it is best that I move as a cprc '
> correspondent to avoid confusion. My letters from publishers are on
> filel 1 will have another sent to me and email to you. Best, Bing

>
>

> > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

> > Bing,

> >

> > Your itinerary is definitely workable. I will torward to MNF-W (LTC

> > Salas) to let him work the request from his end.

> >

> To clarify things and to ask a couple more questions, will you be

>
> > conducting any OSD consulting information

> gathering

> > as a function of

> > your trip? If

so, we will ask that you travel on your DOD ID while

> > you are in Iraq. If you are not gathering any information for DOD,

> > we will need to get you a ePIC Credential.

'" >
'" rt is probably easier for you to travel as a DOD conSUltant, but if

>
'" you need to have a ePIC Credential, please have one

>
> your

> > publishers provide

> > us a letter as attached.

> > 1 hope to hear from you soon.

> >

:> > v.r.

:>

u c
> :> Press Desk.
'" > Coalit' Center, MNF-Iraq
>
> >
:> Office
DSN:
> > Mobile
> > Iraqna
> :>
> :> vwww.mnf-iraq.com
> >

: : ;;~;:O~i~~n:;s~e[::I~~~;~;stbing$~i~W*80~~00Bill
: : 1~~~~~;rWii~;i:'Ll~r,i~;~~j'Ni*J !H!!~:~~h;: 06

: ~~;~~Xiii(Hj';;hF'!1n;1;ZX;(;;:;!A;1 re visit coordination, how about i f

" 'We
> this sched as
> use
> our base and adapt to weather: 18 sept PM - ~est
>
> cut
> > free from OSD
> > group. goes to COIN school night of 18 Sept or day of 19 Sept. On 20
> > Sept,
is picked up ~y humvei
:> :> Winski, CO.
victory in or
BI~P by 1-61st (LTC
is CC'd on this e mail) and dropped back off
> on
> :> evening of 22d.
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 > > Later on the night of 22 or early AM of 23, West goes by helo to
> > Fallujah.
> would like to pay my respects to
> or S~),(~ilb~{ii:: and, Col
: ~t~~1ff~?0~!~Ds~~~dS~~~
some time 1 ~5 ~f they are still in the
with a MITT. Then leave night of 24 Sept or
> > early AM 25 Sept via helo to Ramadi. Go direct to the Marine bn in
~ > the city.
> > Leave Ramadi night of 29 Sept or early AN 30th and go to Asad. Pay
> > my respects to Col Crowe if not an inconvenience and
> go
> >to Haditha and stay
::. > wit~~@~tUiAI (LtCol V""jb""W;"'8j\"""~""["":""""~;;""}1 and/or 3/3 {LTC ~~l!~!;;t@:Wj Leave
> > Haditha/Asad night of 3 Oct/or 4 Oct early AM to Qaim; leave
::. Oaim
> > night of 7 Oct or
> > early AM a oct and visit LtCol
> at
.... > > Habineah (3/2?) and
> > return to Kuwait evening of 11 Oct. This leaves a few days slack for
> > delays, as my flight is on the 14th.

> > For travel, I have both a DOD ID card and secret clearance as a .
> > consultant to OSD, and'a passport and a press ID card. I will travel
> > in and out of Kuwait via ~y DOD ID card. That is
> easier
> ~ than obtaining a
'" > temp visa. I will not be reuturning. obviously,
> with
> '" the OSD group. My
> > return flight fro~ Kuwait
is via United 915, a Lufthansa connection
> > from Kuwait at 0125 on 14 Oct.
> >
> '" My ePIC press card # is expired'
'" >

> '" Thank you. Bing West

:> :>

'" >

> >

> >
'" > '" Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
'" > :>

> '" > Using the DOD card will make everything so much

> > easier. So we will

> > > have you fly out cn 13 Oct ...

:> :> >

> '" > Thanks.

: : : ;;~:o~~~~n:;s~e~::I~~~~~stbing~~~*000~Wl28010M
: : : ~~~~~)I~~,~j,t~~:li~}';~;SB;~~~<~1~9 i2~~~e; c:~~9 PM
> '" '" SUbject: RE: [UJ Bing West ItinerarySept 06
: : :~%~~~$U--- Umm. 2 day lead time back in Kuwait
'" is
'" >too much for me to
> >> take. If I get there On 13 Oct, that will be
> fine.
> > > If I miss the flight.
:> '" :> my had. I will then get that 2d day hanging
> around
> > and fuming at
'" > > myself!
> '" >
> > > Re credentials, I will have both a passport and
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>my

> > DOD card. I plan to

> >

> > >.come into Kuwait on my DOD card, and to exit on

>my

> > DOD card.

> > >

> > > Best, Bing

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > > ClaSsification: UNCLASSIFIED

> > :> "

> > > > Bing,

:> > > >

> > > > Great, that was what I was planning on.

> > :> >

> > > > I will let CFLLC (CPT ~$~!0i80m know that you
> > will
> > > be coming their way
> > > > on about 12 Oct, this will give you a little
> > flex
> > > in case of weather.
> > > >
> >> Also, CFLLC will need to work your exit visa

>
> because of the way you

> >
> > > > will enter Kuwait. If -he has advance notice

> he

> > > can make sure that

> > > > everything is set before you would arrive on

> 12

> > > Oct.

:>> '> >

> > > > I still need to know if you are traveling on

> > your

> > > DOD Identification

> > > > Or will we have to get you media credentials?

:> > > :>

> > > > Thanks.

> > > >~

»>
:> > >
;:.
>&
> > > > -----Original Message----- 11)(
~ From; Bing We~t lma~lLo:westbin0~0

: : : : ~~~f~~j0w~~@m%fR@$lli~0@~r~9i2~~~6c~~~7
> > > > Subject: RE: {OJ Bing ItinerarySept West
PM

06
> > > >
> > > > My flight back is commercial from Kuwait at
> lAM
> > on
> :> > > 14 Oct. I'd like to
> > :> > come baCK most direct route from MEF land. I
> can
> > > extend in MEF AO if
> > > :> situa~ion dictates.
> > >- :>
> :> :> > TX Bing
> ;;.. ;;.. :>

:> :» > :>

:> :> :> >

:>> > >

> > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

> > > > >

> > > > > Bing,

:> :> > > >

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 > > > > > I fo~got to add your embed packet. Could
> you
:> :> > :> review for accuracy?
:> :> :>.> :>

> > :> :> :> Thanks.

:> :> :> :>

:> > > > ~~~!~1#:WW;:\i:11!

:> > > > >

" > ;> ;> >

:> :> :> > :> I MAJ 124TH CPIC

> > :> :> 09. 2006 ~1:04 AM

.:> > :> > >

> >
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~~~<\~~!i~1 please make sure i get a copy of Ihe transcript as soon as it's available. thanks.

From:~~:~·~fJr;:tWNi:1;i',iJ CIV, OASD-PA

Se ....~.. September 05, 20065:45 PM

To:I::j)~ ClV, OASD-PA

Subject: Conference Call Tomorrow

Gentlemen,

Please note. there was a mistake on the time for the conference call on the invitation. The call will take place from

12:30-1 :00 p.m. In addition, DASD Stimson's updated biography has been attached.

Thank you,

MEMORANDUM

To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison

Office of the Secretary of Defense

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 Date: September 5, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, WEDNESDAY, September 6, 1006,Jrom 12:30-1:00 p.m.

The topic ofthe conference call will be the release of DOD and Anny directives for detainee programs.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Atfairs Charles (Cully) Stimson and Mr. Thomas Gandy,
Director for Human Intelligence, Foreign Disclosure and Security in the Office of the Army's Deputy Chiefof
Staff for Intelligence will brief you. (Their biographies are attached for your review.) This call wiB be On-the­
Record.

To participate in thi5 conference call, please dial,,;; d ask the operator to connect you to ~he
Analysts conference call. .

Please R.S. V.P. or call her at

We hope you are able to panicipate.

OSD PUblic Affairs

Community Relations and Public liaison
~~)'(~rX)!ilThe Pentagon
Washin ton, D.C. 20301

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I
BIOGRAPHY
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, G~2
UNITED STATES ARMY I
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THOMAS A. GANDY ,
DIRECTOR
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE, HUMINT, FOREIGN DISCLOSURE
AND SECURITY DIRECTORATE
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Mr. Gandy assumed duties as Director, Human Intelligence (HUMINT).

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Counterintelligence, Foreign Disclosure and Security on May 3fd , 2004.

Mr. Gandy graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a
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Bachelor of Science degree in 1974, and earned a Masters of Science degree in
Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1984. His military training I
includes the Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College
(School of Information Warfare and Strategy).
Mr. Gandy served 23 years in the U.S. Army. He served three years in Armor before
transferring to Military Intelligence. As a Military Intelligence officer, Mr. Gandy has
served in a variety of tactical and operational assignments in CONUS, Germany, and
Central America. Mr. Gandy also served as a Program Manager at the Defense
I Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Gandy's prior civilian assignments include Chief Technology Officer of the
Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA).
I Mr. Gandy's positions in industry have focused upon advanced technology
management and development to include development of collaboration and biometric
I teGhnologles and systems.

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 BIOGRAPHY

CHARLES D. ,(Cully) STIMSON

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Office of Detainee Affairs

Office of the S«:retary of Defense

Mr. Stimson was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs on
January 23, 2006. Mr. Stimson is tbe primary policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense
on detention policy and strategy and is the focal point for detainee matters within the
Department.

An experienced career prosecutor, Mr. Stimson was an Assistant United States Attorney
in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia from 2002 until his
appointment. He served in the Appellate, Domestic Violence, Felony Trial. and the
Major Crimes sections. In 2004, he received a Department of Justice Special
Achievement Award for Meritorious work in the Felony Trial Section. He has also
served as a prosecutor in Maryland and California, and is an adjunct law professor at the
George Mason University School of Law.

Mr. Stimson served three tours on active duty in the United States Navy as an officer in
the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG), including San Diego, London, England, and
Jacksonville. On active duty, he was a prosecutor and defense counseL He is a
Commander in the Reserve Component of the U.S. Navy. As a reservist, he has served in
Washington D.C., San Diego, and Hawaii, and he continues to serve as an ,instructor at
the Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. Stimson was the Joint Special
Operations Task Force JAG as part of JTFX 2001 for Commander Naval Special Warfare
Group Two, and has also deployed to Kenya, Africa as part of exercise Natural Fire 2000.

Previously a vice president of Marsh McLennan, Mr. Stimson headed the Washington,
D.C. section of the Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions practice. For the last 20
years, he has been actively involved in the C.D. Stimson Company located in Seattle,
Washington. Mr. Stimson cl,lrrently serves on the Executive Committee of the property
management, real estate investment firm. He is the fonner Director of Admissions of
Saint James School in Maryland.

Mr. Stimson earned his Bacbelor of Arts in English from Kenyon College in 1986. He
has studied at Harvard and at Exeter University in England. In 1992, he earned his Juris
Doctorate from the George Mason University School of Law. Mr. Stimson is married
and has two children.

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 From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: tember 05, 20063:58 PM
To: IV,OASD·PA
Cc: CIV, OASo.PA
Subject: onfirmation of 1230-1300 Military Analyst Call

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Subject: PN: Confirmation of 1230·1300 Military Analyst call

hi, just wanted to let you know that they are moving forward with this. i did let her know this morning that i had to run it up
my chain, but she's been moving out and has now confirmed the principals...

let me know how you'd like me to proceed.

thanks

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 I have received confirmation from both Mr. Stimson's office and Mr. Gandy's office that lhey will participate in the
1230-'300 Military Analyst Call tomorrow. .

I have the proposed room number as i please let me know if that room changes.

At the attachment, please find Mr. Stimson's bio. Mr. Gandy's is forthcoming

The interview will be on the record. since it's a follow-up to the press conference however, both interviewees still maintain
the right to respond to any of the questions on background.

Thanks for your help.

Captain, U.S. Marine Corps

OSD Press Operations

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Subject: RE: Military Analyst Call

i think stimson and gandy... waiting on bios from the pao.

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sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:29 PM
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Cc: lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD p4~?:~~~'t.n%1@ ii';i~:M:1 CIV, OASD-PA.
Subject: FW: Military Analyst Gall

hi. wanted to pass this along and maKe sure you had visibility. they are wanting to do an analyst call tomorrow after the
presser reo the detention ops directive release. i will go ahead and set up the call unless i hear otherwise from you?

thanks

. CIV, OSD-POliCY

Here is the CommPlan for your SA and the 1-page read-ahead for the Military Analysts.

Please hold-off on release of the read-ahead until 0900 tomorrow so as not to get in front of others.

I'll come see you in a bit... I'm still waiting for final confirmation from Mr. Gandy's office.

VR

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OSD Press Operations

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ok. standing by to stand by. :)

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hi. wanted to pass this along and make sure you had visibiltty they are wanting to do an analyst call tomorrow after the
presser reo the detention ops directive release. i will go ahead and set up the call unless i hear otherwise from you?

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 From:' Ruff. Eric, SES. QSD

Sent: Tuesdav, Se12tember 05, 2006 1:22 PM
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Subject: FW: CSPAN - Press Conference on "Real Security"

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SENATE MINORITY LEADER HARRY REID: my study has changed dramatically from yesterday, as i left
search light, watching my quail, rabbits devouring my plants, to be here. But i'm glad to be back. We're ready to
have the issues joined and go to work. In february of 2003, president bush said as follows: success in iraq could
begin a new stage for mill eastern peace, The passing of saddam hussein's regime will deprive terrorist networks
of a wealthy patron that pays for terrorist training and offers reward to families for suicide bombs. Other regime
will be begin a clear waming -- will be given a clear waming that support for terrllr will not be tolerated. That's
what president bush said to them. But here's where we are now. Terrorist attacks around the world have
increased by more than fOUf had you been%. Regime in iran, north korea, and of course, syria have destabilized
the middle east and the world. North korea has quadrupled its nuclear arsenal. The united state.s military has
been stretched to levels not seen since vietnam. The facts do not lie, Unthe bush administration, and this
republican congress, america is less safe, facing greater threats and unprepared for a dangerous world in which
we live. Today, thanks to the efforts of the third way organization, senate democrats are releasing a report that
examines by the number bush national security failure. This is a substantive report. It is a good report. And i
invite all of you to study it. The report is a stunning indictment ofthe bush foreign policy. And it makes the case
for a new direction. We need to keep america safe. I'm honored to have former supreme allied commander for
europe, general wesley clark with us today as well as senators durbin, leader hoyer, here durbin, senator carper,
who is instrumental in creating the third wave. Tom, thank you very much for your work in this regard. They
understand it requires more than tough talk. It require tough and smart strategies to protect the american people.
We also, of course, have with us, she is as i've already told her, will be batting clean-up today, Sharon burke,
who is the director of the third way foreign policy. General clark?

RETIRED GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: Senator reid, thank you very much for the opportunity to be here

today and with your colleague. Of course, i'm not ~n electricity office. I spent 38 years in uniform. I fought in

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vietnam, came home on a stretcher, stayed on in unifonn to help rebuild the american anny and to help make
national security policy. I've help negotiate peace agreements, i've led alliance military forces and successful
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militaly campaigns. I've got a background in diplomacy, war, and the use of military force. And it is from that
basis that i would like to speak today. ]n complain language, invading iraq was a mistake. A strategic blunder. A
step, a major step in the wrong direction for winning the war on terror. Tt is time for america to face the facts. I
Invading iraq was an unnecessary war. It distracted us from what We Were trying to accomplish in afghanistan
and it has been countcIJlroductive in winning the war on terror. Today, as a result of failed adminisuation,
american policies, we've lost over 2600 soldiers and marines in iraq. We spent over $300 billion with maybe a I
trillion or more on the line. We've seriously damaged our arm forces. You can read about it all in this great
report from third way. But we're bog down there. We've reduced our diplomatic leverage raul. And despite all
the trumpeting of patriotism by this administration, this admlnistration and the republican leadership in the I
congress have weakened our country and made americans less safe at home. Those are the facts. And we anyto
face them as americans. We need a change in course. And that's got to start with the change in the leadership in I
congress. I believe the leader that you see here in the united states congress and the others will help put us on the
right course for success in the war on terror. They know that to win, you've got to make more friends than
enemy in the world. I

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They know that to win, you've got to make more friends than enemy in the world. They know that you've got to
strengthen relations with other countries, that you've got to talk to people you don't necessarily agree with. And
that you've got to use all the elements of military power and america' diplomatic strength, and intemationallaw
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and law enforcement. Bringing it all'gets to succeed in the war on terrorism. They're not soft and they're tough
mined and they're determine to win. By the way, these are also the leaders that we 93 need to succeed in curbing
the threat of nuclear proliferation. We've hear the bush administration talk for three years about iran and north
korea korea. But they won't talk directly to them. What i hear is the beating tom toms of another military action
taking form against iran. And it is it is time that the american government step forward and talk to people we
disagree with before we start dropping bombs on them. We need to rebull our armed forces. We've suffered
I losses in iraq but we've ripped apart the materiel and we've really hurt the morale of the family structure that's
critical in the arm forces of the united states. OUf men and women in uniform have done a terrific job. They're
great people and they're sucking it up. But they need help from our government and from our government's
I leaders. And tbey're not getting that help today. And finally, we 93 leadership in this congress that will help us
face up to the long term challenges of competition in a global economy. You can't win that competition by
trumpeting patriotism and military power alone. So i'm convinced the democratic party and the here's and the
I leaders here the best ones to do this. I want to make a special plea to my fellow believers in u.S. National
security, our veterans, our policy analysts, the member and .- men and women ·associated with the armed forces
I because their spouses or their children or their father are involved in this. We've dedicated Over 30 years since
vietnam to rebuilding our ann forces. We've created a whole culture of national security. And i am calling on
those people today, and my fellow retirees from the arm forces to lay aside the prejudices of the vietnam era and
I face the facts. The war in iraq was a mistake. The policies that this administration has trumpeted haven't work. It
is time to change the course and to do that, we must have a change in leadership. That starts in 2006. Thank you.
I REPRESENTATIVE STENY HOYER: Thank you very much, general clark. All of us are proud of your service
and your leadership of our military and your leadership of this country. Senator carper, thank you very much for
your leadership as well in creating an organization that wants to look at ways and means that we can do things
I differently and more effectively. Senator durbin, sharon burke, good to be here with you. Let me start by saying
that democrats are commit to defeating terrorism and to keeping america and americans safe. And to working
I with our allies to make sure that the international community is safe and secure. Republican have dubbed this
month security september. In an openly cynical attempt to use our nation' security in a political gamble to save
their congressional majority. They believe they can scare the american people into particular to support their
I disastrous policies that have created record deficits, left our country more againent on foreign oil, given our mill

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 .middle class waiblgs and fail to make our nation as secure as it should be and as it must be. As republican tom
keen, the chairman of the 9/11 commission recently stated, the government is not doing its job. That is I
repub1.ican tom keen, chairman of the 9/11 commission. The house has become known as a deeply partisan place
so i expect the republican rhetoric about democrats to be especially distorted and desperate. The fact is
democrats have been leading the nation in the battle for democracy for over a century. From v.ilson to f.D.R. To I
truman to kennedy to clinton. Democrats have been holding the torch of freedom to light the way for other
nations long before the republican party rhetorically joined the fight. That is a tradition that we continue here
today. This report details how president bush and the republican congress have fail to make us as safe as we I
should be, how then one thing during the election and did exactly the opposite.

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We hope that by pointing out these failures, we can force a change in course. Effect a new direction in america. I
We agree we are in an epic struggle against terrorism but we agree there are miscalculation and mistakes. From
their failure to capture bin laden to the rosie assumptions about the cost of the iraq war to the promise to always
promptly support our military. To their failure to effectively deal with iran and south korea. Have sadly may I
america and americans less safe. And the international community less secure. Democrats have no doubt
america will win the war on terrorism. We're commit to that objective. But we believe that we need a new
direction. We believe the american people are ready for one. And i'm pleased to join sharon burke and third way I
in a report that i will think clearly arrest particular laid to the american people where we were, where we've
come, and where we need to be. We need a new direction. I
SENATORDICK DURBIN: I want to thank senator reid as well as senator harper. Thank you for your service
to our country and for being here today, and sharon burke for the work of third way. We do live in a dangerous
world. We face real enemy. Today, this third way report is where the reality meets the rhetoric. What you have
in this report is an honest appraisal of where we stand in the world today. The department of defense reminded
us last week, if we are not in a civil war in iraq, we are so perilously close, it is hard to imagine the difference.
And our soldiers, though brave men and women, have been caught in the cross~fire of that civil war. In the
I fourth year of this conflict, it is hard to believe that the situation has disintegrated and deteriorate as badly as it
has. It is an indication that the brave rhetori of this administration doesn't reflect 'he reality facing our brave
soldiers in iraq. The iranian situation, a country now poised to build nuclear weapons to threaten israel, the
I united states, our allies in the middle east, that's an indication of a deteriorating situation which is getting worse
in the middle east. You know, we started this, of course, with 9/11. We were stunned and saddened by that day
and the congress responded in a bipartisan way. Overwhelmly. Giving the president the authority to go to war
I against day indicated, the taliban and afghanistan. We all stood gets in that. We understood the enemy. We
understood what we had to do. This third way report tell us, at that moment in time we estimate there were
I 20,000 members of al qaeda around the world. Today our best intell igence suggests the number has risen to
50,000. So in the war against al qaeda, they are recruiting more. And we are losing ground and osama bin laden
is still on the loose. The situation which faces as well in afghanistan now backsliding into chaos and tunnoiI.
I That war that we must win against the remnants of al qaeda and taliban. North korea producing more nuclear
weapons OUT. Our american military stretch to the limit. And of course, j'm glad they brought in the element in
this third way report of our relationship with china. This is something we cannot overlook. It is a situation where
I the chinese have become our outsourcing for foreign policy too often. As they gabe vents the economically and
militarily. the united states has to look at this in an honest fashion. When you ask the american people whether it
is time for a new direction, two out of three say most definitely. When you ask them what is the number one
I issue that brings you to that conclusion, it is the war in iraq. So the rhetoric of this administration and the
closing weeks before the campaign end here with an election november 7. As congressman hoyer hall said, we'll
I try to create this impression among american, if you change leadership in congress, somehow you would not
make us as safe. We know better. The democrats will work hard to keep america safe. We will stand with our
friend in congress on the republican side to make sure our military is the strongest in the world continue to be,
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 SENATOR TOM CARPER: Good aftemoon. Thank you for joining us. I want to thank our here, harry received
receiv~ and dick durbin for pull us get. It is great to be with you again. General clark and i served in a couple
wars together. A hot war in vietnam and a cold war for a number of years after that. J did about 23 active and
reserve and was a naval flight officer. I had no interest in an america that is not strong and an american people
that are not secure. I want to really thank sharon burke.. We're just really proud of the exce.llent work that
you've done and continue to do in this report, which senator reid held up and showed to you. It is not very long. I
invite to your attention to it it. It is welI documented and sobering. A number of thing have been said said.
Everyone knows the world changed on september 11. We hear that a lot. We've said that a lot.

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Having said that, though, the world has changed a whole lot since then, too. And the report that sharon,burke
and others at third wave worked on indicates it was not necessarily for the better. It is if you ask most people in
the u.S. Senate, democrat and republican, what doubts about me? Among other thing, they might say that i'm
someone who goes out of his way to try to get pepple to work gets. To fmd common ground. To come up with'
bipartisan shrutions to the challenges that we face day in and day out in our country and right here in the senate.
I wish i could say the same thing today about our president. But 1'm sorry to say that i cannot. I wish that ins.tead
of trying to politicize the war on terror and the situation in iraq or to insince wait that we democrats don't have
the vents the to stand up against our enemies, the preinvited to US sits down and talk about how we move
forward in iraq and around the world, The truth is, the president's policies have not worked. And they have not
made us safer. Back in 2003, it was estimate, there are some 5,000 insurgents in iraq. Now we believe that there
are more than 20,000. In afghanistan, the number of taliban at4tcks have skyrocketed over the last three years.
And we just learn this week that opium production is up almost 60% from last year. Listen to this. Afghanistan
is now producing a third more opium than the world's heroin addicts are crying out for. A third more than what
the rest of the world is willing to consume. And who is profiting from the drug trade? Well, among others the
taliban and the afghan insurgency, trying to destabilize the very government we put in place several years ago.
Iran and north korea, emboldened by our distraction in iraq and the lack of diplomacy by the united states are
now defying the intemational community in their pursuit of nuclear weapons. I believe as others have said, we
do need a new direction from a president. But so far, we've not seen plan to correct the mistake or to, the
mistakes we've made or put us back on the right track again. I'm not going to suggest any of us has all the
answers, I do know one thing. This president needs to get over his aversion, his ideological aversion to
diplomacy. We're going to solve the other problem facing us in iraq and raul. He need to reach out to the
international community. He need to reach out to moderate arab govenunents to broker an agreement among the
sectarian groups in iraq to head off to civil war. And we 93 to work with our allies to establish a real and
credible row map to peace in the middle east, and we need to focus on it like a laser. What's needed is leadership
and a cooperative spirit. I hope the president can give us that and the work to truly make this country and our '
world a safer place in the remaining years he has to serve in office. And sharon burke, to close us out.

SHARON BURKE; Thank you, senator carper, thank you so much for your leadership as the chair of third way_
We really appreciate it. Third way is honor to have this opportunity to release this new report with senator
receive received and general clark and so many senior scmeb leaders of congress. We believe as they do that it
was tile to take a hard look at the national security situation. With the united states at a cross road in iraq and
facing enonnous challenges in that region and raul, it was time. We're also five and a half years into the
administration of george w. Bush and that's a very good time to take a look at the president's results. After all,
the most important job for any president is to keep the american people safe. That's exactly what third way set
out to measure. Is president bush making american safer? The answer is no according to our analysis. Third
way' methodology was to focus on the most urgent national security challenges of our day and quantity identify
the administration' plog progress. We looked at seven key indicator. Iraq, the fight against terrorism, iran, north
korea, the condition of the american military, and china. We collect as many relevant data points as possible and
look for trends. Our source ranged from u.S. Government reports to new accounts. One challenge for us in

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pulling this report get was the fast moving pace of events. I know for example, the situation in iraq is
deteriorating so fast that we nad to keep revising our data really up until we put to it press. Across the board, the
number are troubling as you've just hear. They just don't match the tough talk coming from the president, the I
vice president, and other member of s of this administration. As we know in the report, the number show the
bush strategy is not working, Stil1, my colleague and i at third way, we believe with smart leadership, all of these
I
number can be turned around. We hope our report will be a useful tool for these here's here and for other here in
the government as they try to keep america safe. Thank you all for your interest in this report and for being here
today, I

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REPORTER: This is for any of the senators to answer. In 2003, do you 'believe that iran or iraq pose a bigger
threat to u.S. National security and global security as a whole?
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SEN. RElD: J can't tell you which is the bigger threat. We can they've gotten much worse worse. President
clinton worked until the last day he was in office trying to resolve the problems in north korea and the I
tremendous progress had been made. President bush walk away from that. Walk away from it. The minute he
took office, and we have gone backwards. With iran, we know that the iranian government reached out to
president bush and he as general clark has acknowledged, i guess he doesn't believe in bi bilateral negotiations. I
He didn't want to speak with them. We know the situation in iran has gotten much, much worSe. Which is the
more difficult? Imn or north korea? Anyone can make that estimate as well as i can. David? '
I
REPORTER: The republican said in five years, there has been no major terrorist attack on the united states. Do
you buy their argument that because u.S. Forces are fighting terrorists in iraq, there are not terrorists fighting on
the streets of the united states?

SEN. REID: Every day, i'm so thankful that we have not had a terrorist attack of significance in the united states
since 9/11. But the fact of the matter is. as indicated in the 9/11 report. the administration has fail to enact even
I those recommendations recommendations. We know that the amendments we've offered for port security, for
chemical plant security, for nuclear power plant security, for doing something about the first responder have
been tum down on straight party line votes. We're all fortW1ate and happy that there have been no may know
I incidents here in the united states. But we're not as safe as we should be.

REPORTER: Plans to fonnally call or have a resolution for secretary rumsfeld to step down. Are you
I cODrdinating your efforts, you will roll that out and how will that work?

I SEN. REID: House procedure are totally different than senate procedures. In addition to that, we always
complain about the hours work in the senate. But gee whiz, the house never works. {Laughter] we have 12 days
left before their announced adjournment date. This week is an example. The house will work one day. Beyond
I that, we'll work two and a quarter days this week. And so we're going to offer an amendment during the defense
appropriation bill to, as we said in our letter to the presidenryesterday, we think the cbs lowersnip has •• we the
civilian leadership has failed. Tomorrow or maybe thursday, we'll finish that. That was announced on the floor
I today. But that's an issue that is not going to go easy. It is something that we believe as indicated, all the nouse
and senate leaders tight to the president said, your civilian leadership has fail. You boston that there would be a
I positive apply from that but •• reapply from that.

REP, HOYER: I would love to spring from the house as an institution. But unfortunately, what the senator says

I is true. We're not working, Many of you have hear me call this the do less than do nothing congress of 1948.

SEN. REID: I haven't hear you say that. That's good.

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REP. HOYER: We are going to be meeting less days by 15, Or actually, almost by 11 I versus 84 that was
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scheduled than do nothing congress. Not only that. We've passed tess legislation and haven't dealt with the
priorities of this country. Leader pelosi and here reid talked on a daily basis about coordination. We have sent a
letter to the president, as you can. And we've now sent a second letter. Secretary rumsfeld maya number of
representations. If you rethe third way report, they have a number of very good reports in there about what
secretary rumsfeld, now secretary of state rice and the president said were the realities in iraq, the prospects in
iraq, how much it would cost, how much time it would take. They were uniformly wrong. Tragically wrong. In
that case, when you see failure, you need to hole people accountable for failure. There has been no
accountability in this administration. Not for the failure in iraq or katrina. No accountability. We're hoping that
at some point in time, the congress will expect accountability. Because the congress has had no oversight. No
checks and balances either. The american public can change that and put us in a new direction come this
november. .

REPORTER: No mechanism for the house democrats 10 move forward with the resolution?

REP. HOYER: As senator reid pointed out, we're more could not strained in the house procedurally. But here
pelosi and senator reid will be discussing that.

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SEN. REID: Let get to the right side for a change.

REPORTER: Senator carper, you said that you would use diplomacy more. (fyou were to do that, what would
your opening position be with our allies in terms of dealing with the sectarian violence in iraq? And global
terrorist threat and how would you apply that to our military and other resources?

SEN. CARPER: I was in the middle east with senator has gone he will. Israel, jordan, saudi arabia, kuwait, and
iraq. It is not in the best interest of any of though country, including the arab and muslim countries to have an
iraq that devolves into civil war and sheer terrorism. They have an obligation. It they have a dog in this fight to
try to he be sure that doesn't - to ensure that doesn't happen. And also some money. They should be involved.
They have tribal relation between those countries and the tribes in iniq. They have he relationships between the
sunni and the sunni population in iraq. We should be calling on though people to be fully involve. I want to go
back to somelhing i said in my comments. I want to raise it again. Last june, almost a year and a half ago,
president mahmoud abbas was here in washington. Several of us were invite to have lunch with him. He had
been in office five months. During lunch, i said mr. Pre, when doubts it would be appropriate for our country to
establish or assign an envoy to work full time on bridging between israeli government and this palestinian
government. His response was five months ago. We should have been putting as much time and energy into that
fight to making sure we follow the road map to peace. It is turning into a road map to war. One of the reason
why is because we haven't invested the kind of enthusiasm and interest and time that we have in our conflict.

REPORTER: I want to get your reaction to the president's recorrect series of speech he's been making on iraq,
trying to layout their case on why it is so important. I it will be a scare tactic of sort~. Do you feel that's the
case? The politics involved of what the g.O.P. Is trying to do?

SEN. REID: Let me use an ad letic analogy. Football season has started. You have a play. You rub it up the mill.
Touchdown. That work pretty. With will he try it again. Up the mill. This time you only make 20 yards. The
third time you try it, you get stopped at the line of scrimmage. That's what's happening here. They've run this
play orie too many times. It is the same speeches they've given before. All the speech in the world do not change
what's going on in the ground in iraq. And as we've heard here, the ground in iraq is not a pleasant place. Since
we left here, a month ago. 75 american soldiers and mash have been kill. 1don't know how many have been
wounded. $12 Billion spent since we last left here. They've rWl this play too many time. We on a bipartisan
basis want to work with them to do a better job on security. Our arms are open. Let them come and work with

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 us. Not give these speeches. One last question.

REPORTER: The amendment that you plan to push, the appropriations bill, would that just be targeting
rumsfeld or have a vote on other civilian leadership?

SEN. REID: At this stage, we haven't finished the amendment. We have a meeting at 2:00 today to define what
is going to be in the amendment. It will be an amendment that will be directed or the the civilian leadership of
the Thank you all very much. military.

HOST: Democratic leaders wrapping up a 40-minute news conference, talking about a new report on global
security. Senator receive received, senator carper, congressman hoyer and also wesley clark speaking with
reporter, answering their questions

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hello sir,

staying at the sheraton downtown would work great for us, ;'m assuming that they accept major credit cards so that the

dv's won't have to travel with cash?

sorry for the date confusion, we will be arrivin"g 15 september and coming back on the 18th (pending the itinerary from

mnf-i), i will connect with them today and see if we can nail that doWl'l and also make the connection between their team

and yours",

i won't know the specific flight times into and out of kwi until i get a more solid idea of the itinerary from mnf-i, i am hoping

to have that wrapped up within 48 hours", i will be sure to keep you posted,

thanks for your help on this and please let me know what else you need from me,

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How are you today. There seems to be a little confusion on my end with supporting the Gen Downing party. I would like to
house them downtown at the Sheraton Hotel since the party is large and It consists of real, true-te-life DVs; I don't have the
rooms available for all of them on either Camp ArifJan or Ali Ai Salem. If this is ok With you, then we can make the
arrangements for them to stay downtown; however, they will have to pay for the rooms with local currency.

Are the flight plans and times scheduled for the parties arrival and departure into and out of KCIA? We need to start
planning to get transportation and drivers coordinated to get the party moved from the Airport and all the other various
spots they have to go. Also, the theater clearance has approved dates for Kuwait on 19 & 21 Sep. Your previous a-mail
(31 August) gave me a plan of 16-18 Sap with a plan to arrive on 15 Sep; what are the correct dates for the mission? We
are going to need the dates soon in order to coordinate flights to and out of theater for you.

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 Thanks.

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SA CPT USA CFlCC.

yes, thank you very much i am unclear on what the large camera reference means?? no one in our party will have large
cameras. perhaps small, personal, digital ones... but nothing larger than that. it has been our experience in the past that it
took about 45 minutes to clear kcia customs, with the help of your team. IS that no longer a reasonable expectation?

I should have flight information to you early next week, i will also double check with mnf-i to see what kind of itinerary they
are building for us and whetherthey have arranged a flight out.

thanks for aU your help. much appreciated

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Thanks for the info, Supennan.

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Please realize that when you say the first possible flight out, you are saying very early In the morning - possible 0600
departure with a show time of 2-3 hours beforehand. If you come in on the 1915 flight at KCIA it will mosUikely be 1-2
hours before we roll out of the VIP Lounge (large cameras can attract the Kuwaitis attention ar'id sloW down the customs
portion), and in the same amount of time to get you to a hotel, we could already be at AI Salem/LSA. Since you will have a
very early wake-up call, it really is a better idea to sleep at AI Saiem/LSA rather than downtown on the 15th •

On the way out, I'll be more than happy to arrange a night's stay for you anywhere you'd like.

Thanks,

Maj, USAF

Office of Military Cooperation - Protocol

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Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

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this is in reference to the Gen Downing Trip.

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 .•. we can assist in coordinating the flights to and from Iraq. We cannot book your reservatiol'\S for the Hotel ­
however, we can get you the information for the Hotel if necessary. Since MNC-t has cleared the trip on their end, have
they made the flight schedules from Iraq? As well, in order to expedite the party's arrival, we will need the date, time, flight
and flight number into KCIA; and that is for the arrival and return triP in order to get the VIP Lounge at KCIA.

LTC we are going to need your assistance on transporting the party around.

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hi sir,

I hope you are well. I am writing to inquire whether you have been contacted reo the military analysts dv trip to iraq 16-18
sept? i would like to request your help in organizing a flight inlo iraq on 16 sept and a relurn flight on the 18th. the plan is to
arrive in kuwait on the 15th, leaving for iraq on the first possible flight on 16 sept. the analysts will be hosted in baghdad
until the afternoon of the 18th. the trip has been cleared through mnf·i and the theater clearance request has been
submitted. the size of the group will be about 12.

all of the participants will be traveling to kuwait via commercial air. we are requesting the jvb's assistance with expediting
the participanls' arrival and processing through customs. additionally, It would be very helpfUl if your team would assist in
setting up accomodCltion reservations in kuwait city for the night of the 15th and the night of the 18th. we would also iike to
request that the jvb provide vans and drivers to transport the group to and from the hotel and the military airfield.

deputy assistant secretary of defense allison barber wHl be traveling with the group. as will dallas lawrence and myself. i
have attached the country c1ealance message for you to use for the flight manifest. the poc at mnf·i is Itc robyn chumley. i
have copied her on this message as w,ell. she can help with the coordination/confirmation of times and itinerary.

again, i am new at this, so I'd greatly appreciate any help you can give me for how to naVigate the system and make this
trip a success. please let me know what you need from me.

thanks so mUCh.

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~:~Z~~~i!'~k,en you get a moment, can you please call senor babbfn and coordinate the final travel dates for our trip next
week.

Jed - would love to have you - we can arrange for radio call in times for you to call back to the states on Saturday, Sunday
and Monday from our favorite sandbox,

D.",·"t IIr. Orl'i(,/- of C()JllInll"ir~' H('lal i('Il~~: Puhli,' Llai'f.11I

The ankle biters keep chasing him, but the Big Dog has big ideas, And he's getting somewhere with
one of the most important.

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 Fw: military analysts Page 1 ofl

Sent: Monday, September 04,200610:56 AM

To: Lawrence. Dallas Mr OSD PA
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Thank you .

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From: JedBabbin~m~'~?,(t%'!:W;m\i\1

Sent: Sunday, September 03, 20062:03 PM

, To: RUff, Eric, SES, aso

Subject: Embargoed copy

Attachments: Big Dog and BMD.doc

"", .. ' Eric: As promised, here's the TAS column which will appear at 0001 hrs Tuesday, Many
thanks again for arranging the interview. Please maintain embargo until published. Best,
Jed.

(Home office)

,,(Mobile)

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LOOSE CANONS
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Reagan's Vision, Rumsfeld's Legacy I

(Ballistic Missile Defense is on the Road to Reality)

by Jed Babbin 1 I
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has a suggestion for those who still doubt we should I
be building a missile defense system. In my interview with him last Thursday, Mr.
Rumsfeld said, "All anyone has to do is read the words of the leadership in [North] Korea
and Iran, and look to their behavior with respect to the development of ballistic missile I
technologies and nuclear capability." Even for those ofus who have been supporters of
missile defense since President Reagan announced it in 1986, Mr. Rumsfeld's mild
admonition is good advice. I
Examining Mr. Rumsfeld's examples - Kim Jong~il's North Korea and Ahmadinejad's I
Iran -- proves the point. After its July missile tests, the North Korean news agency said
that the NK government denied that it had any obligation to follow the international
norms for missile launches saying, "The (Korean People's Anny] will go on with missile I
launch exercises as part of its efforts to bolster deterrent for self-defense in the future, i
too," It added, "The DPRK will have no option but to take stronger physical actions of
other forms, should any other country dares take issue with the exercises and put pressure
I
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upon it." As jfto prove Mr. Rumsfeld's point, North Korea's Deputy Chief of its mission
to the United Nations said on 21 June, "North Korea as a sovereign state has the right to
develop, test fire and export a missile." (Note the lack of qualifiers. The North Koreans
don't have European manners, so they don'l bother to make a perfunctory statement about
I exporting only to those whose sumames aren't bin Laden or NasraUah or Ahmadinejad.)

I Mr. Ahmadinejad is smarter and cagier. In a long news conference on August 30

(reported by the Financial Times), Ahmadinejad continued to deny Iran's pursuit of
nuclear weapons. But when asked about the UN Security Council and the possibility of
I sanctions against Iran he said, "1 think the time has passed to settle problems through
using the Security Council as a tool. ..Our position is completely clear. Our nation has a
right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The Iranian nation has chosen this. It wants
I to use (nuclear energy] according to international rules and regulations, and no one can
stop it."
I
Ahmadinejad said something we all should agree with. The time to use the UN Security
Council as a diplomatic mechanism to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program has passed.
I The UN's August 31 deadline carne and went, and the EUnuchs are already calling for
more talks with Iran. And, while Ahmadinejad's regime pursues both nuclear weapons
and ballistic missiles of ever-greater capability, Kofi Annan is developing Neville
I

ITAS contributing editor Jed Babbin is the author of Showdown: Why China Wants
I War With the United States (with Edward Timperlake, Regnery. May 2006 ­ click
here to obtain afree chapter) and Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe
Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004).
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Chamberlain's art of appeaseme~t into a science. Ignoring Ahrnadinejad's statement of
Jess than a week ago, Annan - in! Tehran last weekend -- said that, "On the nuclear issue,
[Ahmadinejad] reaffirmed to me\Iran'S preparedness and commitment to hold
negotiations" with Western pow~rs to find a solution to the impasse over Tehran's nuclear
activities. Once again, the UN -[and the ED -- do worse than appease. They establish
diplomacy as 'an end in itself and1by so doing doom it to tailure. No matter han's
intransigence, diplomacy will co~tinue witoout requiring lran to stop its development of
nuclear weapons while the talks go on. Where does that leave us?
i
With defending ourselves and out allies as best we can. If we aren't going to strike at
Iran's regime or North Korea's mnssile capability - which actions the president has
neither disavowed nor taken step4 to accomplish - we have to undertake to build the best
defenses we can, which means baWstic missile defense.

In our Thursday conversation, R$sfeld said, "] was there in the White House when
President Reagan made his anno~cement that evening about missile defense and the
wisdom of it is clearer every year Jthat weapons are increasinglymore powerful and
increasingly available. We owe i~ to our people to provide for their protection and their
safety. To be willing to engage in a serious effort over a sustained period of time to
develop the capabilities to deter ~d defend against a range of threats."
I

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A lot of research had been done the fifteen years between 1986 and 2001, but not much
else was done because to do so w~uld have violated the ABM Treaty. Rumsfeld was one
of the principal architects of our exit from that treaty. Rumsfeld credits the President
Bush's leadership for what was aCFomplished. If we hadn't exited the treaty. we
wouldn't be where we are today, qr able to have a fully functioning system in the near
future. i
I
When President Bush exercised o~r option to exit the ABM Treaty, no one had yet made
the decisions to sort out the optio* and take the steps necessary to deploying a real
defense to missile attack. Rumsfeld. said, "If you may recall back in the year 2000, this
debate had gotten almost theologiqal. It was a hair knot. Proponenls were adamant and
opponents were adamant. Propon~nts disagreed as to whether it ought to be space-based,
land-based, sea-based and everyon~ was quite emotional about it all. And it was
considered a national missile dcfe~se system. We shifted it to a missile defense system in
a way that would not have our a11i~s feel we were looking out for ourselves and not tbe
rest of the world. And it's made aibig difference. We're now getting cooperation from
several countries in Europe, we're !getting cooperation from Japan and of course the more
cooperation you get the more sens~rs you have, the more locations you have the more
capable the system." Rumsfeld cu1 the knot, chosing a primarily ground-based system.
It's not complete, but it is - right npw - deployed with a capability that is likely to cancel
out North Korea's threat. ;I
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Last Friday, in a test of improvemehts to the already-deployed parts of the system using
sea-based and land-based sensors, ~he Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency
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 the target. This successful test fpllowed a number offailures that opponents say proves
the system will never work. .

Almost twenty years ago, when Lorking fOT Lockheed, I got to know Ben Rich, the
genius behind stealth aircraft whb was running the super-secret "Skunk Works." Ben
often told the story about how th~ Polaris sub-launched ICBM failed in more than a dozen
test launches before its developefs made it an innovative and reliable part of our
deterrence force. Rich doubted apy developmental system could survive today's
Congressional micromanagemen~. I asked Rumsfe1d about the prior tl<st failures.

He said, "Each time you conductlan experiment that doesn't work, you could say it's a
failure. On the other hand you co~ld say you've learned something. Opponents pretend
that it's failure. And it isn't fail~re at all. If you have intelligent people working on a
serious project and they engage i~ it they're not going to come out with it in the first
instance with a full system that'slpertect... You have to learn by doing, by testing and
experimenting." Which is just what Ben Rich told me years ago. Without developmental
tests - failures and successes - y4u can't leam those things that can't be figured out on
paper. !
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What Bush and Rumsfeld have a9complished so far has put America on the path that will
take ballistic missile defense fro~ vision to reality. But it w!lI take years l more testing
and development before the system is fully deployed, and even after that it will have to
evolve continuously as does the t~rcat. Commitment to continuing what the president
and Rwnsfeld have begun shouldibe a litmus test for any 2008 presidential candidate.
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From:' JedBabbin
Sent: Saturday, Sep em ,r 2,20063:13 PM
To: RUff, Eric, SES, asp
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Yup; I'm doing research right now on one ~int he made. If you listen to the NKs and IRs, 'you have to take it
seriously. I'm digging for specifics. Should 1e very neat. Thanks again for all the help.
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 From:
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Guess you saw the pl play the post ~ave the successul missile test. Timing for your
column couldn't be more perfect.
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Eric: Thanks. I'll keep it in the Jctive file for the next radio show. Don't have any
scheduled as of today, but ya never!know. Best, Jed.

'(Home office)
(Mobile>

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Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 11 :2S AM
"0; Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbject: Re: military analysts

Reep to yourself. Remember. I'm not the official person on this.

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Appreciate the info on that.

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Sent: Sat Sep 02 11:26:56 2006
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Thanks. I've been talking w~~~0~ on the othrer thing. He is keeping on top of it. I'm
waiting to see when he'll have a final but 1 really think he was more in the info
gathering stage than anything.

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Subject: Fw: military analysts

Here you go.

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Sent: Sat Sep 02 11:02:55 2006
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Most interest in the phone numbers of guys in the area but having the emails would also be helpful. I

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Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAGl American Speccacor, nation.. l ;radio I

Dr. Jeff Mccausland (Colonel. USA, Retired) - CBS I

General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retiredl MSNBC

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Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) CBN, C~~ Int'l. Fox, NPR
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Major General James "spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News

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Wasn't sure, but thanks.

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Sent: Thu ~u9 Jl 22:l4:49 2006
Subject: Re: a heads up

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Subject: a heads up

jed babbin is doing a column in american spectator that will feature the seedef and
miosile defense. expect the piece will run tuesday and be available on the spectator's
website shortly after midnight monday. it would be great if we ean capture the piece and
put it into tuesday's bird. btw, if the piece somehow runs monday, let's not put it into
monday's bird hie of the holiday situation.
thanks, taft. eric

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Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:27 PM
. Lawrence, Dallas Mr 050 PA
RE: iraq update

scales is at his west point reunion, mClnerney is scheduled to make a speech somewhere and take his wife on a trip right
in those dates, shepperd says this is right in the middle of a 'can't go" period...

From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Thursda)! August 31,20064:24 PM
To:K~)k~J;3:;:F<cl CIV, OASD·PA
Subject: RE: Iraq update

Maclnerhy was a no as well as scales correct? ld recheck wluth them to see if their schedules had changed, as well as
sheppard

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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:3~ PM
TQ~ Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbject: RE; iraq update

GENERAL WAYNE DOWl'\ING (USA. RETIRED) MSNBC

COLONEL .lOHN GARRETT (USMC, RETIRED) FOX NEWS

BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVlD GRANGE (USA, RETIRED) CNN

DR. JEFF MCCAUSLAND, COLONEL (USA, RETIRED) CBS

MR. WAYNE SIMMONS (CIA, BETIRED) FOX NEWS

HONORABLE BING WEST (USMC, ASD. RETIRED) NATIONAL REVIEW, ATLANTIC MONTHLY
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hi. here's where we stand on the trip:
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I sen casey gave the thumbs up yesteroay, but they are waiting for that to work its way down to the approval authority for the
"official" go-ahead. i decided not to walt for that and engaged the jvb in kuwait so tllat they could start working the flights

I (since the last lime they were so annoyed that we didn't engage them earlier). slight Challenge is that the jvb In baghdad

doesn't have their official go-ahead to put the final itinerary together. so the jVb In kuwait has to wait on them...

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it doesn't 1001< like we'll have a final itinerary by tomorrow as you asked, since tlley will not put It together until they get·that

I "officlal" approval and jvb kuwait won't have the flights finalized without it...

I i have connected with all but two analysts (downing and keane). all except jed babbin have confirmed that they still have

those dates cleared for the trip. jed is just not sure about funding.

1 i'li keep you posted.

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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 20064:12 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject: Please call Jed Babbin,

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MEMORANDUM

To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: August 31,2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior 000 Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, FRIDAY. ,September 1,2006, from 11:45-12:15.

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter Rodman (bio at:
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 http://www.defenselink.mil/BioS/BiogtaPhybetail.aspx?BiographyID=89) and Vice Director for
Strategic Plans and Policy Rear Admiral William Sullivan (bio at
http://www.navv.mil/navvdata/bios/bio.asp?bioID=276) will brief you on the Quarterly Report on Iraq
Stability and Security. This call will be On Background.

To participate in this conference call, please dial ask the operator to connect
you to the Analysts conference call.

Please R.S.V.P. to at r call her at

We hope you are able to participate.

OSD Public Affairs

Community Relations and Public Liaison
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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 20063:02 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbJect: iraq update

hi. here's where we stand on the trip:

gen casey gave the thumbs up yesterday, but they are waiting for lIlat to work its way down to the approval authority for tt\e

"official" go-ahead. i decided not to wait for that and engaged the jvb in kuwait so that they could start worldng the flights

(since the last time they were so annoyed that we didn't engage them earlier), slight challenge is that the Jvb in baghdad

doesn't have their official go-ahead to put the final itinerary together, so the jVb in kuwait has to wait on them ...

it dQesn't look like we'll have a final itinerary by tomorrow as you asked, since they will nol put it together until they get that

"official" approval and jvb kuwait won't have the flights finalized without it...

i have connected with all but two analysts (downing and keane). all except jed babbin have confirmed that they still have

those dates cleared tor the trip. jed is just not sure about funding.

i'll keep you posted.

thanks

OSO Public Affairs

Community Relations and Public Liaison
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From;' Ruff, Eric. SES, OSD
Sent: Thursday. August 31,200611:02 AM
To: Smith, Dorrance HON eSD PA
Cc; Whitman. Bryan SES OSD PA
SUbject: jed babbin

jed just dropped in between meetings here in the bldg. he would like two minutes to talk to the sd about missile defense
for his monday spectator article. i recommend we do this if the sd has time to call from his vehicle on the way to sm today.
jed isn't interested in the "success or failure" of today's scheduled test. he's big picture and j've given him some
background on the sd's energy behind mda. thanks.

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fyi. jed babbin sent this and t'm forwarding to you. eric

From: JedBahbin~~~~~tiNB!.)1 [mailto:JedBabbln

Sent: Thursday, August 31,20068:15 AM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
SUbject: Iraq funds cutoff

Eric: Please read this piece I did back in June. Levin is the guy who wants to cut funds off for Iraq. He
said it back-handedlY in Meet the Press. Details here

RealClearPolitics - Articles· Cut and Run or Trim and Trot?

Jed Babbin

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Sont: Thursday, ugus . 006 8:27 AM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, aSD
SUbject: Re: Iraq funds cutoff

My pleasure. Let's talk later.

Jed Babbin

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The problem with the intelligence "refonns" Congress has SO far perpetrated is that they've not done much to
improve the product. Goldwater-Nichols, anyone?

RealClearPolitics· Articles· Not-Sa-Intelligent Design

Jed Babbin
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 From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSDPA

Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:08 PM
To: tl':l)($}?2F/,'ii;;:/;/'i:,{j,{Xrr{i/f;)
Subject: big guns

Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, national radio

Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS

General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retiredl MSNBC

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) CBN, CNN .Jnt'l, Fox, NPR

Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News

Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox NewS

Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN

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From: . Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

Sent: Wednesd 30. 2006 2:35 PM
To: 'Jdirlta
SUbject: FW:Hu

fyi.

From: latimer, Matthew Mr OSD PA

Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:22 PM
To~ Ruff, Eric, SES, 050; Whitman, Bryan SES OSO PA
Subject: Rf: Hugh Hewitt

Sent to SecDef:

Some Early Reaction to your Am Legion Speech:

• Yesterday Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer strongly defended speech, Krauthammer said question Is
whether this in 1939 or 1914. Fox played a good recClP of the speech all day long,

• Clips on all the networks,

• NY Times story was actually fair and disproved AP story, specifically noting you didn't directly compare critics to
appeasers.

• Mark Levine's national radio show opened with it. Played the theme to "Patton." Said you should be Secretary of
Defense "for life." Read long excerpts.

• Chris Plante's national radio show also read long excerpts of your speech and said that the Secretary should
have also mentioned ... and then read a hst of media slurs against Our troops.

• WH reaction from Michele DaVis at NSC: "Thank God someone finally said it."

• Bill Luti called: "Quite a buzz. Fantastic jOb. They're totally on the defensive."

• Hugh Hewitt's national radio show praises speech His blog is attached.

• Krauthammer asked for our speeches regularly.

• Bill Bennett, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannlty all have your speeches. Rush expected to talk about the speech
today.

• We have sent letters to editor and request for'correction to USA Today, LA Times and others.

• Jed Baccin is going to hold up the two differing AP stories - first the bad one and then a later better story by Bob
Burns - on Larry Kudlow's 1V show.

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from: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:20 PM

To: Latimer, Matthew Mr OSD ?A; SmIth, Dorrance HON OSD PA; WhItman, Bryan SES OSD PA

Subject: RE: Hugh Hewitt

matt, have you sent this out to the sd? "historical coma," great line... wish i had thought of it

From: latimer, Matthew Mr OSD PA

Sent: Wedl1esday, August 30, 1006 11 :30 AM

To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA; Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA

Subject: FW: Hugh Hewitt

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Stopping the Sleeping Sickness: Rumsfeld Before The American Legion

Posted by Hugh Hewitt I 9:30 AM

The: Secret~ry of Defense defivefed a speech yesleJday thaI was as blunt lIS any given by any senior official since the beginning oflhe war. Reading it againsl ~ near

tOlal refusal of the MSM 10 report seriously on the 81111Cks in San FrancIsco yesterllay make' its message even more compelling. (The killer didn't mllke Ihc fronl page

oftlu: ~,. OOJ'i,!I~,,:, the ~"p I'ag, The k~,UI~!!!.., Of the /Jq$101t Globe, Just anolhef terrible \;lISe of rQad ragc that happenod to stan Oul 20 miles

from San Francisco and end up laking out two pedeslrians in front oflhe Jewish eenlel and 12 more in an area traditionally considered a Jew,sll neighhorhood.)

RUrnsfeld and others are attempting to prevenl the country from slipping into a soli of historical coma, OIIC which will allow the counlry 10 avoid cmfrontinll the world

in which we liVe, and one in whieh cenain very unpleasan. events ··bombings. lampages, plots.- would not rcgislcr. Thus a sharp drop in SAT scores BIId John Mark

Can get a massLve amount ofattenlion, bUleven Ihe possihility of another lerroriSi attack gets waved away and !he l!,!c.r~4!.bl<:J.~.xt of the leIter from Ahmndi'lelad to

(IHI'!.'-dl<.lr}ylcilll is nOl reported (JJl.~n"lr!w;.

The e"allation of the trivial and resolule refusal to focus on the inenace In the We,t and its sudderl manifestations in Ihe homeland ··Seaulc, UNC, the EI AI counter on

714/02. and yesterday'S nunP83C";5 50 amuing that ""ere it not 50 abwlutely di\I\&CfQII. j( might be fascinalillS, But it is very dan~erou5 indeed because the enenty

seems to uoderstand thai nothing he says Of docs registers mIlCh Jcss pro\'okes reaactlon. After all, ws have i.sued..u vj~~!(.)!!~l K!l1l!~1...cvcn though his country

IS a rogue regime syslematically calling for genocide and """illS terrorist! around Ille glohe. WlliIe a case could be made Ihat he mu~t be allowed 10 Iravel to and ffoot

the UN, how ;3 II thaI he Is being allowed to come 10 Wultlnillon. and ",lto hulled Itl.. lupuk al the Washington /'i.tlonal Cathedral rour da~'s prior to Ihe

nrlb annlvenary of the altaflu? It was from the National Calhedral Ih.llhe nalipn.' day of prayer and grievance proceeded Ii"e years a80, 1lJl~ Ih. Stale DepllClmcnl

does nOl understand how it might be: unacceptable 10 allow the former leader oftht world'. peale.t 'p"o'or ofterro. -!!!,Q current ("!Jw!lllan "f the Central Council of

\!l.LMi.!lli!Dt..Qerics L~!!" 10 lread there at any time. much less in September' This decision makes me angry. ,"ow dots it affecl lhe families of the viclims Df

lerror. or the survivors of lost and wourlded in Ihe war1

Iran LS supplyillglhe killer$ 01 our troops in Iraq, and someone inv~ed Ils former leader 10 lhe National Cathedral? Someone in the State Department

said "Fine by us?" This is mac ness. And suicidal madness. How the Jihadisls must!augh and celebrate our idiOCy.

Wc havc seen this son IlfcollechYe denial before, and nOl Just in Gre81 Brllain in the '30s, but al50 in our government in Ihe '90s. {This denial is presented in b~

"Tn; Pi]lh IQ..2Lu.:: on the nights of91lQ and 9/11.) Rumsfeld knows what is happening. and yestefda}"s ~lIceeh was loother attempI 10 arrest thc spread of the ~Iccpinl\

sl~\\ness engulfing many .'\mericans. We havc to hope thaI it is simply deep within the MSM and Ihe bUlC'aucratic elile~, and no! among ordinary Americans

Jh~:J~xt "rSecJClnrv BumsWd's spocch is here Key excerpts:

There was a strange innncepce irl views of the world. Somenne recently recalled one U.S. Senator's reacllon in September 1939. upon hearing that Hitlef hed invaded

Poland to slart World War 11. He exclaimed:

"Lold. if<lnly I could have lalked wilh Hitlel, all this might have been avoided."

Think ofllla!!

J reoounl thi. history becau~e nnce 88am,.., face Ihe$ame kind ofchBllenges io dfnrts In confr()llt the: rising Ihreat ofa new type offascism. Today, another enemy •• a

ditruent kind of enemy·· has also made clear its intentions - in place. like New York, Wuhingtnn, D.C., Bali, Londnn, Madrid. and Moscow. Bill it is appuent Ihat

many hve still not learned history's lessons.

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 We necd 10 face Ihe following queslions:

• With the growing lethality Dlld availability cf weapons, can we lruly afford to believe that somehow vicicus extremists can be appeased?
• Can we really <ominue 10 think Ihat free countries can negotialC a sepil"ole peace with terrorists?
• Can we tndy afford the luxury of pretending that the Ihreats loday arc limply "law enforcement" problems, rather than fundllltlcntally difTerentlhreaLs,
requiring fundamentally different approaches'
• And can wc lruly afford to return to the deslruclive vicw that America·. not the enemy·· is Ihe reel source of the world's troublc~

These are central question! of our time. And we must fllCe them.

W. hear everyday of new plans, new efforu, to murder Americans and olher free people. Indeed, the plot recently discovcred that would have killed hundreds •.
pos,ibly thousand' - of innocenl men, women, Ol1d children on plMles coming frum Brilaillto the Ulliled Slates should have remillded us that thiS enem¥ is serio\lS,
lelhal, and relentless.

BUllnis is slill •• even in 2~Ob •• not well recognized or fully understood. It seems that in some qullJters !here is more of a focus on div iding our counlry, than lICIing
with unity againslthe gathering threat.!

We find olJ~elvcs in a strange time:

• When a dalabase search of America's leading newspapm tusns up 10 limes as many mentions of one oflhe soldiers at Abu Ghr.ib who ~rc punished for
misconduct, th~n mentions of Sel1lcant First CI~s Paul Ray SmIth, the flllt rc~ipicnt of Ihc Medal of Honor I. the Global War on Tenor~
• When. serrior editor at New,,",tek disparaginglY refers 10 the brave volunteers in ourArmed Forces as a "mercenary anny";
• When Ute fanner head of CNN ICCUSes the American military of deliberately targetingjoumalists and tile fonner CNN Baghdad bureau chief admits he
concealed rcpons of Saddam Hussein's crimes when he Wa! in power!O CNN could SlAy in IraQ; and
• It is a time when AmnestY International disgracefully refers 10 the military facility at GUlIIltanomo Bay, which holds lerrorist. who have vowed 10 kill
Ameticans and which is arguably the best run and mO,1 scMmized detention faciiltY in lhe hlslory of warfare, as "the Gulag of our times,"

Th06e who lenow the truth need to speak out against these kinds of mylhs, and distortions being told about our troops and about our country.

The struule we arc in is too import~nl -. the conse"uenc•• too severe - to have the luxury ofretul11ing to lhe old mentalitY Gf"Blame America l'i~,"

Rumsfeld went on:

NOISO long ago, an exltibil on the Enola Gay allhe Smtlhsonian during the I990sseemed 10 IrylO rewrile the history or World Vios 1I by ponrayln& the Un\te6 Siaies
as IIJI aggressor. Fortunately, the American Legion was lhere to lead lhe effort to set the record slraight.

This watchdog role is even more imponent today in a war thai is 10 a greal extent roughl in the media on a global slage -- to not allow the lies and the myths be
.repeated without questron or challenge _. so that atleastlhe second and third draft of history will be more aceur.te Ihan th.: quick first allegations,

You know from experience thaL in every war lhert havc been mistakes and setbacks and casualties. War is. as Clemencclll said, a "series of calaslrophes that ~ults in
victory." .

And in every army. Ihere are occll.lionally bad actors .-Ilte ones who dominate the headline. today - who don't live up 10 the slandards o(theirMth and of our
country.

But you also know thai they are a very small percentage of the hundreds of Ihousands or honorable men and women in all thCalelll in this struggle m.o IlrC serving with
humanily, decency and courage in the faeeof continuous pfOYOC8lion.

And that is importBllt in this "long war," where any moral or inlellectual confusion about who and what is right or wrong can weaken the ability of free SOCieties to
persevere.

Our enemies know this well, The» frequendy invoke Ihe names of Beirut and Somalia·· places they see as examples of American relreal and weilkne,s, And as we
have seen -- even this month - in ubanon, they design allacks and m8l1ipuJaie the media 10 try to demoralv.e public oPinion. They doclor phorograph. or casualties.
Usc civilians 35 human shiel us and then provoke an outcry When civilians are accidentally killed in their mid,t, which of eourse was their 'ntenl.

The good news is that most Americans. thwgh understandably influenced by \WIlli they read and sec in rhe media, hove good inner gyro.coves l\IId ISO"" center. of

gra'ity,

So Jam eonlidenlthat, over lime. they will evaluate and rellect on whal is happening in this slrUggle BIld come to wise conclusions.

Iraq, I country that wu brutalized by a crucl and dangerous diclilorship is now travelins the slow, difficult, and uncertain path to secure a new futwe, under II
. representative govemm~nl •• one Ihat is II peace with ils neighbors, ratller than a thtea1 to lheir own people, their neighbors, or 10 the world,

A.the nalure ofllle thrCllI and Ihe connicI in Iraq hIlS changed o'Cr these paSlscveral yean, so Mve lhe lactics and deployments, But while mllilaty lactlcs have

changed and adapted to the reBlities on Ihe ground, the strategy has not .• which ;5 to empower Ihe IraQi people to defend, govem, and rebuild their own counlr)'.

The extrerni sts themselves call Iraq the "epicCl1ter" In the War on Terror. And our troops know how imponant their missiDn is.

A Soldier who recently volunteered for a second lour in Irlll. captured the feel ing. of many of his peers. In an e-m.illo friends he: wrote:

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'" ask that you n~ver take advantag~ of the liberties guaranteed by lhe slledding rl free blood, never Ialc.e for granted the freedoms granted by our Con.ltituliol1 For
those liberties would be merely inle on paper ....ere it nol for the sacrifice of geneulions ofAmericans who heard Ihe call of duly and responded hean, mind and sou)
....ith 'xn,l~'" .

Someday Ihal young man may be a member oflhe Amerle1ll1 Lesion, attending a tonvenlion such as Ihis. I hope he win be. And OIle day, a fulure speaker may reflect
ba~k on this time ofhisloricchOice - remembering the Questions raised as to our country's courage, dedication, and wilbngness 10 persevere this fight umil we prevail

The Question is not whether we can win. II i. whether we have the will 10 persevere.

I am con'linced lhal Americans do h3'le thlt determination. And lhal we have learned lhe lesson. of history, of the folly Df lUmin&; a blirnl eye 10 daneer. These an:
lessons you know well-- lessons that your h~rojsm has h~lp~d 10 teach 10 g~nerlllions ofAmericans,

This is an lUTlazing and 'lory necessary speech given by a man who has seen a ere.r deal from 'lory many vanlage poinls going back many decades. He underslil1ds Ihe
war in which we lind ourselves. and is urgently allemplillg to alert others to it. Those who don't want to be bolhered want him fired or retired. That he il stililhere is
one of the reasons why this Adminisll'lllion continues 10 receive lhe SUpPOTl of serious people focused on the real threats.

Per\aps he can now cal! Seerelary Rice and inquire why, when so much has been required of tile mililaJy and so mueh Slcrifice made, we. are allowing a terror master
D.C.?
10 fOalJl

UPDATE: NalionaiReviewOnline has a fine symposium on Ihe aRpalling decision to allow Kbalemi free-passage around the U.S.

Copyright © 2006 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.

Secretary Rumsfeld's Speechwriting Group

Department of Defense

(phone)

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From:·" JedBabmn~~~~mffi0~ill
Sent: Wednesday, ugust 0.200610:42 AM
To: Ruff, Eric. SES, QSD
Subject: SeeDef Interview request

Eric: I request a telephone interview with SeeDef - any day or time between now and 1200 hrs EDT
Wednesday, 6 September, for my 7 Sept. colwnn in ReaIClearPolities.eom. I'd ask him about the ABM issue
(what we need to do, and how he suggests we do it) and - if we havetirne - to elaborate on the "it's 1938 again"
theme he hit in the VFW speech. I think a little more from him will go a long way. Many thanks. Best, Jed.

Jed Babbin
i: (home office)

(home fax)

(mobile)

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From: . ~~(~X}Wii<;iU/{;;i'~CDR OSD PA
Sent: eonesday, ugust30, 200610:18 AM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
SUbject: FW: Update: 31 August trip to GTMO

Mr. Ruff,

As ybu requested .. Jed Babbin's info.

Vr,

Sorry, but on that basis, I need to cancel for Thursday. Please count me in again soon. Best,
Jed.

•Jed Babbin
(Home office)
(Mobile)

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From:' Ruff, Eric. SES, OSD

Sent: 0QDm~t 3D, 2006 9:23 AM
To: ::2 5gl a5D PA
Subject: Jed babbin

Please. Call jed (conea~t li~t) and ~et up a time 10 am today(?) For me eo call him.
Th!lnks,

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From: . Latimer, Matthew Mr OSO PA
Sent: Tue$day. August 29, 2006 9:59 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES. aso
Subject: Re:

Got it. Thx

-----Original Message----­
From: Ruff. Eric, SES, OSD
To: Latimer, Matthew Mr aSD ~A
Sent: Tue Aug 29 21:58:52 2006
Suhject: Re:

Just sent you an email.

-----original Message----­
From: Latimer, Matthew Mr OSD PA
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: rue Aug 29 21:54:47 2006
SUbject: Re:

A.nd ebird?

-----Origina1 Message----­
From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
To: Latimer, Matthew Mr aSD PA, Whitman, Bryan SES aSD PA
Sent: rue Aug 29 21:53:44 2006
SUbjec~: Re:

Great! Just got a call from vinnie the commo guy in taos and he has the hard copy and by
now has delivered. Told him the statement was going traveling preas, dod preas corps,
military analysts and some talk radio,. if we can get them out tonight.

-----Original Mes6age-~---
From: Latimer, Matthew Mr OSD PA
To: Rurf, Eric, SES, OSD; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA
Sent: Tue Aug 29 21:43:25 2006
They are reading parts of the speech verbatim on talK radio

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 From: .
Sent:
To~

Subject:

:... Well, there he goes. Iran will be safe from sanctions and Hizballah may be a member of the UN by the time he's
done.

The American Spectator

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From:· lCDROSDPA
Sent: Friday, August 25,20063:53 PM
To: Whitman, Bryan S!;S OSO PA
Cc: Ruff, Eric, SES, 05D; KecK, Gary L Col OSD PA;

&~RBXi(\{i;);;!m';::J OSD PA

Subject: 31 August trip to GTMO

Attachments: MEDIA list BIOS (31 Aug 06) (3).doc

Mr. Whitman,

As per your request, this is the current manifest for the 31 August (Thurs) trip to GTMO.

The group is comprised of a handful of Radio Talk Show hosts, 1 WSJ columnist and 2 analysts.

Mr. James Taranto is going to interview RDML Harris and will write an in-depth piece around 1,800 words that will

run in the Saturday, 9 Sept Journal. .

The~b~~i.:':~ provide the group the typical DVlJVB itinerary which includes briefs in the skiff by RDML Harris,

CAP;.,KJ, JOG. JMG, OAR DEC, etc.

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The visit will also include a tou r of Camps 4,5,6, Detention Hospital, afld Camp X-Ray.

We fly out from Andrews at 0700 and plan to return by 1930.

We nave also added Mr. Ruff on the Country Clearance message to GTMO, just In case, Bios are attached.

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1: Mark Dav~s
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News-Talk 680 WPTF' (Raleigh,

2 Bill LuMaye NC)

3 Kirby Wilbur KVI 570 In seattle.

4 Steve Gill The Steve Gill Show (NashVille)

The Steve Gill Show (Producer

5 Scottie Hughes and Anchor)

4/9/200&

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 MEDIA GROUP ­ GTMO Visit (31 Aug 06)

(Eight total)

Jed Babbin The Laura Ingraham Show

Mark. Davis The Mark Davis Show

Steve Gill The Steve Gill Show

Scottie Hughes The Steve Gill Show (Producer and Anchor)

DiU LuMaye News-Talk 680 WPTF in Raleigh, NC

Kirby Wilbur KVI 570 in Seattle

(Print media)

James Taranto Wall Street Journal

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 Jed Babbin
The Laura Ingraham Show
Monday - Friday: 9 AM - Noon; ET

Jed Babbin is the best-selling author of "Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old
Europe Are Worse than You Think" (Regnery 2004). He is a fanner Air Force
officer wbo served as a deputy undersecretary of defense .in the first Bush
administration.

Mr. Babbin is a contributing editor for the American Spectator Magazine. His
weekly column, "Loose Canons," appears in The American Spectator Online. Mr.
Babbin's expertise is in national security and foreign affairs. However, he also
writes about legal matters and for The American Spectator's "Saloon" series on
subjects such as single-barrel bourbon and tine cigars.

Mr. Babbin is a military analyst and appears frequently on the Fox News Channel
and MSNBC, on shows such as The O'Reilly Factor, Scarborough Country, and
many others. He also often serves as a guest host on top-rated talk radio shows
including Hugh Hewitt (Salem Radio Networj). John Batchelor Show (ABC
Radio) and has also subbed for LauJ'a Ingraham (TRN), Mark Larson (KOGO)
and Greg Garrison (WISC). He began substitute hosting for Lt. Col. Oliver
North's "Common Sense Radio" program in the I990s.Mr. Babbin wrote the
novel, Legacy of Valor (Pentland Press, 2000).

Mr. Bahbin isa graduate of Stevens 1'nstitute of Technology (B.E. 1970),

Cumberland School of Law (.1.0.1973) and the Georgetown University Law
School (LL.M. 1978).

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 Mark Davis/"Thc Mark Davis Show"

WBAP 820 DallasfFt. Worth
Weekdays: 9:00 AM -11:45 AM CT

Host of the most popular local talk show in Dallas/Fort

Worth, Mark Davis took the Metroplex by storm in March,
1994 when he arrived at WBAP. Years of ratings
dominance have followed in his 9 a.m. to noon time slot.

A journalism graduate of the University of Maryland,

Mark began his career as a radio reporter in West
Virginia and Florida. His first talk show opportunity
arose at 24 in Jacksonville. The years thereafter led to
popular shows in Memphis and Washington, DC
before a return to his native Texas.

Winner of three "Achievement in Radio" (AIR) awards

in Washington, he has been honored in his WBAP
career with awards for commentary from the Texas Associated Press and a Katie
award from the Dallas Press Club.

After eight years as a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Mark joined the
op-ed page of the DaHas Morning News in 2004. He is a regular guest discussing
current events on KDFW Fox 4'5 '"Good Day," and is invited often to discuss
news events on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.

Mark enjoys travel, history, and the winter Olympic sport of curling. He is often
on the rond for speaking engagements and charity activities. He and his wife Lisa
live in Keller, TX with daughter Regina, 13, and son Ethan, 2.

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 ........ - - ---_ .. -.---_.- - - -- .-_._- ------­

Steve Gill
99.7 FM WWTN; Nashville
Monda ~ Frida : 5:30 - 9:00 AM CT

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Steve Gill is an attorney and host of the most influential talk show in middle
Tennessee. Business Tenness'ie recently named him among the "100 Most
Powerful People in Tennessee" for the second straight year and Nashville
Post business magazine has twice recognized him as the most powerful media
personality in middle Tennessee. He was also recently named among the 100 Most
Influential Talk Radio Hosts in America by Talkers Magazine.

Gill received 2000 and 2002 AIR (Achievement in Radio) Awards as the Best
Talk Host in the Nashville market and has twice received recognition as a Hero of
the Taxpayers from Americans for Tax Reform for his leadership in opposing a
$tate income tax in Tennessee. In 2005, h~ was named Nashville's "Best
Conservative,j by the Nashville Scene.

Gill received both his undergraduate degree (Honors History) and his law degree
from the University of Tennessee, where he played varsity hasketball on the 1977
Southeastern Conference Champion team, was President ofthe Student Body,
President of Omicron Delta Kappa, and Student Member of the Board of Trustees.

In 1992 he was appointed to a White House Fellowship by President George Bush

and served as Director ofIntergovcmmental Affairs forthe U.S. Trade
Representative in the Executive Office of the President. During his Fellowship
year, Gill served in both the Bush and Clinton Administrations.

Gill was on the adjunct faculty of Belmont University from 1991 to 2003, teaching'
international business, business law and negotiations at both the graduate and
undergraduate level. He has been a Contributing Editor for Tennessee Business
magazine; a Legal Columnist for AdVantage magazine; a columnist for In Review
newspaper; and is co-author of Tennessee Environmental Law, published by
. Federal Publications in 1992. He is a weekly columnist for several newspapers
in Tennessee, including the Lebanon Democrat, the Smithville Review, the Macon
County Chronicle, the Dale Hollow Horizon, the Milan Mirror Exchan~e, the 1-24
Exchange, the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, and the Mt. Juliet News.

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 Scottie Hughes is the Executive Producer and News Anchor for the statewide
syndicated 'The Steve Gill Show" which airs on over 15 stations across
Tennessee,

Over the past five years, Scottie has organized broadcast from the 2004
Republican and Democrat National Conventions, The New Hampshire Primary,
The White House, The Pentagon and was assigned to the White House Press Core
for Inauguration 2004. In 2005, she was awarded a Nashville Air Award for her
work 011 the Democratic National Convention. She also was apart of the first
group of Radio Talk Show Host hosted by the Department of Defense to travel to
the frontlines of Operation Enduring Freedom.

HUghes received her degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin

(Communication and Political Science) where she graduated Magna Cum Laude
and a member ofOtder ofOmega and Charter Member ofGamma Sigma Alpha.
She also served on the University of Tennessee Board Of Trustees Presidential
Search Committee, Assistant Student Body Secretary, Undergraduate Alumni
Council, Editor of "The Sprit" Yearbook, and host of "What's Happening at
U1M." In 1998, she was awarded The Young Broadcaster ofthe Year for the
State of Tennessee.

Outside of the office, Scottie has served as Press Secretary for the Tennessee
Federation of Republican Women, Reporter for the Americans for Tax Refonn
Tennessee Center Right Coalition, Alumni Advisor for the Delta Mu Chapter of
Zeta Tau Alpha and a Member of Tennessee Women in Journalism,
Hendersonville Women's Club, Nashville Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the
Junior League of Nashville. She also helped create an endowment for the late
Professor Dorotha Norton and was awarded the Presidential Award by the
Tennessee Wildlife Federation for her work with the Naturelink Program.

Just Married this past May, Scottie lives with her husband Chris, who currently
serves as County Commissioner in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

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 Bill LuMaye
680 WPTF Raleigh.. NC .
Monday - Friday: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT

Bill LuMaye grew up in Green Bay Wisconsin. His radio

career began in 1980 in his home-town and has rewarded him
in many ways. Bill's calling has brought him awards like a
Grammy and National Clio; His recording background includes
movies and national television and radio. But his real passion
is talk radio. Bill was the tirst radio host to be embedded with
our troops in Iraq. Broadcasting the week before Christmas, the
men and women of the 432nd Civil Affairs unit, celebrated the
capture of Saddam, dodged. incoming RPG shells and talked
with their loved ones via the Bill LuMaye Show live from Iraq. Bill's tour ofIraq
took him deep into the· Sunni triangle to Ramdi, Fallujah, Hadithan Dam, near the
Syrian border, and Baghdad. This life changing adventure gave Bill a unique
perspective of our successes and failures in the war on terror and a newfound
admiration for our soldiers and their families.

Bill's investigative skills have led to the conviction of a County District Attorney,
tlte re-opening of suspicious and questionable criminal convictions by the
Wisconsin Attorney General resulting in the release of two innorent men who
have served a combined total of 21 years in a maximum security prison, and the
conviction of a corrupt social worker.

Bill has a deep commitment in family, pride in his country and belief in the
freedom of expression. His views are not left or right, republican or democrat,
liberal or conservative but rather a common sense examination of what is
simply ...right and wrong.

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Kirby Wilbur
KVI-AM Seattle, Washington I
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Kirby Wilbur was born in Washington DC and moved to Seattle at the age of 8.
He attended the University of Washington and majored in History. He has also
I
attended Hillsdale College and Georgetown University for special study I
programs. I
Kirby worked for the King County Assessor and for several private firms as a real
I
estate appraiser before starting his own company, Liberty Consultants in 1984. He I
began working at KVI in July 1993, doing the 9PM - Midnight shift, before I
beginning moming drive in January 1995. I
He has been involved in the conservati\ie movement and the Republican party I
since high school. He has served as state Young Republican chairman, a
legislative district chairman, and county and state platfonn chairman. He has been
an alternate once and delegate three times to national conventions. He has also
I been a candidate for public office.
I
He has appeared on Hannity and Colmes, Politically Incorrect and CNN's Talk
I
Back. He was recently named one of the top 100 talk show hosts in America by
I Talkers magazine. Memberships include the Tailhook Society, the United. States
I Naval Institute and life memberships in the International Churchill Society and the
National Rifle Association. He is an Associate of Hillsdale College.
I
I Kirby and his wife met during the 1980 Reagan campaign. He lives in Duvall
I with his wife and two sons. He teaches US History and American Government
and Economics two days a week in a home school coop. He is the co-author, with
I Floyd Brown, of Say the Right Thing, a collection of conservative quotations. His

I heroes are Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and the

I Founding fathers, particularly the Virginians. He also serves as an elder in his

church, Shepherd ofthe Hills Lutheran Church.

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 James Taranto
From Wikipedia, the free encydopedia

James Taranto (born 1966) is a Manhattan-based columnist for The Wall Street
Journal and editor ofits online editorial page, OpinionJournal.com. He is best
known for his daily online column. entitled Best ofthe Web Today, in which he
links to and comments on news stories and Web sites submitted by readers.

Most of Taranto's commentary is politically oriented and conservative/libertarian

inperspective. He mercilessly lambastes various public figures and organizations,
from John KeID!, invariably described as lithe haughty, French~looking
Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam:' to Reuters,
headlines about which always involve excessive use of quotes in mockery of the
service's overuse of what Taranto calls "scare Quotes." He has voiced his support
for the Roe effect theory, which proposes that parents who support abortion will·
have fewer children, causing support tor abortion to decline among young people.

Best oJthe Web also includes non-political items which are concerned with
journalism nationwide. Often-seen tides are "You Don't Say," "This Just In," or
"Stop the Presses," followed by a common-sense headline such as "Shedding a
Few Pounds Beneficial for Obese" (June I, 2004) or "Sperm May Play Role in
Growth of Embryo" eMs)' 13, 2004). Another commonly~used title is ""''hat
Would We Do Without Experts?" followed by headlines such as "Experts Remind
Staying Warm Important After Cold Contributes to 5 Deaths" (January 7, 2004).

Taranto exposes what he sees as overly harsh pWlishment of minor drug- or

weapon-related offenses in schools underthe title "Zero-Tolerance Watch." He
corrects his previous mistakes under the title "Homer Nods" nnd counteracts what
he sees as liberal bias in the news by maintaining a "Good News Watch" on the
2003 Iraq war and the subsequent U.S.~led occupation of Iraq.

Mr. Taranto attended California State Universitv. Northridge.

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 From:"
Sent:
To: eTR, OASD-PA
Subject:

Please make sure we add roxie to the country clearance trip to iraq.'

Dallas B. Lawrence

Director, Office of Community Relations & Public Liaison

United States Department of Defense

PM
eso PA
CIV, eSO-POLICY

Excellent.

ffi~ll"{:j\1
-----Ori e----­
From: LCDR eSD PA

To: OASD-PA; La.wrence, Dallas IIIr OSC 'PA

•
CC: CTR, OASD- PA; ~~M~l}(S{;(,,;;:;~:;:n);{:':\\;:',21 CIV, OSD- POLICY
Sent: Fn Aug 25 13:35:31 2006 .

Subject: RE: Military Analysts

~~?,>~W:){Y).;1
Just called him and he will go. Great and thanks!

t 25, 2006 1:06 PM

LeDR OSD PAl Lawrence PA
"" TR, OASD- PAr OSD- POLICY
1 ltary Analysts
If it is not too late, I would nominate jim carafano at the heritage foundation. He's both
a retired mil analyst and a think tanker. He has also testified on the hill reo Detainee
issues.

~~~~1~·,~;0!~.n;:%00S0*j~~~;-aBD PA
To: las Mr OSD PA
cc: •.~ CTR, OASD-PA; CIV, OSO-POLICY; CIV;
OASD-FA
Sent: Fri Aug 25 10:43:21 2006
Subject: Military Analysts

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Dallas,

How are you? We would like to invite one more media analyst on the trip to GTMO next
Thurs, 31 Aug.

We had been working w/~xl~~~ on this. This is a trip that DASD-DA, Mr Stimson will be
attending.

Is there anyone you recommend who can attend at 'the last minute?

Public Affairs Officer (PAO)

the Detention of 'Enemy Combatants (OARDEC)

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 - - - - ---- --- ------------,

From:' Ruff, Eric, SES, OSC

K~E'~),~,~~~~t~l~~s14~:M
Sent:
To:
SUbject: Re:' CONOPS tor OSD Media Analyst visits

Okay. thanks.
-----,b.,
'
Frorn:,~,:<, LCDR aSD PA
To: Ruf • , OSD
Sent; Fri Aug 25 12:51:09 2006
Subject: FW: CONOPS for aSD Media Analyst visits
Mr. Ruff.

Sir (per email below). JTF-GTMO will not entertain any exclusive interviews for any of our
media trips.

I have informed James Taranto about this and explained to him that there will plenty of
opportunity to talk one-an-one with RDML Harris during the tour and for the most part, he
is satisfied with this. Also Mr. Taranto is welcomed to call RDML Harris via phone after
the visit for any follaw-ups.

Provided below is our latest manifest. We have added columnist and writer. Richard Minter
(since one radio host dropped out)

VR.

Mark Davis

Bill LuMaye

Kirby Wilbur

Steve Gill

Scottie Hughes

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 PRINT

-James Taranto

' ' ..

Jed Babbin

Richard Minter

MILITARY

Cully Stimson (CASD-CAI

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BG Hemingway (OMe}

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Maj

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LCDR (OSO- PA}­

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 2006 6:55 PM
OSD-POLICY; Gordon,Jeffrey D LCD
LCDR (LfOL (Ll ~~J(~J;!'i;:ii%W:\W)!':;Nx."':mx;eel LTC (L); Col
TC OSSOUTHCOM JTFGTMO; CPT USSOUTHCOM JTFGTMO
CONOPS for OSD Media Analyst visi
Alcon,

Just a quick note to get us on the same page for the upcoming OSD military analysts and

media visits. I offer this primarily to ensure that we don't promise anything to our

visitors that we aren't able to support.

Setting the correct expectations with our guests of what the day will be like goes a long
way in ensuring that they feel their time waS well spent and we didnlt fail to deliver on
any p r o m i s e s . · .

These visitors are treated like the DVS they are, and while Some are working media, the
visit is treated from start to finish as a JVB function with PA support, not a routine

media visit.

From start to finish, the visitors get the same type of visit that we give to governors,
senators, ambassadors and others. They get an in-depth brief from the admiral and the head
of the Joint Intelligence Group and a brief from the FBI. The commander's senior staff,
including the SJA, the head of OARDEC, the JOG and JMG and others are in attendance at the
briefings and available to answer questions. This is followed by tours led by the
commander of the Joint Detention Group and the Joint Medical Group.

What they don't get on a one-day down-and-back trip is the opportunity to do individual
interviews. What we have done with some of the radio folks was allow them to break contact
for a brief (l5 minute) call~in to their show, which was being hosted by someone else.
That allowed them to go "live" from GTMO. The call-in was solo, not a live interview with
anyone from the JTT staff.

For the overwhelming majority of guests, this has worked well. For those who want more, we
are more than happy to set up a longer, "working" media visit or phone interviews in the·
future as appropriate. And when they come back, they will have the full attention of our
media relations team to get them all the interviews they want. But trying to make a
working media visit fit into a DV!JVB-style visit is not workable, and trying to do
something extra special for one (exclusive interviews) makes it unfair for the others.

JTF GTMO ~nderstands that these visits are extremely important to our media outreach
efforts. They pay dividends for months down the road. The admiral devotes the entire day
to these visitors, and considerable staff effort into making sure they go smoothly and are
informative.

Thank you all for your hard work in putting these together; you are bringing us an

iftportant group of people who can help tell the GTMO story.

Vr,
~~~!l:;:?!i',IT:tUi:i:i::'::;'irM!:jn:;tii:i;E)
Commander, U.S. Navy

Director of Public Affairs

Joint Task Force - Guantanamo

"Honor Bound to Defend Freedom"

NIPR:
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 From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Frida ,Au ust 25, 2006 1:29
To:
Cc: "}f;;rt,{C6~R~~~-6~A . . OSDPA
·CIV. OSD-POLICY.
SllbJect: RE: Military Analysts

Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC, USA, Retired) Senior Fellow The Kathryn and ShelbY Cullom
Davie Institute for International Studies The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Avenue. NE
Washington.
Telephone:
Cellular:
..
~' ~ : Fax:
Assistant:
Telephone:
Email: james.carafano

Dallas E. Lawrence
Director, Office of Community Relations & Public Liaison United States Department of

age----­
elV, OASD- PA

bS~~~st 25, 2006 1:06 PM

"iifi+~i'.Sfff"'.
LCDR OSD PA;
L PA
CTR, OASD - PA:
'':,cc,·.'''''''''''''.'. OSD-POLICY
Military Analysts
If it is not too late. I would nominate jim carafano at the heritage foundation. He's both
a retired mil analyst ana a think tanker. He has also testified on the hill reo Detainee
issues.

~fli~';,ll
;~~~;1~m~~%N*tGi%§8~tj~~~~-oSDPA
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
cc: ~§:)lli;;;{'>/«x:/iXn CTR, OASD-PA; Cr.V. OSD-PO,LICY; " CIV,
OASD-PA
Sent: Fri Aug 25 10:43:21 2006
sUbject: Military Analysts
Dallas,

How are you? We would like to invite one more media analyst on the trip to GTMO next

Thurs, 31 Aug.

We had been working wi , on this. This is a trip that DASD-DA, Mr Stimson will be

attending.

Is there anyone you recommend who can attend at the last minute?
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 VR,

U.S. Navy
Public Affairs Officer (PAO)
·OSD-PA
Office n~ion of Enemy Combatants (OARDEC)
Office
Cell:
DSN:

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 From:"
Sent: .
To:

Subject:

Ok, are there any of us who is fluent in Japanese? I interviewed with a Japanese magazine, Sapia, on my China
book. They have a spread on it that runs about six pages. Trouble is, I can't read one single symbol. Any ideas?
Thanks. Jed. "

(home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

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From:' JedBa bbin@~~~~~'!V;,tiN/X:1
Sent: . Friday. August 25, 2006 8:31 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr aso PA
Subject: Re: TOday's Rep; The 527 Media

Ok; let's talk.

Jed Babbin
(Home office)
(Mobile)

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From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

~:~~b~~~~~~T!Sg~~j
Sent:
To: 8:28 HI.
Subject: RE: Today's Rep: The 527 Media

Will do. Id love to get Allison on one of your national shows to pitch the freedom walk this year. We have more than 65
communities hosting walks around 9·11 to support our troops and wed love to push people to the website to find their
nearest walk.

From: JedBabbin&l»($)Y"Ntl [majlto;JedBabbln~~.!~~?';v;W; ;i;) ..M

Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:04 AM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Subject: Re: Today's Rep: The 527 Media

0: no worries; on the air til 9 subbing for Bill Bennett. Let's talk after on my cell. Thanks.

Jed Babbin
(Home office)
(Mobile)

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From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Frid9y, August 25,20068:02 PM
To: 'Jed Babbin@~)(l:i);':/iXI
Subject: RE: Today's Rep: The 527 Media

Jed,

J believe I have been remiss in replying to a voicem;;.il from you. What can I get you? Sorry about that I was buried this
~~. ' . ' .

.1.>1111",. B. Lu WI'''Ill''~

These guys will hijack the election if the Repubs don't watch out.

RealClearPolitiC$ - Articles - Taking on the '527 Media'

Jed Babbin
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To many of us, the thought of Communism and Communist's conger up the black and white TV
replays of the McCarthy hearings and Kruschev vs. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. For the
majority of the post WWIl era, until the late 60's, it was virtually impossible for an American politician
to confess to being a Socialist or Communist. Not today folks. Our generation, the "Baby Boomers"
and "Children of the 60's" now calling themselves, Progresses, have succeeded in completely and
totally hijacking the Democratic Party. My deceased father, a retired Gunners mate and Federal
employee, would not recognize the party of the working man. Not that I ever could. For years I have
studied these purveyors of destruction to all that is sacred to America. I recognized years ago, as I
conveyed this week to my friend, Col. David Hunt, that the fabric of the US is in big trouble. Not just
with the nuclear despots we fight abroad but brick by America the Beautiful brick from inside our own
US Congress. These attacks against America are coming from the Congressional Black Caucus and
the leaders of the Democratic Party. I have used a word on radio to describe our enemy inside the
US Congress and the press and many who heard me, cringed as if to say that my descriptions Y.lere
too harsh and wild or off the reservation. For those who feel that it is irresponsible to use the word
Communist to describe members of the US Congress' say, WAKE UP AND SHOW SOME
RESPONSIBILITY. America is falling from within. We all talk about the enemies we face around the
world and those attacking our borders. Yet many are afraid or indifferent to those enemies inside our
borders. Inside our most sacred, hallowed halls, I have included a link to one of the most frightening,
most insightful and well researched articles on this enemy I have read.
. http://www.postchronicle.com/commenta!Y/opinion/article 21219819.shtml It all ties into my buddy,
Jed Babbins article in RCP today http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/08/taking on the
527 media,htmr Jed consistently writes timely. accurate pieces but never have his works been more
timely than today. We cannot let the Communist's stay in congress or in the press. They must be
exposed. Drawn into the light. We fell asleep at the switch and without firing a shot. the Cold War
enemy that President Reagan knocked out, awakened inside our government. I hope that many will
eventual.ly get the message of this takeover/hijacking of an American political party. r am in desperate
need of encouragement of our will to be America the Great.

Take care.
Wayne

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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:34 PM

To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

SUbject: FW: Media Visit Update

Attachments: Country Clearance GTMO (31 Aug 06) DRAFT.doc

Mr. RUff.

Sir, there's sfill no confirmation on a fllg ht despite the fact that the milair request went outlast Friday.

Country clearance message is attached.

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All concerned,

Just want to keep you informed on where we are on the 31 Aug media visit.

If you have any questions, pis let me know.

Thank you,

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GTMO Outreach Update

The miLair request for the Aug. 31 media visit to GTMO went out Friday (A

The current participant list of media (coordinated through DOD PA - LCD

includes six radio

joumalistsand two print journalists.

I've drafted the country/theater clearance but need a mission number and aircraft before we can send the

message. (See attached DRAFT message.)

I'm also checking on whether I can put in another milair request that includes all the other dates after Aug, 31 to

allow early scheduling of the aircraft.

Below are the dates for the other 5 visits. I'll be in touch.

Country C1ellfance
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OUTREACH· Military Analysts and Media Visits to GTMO (Aug - Nov)

The intent is for DOD PA to coordinate the invites and confirm the individuals from the compiled list of

analysts and media. Each trip will include about 10 participants, DOD PA and the DASD DA. The group

leaves from Washington, D.C. and return the same day.

1. Military Analysts - two trips - handled separately from the media visits
27 SEP and
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2. Media Groups - four trips with various media outlets
31 AUG
11 OCT
25 OCT
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Aug. 22 State visit - Amb. Clint Williamson (SWCI)

Aug. 28-29 ASD & DASD DA trip to CentComlSouthCom and GTMO·

Aug. 28 - 1 Sep American Corrections Associations (ACA) visit to GTMO

Aug. 31 MEDIA Visit

Sep.4 Holiday (Labor Day)

Sep.ll 9/11 Fifth Anniversary - Radio Day

Sep. 6 -12 (T) DASD DA TDY

Sep. 18 -19 UK Foreign Affairs visit (T)
Scp.27 MILANALYST Visit

Oct. 11 MEDIA Visit

OCI. IX MILANALYST Visit

Ott. 25 MEDIA Visit

Nov. 1 MEDIA Visit

Nov. 23 Holiday (Thanksgiving)

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Haven't seen the package yet ... ; 1 ' m sure the DSD will sign it once we get it.

Cheers,

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From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD Imailto:Eric.Ruff
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Subject: FW, trip for 3~ Aug

'?::~< ... as you may be aware, cully and osdpa are trying to get more visits into gtmo and have
. ·one·planned for 8/31. as you can ascertain from chito peppler' s email immediately below,
we·have B confirmed media -- mostly talk radio from out of town,

obviously the soone~ they can be told we have an aircraft to fly them from andrews to

gtmo, the better it will be for their ticket purchasing, planning, etc. any chance the

dad can sign the paperwork that bryan del monte mentions in .his email, which is also

below? thanks, eric

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Sent: wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:07 PM

To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

Cc: K~M$l:":'<"'/"·""<>/1 CIV, OASD- PAl Gordon, Jeffrey [) LCPR OSD PA

Subject: FW: trip for 31 Aug

Mr, Ruff,

Currently we have 8 media personnel on the mar.ifest with the majority been radio talk show
hoste (all with ehe exception at Jed Babbin is from out of town and need to purchase plane
tix. )

Sir, in light of the fact that we may not get confirmation on a MlLAIR flight till Monday
or Tues of next week (and only about a week in advance of the 31 Aug GTMO trip), would it
be a good idea to sta~t inviting military analysts who are local and could be more
flexible?

SES, OSD KP>t~Xi!nt:Xjj {)i>, "~ LCDR OSD FA

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The issue was discussed before the Deputy Secretary of Defense today. Policy and GC'have
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 resolved their iseues and J think the memo looks ve~y good. ! think we will likely get the
package up for signatures today or tomorrow and we will have DSD signatures perhaps as
early as Friday. The DSD's office is aware this is coming and will ensure the DSD gets it
as soon as we are complete. I have every confidence that mil-air will be approved.

Until the OSO signs the memo - we should not request mil-air assets as we have not
obtained authority to do so. I do not believe we should 'discuss planes or transportation
until the DSD has put "pen to paper.'

We do not need ~.~". to assist in getting the plane at this time, but thanks. Once we get
the authority -~R~KB sh~uld send the MlLAIR requests to the executive secretary for all
the contemplate trlps and they will begin locating ai~craft. ,. The first trip being the
obvious priority.

Thanks much. Will keep all apprised i f things change.,

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a bout the milair? We can ' t regst or lock anything in
until the memo is signed, right?
Any luck with getting aGe to concur?
Thanks - I'll follow up with a call next break.
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Sent: Wed Aug 16 10,45:38 2006

Subject: RE: WSJ exclusive in~eview request for 31 Aug

I just met wi Mr. Ruff again. We are concerned about not having a flight, yet.
Who is locking ~n our airplane? Would you like me to help make some calls?

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Re: WsJ e~clusive inteview request for 3~ Aug

spoke to GTMO and they can do the 31st, so would prefer that date for the trip.
Gen Hemingway and invite him, but I don't know if he'll be able to go.
'.,," etting on cully' liil ached for the mtg you'rQ guggesting when :r get. baak Thura.

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 Sent: TUe Aug 15 lS:1~:06 2006

SUbject: RB: WSJ exclusive inteview request for 31 Aug

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I,(~>;r::land I just met with Mr. Ruff and we called Mr. ,

This first trip is morphing into a Radio Talk Show Host trip with James Taranto as the
only columnist. Also OSD-PA pelieves that a private interview with RDML Harris is a great
idea. During this time. it may be a good idea to have the JDG and JIG Commanders avail

for radio interviews.

we would also like BGHemingway to fly down to discuss OMC.

We are firming up for the 31st. when can we get a confirmation on the aircraft?

ALso next week, Mr. Ruff would like to meet with Mr. Stimson and/or Mr.
and Mr.
Whitman to discuss the plan of action.

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Re: WSJ exclusive inteview request for 30 Aug

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so you're ahead of the game. Wait on any further inVites pls. I'll get back to you
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Sent: Tue Aug 15 08:12:15 2006

SUbject: FW: WSJ exclusive inteview request for 30 Aug

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What do you think of this request from the WSJ. We are planning on no more than ~O pax on
the 30 Aug flight with the heaviest hitter been James Taranto. SO far, the rest ,are radio
talk show hosts (Perhaps we may have Borne analysts onboard this flight also) .

Will the EDML have time in hi~ packed 5chedule to support a 30 mins - 1 hour private
interview with James Taranto? La this something we want to support? will the rest of the

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media object the exclusivity?

Commitments so far for 30 Aug:

Mark Davis

MarJe Davis Show

Bill LU~laye

Kirby Wilbur

XV! 570 in Seattle.

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James Taranto
wall Street Journal

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From: Taranto, James rmailto,James.Taranto

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SubJect: RE: ne' ay Trip to Guantanamo

I've been talking with my colleagues, and what I'd like to do is a Weekend
wit Adm. Harris. This is a fairly in-depth piece, usually 1,700 to 1,BOO words,
in the Saturday Journal. In case you're not familiar with the form, here are the
done,

Mitt Romney, http;//www.opinionjournal.com/edltorial/£eature.html?id~110007755

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Dick Cheney: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id_l10007B85

i <http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id_110007885>
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Michael Steele: http://www.opinionjournal.com)editorilll/feature.html?id.. llOO08205

<http:)/www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id-110008205>
Ned Lamont: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008373
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id-110008373>
Rep. cnristopher shays: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editoria1/feature.html?id=110008753

Assuming that the Aug. 30 trip goes'on as planned, the idea would be to have this appear
Sept. 9, pegged to the 9/11 anniversary. u~ualiy I like to spend an hour with the subject
of the interview (though the vice president only gave us half an hour), but in this case I
think less time would be necessary since I'd get a lot of material during tne tour. My
question is, would Adm. Harris be able to give me. say, half an hour after the tour tor
follow-up questions? Ideally this would be a private interview:'~Le.. no other journalists
present.

Please let me know if this is workable. In 3ny case, thanks for your help and I'm looking
forward to the trip. Cheers, James

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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:31 PM
To: Taranto, James
Subject: One Day Trip to Guantanamo

Mr. Taranto.

Greeting!l. I am writing to offer the special opportunity to viait the U.S.

Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay. We would be honored to' have you attend a one-day trip
to Guantanamo either on Wednesday, August 30th or on another Wednesday, at your
convenience, in late September through early November 2006 These are the following dates,
27 or 28 Sept, 11 or.12 Oct, 25 or 26 Oct and .1 or 2 Nov 2006.

As the Secretary of Defense and others have noted, Guantanamo is the world's
most transparent detention facility in the history of warfare. As such, the Joint Task
Force has hosted over 1,000 journalists from over 40 countries over the past several
years.

To help ensure that U,S. and international publics have a better appreciation
and understanding of our detention operations and the role they play in the War on Terror,
we routinely conduct tours for a wide variety of press and community leaders. We are
proud of the outstanding work done each day, 365 days a year, by our Sailors, Soldier~,
Airmen and Marines at Guantanamo. They are playing a vital role in helping to keep this
country safe from Al Qaeda, Taliban and their supporters who were picked up on the
battlefield in Afghanistan and vicinity during Operation Enduring Freedom in the aftermath
of 9/11. . .

The tentative media plan would feature a military aircraft departing Andrews
Air Force Base, Maryland, around 7:00 am and return back to Andrews at 5bout 7:30 pm.
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Your tour group consisting of a small group of journalists and Defense Department escorts
would spend roughly six hours in GuantAna~o Bay and ~ould be given a comp~ehensive tour of
the Camp and support facilities.

While on the island, you will be escorted by the ~oint Task Force Commander,
Rear Admiral Harry Harris. Admiral Harris and the JTF staff. will provide a complete tour
of the detention facility to include tours of Carnps 1. 4 and 5 as well as a tour of an
interrogation room, the Detainee Hospital and the food service facilities. There will
also be an oppo~tunity to interview Admiral Harris as well as otber members of his statt,
at your request.

We believe that these round of media trips will be informative, timely and
moat appropriate in light of the 9/11 S-year anniversary and the military commission
legislation debate on Capitol Hill later this year.

Sincerely,

Public Affairs Officer (PAO)

OSD-PA
Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants
(O~DEC)

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Now that we've bought into a fiction, what price shall the enemy exact?

.Jed Babbin
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Subject: RE:Hersh

Jed,

Always good to hear from you!

Hope to get the ChairmanNice Chairman on with you sometime soon, but pushing back on this work
Of unfounded claims and unidentified sources is not best use of their time. Wouldn't want to do
anything to lend credence to the article. or lead your audience to believe this particular piece is taking
away from our leadership's focus on real issues,

Bryan Whitman in OSD PA sent a letter to The New Yorker voicing his concerns with the article,
bas to "fact check" -~ it might be worth giving him a call; I bet he'd discuss it with you.

All the best to you.

Katie

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From: JedBabbin [mallto:JedBabbin~~J~~W(;; :i.' gIl

Sent: Tuesday, August , 2006 7:50 AM

To: Haddock, Ellen Katie), Col, OCJCS/PA

Cc: RUff, Erictl)$}i:X>rRuff, l:rle, SES, 050)

Subject: Hersh

Katie: I'm doing the Hugh Hewitt show again this evening. We started attacking the Hersh piece a
bit and played some of his rant on Hardball,

The New Yorker: Fact

I'd really like to get Gen. Pace, Adm. Giambastiani or Gen. Moseley on the show tonight (6-9 pm,
Salem Radio Net national) to talk about one and only one aspect: that we neither wrote nor forced
upon Israel any part of its war plan. If possible, with one of them, I'd also like to show - from the
military theory side - why any bombing campaign in Lebanon (with F-15s and F-16s) WOUldn't be a
dress rehearsal for anything about Iran. We can also repeat what the SECDEF and Prez have
said that we have no plans to do any such thing to Iran.

Please let me know asap, Best, Jed.

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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:01 AM
To: Ruff, EriC. SES. OSD
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Eric: I know the Prez is there today, but would you like to come on Hewitt's show tomorrow? I'm hearing that
the SASe staffers have screwed with the budget so badly the Army may not be able to write checks in the last
tWQ weeks of September. Lemme know. Best, Jed.

Jed Babbin

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Sent: Friday, August 11, 200611:15 AM I

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SUbject: Brookes NY Post op-ed: "The Otoer Enemy: Lessons of the Latest Plot"

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August 11. 2006 - THE British busting up of a terrorist plot - one that was within days of blowing up as many
I as 10 U.S. airliners somewhere over the Atlantic· demonstrates once again that we have two enemies in the
Waron Terror: terrorists and our own complacency.
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I Just shy offlveyears since 9/11, the sad reality is that the "Long war" 9gsinslterror;sm sure looks to be far
from over. In fact, the British investigation is still ongoing, which means we're not oul of the woods on even this
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But this latest terrorist conspiracy, described by British authorities as an act to commit "mass murder on an

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unimaginable scale," screams at us to pay attention to some new - and enduring. lessons 3S we continue
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fighting terrorism both at home and abroad.

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the 20-plus arrestees are British citizens of Pakistani origin - that is, "homegrown," like last year's 7/7 London

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Osama bin laden is much more of a wOlldwide inspiration to his disciples than an active commander directing

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Second: Our first line of defense is good, actionable intelligence. That definitely inclUdes the most vigoro~s
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collection and analysis of foreign': and domestic - terrorist-related information that our laws and values WIll
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The foiling of this plot clear1y shows the importance· and wisdom - behind well-crafted intelligence programs
like the NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program and the trackIng of terrorist·related international financial
transactions, among others.

Third: In.ternatlonal intelligence and law-enforcement cooperation is a force mUltiplier in fighting terrorism. The
U.S.lUK collaboration in foiling this terrorist operation is well known. But early reports indicate that the
Lon"on terror cell(s) had tlesinlo Pakistan as well. (Nosurpriee there.) It appears that Pakistan's Interservices I
.~ .... Intelligence (lSI) may have pitched In to help scuttle this plot; stUI, concerns about lSI's loyalties remain, I
Fourth: AI Oaeda and its acolytes continue to evolve their operational techniques, including becoming I
increasingly sophisticated in their evil handiwork. I
This plot Is a good example: These terrorists reportedly planned to smuggle undetedable components such as I
"liquid explosive IngredJents and detonating devices disguised as beverages, electronic deVices, and other I
common objects" aboard the targeted aircraft.
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That looks similar to a mid-'90s al Oaeda operation code-namedBojinka hatched out of the Philippines to bring I
down 10 or so U,S planes over the Pacific. But these new techniques were meant to evade post·9111
security. I
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You can't help but wonder whether any airport screeners ·In Britain or anywhere else· would have been able
to prevent the execution of this sophisticated plot if it hadn't been interrupted before it went into action. I
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Bottom line? Complacency about terrorism is deadly. We're still SQuarely in the terrorists' cross-hairs. Hopes
ana Wishes that terrorism is something that happens overseas, or was limited to the horrors of 9/11. are clearly I
unfounded. I
And we have to be more imaginative and innovative in our defense than the terrorists are on offense, For
instance, we need new seCurity procedures, education and technologies that can detect and prevent "copycat"
terrorist attacks, especially overseas.
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Of course, being on the offense againsl the terrorists· using all the "hard" and "soft" instruments of national
I power, and in cooperation with Intemational partners - is our best defense, whether It's in Iraq, Afghanistan,
I the Horn of Africa or southern Lebanon.

I This may not be the last of the terror plots meant to occur on or near the fifth anniversary of 9111 by al Oaeda
I or 31 Qaeda-wsnnabes. It certainly won't be the last terrorist scheme we will face in our lifetimes,

I Yesterday saw a clear win in the War on Terror, probably preventing the death of as many as 4,000 trans­
I Atlantic air travelers. But view!)' in fighting terror often isn't final - and complacency can kill.

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j'd like to reverse the order for the first trip down. seems to me that we really need to have columnists in the august trip
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because there is gOing to be a good deal of discussion aboutdeta\niees. the commission process, value of gtmo, etc when
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congress returns and likely begins discu:lsing the hamdan situation. there have already been hearings on the matter since
the supreme court decision and we should expect further hearings,

I also, the military analysts, for the most part. have been to gtmo, my recollection is that we've had at least two analysts'
trips down. i'm all In favor of more going in, but we should be thinking about opinion leaders and influencers for the short
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CDR and all concerned,

I hope that the attached win clarify what we're trying to do with the upcoming outreach visits. I appreciate your help in
hosting these groups.

Pis let me know If you have questions or input. I will be attending the PA conference next week, so we can also discuss
the visits there.

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Subject: RE: Guantanamo trips

JO,

Rear Admiral Harris is eager to host these high-visibility visits. Starting August 30, we have every Wednesday open. If
you have other specifiC dates you want us to consider. lei us know, but we can start fiiling in those Wednesdays.

As you xnow, we treat our military analyst Visits as OWNS visits· other than the security level of the aUdience, the
program is essentially the same as we would give a COOEL or governor. From arrival on deck to the briefing to the
tour. the admiral accom anies the group. So it Is vital thaI we de-conflict the schedule 50 we don't have another DV
visit scheduled. l TC~)':(~JY<;:ii;rXg> our JVB director, is copied. Please include her in all correspondence regarding
these visits. Below my Signature ock, I have copied a list of logistic and administrative reqUirements. Ideally, we like
to have all of the paperwork done 10 days prior.

These visits are incredibly valuable and pay enormous dividends. We want to do these right and give .them the .
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CDR USN

Director of Public Affairs, JTF GTMO

This is the email sent whenever we get at DV group that is planning to come to GTMO:

I need to have the following information immediately: complete names, titles. gradelrank/rating,

. biographical sketches and security clearance level of all individuals traveling to JTF-GTMO. This

will help me in designing the itinerary for your visit and in making lodging arrangements for each

visitor.

Per DoD policy. all visits to JTF-GTMO must obtain Secretary of Defense approval and be pre­
coordinated with Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs (DASD­
DA) via memorandum or message traffic. The request will include the names, titles
and number
of personnel requesti . '. t ferred date or window for the visit
~~1i~ii:}i;;m'?a~~s~lr'~~~!:~~~'~~~i~I~;)jgi~~::~~, .. nd ma be contacted ::a
minimum of 10 days prior to the intended date of vj~it. The Commander, has
ultimate
approval authority on all visits. The size of the group is not to exceed 10 individuals.

All visitors must obtain Country and Theater Clearances via message traffic. Country and
Theater Clearance cannot be assumed. Any visitor arriving at GTMO without proper clearance
will be restricted from access to JTF GTMO operations and sites. The process for clearances is
outlined on the NIPRNet at: http://www.fcg.pentagon.mil or via the SIPRNet at:
http://www.fcg.pentagon.smil.mil Further instructions on how to request Country and Theater
Clearances are included DOD 4500.54~G, DOD Foreign Clearance Guide, North and South
America, Reference D.

Country Clearance: The Commander, ~\TF GTMO, approves all visits to JTF-GTMO. The JTF­
GTMO Operations Directorate (JTF-GTMO. J3) coordinates country clearance request through
NAVBAS TMO operations. Country Clearance P Cs are:J~rF-GT 0 Operations Directorate
at,:~~~rj and the Naval Base Operations at '. ' .

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Theater Clearance: Clearance granted by the Commander, US Southern Command, for official

D~D travel to military installations within his geographical area of responsibility is approved by the

USSOUTHCOM Deputy Chief of Staff. The USS()UI~C9M~9(~forJTF·GTMO visit requests

is the SC Detainee Affairs Coordination Team at:~;~I§';:::A,H;'::;;>:;:'<' The USSOUTHCOM

POC for Theater Clearances is the Theater Clearance Manager,

Air Transportation: I do not get involved with the flight reservations.. Air transportation will be by
US ()vernmentair. . ili r ized by 000 to access NAVBASE GTMO.
Cap~~&~I{iB\rHi\,)i~~;;M%WF: can provide information on US government .
air. 'or clvlla.n
contrac alrera ynx IT Ines (www.lynxalr.com) or Air Sunshine (
www.airsunshine.com) .

Onceyou have your flight. I need the following information:

Arrival

Aircraft Type

Mission Number

Call Sign

Tail Number

Departing from ????? at ????

Arriving GTMO

Departure

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Mission Number

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Tail Number
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Envision we may want to consider giving priority to key columnists and TV personalities right now, given the 9111

I anniversary approaching as well as military commission legislatiof"! being debated on the Hill in the late

September/early October timeframe.

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detention operations at Guantanamo. What do we hope to achieve with these visits?
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GTMO OUTREACH

Pumose:

According to a DepSecDef memo (to follow), an outreach plan to increase GTMO

transparency was developed by OSD Public Affairs, in coordination with Detainee

Affairs and the DoD Office of the General Counsel. The plan includes invite!; to military

analysts and media outlets other than those who have already visited GTMO.

OSD PA will coordinate the invites and wi!! ensure required documentation including

country and theatre clearances are coordinated with SQUTIICOM.

Suggested timeframes:

The intent is for DOD PA to coordinate the invites and continn the individuals from the

compiled list of analysts and media (Tab A). Each trip will include about 10 participants,

DOD PA and the DASD DA. The group would leave from Washington, D.C. and return

the same day.

J. Military Analysts - two trips - handled separately from the media visits
31 AUG - (30 Aug is a lesser option if necessary)
and
19 or 19 OCT .

2. Media Groups - four trips with various media outlets

27 or 28 SEP
11 or 12 OCT
25 or 26 OCT
lor 2 NOV

Coordinatiop:

DOD(PA) and Detainee Affairs will coordinate details of each visit with the Joint Staff,

SOUTHCOM. JTF GTMO (the JVB and Public Affairs Offices) and appropriate:: DoD

agencies. We understand that operational events may require scheduling of proposed

dales. However, for proper planning, SOUTHCOM and JTF GTMO should review the

above dates and indicate any other possible scheduling conflicts.

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Think Tanks <Militarv Analysts)
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Edwin J. Feulner, President. Heritage Foundation

Ed Meese HI. Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman.

Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

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Clifford May, President. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
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Andrew McCarthy. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
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Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy
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John O'Sullivan. Hudson Institute
Anne Bayefsky, Hudson Institute I
Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute 1
Michael Rubin,AEI
Fred Kagan, AEI
David Frum, AEI
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Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute

I Helena Cobban
Brad Berenson, Sidley & Austin (former Associate White House counsel)
I Joe Reeder, Greenberg Traurig (former Under Secretary of the Anny)
Matt Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
I Charles "Chuck" J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk
Glenn Sulrnasy, United States Coast Guard Academy
I Leonard Leo, Ex.ecutive Vice President, The Federalist Society
David RiVkin, Baker & Hostetler, (CFIt and fonner WH Counsel)

I Lee Casey. Baker & Hostetler, (former DOJ Office of Legal Counsel Reagan admin)

I Print Media
I Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard

I Charles Krauthammer, Weekly Standard

Benny Avni, New York Sun

I Max Doot, Los Angeles Times

Ann Coulter, Human Events

John Fund, Wall Street Journal

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 Claudia Rosett, Wall Street Journal Online
Daniel Ht:nniger, Wall Street Journal
Rob Pollock, Wall Street Journal
James Taranto, Wall Street Journal

Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times

Cal Thomas, Washington Times

Mark Steyn, Freelance

Rich Lowry, National Review

Kate O'Beime, National Rt:view
Jay Nordlinger, National Review

Radio Talk Show Hosts

Bill Bennett (Salem Radio)

Marc Bernier (Florida)

Jim Bohannon (Westwood One)

Neal Boortz (Cox Radio)

Linda Chavez (Liberty Broadcasting)

Blanquita Cullum (Radio America)

Penna Dexter (Radio America)

Orej!g Garrison (WIBC Indianapolis)

Ken Hamblin (Westwood One)

Laura lngraharn (Talk Radio Network)

G. Gordon Liddy (Radio America)

Rush Limbaugh (Premier Radio Network)

Alan Nathan (Radio America)

Janet Parshal1 (Salam Radio)

Michael Reagan (Radio America)

Kirby Wilbur (KVI Seattle)

Mark Levin (WABC) (President and Founder of the Landmark Legal Foundation)

(Former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese Ill)

Television

Lou Dobbs (CNN)

Sean Hannily (FOX)

Britt Hume (FOX)

Lawrence Kudlow (CNBC)

Joe Scarborough (MSNBC)

John Kasich (FOX)

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From: JedBabbln

Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:21 PM I

To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

Cc: Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA

Subject: Casey I

Ju.~t got a turn-down from Casey. Any shot at getting Conway? \

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Sent: ThurSda~, August ,006 1:01 PM
To: fp){$;l?,U\jY/:/J;;';)h};,\. ..............."'ii/i/:X;iK!/(%<?;i>n
Cc: Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA; Ruff, Eric, SES, bSD
SUbject: Re: lUI RE: Question

:'!'i:,::':; Any decision yet? Please let me know when you can. Best, Jed.

. f~, home office)

horne fax)

mobile)

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From: JedBaobin @~;~,t~*);:i;!;;!'m
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:40 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject: Re: Question

Not yet; still hoping. Can you help?

.Jed Babbin
home office)
horne fax)
(mobile)

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 From:' Gordon, Jeffrey D LeDR OSD PA

sent: Thursday, August 10. 2006 11 :31 AM

To: Ruff. E;ric, SES, OSD

SUbject: RE: Guantanamo trips

Thanks sir. we'll keep talking.

VIR,

JD

From: Ruff, Eric, 5ES, 050

Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:12 AM

To: Gordon, Jeffrey D LCDR OSD PA

Subject: RE: Guantanamo trips

good job. jd. thanks for the folo thru

Frcm: Gordon, Jeffrey 0 \.CDR QSD PA

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Cc: Stimson, Charles D. (Cully), CIV, OSD-POlICY; Whitman,Bryan SES ry L Col OSD PAj,

Kq~{~XC»;V;),P5D PA; Ruff, Ertc, SES, OSD; Peppler, Chito lCDR OSD PA; IV, OASD-PA ..

Subject: FW: Guantanamo trips

Wale ready to gel the ball rolling for invites, envision the first several trips ought to focus on important columnists/media
personalities in light of the 9111 anniversary and military commission legislation debate in SepUOct timeframe.

Do we have the details available on the plane yet? 10·pax per trip, leaving from ... 7

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Best,

JOG

JD,

Rear Admiral Harris is eager to host these high-visibility visits. Starting August 30, we have every Wednesday open. If you
have other specific dates you want us to consider, let us know, but we can start filling in those Wednesdays.

As you know, we treat our military analyst visits as DV/JVB visits - other than the security level of the <ludience, the
program is essentially the same as we would give a CODEL or governor. From arrival on deck to the briefing to the tour,
the admiral accomijanies the grOlJp So it is vital that we de-conflict the schedule so we don't have another DV visit
schedUled. LTc~~HWhii;;i/(AI our JVB director, is copied Please include her In all correspondence regarding these Visits
Below my signature block, , have copied a list of logistic and administrative requirements. Ideally, we like to have a" of the
paperwork done 10 days prior.

These visits are incredibly valuable and pay enormous dividends. We want to do these right and give them the command
attention they deserve. Anything you can do to schedule them in advance ;s greatly appreCiated.

I will address the foreign press in a separate email.

Vr,

CDR USN

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Director of Public Affairs, JTF GTMO

ThIS is the email sent whenever we get at OV group that is planning to come to GTMO:

r need to have the following information immediately: complete names, titles, gradefranklrating,
biographical sketches and security clearance level of all individuals traveling to JTF-GTMO. This will
help me in designing the itinerary for your visit and in making lodging arrangements for each visitor.

Per DoD policy, all visits to JTF-GTMO must obtain Secretary of Defense approval and be pre­
coordinated with Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs (DASD·DA)
via memorandum or message traffic. The request will include the names, titles and number of
personnel reqUestin~ to visit; pur~ose of he vis' . d the referred date or window for the visit.
~g~~'~Ag~n~i~~~~ ~f$!;~f~~;~~:'~~~~i~ c\, ..... ... . a ..... : and be contacted a~t a minimum
~f10d;y;'p;ior to the intended date of vi;~' . e ommander, JTF-GTMO has ultimate approval
authority on a/I visits_ The size of the group is not to exceed 10 individuals.

All visitors must obtain Country and Theater Clearances via message traffic. Country and Theater
Clearance cannot be assumed. Any visitor arriving at GTMO without proper clearance will be
restricted from access to JTF GTMO operations and sites. The process for clearances is outlined on
the NIPRNet at: http://www.fcg.pentagon.mil or via the SIPRNet at:
httg://www.fcg.pentagon.smil.mil Further instructions on how to request Country and Theater
Clearances are included DOD 4500.54-G, DOD Foreign Clearance Guide, North and South Amenca,
Reference D.

Country Clearance: The Commander, JTF GTMO, approves all visits to JTF-GTMO. The JTF­
GTMO Operations Directorate (JTF-GTMO. J3) coordinates country clearance (equest through
NAY~~~E:.('3"f\1J10 operations_ Country Clearance POCs are: JTF-GTMO Operations Directorate at
e;:"liS;';);l::;;i!@;if'!.:'i\i!and the Naval Base Operations at

Theater Clearance: Clearance granted by the Commander, US Southern Command, for official
DoD travel to military installations within his geographical area of responsibility is approved by the
USSOUTHCOM Deputy Chief of Staff. The USSOUTHCOM POC for JTF-GTMO visit requests is
the SC Detainee Affairs Coordination Team The USSOUTHCOM POC for
Theater Clearances is the Theater Clearance Manager,

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 Air Transportation: I do not get involved with the flight reservations. Air transportation will be by US
,overnment air or civilian contract aircraft authorize? bX DoD tO,access NAV8ASE GTM,O. Capt~~.~~~z':l
·~)k can provide InformatIon on US government aIr, For ..
CIVllan eon rae alrera con ae: ynx Ir (VMW.lynxair.com) or Air Sunshine (
www.airsunshine.com)

Once you have your flight, I need the following information:

Arrival

Aircraft Type

Mission Number

Call Sign

Tail Number

Departing from ????? at ????

Arriving GTMO

Deearture

Aircraft Type

Mission Number

Call Sign

Tail Number

Departing GTMO

Photography: Close filming and photography of detention operations is not permitted, Personal
cameras are prohibited during the DV visjt program.

Should you need additional information or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Director, Joint Visitors Bureau \
Joint Task FOr1;& GTMO
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Gentlemen,

I Greetings, Can we please get a quick status update on proposed dates for selected media personalitiesflhinl\ tank analyst
trips to Guantanamo? Once we get those dates. we can start inviting folks on the attached list, as discussed with OSD
I Detainee Affairs and OGe.

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Envision we may want to consider giving priority 10 key columnists and TV personalities fight now, gwen the 9/11
anniversary approaching as well as military commission legislation being debated on the Hill in the late September/early
I October timeframe.

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Also. I noticed on the JTF current media visit calendar also attached below, we have the PRe's official state newspaper
People's Daily as welles BBC Arabic, and several German, an Italian and Canadian media outlet on the list for the end of
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this month, As we know, many of the foreign press have been among the most biased against our detention operations at
Guantanamo, What do we hope to achieve with these visits?
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The media's bias isn't the problem. That we can deal with readily. But the stories that are contrived
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From;' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: VVednesda:t August 09, 2006 2:40 PM ..
To: ~bm;"i;;;;tit;·11 CIV, OASD-PA;~~~~X::;;::";;}i:H'(ilCIV, OASD-PA
Subject: RE: analyst trip to i r a q · · · · " "

Please call and do not email.

From~~~~~?';:!/fi{mH\::cml QV, OASD-PA

Sent: Wednesday, August 09,2006 2:26 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PAi' av, OASD-PA
SUbject: analyst trip to Iraq

woutd you mind looking oller the following email to the analysts and ~ettlng me Know if you have any
suggestions/comments? this is just the "anyone interested/available?" email going to the a-list (included at the end). there
are 16 total. we can only take 10. the advantage of getting this set so early is that more will be able to keep their calendars
clear. the disadvantage is that more of them will be able to keep their calendars clear! :)

we are slill very light on the details, but the call with iraq today was all about getting country/theater clearance submitted.
i've kept the language vague on purpose; not having a final decision on whether we would like to try for iraq and
afghanistan. since this is just the initial email, i don't think we need to have thai nailed down just yet. agreed?

i told iraq j'd be able to have a list in the next couple of days. hope to get responses compiled from everyone by friday and
proceed with the message before you leave. dave.

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Gentlemen,

We are beginning to work out the dates and movements for a trip into the CENTCOM AOR We are currently looking at
taking the trip surrounding the weekend of Sept. 16th. The details have not yet been worked out, but the trip will likely
leave CON US the night of the 14th and return the morning of the 22nd Of 23rd, depending 011 how many stops we mak.e.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you are available and interested in making this trip.

Because we are limited in the number of analysts we can bring, the invitation has not been extended to everyone.
Therefore, this invitation is not transferable and we ask that you do not share with anyone that you have been invited. In
addition, we will not be able to accomodate everyone who receives this invitation.

I wUI be back In touch with you as soon as possible as details become available. We appreciate your fleXibility as we plan
these tdps.

here's who i will send to (unless i hear otherwise from you):

Colonel Ken Allard (USA. Retired) MSNBC

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF, JAG, DUSD) American Spectator, Rep

General Wayne Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) NBC

Colonel John Garrett (USMC. Retired)

Brigadier GenerElI David Grange (USA, Retired) CNN

Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA, Retired) MSNBC

General Jack Keane (USA, Retired) ABC

Lieutenant Colonel. Robert MaginnIs (USA, Retired) National radio and tv

Major General James "Spider" Mafks (USA, Retired) CNN

Dr. Jeff McCausland, Colonel (USA, Retired) CBS

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) Fox News

Captain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired) Fox News

Major General Robert Scales (USA, Retired) Fox News

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Major General Don Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN

Mr, Wayne Simmons (CIA. Retired) Fox News,

Mr. Bing West (USMC, ASD) National Review

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 From:' . Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Sent: Wednesday. August 09.2006 1:24 PM
To: Lawrence. Dallas Mr OSD PA!ipi;~s\.{Hi;fi;!i1;;i'j}CIV.OASD-PA
Subject: FW; Military Analysts trip 12,··,,,·····+,·,·<,j .

Attachments: Think Tank List (Aug 06).doc

We need to help coordinate this trip for the analysts, .. we might have to help with all of these trips.. and since we know
how to do it. 'et's make it easy for those who don't.., .

" Please follow up with " , ' to see what the plan needs 10 be.. : we also need to add cal Thomas to the trip.. per eric.
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Eric volunteered to go so might have to cheCk dates)

Thanks

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'From~~M~!0~?;;!;li:ii'(':"~;t:;f :;!!ifCIV, 05D-POLICY

Sent: Wednesday, August 09,20061:04 PM

To: Barber, Allfson Ms 05D PA

SUbject: Military Analysts trip

Allison,

As we discussed:

The military analyst trip that was postponed for late August could occur Aug. 30 or 31 (Wed or Thurs).

If we should only offer the one day over the other. that's fine. I just wanted to provide an option in terms of getting the best

partici pation.

The attached list can be expanded ~ so fee' free to add names to the list and I'll find out if we have more as well. If we

could get 9-~O of them to commit to going on this trip, that would be great.

~
"hi nk Tank list (Aug

06).doc (...

Thanks again for the help. I'm working on dates for an additional milanalyst trip in sept/Oct/early Nov, so whoever can't go

on this trip maybe could go on the next one.

The intent is to do about 5-6 trips to GTMO total - the remaining would be media visits.

Pis give me a call if you need any other Info. I know Mr. Stimson has talked personally to the following individuals. but

with the earlier August proposed Visit. So now we would need to reconnect and offer the new date(s).

David Rivkin (~l'!t};;M;;j%!M\i:1 and Lee A. Casey (Illave their DOB and SSNs)

via Patricia ThomaOZ:Si=======

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available -3 S, 12·15, 18,20-22.26-27 & Oct. 5-6

Cliff May ( c l i f f " " " , , , , I have DOB and SSN)

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 Think Tanks

Edwin J. Feulner, President. Heritage Foundation

EU Meese III, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chainnan,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

Clifford May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Andrew McCarthy, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy

John O'Sullivan, Hudson Institute

Anne Bayefsky, Hudson Institute

Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise institute

Michael Rubin, AEI
Fred Kagan, AEI
David Frum, AEI

Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute

Print Media

Fred Bames, Weekly Standard

Bill Kristo!. Weekly Standard
Charles Krauthammer. Weekly Standard

Benny Avni, New York Sun

Max Boot, Los Angeles Times
Ann Coulter, Human Events

John Fund, Wall Street Journal

Claudia Rosett, Wall Street Journal Online
Daniel Henniger, Wall Street Journal
Rob Pollock, WallStrt:el Journal
James Taranto, Wall StreetJournal

Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times

Cal Thomas, Washington Times

Mark Steyn, Freelance

Rich Lowry, National Review

Kate O'Beirne, National Review
Jay Nordlinger. National Review

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From:' /'C'::::)!!!):, CIV, OASD-PA

Sent: ednes ay, August 09,200610:41 AM I
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Cc: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA I
Subject: FW: This is the item Mr. Smith asked about the other day

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Thought you'd like to know that Jed Babbin has posted the letter after your team sent it around to the analysts. We will
see if others have too. I

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sent: WednesdaYcAugust 09, 2006 10:37 AM j
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Subject: This is the item Mr. Smith asked about the other day

Looks like It's cirCUlating around on the blogs - but hasn't yet appeared in the Post?

http://wv.w.realclearoolitics.comJblogf2006/08fageneralfedupwiththemsm.html

I
A General Fed Up With The MSM - Jed Babbin
I

I
There is so much mis-reporting about the successes of Iraq, even our generals sometimes get fed up sufficiently
to write a letter to one of the offending papers. The Washington Post is one of the chief offenders, and has been
I
for years. (ffyou have any doubts about it, see the ravings of WaPo Pentagon reporter Tom Ricks posted ill.
YCjlerduy's-fq.w(;:I'Line.)
I
The latest offense by the Washington Post is another example of news manufacturing concocting stories in
I contravention of facts. Here's tbe letter Gen. Bi II McCov - who's in charge of construction projects in Iraq _.:. sent
to the Washington Post on Sunday. They haven't printed it yet. Will they ever?
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I
Sunday, 06 August 2006
I
Maj, Gen. William H. McCoy Jr.
I To the editor of the Washington. Post,

I After spending almost three days traveling with and being interviewed by one of the co-writers of a very
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poorly written article ("Much UnJone in Rebuilding Irag, A\jdit savs", Washington Post, August 2, 2006).
I'm astounded at how distorted a good story can become and what agenda drives a paper to see only the bad
siqeto the reconstruction effort here in Iraq. Instead of distoI'ling the facts, let's get to the truth.

There is no flailing reconstruction effort in Iraq. The United States has rightfully invested $20 billion in
Iraq's reconstruction - in the opinion of many here, we should do more. This massive undertaking is part of a
wider strategy for success in Iraq that involves the establishment of a democratic government, the
development of professional Iraqi security forces, and the restoration of basic essential services and facilities
to promote the sustained economic development ofthis new country.

Yes, this reconstruction effoI'l has been challenged occasionally by security, poor materials, poor
construction program management practices, and in some cases poor perfonnance by contractors for a
variety of reasons. The Department of State and Defense professionals over here, many of them civilian
volunteers, and the Iraqi associates who risk their lives every day to have a future that approximates what
America has today, continuously see the challenges and develop and implement solutions. This is a core part
of managing construction anywhere in the world and, while somewhat more complex here, it is successfully
being accomplished. Have we been guilty of poor planning and mismanagement? The answer to that is, at
times, yes. But professionals constantly strive to overcome challenges that arise and we are succeeding and "I
making Iraq better every dayr

The heart of the article rests on several old statements by the Special Investigator General for Iraq
Reconstruction which infer these are recent or recurring problems. The SIGIR knows that, in fact, program
management, construction quality, progress, and accountability have all improved significantly since the
early days of the effort some three years ago. Yet, the reporters' "project problems" comments infer that
these are recent issues. Such actions inflame public opinion in the United States and create resentment by
the very people so many conscientious Americans ever here are trying to help here in Iraq and worse,
embolden our very enemies.

When I arrived here a year ago we planned to complete 3,200 reconstruction projects. Today we are focusing
on the completion of 3,700 projects. We've started 3,500 of those projects and completed almost 2,800...and
work is continuing! This is not a failure to meet our commitment to the Iraqi people as the article states. In
some cases we are not executing the same projects - we have changed to meet new priorities of three
government changes in Iraq since our arrival - but in all cases, rest assured, these projects will be completed,
We discussed this at length with the reporter...and he was taking notes and recording our conversations..

We told the reporter that, while 141 health clinic construction projects were taken away from a U.S.
contractor who failed to perfonn, they were re-awarded to Iraqi contractors who are already demonstrating
progress, have improved quality and shown their great desire to work with the United States to help Iraq
improve ." and they are d()ing so phenomenally!

We did talk to the reporter about on electricity. Three-quarters of Iraq gets twice as much electricity today as
they did before the war. Furthennore, we are working with the Minister of Electricity 10 improve the
situation in Baghdad daily and have doubled the hours of power from four to eight in the capitol in the last
six months in spite of the tact that demand is markedly increased with Iraqis' new ability to buy personal
electrical products.

What is truly amazing to me is that we took the reporter to the Nasiriyah prison project and, while it is true
that we terminated the prime U.S. contractor for failure to perfonn. the Iraqi sub-contractor continues to
work there (now directly for us) and his progress and quality have improved significantly ... and he saw that!
We are not turning unfinished work over to the Iraqis as he stated in his article; we are fulfilling the U.S.
commitment to the people oflraq and using Iraqis to do it!

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The reporter didn't tell you about the hundreds of dedicated military and civilian professionals he saw over
here working to make Iraq better, or the Iraqis who come to work every day at their own peri! because they
believe in what we, and they, are accomplishing together.

He failed to tell you about Aseel or Salah who worked for the Corps of Engineers since we arrived in 2003,
because they wanted to make their country like ours, but who were recently brutally murdered itt the streets
because they worked for the Americans.
",

He never wrote about the Water Treatment Plant he visited that will provide fresh potable water to over half
a million people in southem Iraq in just two more months, or the one in northern Iraq that is providing water
for the 330,000 citizens of Irbi!.

He never told folks back home about the thousands of children that are now in 800 new or rebuilt schools, or
about oil production now being back to pre-war levels and getting better everyday, or raw sewage being
taken out of the streets and put back in the pipes where it belongs. or about the thousands 'of miles of new
roads, or post offices, police stations or courthouses or... well, he just left a great deal out now, didn't he?

Why?

Perhaps it's because some in the press don't want the American people to know the truth and prefer instead
to only report the negative aspects of the news because "it sells papers."

We deserve better from those who claim the protection of the Constitution we are fighting to support and
defend.

America, don't give up. You are doing much better over here than all too many of your press will
tell you, If you are tired of fighti.,g for freedom and democracy for those who so strongly long for
I the country we have, then think of the alternatives for a moment. Iraq will be better for our efforts
and so will the world. And you are making it happen. Be proud and keep supporting this vital
I effort. It is the most important thing America can do.

I
Thank you. I invite you and your staff to come over at any time to get the facts. I took a risk with Mr.
Mosher and obviously got what I consider to be a very unbalanced representation of what he saw,
personally. But I still believe in general in the press and will always be open to helping you teU a balanced
I story, .

I Essayons! Deliverance!

I Maj. Gen. Bill McCoy

Commanding General
I Gulf Region Division
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

I Multi.Nationai Force-Iraq

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Subject:

HiJ!&~I;1 we're in the outline process now. Still waiting for some info that JTF GTMO agreed to provide. Hope to have
that soon,

We will undoUbtedly have some follow on interview requests once the outline is approved and the chapters begin to fall
into place. There may be requests for specific unclass documentation. It is highly likelv that we will need to make one
more trip to the facility prior to going final. Cross checking detailS, adding stories, that sort of thing.

Doubleday is the publisher.

As always, we could only do this project with your help and it has proven Invaluable.

All the best, Gordon

----- Ori~il1al Message ----- ,

From~t\~l:'i;\!,g:;~~F':::'::il CIV, OASD-PA

To: Vallely, Malar General Paul: Gordon Cucullu ; Gordon Cucullu

Cc: Ruff, Eric, SES, aso

Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:21 AM

Subject: gitmo book

good morning gentlemen,

i wanted to check on the status of the gitmo book and see if there was anything else you need from dod? please

let me know what i can do to help and where you are in the process. if you could also remind me which publisher

you decided to go with, that would be great.

ho e you are both doing very well and having a great summer,

050 Public Affairs

... nity Relations and Public Liaison
;(1 The Pentagon
Washin ton, D.C. 20301

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From: JedBabbjn~Rl<t?,:£1\!i&:!1e1
Sent: Tuesday, August 08. 2006 10:48 AM
To: Whitman. Bryan SES OSD PA
Cc: Ruff, Eric. SES. 080; Jonas, Tara, elV. OASO-PA;
Subject: Re: Question

Brian: Many thanks. I'll check back with you and Col.
as we get closer to the dates. Best.

Jed.

Jed Babbin
;~;~q'" (Home office)
. (Mobile)

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To:
Cc; CIV,OASD·PA; COL MNFI CMD GRP

. Subject:
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I'll check on Gen Casey -~ for Khalilzad we will have to find you the right person at State to
I hook you up with. By way of this email.IhaveccdCO·wholshispersonal.PA
and will be able to work tne Casey request directly.
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To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSDi Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA"",,,, '{;. eN, OASD-PA
I Subject: Question .

I EriclBryanl*%!jj I'm subbing for Bill Bennett on his "Morning in America" program (nationally, Salem
Radio Net) on 24 and 25 AuglJst. It runs 0600-0900 EDT. That works, Ilhink, to 1400·1700 Baghdad
I time. How can I go about getting Gen. Casey or Amb. Khalilzad on one of those days? Best, Jed.

Jed Babbin
I Home office)

Mobile)

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To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSO; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD CIV, OASD·PA
SUbject: FYI

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Bryan SES OSO PA; Ruff, Eric, SES, OSO; ThOrp.
Frank RDML aSD PA; Barber, Allison Ms aso PA; Keck, Gary L Col OSD PA; Turner,
James, CIV, OASD-PA; Ballesteros Marl< J LTC OASD-PA VicJao, Todd M LlCol OSD PA:
Carpenter, Joseph LCOR . S . ;:""'':'':'i'}::XY? apt OSD PA; Latimer,
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Attachments: 08-07.06 military analyst call. doc

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analyst calL..

Attacned is the military analyst transcript from today's phone call,

Per instructions, the speakers on these transcripts will now be identified as "briefer'
rather than by their name.

This call was on background, with the speaker to be identified as a senior military
official.
Questions please see me or

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From;' Barner, Allison Ms OSD PA
Sent: Monday, August 07,20067;05 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
SlJbJBct: FW MilAnalysts Trip

Attachments: Think Tanks LIST (July 06),doc

Hi
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~~;~;~~tgJ:;\\::;!;;&~r~i;1;Ni:~';;1 av, OSD·POLICY

Sent: Monday, August 07, 200tk~fg~1
To: ~arber, Allison Ms ~SD PA i{";,00</@BJIiM? eIV, OASD-PA
SubJect: MUAnalysts Trrp

AllisonB~~:~~0;;i;]:RI
Thanks agaIn for your participation In Friday's JDCC,
Since the military analyst trip for this week has been delayed, and we're working on the bigger plan that this trip would be a
pari of, would you be able to help coordinate with the mil analysIs for this trip? (I've attached the list discussed and agreed
to between Cul.ly, Mr. Smith, Bryan Whitman, and Mr. Haynes.) You both have far more expertise in this area and your
input would be appreciated. Are we missing names? Pis. let me know your thoughts and availibility to assist. I would think
that out of the 5 - 6 proposed Visits, at least two should be used for military analysts. I'm off to a meeting but will try to call
later. I'm also checking with SouthCom on the dates for the other visits.
Th k QU. .
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Think Tanks LIST

(July 05).doc;...

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 Think Tanks (Military Analysts)

Edwin J. Feulner, President, Heritage Foundation

Ed Meese III, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman,
Center for Legai and Judicial Studies

Clifford May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Andrew McCarthy, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Frank Gaftney, Center for Security Policy

John O'Sullivan, Hudson Institute

Anne Bayefsky, Hudson Institute

Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute

Michael Rubin, AEJ
Fred Kagan, AEI
David Frum, AEI

Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute

Print Media

Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard
Charles Krauthammer, Weekly Standard

Benny Avni, New York Sun

Max Boot, Los Angeles Times
Ann Coulter, Human Events

John Fund, Wall Street Journal

Claudia Rosett, Wall Street Jownal Online
Daniel Henniger, Wall Street Journal
Rob Pollock, Wall Street Journal
James Taranto, Wall Street Journal

Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times

Cal Thomas, Washington Times

Mark Steyn, Freelance

Rich Lowry, National Review

Kate o'Beirne, National Review
Jay Nordlinger, National Review

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Radio Talk Show Hosts

Bill Bennett (Salem Radio)

Marc Bernier (florida)

Jim Bohannon (Westwood One)

Neal Boortz (Cox Radio)

Linda Chavez (Li betty Broadcasting)

Blanquita Cullum (Radio America) .

Penna Dexter (Radio America)

Gregg Garrison (WIBC Indianapolis)

Ken Hamblin (Westwood One)

Laura Ingraham (Talk Radio Network)

G. Gordon Liddy (Radio America)

Rush Limbaugh (Premier Radio Network) .

Alan Nathan (Radio America)

Janet Parshall (Salam Radio)

Michael Reagan (Radio America)

Kirby Wilbur (KVI Seattle)

Mark Levin (WABC) (President and Founder of the Landmark Legal Foundation)

(Former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese III)

Sidley & Austin (former Associate White House counsel)

Greenberg Traurig (fonner Under Secretary of the Anny)
Council on Foreign Relations
Cooper & Kirk
United States Coast Guard Academy
Executive Vice President. The Federalist Society
Baker & Hostetler, (CFR and fanner WH Counsel)
Baker & Hostetler, (former DOl Office of Legal Counsel ReaglU1 admin)

Television

Lou Dobbs (CNN)

Sean Hannit)' (FOX)

Britt Hume (FOX)

Lawrence Kudlow (CNBC)

Joe Scarborough {MSNBC)

John Kasich (FOX)

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From: Tom Wilkerson [Iwilkerson~~~(~Xi ':Y~B:,'i;ii;;1

Sent: Monday, August 07. 2006 2:16 PM
To: elV, OASD~P A

Cc: IV, OASD·PA; Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

SUbject: Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Official

~I~f:~;:;mj
On the road -- can't make the call.

Semper Portis,
Piae{is e:t Paratus

IhQma:i.. J.'.L.w.itl<_~~Q.n
CEO & Publisher

U, S. Naval Institute
291 Wood Road
AnnapolJs, Maryland 21402

On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Evans, Dave, elV, OASD-PA wrote:

MEMORANDUM
, To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Danas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public liaison

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: August 7,2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

4/9/2008

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We invite you to participate In a conference call, Monday, August 7, 2006, from 3:00-3:30 p,m.

General John P. Abizaid. Commander, U.S. Central Command will provide you a "rheaterlStrategic
Update on Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa. 1'his call will be On Background.

To participate in this conference call, please dia~~)X~fif(Nt!ir:%;i,Wi;:m;,;;%!};m,; i::!;'(;,);,i"i,,';)':tiW6Iand ask the

operator to connect you to the Analysts conference call.

Please R.S.V.P. t r call her at'"

We hope you are able to participate.

4/9/2008

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Sent: Monday, August 07,2006 11:52 AM
To: RUff, Erie, SES, OSD
Subject: FW: Conference Call with SeniC¥' 000 Official

dial in number:~~;~tt?b ii/i.>' ii!',,,,tl asK for analvst cont call. I will be In ab's office If you want to Join me there. I'm assuming I
will host the call, but it's likely that dallas will want to do It.
thanks

Fro,":
sent:
To;
Cc:
Subjoct:

MEMORANDUM
To: Retired Milital)l Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public liaison
Office o1lhe Secrelary of Defense

Date: August 7,2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference caU, Monday, August 7, 2006, from 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Genera' John P. Abizaid, Commander, U.S. Central Command will provide you a TheaterJStrategic Update on Iraq,

Afghanistan, and tlie Horn 01 A1rica. This call will be On Background.

To participate in lhis conference call, please dial or ,;~I~~i';1 and ask the operator to connect you to the Analysts

conference c a l l . · · ·

Please R.S.V.P. to~~M~!t!'fWj;:;ii)iil a~~;ft~1,";jX!\ ;ii;\mlfii"\i~\ltilm'ji!pr call her at l!;

We hope you are able to partiCipate.

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From:' JedBabbjn@~j&~ZW:;·~;':fl
Sent: Thursday, August 03. 20069:17 AM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, QSD
Subject: Re: Ingraham

Eric: Thanks. Will do. Best, Jed.

(home office)
(home fax)
.' (mobile)

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From:' JedBabbin@~:~~~~();}:~;~,;f;j;'l
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8: 19 AM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject: Ingraham

Eric: I'm subbing for Laura Ingraham tomorrow (8/4) and Monday (Sn). (0900-1200 EDT, national, TRN). Do
any ofthe big dogs want to come out to play? Best, Jed.

, (home office)

.(home fax)

(mobile)

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From:' Latimer, Matthew Mr OSD PA

Sent: Thursday, August 03, 20067:50 AM

To: Smith, Dorrance HON OSD P , SES OSD PA; Ruff, Eric. SES, 050:
Rangel, Robert S, crv, OSD; OSDPA
Subject: Babbin Again

http://W>MN.realdearpolitics.comJblog/2006f08fthere_theY.-90_agalnjed_babbin.htm)

August 03, 2006

There They Go Again - Jed Babbin

It's fascinating how the press first contrives a story and then its herd mentality takes over and runs with it,
hyping it to the skies regardless of the truth. The latest exercise began Wednesday afternoon at Defense
Secretary Don Rwnsfeld's press conference. After someone from Reuters first posed the question, CNN's
Barbara Starr asked it again: why Mr. Rumsfeld turned down a Senate Anned Services Committee request to
testify at a special hearing on Iraq on Thursday. Rumsfeld answered that because he was making himself
available to the whole senate answering questions on the war that same morning he'd determined that he
couldn't do both. It went all down hill from there because the Dems know the earlier session Thursday won't be
before the tv cameras. They want bread and circuses, not answers to questions.

Lolita Baldor, an AP reporter, wrote a breathless piece in which she said Rumsfeld's action was, " ... raising a
new furor on Capitol Hilt over the three.year-old conflict." The furor is limited in her story to a chest-deep
harrumph from Sen. Kennedy ("America is in deep trouble in Iraq, yet Secretary Rumsfeld refuses to explain
and defend his policies in full public view tomorrow") and a nice letter from Hillary asking Mr. Rumsfeld to
chilIlge his mind. No Republicans - not even John Warner who could easily be confused for a Dem -were
quoted.

from here, it' 5 going to follow the usual pattern. The New York Times will have a Doug .1ehl story about how
RumsfeJd is hiding from the devastating questions he',d face (the secret list of which will appear in .Iehl's story).
That will precede MoDo's Sunday vespers session about why we need a female SecDef), Chris Matthews will
have Sen. Dodd on to say that the Pentagon is an Augean Stable that needs to be flushed out, WaPo 's Dana
Milbank will have a front page above· the-fold piece on Senate Dems' outrage and Katie Couric will be
overheard on a shuttle flight shouting into her cell phone about how she needs to get on the air early to make
sure this story is treated with the seriousness it deserves. (And while anthis media talent was spinning up its
macrodander. Rumsfeld decided to show up after alL He'sjust mischevious enough to do that just to see the
media continue to spin.) But how do stories like this get concocted?

The answer isn't available from AP. I called night bureau chief Robert Glass who, when I asked him about it,
sounded as calm as Leo Bloom after Max Bialystock screamed at him. (He told me to send my iriquiry to editor
Alan Fram. I did and have not received an answer last night or today.)
Where's the Dem war room that is running this show? How is the Dem spin machine driving these reporters so
relentlessly? Who is the Oem Moriarty at the center of the web that pulls the media in and manipulates it so? Or
is it, as we expect, just Teddy and' Chris Dodd chugging scotch in some back room in the Capitol and dialing
random numbers? Stay tuned. This is gonna be fun to watch. And please do watch, Something tells me you
won't be seeing any Republicans on the nightly news asking why the Dems are demanding we cut and run. 11's
not like the Dems have anything else to say.

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Sent:
To:

Subject:

Gents: This is a very odd time. And the Lebanese part of it is the oddest. What say you? Best, Jed.

RealClearpQJitics - Articles ~ The Siniora SYndrome

Jed Babbin
(home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

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From;' ~~)t~1i';: j "l'!"'" ;';1 OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:25 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject Army article

FYI, found this on Yahoo news. Sending it to you for prep for SecDef presser tomorrow.

us army 'degraded' by Iraq deployments: defense experts

54 minutes ago

A group of prominent US defense and national security experts sounded an alarm about the
strain on US combat forces of lengthy deployments to Iraq, saying the problem has reached
crisis levels,
The National Security Advisory Group, chaired by former Secretary of ,Defense William J,
Perry, alleged in a letter to top congressional Democrats that the us administration's
underfunding of the army represents "a serious failure of civilian stewardship of the
military. "
"Two-thirds of the army's operating force, active and reserve,' is now reporting in as
unready," the group wrote in their letter to lawmakers.
"There is not a single non-deployed Army Brigade Combat Team in the United states that is
ready to deploy.

The letter continued: "The bottom line is that our army currently has no ready, strategic
reserve. Not since the Vietnam era and its aftermath has the Army's readinean been so
degraded.'
Members of the' group comprise a Who's Who of moderate-to-liberal political thousht in the
United States. including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former na~ional
security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger, retired Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman John
Shalikashvili, and retired four-star general and fomer presidential contender Wesley
Clark.
Copyright ~ 2006 Agence France Presse

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Israel is getting the same treatment from the press that the president does. They need some hard
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The American Spectator

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 'I

FIRST REACTION TO PRESIDENT BUSHIPM AL-MALIKI'S COMMENTS

As of July 25, 4:00 PM

Print/Online Summ

The majority of print and online coverage was straight re orting with quotes from President
Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's comments at the news conference. All outlets noted
that President Bush did not address how sending additional U.S. troops to Baghdad would affect
troop reduction plans for later this year with AFP reporting that he "sidestepped" the question.
Reuters had the most commentary on the conference, notl g that it "lacked a great deal of .

warmth" and "exposed gaps between them on the Middle East.'· AP and the Los Angeles Times
reported that troops stationed in Kuwait will be heading t Iraq as part of the new security plan.
All outlets included coverage on the conflicting positions President Bush and al·Maliki have on
the Middle East and noted that, while al-Maliki had earlier condemned Israel for its attacks, he
did not condemn Hezbollah's actions. The Los Angeles Times also reported on the grades the
Center for American Progress gave the U.S. on its assess ent of the campaign in Iraq.

Broadcast Summa

There was general agreement on most points below by broadcast hosts, reporters and military
analysts:
» General agreement that the previous plan announc~d six weeks ago when the President
visited Iraq is not working - some would say "a di mal failure"
).> Agreement that something needs to be done imme iately to curb the violence ­
consensus feels that Baghdad is "the key" to contr lling Iraq .
~ Skepticism over how this new plan differs greatly from the old
);r Most believe that taking troops from other parts of the country and moving them to
Baghdad will not increase the violence in those arlas
>- , Frustration that lraqi troops are not as well equipp d as they should be
~ Embedding is needed because there's a belief that orne Iraqi troops are the problem, not
the solution
)r Anthony Cordesmann: Putting more forces into Baghdad without a political solution
won't work, because radical militia groups have made the Iraqi security forces "unreliable
partners"
>- Democrats in Congress say Maliki's criticism ofItael is inappropriate
>- Some sources citing Gen. Casey's plan about one onth ago to possibly pull some troops
out - saying now this doesn't seem possible anyti e soon .

Bush: New [)Ian hetter for Baghdad security

Anne Gcaran, AP
l .
Print/Online Highlights

);r President Bush: Complimented Prime Minister· ouri aJ·Maliki for courage and
perseverance during sectarian violence .

OSD
Public Affairs Research and Analysis

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 }ooPresident concerned about killed and injured Ldbanese civilians

}ooSome lawmakers threaten to boycott al.Maliki" Congressional address Wednesday
because al-Maliki condemned Israeli attacks .
~ Bush and al-Maliki believe there needs to be more forces in Baghdad so U.S. military
police and other forces can secure capital
)0- Bush administration is pinning its hopes for a rrativelY swift withdrawal of most U.S.
forces on the political and military success oft multiethnic government al·Maliki
<'• .• ,
heads .
}o> U.S. officials and al-Maliki have both said his government represents Iraq's last best
chance to establish a working democracy.
~ AI-Maliki's plans for curfews and other measures have had no lasting effect.
~ Senior DoD official said part of backup force s~tioned in Kuwait was heading into Iraq
o At least two Iraqi military brigades will b brought into Baghdad
." President Bush did not indicate U.S. troops will come home
o Said shift of troops to Baghdad is possible partly because of success in

Bush: New plan better for Baghdad security

Tom Raum,AP
I
transferring control of some other areas from U.S. forces

.
~ Pentagon officials have suggested several thous nd troops would be moved to Baghdad
~ Bush: troop level decisions will be based on recommendations from military
commanders in the field
~ U.S. officials believe control of Baghdad will d,termine the future oflraq
." Two weeks ago, Secretary Rumsfeld said numb r oflraqi and U.S. troops in Baghdad
had grown from 40,000 to 50.000 .
~ Leaders disagreed openly on Middle East

Bush, Maliki agree on more US troops for Baghdad .

Steve Holland, Reuters . ~
» TalkS "exposed gaps between them on the Midd e East"
." News conference "lacked a great deal of wannt "
);> New security plan - "an acknowledgement that a strengthening of Baghdad imposed by
Maliki five weeks ago has been a failure"
» "Unclear" how new plan would affect Pentagon hopes of reducing troop deployment
}o> U.S. troop involvement numbers would be deciJed by the generals
}o> Had "frank exchange" over Middle East
» President Bush's resistance to call s for an urgin of ceasefire has "basically bought
time for Israel to carry out its campaign against Hizbollah."
);> Democrats upset that Maliki condemned Israel but not Hizbollah

Troops in Irag to Shift to Baghdad

Daniela Deane, Washington Post
1
)0 President Bush reassured Maliki that U.S. gove ment "stands with the Iraq people"
> President Bush: U.S. military policy will embed with Iraqi units to secure individual
neighborhoods in capital and then gradually expand

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} President Bush: "Deployment of additional trois will better reflect current conditions
on the ground in Iraq"
};> Current level of violence has shown few signs degreasing and eroded support for the
war in U.S. and Iraq
;0. President Bush: Maliki asked for more equipment for his troops

l '
~ Maliki said new security plan would work because it had the support from all segments
of the Iraqi population because of his national unity government
:., ..

Bush says US to send more troons to secure Baghdad

Oliver Knox, AFP
):. Maliki: Security thrust in Baghdad was "achievi g its objectives" but expressed
concern about civil war and bloodshed between Shiites and Sunnis
)0> Maliki: Joint committee would be formed on how to achieve "self-sufficiency" for
Iraqi forces
»- Bush: "Our strategy is to remain on the offense, including in Baghdad"
y Bush: Maliki and General Casey agreed to dePtl additional forces
)0> "Sidestepped" questions about troop withdrawal
»- Maliki's old security plan "widely seen as havi failed"
Bush, Maliki Vow Baghdad Security Push' .
Joel Havemann, Los Angeles Times
):. Maliki: Seating of elected national-unity government is reason for hope that capital
could be secured
;0. Bush and Maliki "ducked" questions about Middle East conflict
)­ Center for American Progress gave U.S. campai n in Iraq a grade ofD-

CNN 07125/0611:57:19
Gen. Don Shepperd:
)0> Baghdad is the key - until you get control over the capital, you can't spread security in

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the rest of the country or gain the people's confidence

Jamie McIntyre:
»- We're going to see an influx of troops into Baghd ,but most will be Iraqi troops
. embedded with American trainers
};o There me still issues about whether the Iraqi troop are as well equipped as the American
troops and as well trained to deal with Baghdad si ation .

CNN 07/25/06 12:20:44

Suzanne Malveaux:
);> There was "a tacit admission to the failure ofMaliki's program that he announced six
weeks ago when President Bush was in Baghdad't'
};o The question is why should anyone have more co Idence in this new plan than in the
plan froll,1 six weeks ago? . . .

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. MSNBC 07/25/0612:18:46
L1. Col. Rick Francona:
J
y "I don't know if this the proposed plan is really e answer. You don't need more troops,
you need less militia, less death squads"
);. Moving troops into Baghdad from other areas doesn't provide an opening for more
violence in those areas, because those areas are iirl Y secure and more homogenous
~ There's a question of how much security can yo oppose without disrupting life in
Baghdad
}> The embedding is because "they're very concern d about the perfonnance oflraqi
troops" - many say they make up some of these death squads, so American advisors can
now watch what they're doing

CNN 07/25/06 12:06:14

Jane Arraf, Council on Poreign Relations
1
? The key to reducing sectarian violence in Baghda is getting Iraqis to trust their security
forces, which may be easier with American police embedded
);. It's "disheartening" to hear now that Iraqi forces are still not well equipped
);- Disbanding the Iraqi anny when the U.S. went inireated what many people feel was the
basis for the Iraqi based insurgency - it's becomi g more integrated in places, I believe
it's still largely Arabs, Kurds and Shi8 Arabs and here isn't a lot of integration morning
those units .

CNN 07/25/06 12:09:14

Reporter in Baghdad: .
)0- The Iraqi security forces need to be better equlPper - no one can dispute that - more
armor, better logistics, ability to move food, move troops around and better organize their
higher structures
~ The readiness of troops varies in certain parts of the country

Fox News Da\'side 07/25/06 13:39:50

Col. David Hunt
>- There's 70,000 Iraqi and U.S. military in Baghdad right now"':' which wi111ikely increase
by another 30,000 or so
};- As far as risk in moving troops out of other areas, the borders are being controlled by Iraq
~ The longer the Lebanon conflict lasts, the more it will have an affect on us

NPR 07125/0614:JO:24
Peter Baker, White House reporter for the Washington Po t
t
>- "Very struck" by the "dour tone" of both the Presi ent and Prime Minister
);0 It doesn't seem like we're going to see any significant troop withdrawals by tbe end of the
year much less by the election in November
);0 The President spoke in vague tenns - for examP le American troops have been embedded

1
in the past with Iraq forces, so the difference now IS not clear

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. NPR 07/25/06 15:26: 14

Anthony Cordesmann:
j '
~ The conflict in Lebanon should be the least ofM liki's worries
o "The level of civil conflict in Iraq is intensifying so quickly in coming so close to
civil war that these kind of external issues frankly matter a great deal more
outside Iraq inside of it"
);> Cordesmann says that putting more forces into B~ghdad without a political solution won't
work - radical militia groups have infiltrated the Jtaqi security forces, making them
unreliable partners for the U.S. military

Fox News - Studio B With Shepard Smith 07/25/0615:09:15

~ Democrats in Congress say Maliki's criticism of ~rael is inappropriate, with some
threatening to boycott his address to a joint meeti. g of the House and Senate tomorrow
r
Headline News 07125/0616:15:55
);> General George Casey, who said one month ago that the military was considering pulling
out two brigades, is now sending more U.S. troops to Baghdad

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Hadda get this off my chest.

what say you, ladies and gents?

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4/9/2008

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Subject: Condi's Folly - loday's Spectator

When will we ever learn that you can't succeed diplomatically without backing talk with the credible
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4/9/2008

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all.
i've pasted the transcript ot congressional testimony by one of the military ana1y~t~ reo
unlawful combatants. just as an fyi, and in case you were interested in seeing what he had
to say about it. he was on the first trip we took to gitmo; but has not been back this
year blc of schedule conflicts.
thanks

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The Detention and Trial of Unlawful Combatants

Te'stimony of James Jay Carafano

before the
Senate Armed Services Committee

July 19, 2006

Mr. Chairman and other distinguished Members of the committee, thank you for the
opportunity to testify before you today on the U.S. government's proposal to try unlawful
combatants by military commissions in light of the Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v.
Rumsfeld. [1] <http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/tst071906a.cfm#_ftn1> What
I would like to do in my testimony is: (1) describe how this decision fits in the context
of how America ought to fight the war on terrorism; (2) make the case that Congress ought
to ratify the president's discretion to use military commissions to try these types of
unlawful combatants and the offenses charged, and grant the greatest discretion to this
and future presidents to establish just rules for such tribunals consistent with national
security; and, (3) suggest how the Bush Administration's proposal for commissions could be
amended to satisfy legitimate Congressional concerns.

Winning the Long War

My view of what the Congress should do is tempered by a 2S-year military career as a

soldier and strategist. In deciding how to move forward after Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, strategy
matters. While Congress and the Bush Administration must a find a remedy that is
consistent with the demands of the Constitution, satisfying the rule of law is not enough.
The best solution is one that is consistent with how the law in free societies should be
used in wartime, and ,an approach that supports the national strategy.

President Bush was right to argue that the concerted effort to destroy the capacity of
transnational groups who seek to turn terrorism into a global corporate enterprise ought
to be viewed as a long war. Identifying the war on global terrorism as a long war is
important, because long wars call for a particular kind of strategy--one that pays as much
attention to protecting and nurturing the power of the state for competing over the long
term as it does to getting the enemy.

Long war strategies that ignore the imperative of preserving strength for the fight in a
protracted conflict devolve into wars of attrition. Desperate to prevail; nations become
over-centralized. authoritarian "garrison" states that lose the freedoms and flexibility
that made them competitive to begin with. [2]
<http,//www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/tst071906a.cfm# ftn2> In contrast, in
prolonged conflicts such as the Cold War, in Which the United States adapted a strategy
that gave equal weight to preserving the nation/s competitive advantages and standing fast
against an enduring threat, the U.S. not only prevailed, but thrived emerging more
powerful and just as free as when the stand-off with the Soviet Union began.

The lessons of the Cold war suggest that there are four elements to a good long war .

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strategy: (31 <http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/t~t071906a.cfm# ftn3~

(1) providing security, including offensive measures to go after the enemy, as well as
defensive efforts to protect the nation;

(2) economic growth, which allows states to compete over the long term;
(~) safeguarding civil society and preserving the liberties that sustain the will of the
nation; and

(4) winning the war of ideas, championing the cause of justice that, in the end,
provides the basis for an enduring peace.

The greatest lesson of th'e Cold War is that the' best· long war strategy is one that
performs all of these tasks equally well.

I want to highlight the elements of long war strategy, because the successful prosecution
of three of them--providing security, protecting civil society, and winning the war of
ideas--will depend in part on well Congress moves forward after in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Congress should authorize military commissions in a manner that respects equally all three
of these aspects of fighting the long war.

Satisfying National Security

There are three issues at stake in ensuring the nation has the right instruments for
fighting the long war. First, military commissions must be conducted in a manner that
optimizes meeting national security interests. Second, the principle of law that protects
both U.S. soldiers and civilians on the battlefield must be preserved. Third, the power of
the Executive Branch to adapt and innovate to meet the challenges of war should not be
encumbered.

In order to optimize national security in~erests, I wou1d argue against using the Uniform
Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) as a basis for authorizing military commissions for trying
unlawful combatants. The UCMJ is structured as a traditional legal system that puts the
protection of the right of the individual foremost, and then adds in accommodations for
national security and military necessity. Such a system is not at all appropriate for the
long war. For example. Article 31(b) requires of the UCMJ requires informing servicemen
suspected of a crime of their Miranda Righte. The exercise of Miranda Rights in
impractical on the battlefield. Hearsay evidence is prohibited in court martial. On the
battlefield, much of the collected intelligence that the military acts on is hearsay. In
fact, reliable hearsay may be the only kind of evidence that can be obtained about the
specific activities of combatants. Likewise, overly lenient evidentiary rules make sense
when trying a u.s. soldier for a theft committed on base, but not when someone is captured
on the battlefield and is being tried for war crimes committed prior to capture, pe·rhaps
in another part of the world."

Rather than s~ek to amend courts-martial procedures.to address security concerns, I

believe it would be preferable to draft military commissions that put the interests of
national security first, and then amend them to ensure that equitable elements of due
process are included in the procedures.

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I also believe that for the protection of both soldiers and civilians, the distinction
between lawful and unlawful combatants be preserved as much as possible. If we respect the
purpo~es of the Geneva Conventions and want to encourage rogue nations ,and terrorists to
follow the laws of war, we must give humane treatment to unlawful combatants. However, we
ought not to reward them with the exact same treatment we give our own honorable soldiers.
Mimicking the UCMJ sends exactly the wrong signal,

Finally, the Executive Branch's power to wage war ought not to be unduly encumbered. If
there is one truism in war, it is that conflict is unpredictable. Carl von Clausewitz, the
great 19th century Prussian military theorist called it the "friction of battle." .
Clausewitz also said that "everything in war is simple, but in war even the simple is
difficult." That is why in drafting the constitution, the framers ,gave wide latitude to
the Executive Branch in the conduct of war. They recognized that the president needed
maximum flexibility in adapting the instruments of power to the demands of war. In
bounding the president's traditional war powers, Congress should take a minimalist
approach.

Respecting the Rule of Law

After September 11, the Bush Administration's critics framed a false debate that indicated
that citizens had a choice between being safe and being free, arguing that virtually every
exercise of executive power is an infringement on liberties and human rights. The issue of
the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay has been framed in this manner. It is a false
debate. Government has a dual responsibility to protect the individual and to protect the
nation. The equitable exercise of both is guaranteed when the government exercises power
in accordance with the rule of law.

In the case of the military tribunals, the Supreme Court has outlined a rather narrow
agenda for Congress to ensure that the rule of law is preserved. As legal scholars David
Rivkin and Lee Casey rightly pointed out in a June 30, 2006 Wall Street Journal editorial:
"All eight of the justices participating in this case agreed that military commissions are
a legitimate part of the American legal tradition that can, in appropriate circumstances,
be used to try and punish individuals captured in the war on terror [ism] . Moreover,
nothing in the decision suggests that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay must, or
should, be closed. ,. [4J
<http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/tst071906a.cfm# ftn4> No detainee was
ordered to be released. Nor was their designated status as unlawful combatants (who are
not entitled to the same privileges as legitimate prisoners of war who abide by the Geneva
conventions) called into question. The Supreme Court did not so much as suggest that the
non-citizen combatants held at Guantanamo must be tried as civilians in American civilian
courts. Nor did it reqUire that detainees be tried by courts martial constituted under the
UCMJ.

In addition, while the Court held that the basic standards contained in common Article 3
of the Geneva Conventions[SJ
<http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/tstOi1906a.cfm#_ftnS~ apply, it should
be pointed out that the Geneva Conventions have been honored, except--according to the
Supreme Court--in the way the military commissions were establiShed. Common Article 3
requires a floor of humane treatment for all detainees. Granted. some of the language in
Common Article 3 is vague and subject to varying interpretations. For the purposes of this
discussion the most relevant issue is the interpretation of the phrase that treatment
should include -judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized
peoples." This requires some .due process, such as the type of dU7 process th~ status
review boards and military commissions provide. If Congress exp11citly ratif~es the .
military commissions, then a majority of the Court would uphold them as consistent with
4

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the Geneva Conventions. This should satisfy U.S. obligations ~nder the treaty.

Thus·there is no reason for Congress to require courts-martial under the UCMJ, to draft
guidelines for new commission procedures, or to partially overrule or repeal our
ratification of the Geneva Conventions. Congress also appears to have approved the
president's military commissions in the Detainee Treatment Act in December of 2005,
although the Court has ruled this authorization is not sUfficiently specific. I would
suggest that nothing h~s changed in the past few months that should alter the sense of
Congress.

It should also be understood that military commissions are intended for limited use. We
should not. try most detainees. We should simply detain most of them until hostilities are
concluded or they are no longer a threat. A separate administrative review process is used
to determine whether further detention is warranted, or for example, whether the detainee
is an innocent non-combatant. [6)
chttp://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/tst071906a.cfm#_ftn6> The Court never
said detention was improper. We should only try those who are war criminalS, .and we have
bent over backward to give them due process-perhaps too much. It might even he best to
delay their war criminal trials, as we have in many wars, until the end of hostilities.
That, however, is something that traditionally has been, and shOuld be, left to the
president's dincretion.

Winning the War of Ideas

By explicitly authorizing military commissions, Congress can also make a useful

contribution to winning the war of ideas. The Court's decision has been portrayed across
much of the world as a huge defeat for the Bush Administration and a repudiation of its
decision to hold unlawful combatants. The. ruling will, no doubt, be used by al-Qaeda and
its affiliates as a major propaganda tool. It will also give ammunition to America's
harshest critics on the international stage. In particular, the decision is likely to
exacerbate tensions in the trans-Atlantic relationship. Washington has been increasingly
under fire from European Union (EU) officials and legislators about Guantanamo. The EU's
External Relations Commissioner, Austria'S Eenita Ferrero-Waldner, has called for the
Guantanamo detention facility to be closed, and the European Parliament passed a
resolution urging the same. The EU's condemnation of the Guantanamo facility has echoed
those of the United Nations committee Against TOrture and the U.N.'s hugely discredited
Com~iss~on on Human ~ighes, which condemned the detention facility withouc even inspectins
it. Now, these groups are trumpeting the Supreme Court's ·decision.

However, these critics have largely ignored what the Court's decision actually says. The
approval of the Congress and affirmation by the Court that the commissions represent the
will of the American people demonstrate our resolve both to take the threat of
transnational terrorism seriously and to respect the rule of law.

What Must Be Done

Also unchanged i3 the government's oblig_tion to devise an equitable long-term solution

that fairly executes justice while fully satisfying our national security interests. What
is needed is a process that does not treat unlawful combatants as regular cr~minals or
traditional prisoners of war. That would simply reward individuals for breaklng ~he rules
of the civilized world. Most Guantanamo detainees are not currently set to be trled for
war crimes, and they may continue to be detained with only minor changes to the

NY TIMES 5756
 administration's status determination proceedings. For those scheduled to be tried for war
crimes, the Bush Administration must follow existing courts-martial rules or seek explicit
congressional approval for the planned military commissions.

Congress can satisfy its legal and national security obligations explicitly by authori~ing
the proposed military commission process. What is critical is that the Bush Administration
move forward expeditiously; demonstrating once again its unswerving commitment to fight
the long war according to the rule of law.

James Jay Carafano <http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/jamescarafano.cfm> , Ph.D., is

senior Research Fellow for National Security and Homeland Security.in the Douglas and

Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies; a division of the Kathryn and Shelby

Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. at The Heritage Foundation. This­

testimony was delivered before the Senate Armed services Committee.

Bullet Points

* In deciding how to move forward after the Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v.

Rumsfeld, strategy matters.

* The lessons of the Cold War suggest that there are four elements to a good long war
strategy. The U.S. should focus on providing security, fostering economic growth,
safeguarding civil society and preserving the liberties that sustain the will of the
nation, and winning the war of ideas.
* What is needed is a process that does not treat unlawful combatants as regular

criminals or traditional prisoners of war.

* Congress and the Bush Administration must move forward expeditiously, demonstrating
once again its unswerving commitment to fight the long war according to the rule of law.

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Attachments: 07-19-06 Barbero Lebanon.doc

07-19-06 Barbero

Lebllnon.doc (•••

Attached is the transcript from the 1630 phone call with BG Mike Barbero and
the military analysts on Lebanon.
The call was on background.

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 Military Analyst call

Wednesday, July 19,2006
Briefer. U.S. Anny Brig. Gen. Michael Barbero, Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs
of Staff, J·3
Topic: Evacuation of U.S. citizens from Lebanon
location: 2E556 'rhe Pentagon
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~~·~'}W~Wi,J(introduction
of the general). Again this call is on background, so you may quote a senior ODD
official. So with that, General Barbero. .

Barbero: This is Mike Barbero, and I know a few of you. so those of you wtlo know me please don't
hold that against me.

Let me just tell you where we are as far as contracted shipping. Navyshlps are going to be in the
area; I can dIscuss the command and control arrangements and then some of the messages that ­
I just came from a press conference at the State Department to try to shoot back at this why are we
so slow, the delay, etcetera.

Let me talk about contract shipping. A contracted ship, the Onent Queen - I think you saw it on the
news. departed BeIrut approximately nine o'clock eastern daylight time this morning. In our count,
over 1,000 American citizens.

We think ltwill take 24 hours forthat ship to makca round trip - download In Cyprus, back - to
arrive back dockside in Beirut. And this is the maiden voyage, so we'll see how that works.

Hopefully we can make one trip every 24 hours of athousand passengers.

We have - Transportation Command has been active since the start, and they are the ones doing
the chartering in support of State Department, and they have chartered two other commercial ships
- the motorferry Rahmah - spelled R·A·H·M·A·H, aPanamanIan flag shlPi capacIty of about 1,000
passengers, and it should com mence operations out of Beirut on the 21 st,

Right now it's being - it's reached - and the question Is why is it taking so long? Well, we're
conducting safety and readiness for sea inspections, then it must transit the Suez Canal.

And the third ship we have under contract Is a high speed vessel - the Vittoria - V-I-T·T·O·R·I·A, an
Italian flag ship, capacity of 330 passengers, and it again Is also being inspected and we think it
will commence operations on the 22 nd •

And what some may view and describe as delays I describe as making sure we are putting our
American citizens - evacuating them safely on ships that we have inspected and are confident that
can evacuate them safely,

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 And as you know, we have been using CH-53 helicopters since Sunday to continuously move U.S.
citizens from the embassy compound.

We have six CH-53 helicopters that have been doing that today. Three of them are CH's, CH·53
cargo helicopters from the 24th MEU, and three are MH-53s from forces -- U.S. forces based in the
United Kingdom. '

Navy ships that we have either on site or on the way. USS Nashville wltl begin operations tomorrow
and we think we can handle 1,000 American citizens per day and they'll either - It's an amphib ­
and they'll either transport the citizens from Beirut usirigtheir landing craft -I thInk that's the most
likely way they'" do that - although I don't know, I'Ve answered that by saying the local commander
on the scene will make that assessment. But they can handle 1,000 a citizens aday starting
tomorrow.

We also have two DDGs - guided missile destroyers - USS Gonzalez and the USS Barry, Arleigh- .
Burke class. And they are there for escort, primarily, and search and rescue. And they wi II be
escorting these commercial carriers back and forth.

And then the fourth ship that's on the way - oron station isthe USS MountWhltney, which ~sa
command-and-control ship, and Brigadier General Jensen could move his command post to this
ship; it is set up with afull suite of command and control systems.

And we have five more ships that we are heading towards and wlll enter the Joint operational area
within the upcoming days,

We've established a joint operational area, basically encompassing Cyprus to Lebanon, and as you
know, Lebanon is the responsibility of Central Command, that's why they were given this mission.
They have further - the chain of command goes to NAVCENT, and he has delegated Brigadier
General Jensen, United States Marine Corps, as the on-the-scene commander.

Israel is in •• under the UCP the responsibility of the European Command, so European Command is
conducting coordination with Israel to facilitate our passage through the blockade.

Let's see. The themes I've been telling -I've been passing to people as they ask the questions of
timeliness is - we have - we are in support of Department of State, and as soon as we had a draft
request from Department of State, we started to plan it and coordinate with CENTCOM or EUCOM to
start moving assets.

And we have assets from European Command that we have chopped to Central Command; for
example the - I think the USS Barry is an example. 'Ilie helicopters out ofthe UK are from European
Command, and we have assets from United States SpecIal Operations Command and
Transportation Command Is deeply involved In this.

But as soon as we heard - got a draft request from the Department of State, we immediately
started acting on that late last week and all througnout the.weekend.

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 But the thing I have been telling people who have asked about timeliness is we have to balance the
requirements for a safe, secure and rapid operation, and we're doing It with a sense of urgency. But
I also tell them it's a time - as Admiral Walsh said the other day it's physics, it's time-distance.

The MEU was ashore in Jordan, conducting and exercise. so they had to disengage from that
exercise, regroup, reload and then get underway.

We had 8 ship Involved with -In an exercise I think in (and?) assets In Ukraine or RomanIa - a
EUCOM exercise which they had to disengage from and move that way.

We had ships move from the Red Sea - ships that had already transited the Med were to the west,
had to reenter the Mediterranean and head thIs way. And they are moving as fast as they can.

So with that - I've told people that, you know, It's awar zone, wIth an active blockade and our job is
to get It rightthe first time and not rush to failure. And that's why we're balancing those three main
concerns and operational Imperatives I've mentioned.

So with that, I can answer any questions - let me just give you some numbers, projections, of
American citizens we can handle. Yesterday we handled about 400 -I am sony - yesterday we ­
and I am going to talk in terms of capacity, because we have assets on site and then the
ambassador and the embassy has to get these citizens to either the landing pad at the embassy or
dockside, and frankly, we have notfiHed every seat.

But let me talk in terms of capacity. Yesterday we had the capacity to evacuate about 440
Americans; today it's 1.340. Tomorrow it will be a capacity of 2,400; Friday we will have the
capacity to evacuate about 3,800, and then Saturday with all the assets we'll have on station we
could evacuate 6,500.

So as you see, we're rapidly fanning this task force and building our capability. And wIth that, I'll
answer any questions you might have.

Q: This is Jeff McCausland from CBS. Great summary. Quick question, long question. Quick
question - then I asstJ me 6,500 is What you see as steady-state capacity unless things become
dramatically worse - example, having to move folks out of Israel.

And second question is, with the two DOGs for escort duty, can Yi>u talk at all about security
concerns, for example it seems that a large ship like this wIth U.S. passengers moving in that area
could be 8 prime Hezbollah, al Qaeda, piCk your favorite nightmare target. Could you talk a little bit
aboutthose concerns?

Barbero: Well the first thing - as far as our capacity, the embassy has requested that we meet a
rate of 2,000 per day, so that is our baseline, and that Is the number we have been operating and
building to. So anything above that Is additional capacity that we have pushed to the area. So that
is our planning figure, Now that could change if things go south; but 2,000 per day is what we got
'from the embassy and the Depa rtm ent of State ancI that's ",!hat we've been operating with.

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 As far as missile threat, we have no indications ofthreatto our task force or American citizens, but
the point I make is we are building a capllbilltyforthis local commanderto be able to respond to
any threat that may arise.

Q: Thank you. .

Barbero: Okay.

(short cross talk)

Q: Am I correct that the ambassador ~ his responsibility are ashore; in other words, you all pick up
responsibilities when the people get to the poInt of embarkation, but you're not planning on any
trips ashore since the ambassador and the movement of people from locations In lebanon to ports
of embarkation?

Barbero: We have not been asked for that, and I am sure down at the tacticallevef they may be
looking at some options, but we - it has not been discussed with us either at tne Department of
Defense or In our planning.

Q: This is John Garrett. With regard to the ambassador or the embassy, the countly team's
responsibility to get the folks to the collection point, have they or do you anticipate thatthey will be
asking for any transportation type support for that once you get within range or whatever the
parameter is that hasto be met?

Barbero: We have not received and there has been no dlscllssion with us about requirement to
move American citi2ens to these points of embarl<ation, either the American embassy for air or
dockside for the ships, so that has not been discussed with liS or we have not been given awarning
order fa rthat.

Q: Okay, sir, thanks, and one follow-on. Have they asked for any kind of securitysupport for those
collection points, et cetera?

Barbero: No they have not, not at this time, but we wllltJave the capability if that changes.

Q: Sure.

Q: Hey sir, It's Steve Greer. How are you doing?

Barbem: Hey, sergeant major, how are you?

Q: Hey, 1am doing great sir, I'm grad you're still in the fight,

Barbero: Cool.

Q: Say, I've got a qu ick one. How are we getting the word out to citizens out there - is It loud
speakers or radio, oris ItlV? Are those capacities still available there'? Or how are we notifying
them of where these embarkation points are at?

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 Barbero: The embassy and State Department are doing that, and the State Department has tlone it
through various means. We are not responsible for that, although we are flowing some PSYOPS
forces there that can help the ambassador as far as crowd control and announcements and things
like that But that is strictly the embassy's job and' am not sure how effective they have been In
doing that orexactly what means they have been doing that by; I don't know.

Q: Sure. Sir, and one more foryau. At these two sites, is it U.S. Marines that are there providing the
securIty and the kind of the patting down so some sort of suicIde bomber guy doesn'tjump on a 53
or happen to get on one Gfthese ships? Is that Durforces doing that, is that the Lebanese military,
who is that involved in that?

Barbero: Sergeant major, I don't know for sure.

Q: Okay,

Barbero: I couldn't answer that. I knowttuit there is securIty In place and they are checking
credentials and paperwork and registrations and things like tnat, butas far as who Is physically
securing each one ofthese guys or checking them, I don't know for sure, I couldn't give you a .
straight answer.

Q: Okay, thanks though, I appreciate it.

Barbero: Okay, hooah.

Q: This is Jeff McCausland again. Can you talk at all about any future contingency planning. I mean,
obviously we hope that this will be contained to south lebanon, but have you considered any
additional - of course you get those interesting boundary isstles between CENTCOM, EUCOM - if
you should be, for example, asked to evacuate U.S. cItizens from northern portions of Israel, or
does anyone have an estimate of now many U.S. citizens rIght now are In Syria. If we should have to
expand the area of evacuation?

Barbero: Umm, we are, you know, we've got this plan pretty well In motion, and all r bettersay Is
Central Command is,You know, looking at all the possible threats and contingencies and we are
assessing that now as part of any kind of planning. '

Q:Okay.

Barbero: So. that's normal for us to ­

Q: Do you know offhand, or does anybody there know offhand, I mean I know right now they say
there are about25,OOO U.S. In Lebanon, how many U.S. there might be In Syria right now? , mean,
God knows how many there are in Israel, but whatthe number might be for Syria?

Barbero: I don't know. 'fhe State Department hopefully could answertnat.

Gentlemen, any more questIons for the general?

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 Q: Just our . . . ' came on late. This is Jeff. What's our rules of engagement here? Are we on
background? .

~~;!~I'1;;~';;;~e're on bac~~und.
Q; Where are we?

::" Yes, sir, we're on background.

Q: Background, okay,

~~;)~~;}XI Anyone else have questions for tIle general? All right, well thanks gentlemen for joining us.
General, thanks so much tor your time.

Q: Great, thanks a lot, sIr.

Barbero: Thanks. Sergeant major, good hearing you again.

Q: Hooah, sir, coot.

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Subject: RE: Conference call TODAY I
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SUbJect: Con erence call TODAY

MEMORANDUM
To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison

Office of the SecretarY of Defense

I Date: July 19, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

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I We invite you 10 participate in a conference call, TODAY, July 19, 2006,!rom 4:00-4:30.

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Brigadier General Michael Barhero, Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J·3,
will brief you on the efforts to assist American citixens leaving Lebanon. His biography is attached for
your review. This call will be On Background.

To participate in this conference caJl, please dial. and ask the

operator to connect you to the Analysts conference call.

or can her at

We hope you are able to participate.

OSO Public Affairs

Community Relations and Public liaison
~¥R~l~i;$1 The Pentagon
Washin ton. D.C. 20301

4/9/2008

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Sent: Wednesday, July 19,2006 3:39 PM
To: RUff, Eric, SES, 0 5 0 ,
Cc.. 8 arbAil' .~1(
er, Ison SES OSO PA'ii'::') elV, OASD·PA
Subject: RE: Conference call TODAY

so far, we have:
Colonel Ken Allard (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Mr. Jed Babbin (USAF. JAG) American Spectator

Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) MSNBC

Colonel Jolm Garrett (USMC, Retired)

Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA. Retired) CNN

Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA. Retired) Fox News

Major General James "Spider" Marks (USA. Retired)

Colonel jeff McCausland (USA, Retired)

Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired)

Captain Martin L. Strong (USN, Retired)

still making phone caUs ....

barbero is making the call from his office (COUldn't talk them into coaxing him upstairs).

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sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:35 PM
TO:['&),(~)';;:;(iVi'A:';1 CIV, OASD-PA
Subject: RE: Conference call TODAY

how many do you have and where is he making the call from? thanks

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Sen: y, July 19, 2006 2:29 PM
To:·~)£ CIV, OASD-PA
Subject: Conference call TODAY

MEMORANDUM

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To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: July 19,2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, TODAY, July 19, 2006,jl'om 4:00-4:JO.

Brigadier General Michael Barbero, Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J-3,
will brief you on the efforts to assist American citizens leaving Lebanon. His biography is attached for
your review. This call will be On Background.

1'0 participate in this conference call, please dia~J~~t+(fflWij0rtW!\:;~,;:(;':';f;Ji;';!i:ti:l\W;(;i\;1:;';~:i;W(D;1;);W:H\;w'1i\'land ask the

operator to connect you to the Analysts conferen~e call.

rcall her at

Wt: hope you are able to participate.

OSD Public Affairs

Community Relations and Public Liaison
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4/9J2008

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BIOGRAPHY

BRIGADIER GENERAL MICHAEL D. BARBERO

BG Barbero assumed his duties as Commanding General, Joint Readiness Center (JRTC) and Fort
Polk on 23 April 2004.

BG Barbero was commissioned in the infantry upon

graduation from the United States Military Academy in
1976. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from USMA,
a Master of Military Arts and Sciences degree from the
Command and General Staff College (SAMS), and a
Master of Science degree from the National War College.
His military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic
Course, the Armor Officer Advanced Course, the
Command and General Staff College, the Advanced
Military Studies Program and the National War College.

BG Barbero's first assignment was at Fort Hood with the

2d Battalion, 7(/0 Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, where he
served as a Rifle Platoon Leader, Company Executive
Officer, Battalion 83, and Commander, Combat Support
as
Company. He also served Aide-de-camp to the
Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division.

Following ~raduation from the Annor Officer's Advanced Course at Fort Knox, he served in Korea
with the 2n Infantry Division as 3d Brigade Adjutant and Secretary of the General Staff. From Korea,
BG Barbero was assigned to Fort Campbell where he served as S3 of 3d Battalion, 327th Infantry.
Following graduation from the Command and General Staff College and the School of Advanced
Military Studies, BG Barbero was assigned to the 7,h lnfantry Division where he served as the Chief of
Current Operations in the G3 section and deployed 10 Panama for OPERA nON jliST CAUSE. While'
at Fort Ord, he also served as the 53 for the 9'h Infantry Regiment (Manchu). Next, BG Barbero served
as an Observer/Controller with the Battle Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

From July 1993 to June 1995, EO Barbero commanded 3d Battalion, J87 th Infantry (Rakkasans), IOJ'1
Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Following Battalion Command, he served in the office
of the Chief of Staff of the Army and attended the National War College. From July 1997 to June
1999, he commanded the 2d Brigade, 10 th Mountain Division.

From August 1999 to July 2002, BG Barbero served as the Executive Assistant to CINC Joint Forces
Command/Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia. BG Barbero returned to Fort
th
Hood in July 2002 to serve as the III Corps Chief of Staff. In May 2003 BG Barbero joined the 4
Infantry Division in Iraq, serving in OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM as the Assistant Division
Commander (Maneuver) until the division redeployed in March 2004.

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 His awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal. the Legion of Merit (with]
Oak Leaf Cluster), the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters),
the.Air Assault Badge, the Parachutist Badge, and Ranger Tab.

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From:' Jed8abbin@,~~~iWNil:;'ii'~;iij
Sltnt: Tuesday, July 18, 200611:19 AM
To: Ruff, ErIc, SES, OSD
Subject: Re: Conway

Great; will do. Thanks.

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home fax)

mobile)

NY TIMES 5771

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From: . Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, July1B, 2006 11:05 AM

To:
'dorseyj9@~1(ElI!'!:h~i~;~{J
Cc: Barber, Allison s PA

LT,

Thanks so much for your time today, I know you are extremely busy.

To recap, we would like to see if the General is available today for a 20 minute
conference call with our retired military television analysts ~ the retired GO's who now
serve as on air military analysts for all of the networks' and cable entities. With one
call, the General will be able to reach a very large echo chamber of folks looking for on
the ground information to add to their commentary and analysis. We have taken these folks
to Iraq, GITMO and to several one on one meetings with the SECDEF and the CJCS in the past
year.

We could turn this callan today with a minimum of 90 minutes notice. The call could b~
on background or on the record, at the General'S discretion.

I have enclosed a sampling of SOIllEl of the more prolific analysts that we would invite to
the call. PLease let me know your thought~.
SAMPLE OF PROPOSED I~TEES (30 TOTAL):
• Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, national radio Dr. Jeff MCCausland
(Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC Lieutenant
Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) CBN, CNN Int'l, Pox, NPR Major General James
"Spider" Marks (USA. Retired) C'NN Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) ­
Fox News Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. <USA., Reti r~d) - Fox News Major General
Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN

Dallas B. Lawrence

Director, Office of Community Relations & Public Liaison United States Department of

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 From:'
Sent: 9:42AM
To:
Subject;

Eric: Just checking in. Any response on Conway for today? Best, Jed.

Jed Babbin
:iii:!i(home office)
home fax)
'.'. (mobile)

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From:
Sent:
To:

Subject:

This couldn't wait for Thursday, so my long-suffering editor agreed to run it today. The last thing we.
and Israel, need is a cease fire or a UN "peacekeeping" force.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Lessons Learned

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 From:' Whitman, Bryan Mr OSD PA

Sent: Monday, July 17, 20066:04 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES. OSD; Haddock, Ellen (Katie), Col, OCJCS/PA; CAPT
OVCJCS/PA; Smith, Dorrance HON OSD PA
Subject: Re: Hewitt Show

I'll see what I can do.

·----Original Message----­

From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD

To; ~addock, Ellen (Katie), Col, OCJCS/PA;

CAPT OVCJCS/PA; Whitman, Bryan

Mr OSD PA; Smith, Dorrance HON OSD FA

Sent: Mon Jul 17 17:58:03 2006

Subject: FW: Hewitt Show

just spoke to jed. he isn't looking for guests but is offering to make room for somebody

to talk about the situation in lebanon from dod's perspective. if the plan is still to

h~ve someone brief this from the theater tomorrow, might be worth having that person or

someone at dod available for jed's program. his contact info is below if somebody wants

to take him up on his offer. thanks.

JedB a bb'1. ~~:l(~~$:({W~n)ijl

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Se~t: Monday, July 17, 2006 2:02 PM
To; Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Subject: Hewitt Show

Eric: I'm guest-hosting for Hugh again tomorrow (6~9 pm, Salem Radio na~ionally). Is
there anything hot you want one of your guys to get on to talk about? Best, Jed.

(hom~ office)
(home fa~l
(mobile)

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 From:
Sent: ~~!~d~~,JUI~.~~'2~:~~:9ApM
KQ)(6r;···./.,.·.<! Maj OSD PA

To:
Cc: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA; Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

SubJect: RE: Contacts

hi. here are phone numbers and emails. the two i don't have are vern clark and gary luck. i bet i could track them
down pretty easily, tho, if you'd like me to ... the'se guys all know each other. :)
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. MalinniS (USA, Retired) national radio networks

Telephone: !b)(6r ,,' , ' '.
Pentagon: ' , ,
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Major General James "s

Telephone:
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Captain
Telephone: ChUc~k~N~a~S~hIIIR;e~tir~e[d~)Fox News
Cellular:
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Major Gener~~~ r. (USA, Retired) Fox News

Telephone:
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Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN

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From:
Sent:
"0:
Subject:

Hi ­

Wondering if you might be able to help me ou1 wi a few phone numbers and email addresses. I think yOll folks
regularly work with:

-Gen. Jack Keane

-Gen. Gary Luck
-Adm. Vern Clark
-LtGen. Mike DeLong
-MG Sheppard
-MG Spider Marks
-MG Robert Scales
-Col. Ken Allard
-Capt. Chuck Nash
-LTC Robert Maggirmis

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This is very unpleasant for me to have to write. Mr. Bush has apparently given up the idea of fighting the war
on terror, and Ms. Rice is a principal architect of our policy morass. We didn't vote for this in 2004.

The American Spectator

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From: . Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: Sunday, JUly 16, 2006 3:29 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr eso PA
SUbJect: Re: Marines landing in lebanon

Let me see what we can do.

Ab

-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA; Ruff, Eric, SES~ aSD
Sent: Sun Jul 16 14:55:59 2006
subject: Marines landing in lebanon
I just got off the phone with chuck nash, one of our analysts who had a planning role in
the beirut evac years ago. Fox is allover the potential neo, and the planning team that
ar~ived in lebanon. He will be doing hannity and colmes and others this week. As will
5everal other analysts that are being asked to provide context.
I'm sure we probably don't want to talk about specifics, however the world is already
talking and we may want to do an analyst call monday to layout parameters or policy or at
leas provide some of our points to help get them into the mix.
Hope you both had a good weekend.

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From: . CIV, OSD·POLICY
Sent: Friday. July 14, 2006 3:38 PM
To: 'Dan Senor" Lawrence DaUas Mr OSD P .

;"CIV, OSD-POLlCY; Goodwin Robert SES SAF/MRM

SUbJect: RE:

I hope you got what you needed, sorry I couldn't get any material from our ISA office.

·····Original Message·····
From: Dan Senor [mailto:dan
Sent: Friday, July 14, 200610:14 AM
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Folks -- hope you all are well. I've got to go on Fox in a couple hours to talk about what the status is of all of saddam's

palaces (quite a random topic, I might add).

Outside of Ihe one in Tikrit. have turned any others over to the Iraqis?

Thanks,

-Dan

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From.: .
Sent:
To:

Subject:

I'll check with the IntI Security Affairs Desk Officer for Iraq and see if they can come up with
anything.

Subject:

Folks -- hope you all are well. I've got to go on Fox in a couple hours to talk about what the status is of all of Saddam's

palaces (quite a random topic, I might add).

Outside of the one in Tikrit. have turned any others over to the Iraqis?

Thanks.

-Dan

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 From: . Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: rriday, July

To:

SUbject:

"'1'

Just got'off the phone with iraq. They are working the quarry now, will have an answer within the hour. Of note, the Tikrit
turn over involved over a dozen properties I believe.

Hopefully we can get you something within the hour. They also believe state may have some info with specific focus on
cultural sites returned.

Hope all are weill

Folks -- hope you all are well. I've got to go on Fox in a couple hours to talk about what the status is of all of Saddam's
palaces (quite a random topic, I might add).

Outside of the one in Tikrit, have turned any otherS over to the Iraqis?

Thanks,

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 From~ JedBabbin¢';~~W.i::,Nf;\i;,iMl
Sent: Thursday.

~~i~~d~2;im
To:
roberth

mgroot

Subject: Inside the Times - Today's RealClearPolitics

There's more of a story inside the New York Times than people know. And tbis is just the beginning.

RealClearPolitics • Articles - Tumultuous Times

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 From: CIV, OASD-PA

Sent: nes ay, July 12, 20062:10 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SUbject: RE: Conference call tomorrow

nope. bummer.

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From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
Sent: WednesdaYr July 12, 2006 1:32 PM
To;~K~)2]'NjRBf0t)Rl CIV, OASD-PA
,Subject: Re: Conference call tomorrow

How is our call with secdef going?

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CIV, OASD-PA
CIV, OASD-PA
Sent: Wed Jul 12 12:29:26 2006
Su~ject: Conference call tomorrow

MEMORANDUM

To; Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison

Office of the secretary of Defense

Date: July 12, 2006

Re: Conference Call with Senior DoD Officials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, THURSDAY, July 13, 2006, from 2:45-3:15
p.m.

Major General Durbin, Commander, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan will

update you on the status of training Afghan security forces. (His Biography is attached

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From: : elV, OASD·PA

Sent: Wednescla ,July 12,2006 12:29 PM
To: CIV, OASD-PA
Subject: Conference call tomorrow
Attachments: MG Durbin.pdf

MEMORANDUM
To: Retired Military Analysts

From: Dallas Lawrence

Director, Community Relations and Public Liaison
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Date: July 12,2006

Re: Conferellce Call with Senior DoD Offi~ials

We invite you to participate in a conference call, llIURSDAY, JuliU, 2006.!rom 2:45-3:/5 p.m.

Major General Durbin, Commander, Combined Se~urity Transition Command-Afghani~tan will update
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 United States Army

Major General ROBERT E. DURBIN

Commander, Combined Security Transltioll Commalld­

Afghanistan

Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan

United States Central Command

APO AE 09356

since April 2006

SOURCE OF COMMISSIQN~D SERViCE USMA

MILITARY SCHOOLS ATTENDED

AnnoT Officer Basic Course
Field Artillery Officer Advanced Course
United States Anny Command and General Staff College
Senior Service College Fellow - Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

EDUCAJIONAL DEGREES
United States Military Academy - BS - No Major
Pennsylvania Slate University - MS - Mechanical Engineering

FOREIGN LANGUAGE(S) Portuguese

PROMOTIONS DATES OF APPOINTMENT

lLT 4 Jun 75
lLT 4 Jun 77
CPT 18 Nov 79
MAJ I lun 86
LTC 1 Jun 92
COL I Jan 9&
BG I Jan 03
MG Frocked

MAJOR DUTY ASSIGNMENTS

IQ ASSICiliMENI

Dec 75 ~an 78 Platoon Leader, later Executive Officer, F Troop, 2d Squadron, 151 Cavalry, 2d
Annored Division. Fort Hood, Texas
Jan 78 Jul78 Commander, B Troop. 2d Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 1st Annored Division,
Germany
Jul78 Jun 79 Commander. B Troop, later Assistant S-3 (Operations),2d Squadron, lSI
Cavalry, 2d Annored Division. Fort Hood, Texas

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 Major General ROBERT E. DURBIN

Jun 79 Feb 80 Student, Field Ar1illery Officer Advance Course, United States Anny Field
Artillery School, Fort Sill. Oklahoma
Feb 80 Mar 82 Student, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Mar 82 Jan 85 Instructor, later Assistant Professor, Depanrnent of Mechanics, United States
Military Academy, West Point, New York
Jan 85 Jul 87 Company Tactical Officer, United States Corps of Cadets, later Evaluation
Officer, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
JuJ 87 Apr 88 Exercises Oflicer (REFORGER), later Chief, Training Branch, G-3 (Operations).
1st Armored Division, VII Corps, Germany
May 88 Jun 90 Executive Officer, later 5·3 (Operations), 1st Battalion, 37th Annor, 1st Annored
Division, VII Corps, Gennany
Jun 90 Jun 91 Student, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas
lun 91 Apr 92 Instructor and Author, Center for Army Tactics, United States Anny Command
and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Apr 92 Apr 93 Executive Officer, I st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division, Fort Polk. later
redesignated, 1st Brigade, 2d Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Apr 93 May 95 Commander, 1st Battalion, 67th Armor, 2d Armored Division, Fort Hood, Texas
May 95 May 96 Student, Senior Service College Fellow, Center of International Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Massachusetts
May 96 Jun 98 G-3 (Operations), later Chief of Staff, 4th Infantry Division. Fort Hood, Texas
Jun 98 Jun 00 Commander, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kansas
JulOO Jun02 Special Advisor to the Commander·in-Chief, later Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff, United Nations Command~Combined Forces Command, United States
Forces Korea. Korea
Jun 02 lun 03 Assistant Division Commander (Support), I st Cavalry DiYision, Fon Hood,
Texas
Jun 03 Feb 05 Deputy Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, later Deputy Director,
Program AnalYsis and Evaluation/Director, Anny Quadrennial Defense Review,
Office of the Deputy ChiefofStaff, G-8, United States Anny Washington. DC
Feb 05 Dec 05 Director. Army Quadrennial Defense Review, Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff, G·g, United States Anny Washington, DC

SUMMARY-OF JOINT ASSIQNMENTS

Special Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, later Assistant luI 00 - lun 02 Colonel

Deputy Chief of Staff. United Nations CommandfCombined
Command, United States Forces Korea, Korea

Commander, Combined Security Transition Command -Afghanistan,

Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan. Kabul. Afghanistan Jan 06 - Present' Major General

US DECQRATIQNSANQ1?ADGES

Distinguished Service Medal

Defense Superior Service Medill

Legion of Merit (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)

Meritoriou~ Service Medal (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters)

Army Commendation Medal

Ann~ Achievement Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)

Parac:hutilit Badge

Arm~ Staff Identification Badge

As of 17 April 2006

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From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:54 AM
To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA
Subject: Fw: Simmons - Enemy combatants....no more.

Analysts are in a fully ti~zy about thi5. r have more than half a dozen emails like the
two below already. I'm sure you're already allover tjhis but I did want to share just in
case ...

Incredible The Administration seems to give in at every

opportunity. The appeasers Wayne you are right on the mark.

I have been saying this for the past two years. We are our own worst enemy in fighting the

Islamic Radicals and they know it. '

All:
How can this be? Now, the Bush administration is g~v~ng POW status and Geneva protection
to every two bit Muslim extremist thug who murders anyone, anywhere in 'the world. By the
way. who signed the Geneva Conventions for the terrorist's? Osama7 Al zawahiri? Perhaps
the late Al Zarqawi? The Bush Administration is imploding. Every hear of castration of an
administration?
Where are the nuts shown after 9-117 No fight left?'The terrorist's must be reveling in
glee haVing achieved such recognition from the most powerful country in the world. Take
care.
Wayne
ps- Thanks to the Brian and the Judge for giving me the 'headsup on this backbrea~ing news.

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From:
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Sent:
To;
I

Wayne: I agree that Tony could have used more precise language. But this memo ~ and you have it I
now, r trust - just doesn't say what the press says it does. BBe is crazed by the memo, saying we've
declared these guys POWs. It just ain't so. Best. Jed. I
•Jed Babbin
. . . . . (home office)
(home fax)'
(mobile)

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 Page 1 of1

From: JedBabbin
Sent: Tuesday, Ju!
To: WSSlnter

brian.wilso

Elizabeth.Rho

gavin.gibbons

slmenskY'l), t

Mary.Ragsd

rob. monaco

Tom

tmcinerney

Dallas MrOS

gresham.strie

sean.mcgrane

Subject: Re: Simmons· Enemy combatants....no more.

Attachments: RCPblog Geneva memo.doc

Please see the attached which is embargoed until posted on the RealClearPolitics.com biog. The
memo isn't at all what we're hearing from the press. Let's cool down a bit, boys and girls.

'. home office)

home fax)
(mobile)

4/9/2008

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 The new memorandum about the status of terrorist detainees held at Guantanarno Bay,
Cuba and elsewhere - signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England on Friday .­
is being widely misreported. The memo, which is reproduced in full below, doesn't say
that the terrorists are now POWs under the Geneva Conventions or that they will be
afforded the full rights and protections of the Geneva Conventions.

What it does say is that with the exception of the military tribunals tossed out by the
Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan, the treatment of the terrorist enemy combatants­
under the cited Defense Department and Anny manuals - is believed t.o be consistent
with Geneva standards. The media hype ofthis is entirely wrong.

There is no torture or humiliating or degrading treatment (ask Sen. McCain) of prisoners,

and the International Committee of the Red Cross already has access to the prisoners at
Gitmo. The only change that this memo may - and I stress may, not shall -- force is the
revealing of secret locati ons at which terrorists are held, or closing these locations and
moving all not there already to Gitmo. That, in itself, would be a huge change and a very
destructive one. But the new memo doesn't decide that question. The press should quiet
down a bit until we know more.

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 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF OEIl'ENSE

WUHINln'Of,j. DC :10801

Jill 7 200i
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETAJUES OF THE Mn.ITAR.Y DEP ARTME~"S
CflAJRMAN OF lHE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
UNDER. SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE
COMMANDERS OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS
ASSISTANT SECReTARIES OF DEFENSE
GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DIRECTOR, OPERAnONAL TEST AND EVALUAnoN
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENt OF DEFENSE
ASSISTANTS TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
DIRECTOR. ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
DIRECTOR, PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND BYALVAnON
OlRfcrOR, NET ASSESSMENT
DIRECTOR, FORCE TRANSFORMATION
DIRECTORS OF mE DEFENSE AGENCIES
DIRECTORS OF TIlE 000 FIELD ACTIVITIES
SUBJECT: Appljclltio%l of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the

Treatment of Detainees in the Department of DefelUc

The Supreme Court has determined thllt Common Article 3 to the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 applies as a matter of law to the conflict with Al Qac.ia. The Court
found that the military commissions 8S coDstituterl by the Department of Defenso Dr'e not
consistent with Common Article 3-.

It is my uMet'Standing that, Il.side from the military commission procedUl'e$,

existing DoD otdtrs, policies, directives, execute orders, and doctrine (;omply with the
standards of Common Articl" :land. therefore, actions by DoD personnel that comply
with liuch issUllnces would comply with the mndards of Common Article 3. Por
example, the following are consistent with the standards of Common Article 3: U.S.
Army Field Manuill 34·"2. "Jntelli8ct1ce Interrogation;' September 28, 1992; DoD
Oin:clive 31 J ~ .09, "DoD Intelligence Interrogation. Detainee: Debriefing, and Tactical
Questioning," Novcmber 3, 2005; DoD Dircctive 2311.0lE, "DoD Law of War
Program," May 9, 2006; and DoD Instruction 23 J O.OSE,"Medieal Program Support for
Detainee Operations," Ju.ne 6, 2006. In addition, you will recall the President', prior
directive that ''rhe United StarC5 Armed Forces shaD continue to treat detainecs
h.umanely," humane treatment being the ovcrarching requiremel1t of Common Article 3.

\'au will ensure that all DoD personnel adhere to these standards. In Ihis regard, 1
request that you promptly review all relevant directives, regulations. pclici~, practices,
and procedures ullder your purview to eJ)sure that they comply with the standards of

Common Article 3.
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 Your reply confirming completion of this review should be submitted by D

ComJ\ODent fiend,. GenerallFlag Officer, or SES membr:r, including a reply of"rcviewed
and no effect" where applicable, to the Deputy Assist.nt S~retary o(Ocfcnse (DASD)
for Det.inee Affairs. Office ofthe Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. no laler than
three weeks ftom the date of thi' memorandum. The DASD for Detaint'C Affairs may be
reached at (703) 697.4602.

The text of Commoo Article J follows:

In the case Df armed connict not of an international character occurring in the

territory of Olle of the High Contracting Parties, each Pany to t1te conflict shall be
bound to apply, U Il minimum, the (oUowin, provisioM~
( I) Pen:OM talting 1)0 active part in the hostilities. IncJudlng members Df armed
forces who have laid down their anns ad thOR placed /W,.,de combat by
sickness. wounds, detention, or aDy other ClWlC. shall in all cin:umstaDces be
treated humanely, wi1hout allY adverse dislinctioa founded on race, colour,
religion or faitb, sex, birtlt or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

To fhi! end, rhe following acts lie and IhaJI remain prohibited at 81)y time and in
lIny place whatsoe\'cr wilh respect to the a~~mentioned pensons;

(II) violence II,) Iifc and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutillltion.
cruel treannent and torture;
(b) taking ofhostnges;
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular. humjljating and dcgrudihg
troalm~nt;

(d) the: passinc of slmtcncea and lite carryjna out ofclIlccutions without
previou$ judiffient pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording IIl1 the
Judicial guaTllntees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

(2) The wounded and. sick shall be collected and cared (Dr,

An impllrtilll humanitarillJl body, such as the Ifltemational Committee of the Red

CroliS. lJUly otTer its services to the Panics. to the conflict.

l1\e Partie, to the conflict should further endeavour ro bring into force, by lDellns.
ofspecial agreements, all or part CJf the other provisiob' of the present Con....ention.

The 8ppHearion of the preceding provisions shall nor .(feet the legal statw of the
Parties 10 the conflicl

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From:
Sent:
To:

Bizarre. No other word for it.

Jed Babbin
. . . (home office)
(home fax)
(mobile)

4/9/2008

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From:' Gordon, Jeffrey D lCOR aso PA
Sent: Monday. July 10,20064;29 P
To: lawrence, 'Dallas Mr aSD PA; ; CIV, OASO·PA
Subject: FW: America As Jailer

Gr~etings, Bing has some interesting Insights about Guantanamo in hiS below column, Since he is highly critical of our
Iraq detention policy. I wouldn't pass around the article too much, however some excerpts about GTMO are worth keeping,

VIR,

JOG

From: Gordon, Jeffrey 0 lCDR 05D PA

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SUbject: America As Jailer

America As Jailer

Ju117,2006
National Review

We could be doing a better job, particularly in Iraq

By Bing West

America lacks a consistent policy regarding battlefield detainees. In Guantanamo Bay, constant
outside criticism has sprung relatively few prisoners from captivity. Yet in Iraq, thousands of prisoners
are periodically set free in sweeping conciliatory gestures. Condoleezza Rice told a European
aUdience in March that the U.S. has ~no desire to be the world's jailer." And indeed, while the
administration has not quite given up its firm stance in the War on Terror, it has been years since a
new prisoner was sent to Gitmo.

What are we to make of this? In game theory, the "Prisoner's DHemma" refers to the rational incentives for two
accused criminals to implicate each.other when offered reduced sentences. The warden uses his cunning to tum
the prisoners against each other. In the War on Terror, however, the prisoners are united and it is the warden

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who is susceptible to manipulation. In confronting terror, we have not reached a consensus on the proper
handling of captured terrorists. Our tradition of self-criticism, due process, and respect for human rights has
created vulnerabilities for our enemies to exploit. How to develop an approach to enemy detainees that is both
confident and consistent? This is our warden's dilemma.

When the Taliban fell in November 2001, our troops captured Afghan soldiers along witb terrorists from
a dozen other countries. The worst of tbese, as detennined by rapid interrogations, were sent to Gitmo.
Many of them could not be convicted in an American courtroom, because they were captured on
battlefields without physical evidence or witnesses to a crime. Others were identified by classified means
that could not be revealed in court. Regardless, in our nation's post-9tH mood, pictures of tbese
blindfolded, chained men in orange jumpsuits evoked grim pUblic satisfaction.

By mid-2004, however, instances of prisoner abuse - snarling dogs, the mockery of naked prisoners ­
provided graphic illustrations to be used by war critics. Civil libertarians, Europeans, and many in the
mainstream press used this opportunity to attack an administration whose policies and personalities they
already loathed. The public: image of terrortst detainees graduaJly morpbed from sinister figures into
naive sad sacks who had been deprived of a fair trial. In obsequious ·atonement, many lawmakers and
pundit.s uttered harsh condemnations of our policies. Sen. Dick Durbin even claimed moral equivalence
between Am.ericans and Nazis.

As a morally conscious liberal democracy, America became uneasy when criticized for denying trials to
foreign combatants captured in civilian clothes. But rather tban resolving the amorphous status of
captured terrorists, we threw resources at the problem to make life more comfortable for the prisoners.
Guantanamo became one of the finest state-of-the-art prisons in tbe world, far superior to European or
American civilian prisons. Every prisoner at Gitmo chooses among 4,200 calories oUood selections a day,
including specially cooked Muslim dishes. Every inmate in GUmo is provided with a Koran, and the
inmates choose their imams from among themselves. Time is even set aside each week for hate-filled
group sennons.

When these measures faUed to quell criticisms of our detention policy, the Bush administration gradually
began releasing prisoners - some of whom were later killed fighting Ameriean troops on faraway
battlefields. The original Gitmo population hovered around 800, but it is now down below 500. Thanks to
years of questioning and thousands of inquiries with intelligence services around the globe, a record
several inches thick has been accumulated on each prisoner. The interrogators are convinced that 85
percent of Gitmo inmates are terrorists who are intent on continuing their jihad even during
imprisonment. Killing a guard is their highest goal, followed by suicide - as a political weapon, not an
act of despair. Of 44 suicide attempts, only three have succeeded. The rest have been thwarted because
guards have intervened, often at the risk of their lives.

In Guantanamo's relatively small population, the huge expenditure of American energy bas garnered
intelligence dossiers that are deep in detail but narrow in scope. In Iraq, where the U.S. holds 14,000
prisoners, the problem is the opposite: Too many are set free because there are not enough
resources to closely analyze 'each prisoner. In Guantanamo, the focus is on extracting information
about terror networks through tedious, uncoerced interrogations. In Iraq, the focus is on
distinguishing between al-Oaeda-type extremists and nationalist resisters. This requires skilled
interrogators, and there aren't enough of them.

The revolving door

Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al·Maliki, recently took the risk of releasing 10 percent of the estimated
25,000 prisoners in his country. The intent was to wean "mainstream Sunni resisters· away from the
al-Oaeda types by releasing the former and keeping the latter in prison. While courageous and well­
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intentioned. this reconciliation gesture had a stark downside: After being set free, many insurgents
have only had their status enhanced in the eyes of their peers. We don't know the recidivism rate in
Iraq, but in the U.S. it is over 60 percent. It is telling that some of our soldiers have begun referring to
Abu Ghraib as "Osama U:

The policy of releasing Sunni insurgents has the tragic consequence of attenuating deterrence. What do
insurgents have to lose from being arrested for fighting if they know they will soon be released by authorities?
By not wearing unifonns, they can take advantage of rights comparable to those afforded to criminal suspects in
a liberal democracy.

The data on Iraq's revolving door are revealing. In May, for instance, one American battalion in Ramadi
detained 178 suspects - 35 percent for possession of explosive devices that kill Americans, 45 percent for
illegal weapons or inciting to riot, and 20 percent for outstanding arrest warrants. Every arrest required an
enormous amount of hard work under a blistering sun. Each detainee was questioned by an experienced team of
interrogators, supervised by a military lawyer who had been an assistant district attorney in the U.S. Within 18
hours, 100 of these arrestees were released with mere warnings. Most had been illegally carrying weapons in
their cars.

The remaining 78 were charged with serious offenses. Most refused to answer questions. The arresting
American soldiers filed two sworn statements for each arrest, together with photos from the crime scene. The
detainees were sent to the brigade level, where 50 were released and 30 were sent to Abu Ghraib Prison to await
an Iraqi hearing. Once at Abu Ghraib, still more of these detainees were released by a Combined Review &
Release Board, consisting of American and IraQi officials. The battalion was notified of each release via a
convoluted Internet system. To protest any release, American troops had to secure the signature of a colonel.

Of the original 178 arrestees, the 20 prisoners still being held at Abu Ghraib were scheduled to appear
individually before an Iraqi judge, in most cases four to six months later. The American soldiers who had made
the arrest were required to appear at that trial. In the majority of cases, this has not been possible. Iraqi judgc:s,
often intimidated and openly suspicious of written testimony from American soldiers, tend to free the accused.
Net result: Over 85 percent of all those detained are released within six months.

Senior American officials believe the battalions are indiscriminate in making arrests. The battalions believe the
senior officials are under political pressure to release hard-core killers who know how to lie. Either way, the
system is broken: [n the U.S., one male in 75 is in jail. In Iraq, it is one in 500. So either Iraqis are seven times
more law-abiding than Americans, or the judicial system in Iraq is a mess.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, while a major achievement. does not affect the motivations of the foot soldiers
in the Iraqi insurgency. We have not created jobs for a million angry Sunni youths. Nor have we created an
effective deterrent against their working for the insurgency. In Ramadi, for instance, an unemployed youth is
paid $40 to emplace a roadside bomb. It is unlikely that he will be caught in the act, and, if he is caught, he
knows the odds greatly favor his release. Our soldiers mock the arrest of insurgents as a "catch and release"
fishing tournament.

At best, our current operating procedure shows a failure to communicate between our senior and junior military
leaders. Either the lawyers and interrogation teams at the battaJion level are incompetent, or the senior reviewers
have become timorous because of adverse publicity, and are now detennined to close all American-run prisons.

At worst, our porous anti-insurgency effort is undercutting the larger reconciliation strategy. The lack of a
justice system inspires vigilantes and fuels sectarian violence, which is compounded by Shiites with militia ties
who are hired as prison guards. Reconciliation is a mockery if there is no punishment for rebellion or murder.
Prime Minister Maliki has justified the release of 2,500 prisoners as "a chance for those who want to rethink
their strategy." But if these freed prisoners persist with their violent attacks, more Americans and Iraqis will die.
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 Crime & punishment

So what should b.e done? First, stand finn on life imprisonment for terrorists. In Guantanamo, the physical
evidence justifying detention is weak, but knowledge of the prisoners has led the reviewers to conclude that they
remain a danger to society. In Iraq, the physical evidence is much stronger, but knowledge of terrorists' states of
mind is usuaJly nonexistent, owing to a lack of interrogators.

In Guantanamo, a three-member military commission annually reviews the record of each detainee, who is
provided a lawyer to argue his case for freedom. This year. the commissions recommended that ten prisoners be
released and 450 kept behind bars or returned in shackles to their home countries. The Supreme Court wiJl rule
shortly on the legitimacy of these military commissions. That ruling will define a means of determining the
legitimacy, if not the length, of incarceration during the War on Terror. If the Court approves the commission
system, we should institute it in Iraq.

Second, advertise and showcase Guantanamo as the last stop for terrorists. The Pentagon's program ofinviting
reporters to see for themselves is the correct course. The United States has nothing to hide at Gitmo. The
prisoners are weJl treated and the guards are a credit to their country. The more reporters who visit, the better.

Third, get tough on the killers. Most Americans and civilians in Iraq are killed by improvised explosive devices,
yet the administration has refused to say whether it is a war crime for a man in civilian clothes to plant such a
device. Stop this shilly-shallying. Declare the emplacement ofIEDs to be a war crime. Those caught with IEDs
by American soldiers should not be turned over to the broken Iraqi system.

Fourth, repair the disconnect between the U.S. battalions in Iraq making the arrests and the senior officials who
keep releasing detainees. The frequency of releases is brewing cynicism, and we must come up with a single
system that enables arresting soldiers to be a part of the review-and-release program.

As the warden in the War on Terror, it is time for us to get serious about setting the rules for dealing with
terrorists. The president should declare that the inmates at Guantanamo will remain in prison as long as they
constitute a danger to society. Anti-Americanism in Europe and the Middle East will not be alleviated by
closing Guantanamo. Instead., the harshest critics of America will consider its closure a victory, even if it means
terrorists going free to wreak more havoc. Gitmo's reputation strikes fear among terrorists because it symbolizes
banishment and obli vion, not martyrdom and fame. Guantanamo should stand as a deterrent to terror .- a global
reminder of the relationship between crime and punishment.

Mr. West, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, is the author of two books about the
Iraq War: The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the U.S. Marines, and No True Glory: A Frontline Account of
the Battle for FaHujah.

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 From: ~~~(~lN~[mti;:;i;;;1 elY, OASD-PA

Sent: Monday, July 10, 200612:24 PM

To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Subject: RE; analysts phone call

i agree with you on the mcinerney/scales call ... but who would you drop instead:? then
we'd have two from fox and only one from any of the others ...
downing v. jacobs ... i thought about that, too, not sure that it makes a huge difference,
but if you think so. happy to suggest jacobs instead.

~jli;1
-----Original Message----­
From: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:17 PM

To: ~)~~Y0000t00N CIV, OASD-PA

Subject: Re: analysts phone call

I'd not drop mcineriny or scales. And I'd probably suggest jacobs over downing don't you
think?

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To: Johnson, Hollen Ms OSD PA
CC: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PAl Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Sent: Man JulIO 12:13:28 2006

Subject: RE: analysts phone call

ok. can we make it 6?? :)

here is who i would suggest:

Mr. Jed Babbin (AF, Former JAG) American Spectator, national radio
Dr. Jeff McCausland (Colonel, USA, Retired) - CBS
General Wayne A. Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired) CBN, CNN Int'l, Fox, NPR

Major General James "spider" Marks (USA, Retired) CNN

Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (USAF, Retired) - Fox News

Major General Robert H. scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox News

Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF, Retired) CNN
if we must trim off two, i think spider marks and either scales or mcinerney ... so we'd

have at least one from each network??

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Subject: RE: analysts phone call

This a lot for 20 minutes. Could I say "6 of the following analysts?"

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Downing (USA, Retired) MSNBC Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired) NBC Colonel
John Garrett (USMC, Retired) Fox News
Brigadier General David L. Grange (USA, Retiredl CNN
Command Sergeant Major Steven Greer (USA, Retired) Fox News Colonel Jack Jacobs (USA,
Retired) MSNBC General Jack Keane (USA, Retired) ABC Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis
(USA, Retired) CBN. CNN Int'l, Fox, NPR Major General James ·Spider N Marks (USA, Retired)
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Robert H, Scales, Jr. (USA, Retired) - Fox News Major General Donald W. Shepperd (USAF.
Retired) CNN Mr. Wayne Simmons (USN. Retired) - Fox News Major General Paul E. Vallely
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From: OSD PA

To: Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: Mon JulIO 11:08:01 2006

Subject: analysts phone call

I am putting together a proposal for analyst call and radio interviews on Wed. Please

advise on who you think would be on the call and how much time you need.

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Where are the Republicans shouting for a renewed Bl'vID initiative? Are they silent because they're afraid of the
cost? Pusillanimity, again.

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After llam you time. We have events all day. Morning breaktast e~c. Ugh. :). Noonish is

probably best or anytime today.

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Sent: Sun Jul 09 12:40:42 2006

Subject: Re: mil analysts

Ok, I'll call you in the morning. How early is too early?? :)

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Subject: Re: mil analysts

call me when you want to go through these. loday or tomorrow any time is fine .

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~~~~aod. Didn't you have natwick do a dvd or something for yOU?? I'll also check
~~~'~8~j\ I'm· sure they have those reports somewhere in their archives ..... at least I
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Hmm. As for after actions, they would be in memo format on the s drive. Likely from ab to
dorrance or larry. Though I don't think we did them.fill$lt0~m did reports. w~~~ I sust
for~arded. Let chat tomorrow and we will wak through the questions raised. j~;;{0000j has
info from legal as well with regard to dedicated exec aircraft. Not god but not horible.

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Sent: Sun Jul 09 09:06:24 2006
Subject; RE: mil analy~ts

hi. i know you did an after action on the trips you've taken with some of the clips.
transcripts, etc. right?? please tell me you saved them to the a,drive. altho. 1'm pretty
sure i know better ... ;) if they're not on the s:drive, would you happen to know where you
saved them?? they'd really help in putting this stuff together for abo if you know Where
they are on your hard drive, would you mind sending me your password and telling me where
to find them 50 that i can add them to the memo?? if not. any ideas how i can get the info
quickly??
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Attachments: GUANTANAMO THOUGHTFUL CLlPS.doc I

Dallas,
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Greetings. Please feel free to use the columns in attached document with miritary analysts as appropriate, Have
a good weekend. I

Best,
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Gentlemen, I

Attached is an updated version of the thoughtful column/article file regarding detention operations at
Guantanamo, I've added pieces by David Rivkin &Lee Casey, William F. Buckley and John Yoo to yesterday's
version,
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I nice work, jd. thank you.

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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:38 PM

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Gentlemen,

1 As requested, attached document contains four thoughtful articles/columns about Guantanamo, from Charles

Krauthammer, Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin. I have a call out to OGC and DoJ to provide some inputs as well.

I EnviSion that I will have more material tomorrow a.m.

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From: Ruff, Eric, SES, OSD
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:38 PM
To: Gordon, Jeffrey D LeDR OSD PA
Cc: Whitman, Bryan Mr OSD PA
Subject: articles on detainees

j.d., at the detainees meeting with the secdef, eta!., this a.m., there was discussion about pUlling together some
of the more thoughtful articles that have been written about gtma .and american detainee policy, two arti.cles were
specifically mentioned (authors were yoo and krauthammer), and i'm getting those, can you work with haynes'
office and see if the lawyers down there can come up with any others? can you also ask your doj counterpart if
he has any articles that he would recommend. i'm sure we'll be circulating the articles to various folkS, so we're
looking for substantive columns or articles from journals, etc. doable? thank you.

4/9/2008

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 Wasbington Post

Gitmo Grovel: Enough Already

June 3, 2005

By Charles Krauthammer

The self·flagellation over reports of abuse at Guantanarno Bay has turned into a full-scale
panic. There are calls for the United States, with all this worldwide publicity, to simply
shut the place down.

A terrible idea. One does not run and hide simply because allegations have been made. If
the charges are unverified, as they overwh.elmingly are in this case, then they need to be
challenged. The United States ought to say what it has and has not done, and not simply
sUlTender to rumor.

Moreover, shutting down Guantanarno will solve nothing. We will capture more
telTorists, and we will have to interrogate them, if not at Guantanamo then somewhere
else. There will then be reports from that somewhere else that will precisely mirror the
charges coming out of Guantanamo. What will we do then? Keep shutting down one
detention center after another?

The self-flagellation has gone far enough. We know that al Qaeda operatives are trained
to charge torture when they are in detention, and specifically to charge abuse of the
Koran to inflame fellow prisoners on the inside and potential sympathizers on the outside.

In March the Navy inspector general reported that, out of about 24,000 interrogations at
Guantanamo, there were seven confirmed cases of abuse, "all of which were relatively
minor." In the eyes of history, compared to any other camp in any other war, this is an
astonishingly smalJ number. Two of the documented offenses involved !Ifemale
interrogators who, on their own initiative, touched and spoke to detainees in a sexually
suggestive manner." Not exactly the gulag.

The most inflammatory allegations have been not about people but ahout mishandling the
Koran. What do we know here? The Pentagon reports (Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, May 26) .~
all these breathless "scoops" come from the U.S. government's own investigations of
itself -- thatof 13 allegations of Koran abuse, five were substantiated, of which two were
most likely accidental.

Let's understand what mishandling means. Under the rules the Pentagon later instituted at
Guantanamo, proper handling of the Koran means using two hands and wearing gloves
when touching it. Which means that if any guard held the Koran with one hand or had
neglected to put on gloves, this would be considered mishandling.

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 On the scale of human crimes. where, say, 10 is the killing of 2,973 innocent people in
one day and 0 is jaywalking, this ranks as perhaps a 0.01.

Moreover~ what were the Korans doing there in the first place? The very possibility of
mishandling Korans arose because we gave them to each prisoner. What kind of crazy
tolerance is this? [s there any other country that would give a prisoner precisely the
religious text that that prisoner and those affiliated with him invoke to justify the
slaughter of innocents? lfthe prisoners had to have reading material, I would have given
them the book "Portraits 9/11/01" -- vignettes ofthe lives ofthose massacred on Sept. 11.

Why this abjectness on our part? On the very day the braying mob in Pakistan
demonstrated over the false Koran report in Newsweek, a suicide bomber blew up an
Islamic shrine in Islamabad, destroying not just innocent men, women and children, but
undoubtedly many Korans as well Not a word of condemnation. No demonstrations.

Even greater hypocrisy is to be found here at home. Civillibertarillns, who have been
dogged in making sure that FBI-collected Guantanamo allegations are released to the
world. seem exquisitely sensitive to mistreatment ofthe Koran. A rather selective
scrupulousness. When an American puts a crucifix in ajar of urine and places it in a
museum, civil libertarians rise immediately to defend it as free speech. And when
someone makes a painting ofthe Virgin Mary, smears it with elephan1 dung and adorns it
with porn, not only is that free speech, it is art -. deserving of taxpayer funding and an
ACLD brief supporting the BrookJyn Museum when the mayor freezes its taxpayer
subsidy.

Does the Koran deserve special respect? Of course it does. As do the Bibles destroyed by
the religious police in Saudi Arabia and the Torahs blown up in various synagogues from
Tunisia to Turkey,

Should the United States apologize'? If there were mishandlings ofthe Koran, we should
say so and express regret. And that should be in the context of our remarkably humane
and tolerant treatment of the Guanlanamo prisoners, and in the context of a global war on
terrorism (for example, the campaign in Afghanistan) conducted with a discrimination
and a concern for civilian safety rarely seen in the annals of warfare.

Then we should get over it,stop whimpering and start defending ourselves.

http://.www.washingtonpost.com/WR­
dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR200506020 I 750.html

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 National Review

High court didn't repudiate Guantanamo Bay policy.

Vote was actually very close since the chiefjustice had to recuse himself.

July 5,2006

By William F. Buckley

These are vexing days for those who (a) want to press the war against terrorism, and (b)
want to maintain the usual protections against unnecessary accretions of state power. The
recent headliner in this carnival is the Supreme Court ruling on Osama bin Laden's
bodyguard. What was challenged was the legality of the "military commission" that put
him on trial at Guantanamo, denying him access to his accusers or to the evidence
. presented to the jUdges (military) by the prosecution.

The first rule is to reason calmly about what happened. And best to begin by reflecting on
the vote within the Supreme Court. It was posted as 5 (illegitimizing the military
commissions) to 3. But the chiefjustice had recused himself because he had voted on the
same issue, while a member of the lower court, affinning the legality of the commissions.
This means that the vote was de facto 5-4. What's more, the majority on the court invited
Congress to write a fresh law correcting the weaknesses of present arrangements while
satisfying the security objectives of the Guantanamo enterprise.

The elation of those who welcomed the decision isn't very directly related to concern for
bin Laden's bodyguard. The New York Times is waging a crusade of its 0'!NIl against what
it deems elCcesses by the elCecutive branch. Conservative Americans are temperamentally
disposed to welcome sensible abridgments of state power, executive, legislative •• and
judicial. The court's ruling is being viewed against the swelling of the executive branch at
a time of increased surveillances of individuals and of special arrangements with bankers
aimed at sniffing out smelly financial transactions.

The motive of the Bush administration is to harness technology for our nation's defense.
To do this with sophistication is to acknowledge that the jihadists are not bound by
conventional military strategy, In Switzerland, tunnels and bridges are wonderfully
proyided with means for stopping a tank attack in its tracks. Such technology doesn't
work against airplanes zooming in on skyscrapers, and the possibility that bin Laden's
bodyguard can provide a key toa missing link must be weighed.

The question is whether the president can handle the current problem by improvising
what he deems suitable makeshift procedures. Nobody, in the chorus of approval that
greeted the Supreme Court ruling, went on to say that the bodyguard should be freed. The
president is putatively correct in holding him in detention ~~ the court is not ruling on that
point. But what transactions in the order .ofjusticeare appropriate? Ifwe wish to establish
his "guilt," by what protocols are we bound?

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Something more, the Supreme Court's narrow majority holds, than that the executive I
branch has found it convenient to proceed as it has. It becomes a question of legislative
ingenuity to devise the means to keep suspects from returning to the ranks of terrorists I
whi Ie we attempt to counter the great terrorist offensive. I

We do have a huge psychological burden. It is that the war we're engaged in has no I
realistic terminus. Assume that the Iraqi insurgency were overwhelmed by the end of the I
year. That would not mean, in the engagement we are pressing, an end to the jihadists. I
Bin Laden is a soldier with international appetites. It is by no means safe to conclude that I
a statute oflimitations will clock in after any specified historical development, when I
what is left to do amounts to a kind of de-nazification.
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by the Supreme Court. But faces us also, and the American public doesn't go in for
indefinite detainment. I
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Cutting Through the Fog About Military Tribunals...
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I June 30, 2006
I By Bill O'Reilly
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I The Supreme Court ruled 5·3 that President Bush calUlot try prisoners at Guantanamo
Bay using the military justice tribunal system.
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The four liberal justices, plus Justice Kennedy, said the president has overstepped his
authority and must get congressional approval for military tribunals. The rulings contain
I much bloviating and mumbo-jumbo. It's what those people do. But bottom line: the
I liberal Supremes believe President Bush is commanding too much power. The three
conservative judges say the president is within his authority.
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I Chief Justice John Roberts recused himself, but it wouldn't have mattered.
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So what does this mean to you? Well, the president could seek congressionalapproval to
I use military tribunals and I hope he does. But either way, Gitrno stays open. The court
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The disturbing thing about today's Supreme Court ruling is that it demonstrates how
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America is divided on the terror war. As "Talking Points" has stated, the left believes the
current administration is the enemy anq doesn't trust it to wage a legal war. The right I
believes the Bush administration's policies have prevented attacks on American soil and I
il; willing to give the president the benefit of the doubt.
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So the battle lines at home are drawn. ,

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Americans trust the president more than any Democrat to protect them from terror.
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Finally, today's ruling is a political one, but not a disaster. If Mr. Bush wants military I
justice at Gitmo. the Republican controlled House and Senate :would most likely OK it. I
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The Truth About Guantanamo Bay•..

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June 07.2005
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The truth about Guantanamo Bay: that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points
I Memo".
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As we told you last week, the detainee abuse story is being used to undennine the war on
I terror, at least the way the Bush administration is fighting it Check out my colwnn

I posted on billoreilly.com for details on that.

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Now over the weekend, Senator Joseph Bidenjoincd the abuse chorus and called for the
I shutting down ofGuantanamo Bay (search).
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
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I SEN. JOSEPH BID EN (D), DELAWARE: rltl ... has become the greatest propaganda

I tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world. And it is wmecessary to be in

that position, but the end result is I think we should end up shutting it do....n, moving
I those prisoners. Those that we have reason to keep, keep. And those we don't, let go.
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 (END VIDEO CLIP)

'We asked the senator to appear this evening, but as always, Biden turned us down. He
does not like close questioning.

But it's amazing to me that he and others actually believe that closing Gitmo would
accomplish anything. The entire Gitmo situation has been driven by the anti-Bush press
and the far left human rights organizations.

As "Talking Points" mentionoo a week ago, there have been abuses by U.S. interrogators
down there, but not many. And now we have some stats to, back that up.

The Pentagon report found that there have been more than 28,000 Gitmo interrogations
over the past three years, and only five cases of Koran abu~c, two of which were
accidental.

And the chief critic from inside Gitmo, fonner Army translator Eric Saar (search), said
this on "The Factor" a few days ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: What was the worst thi~g you ever saw?

ERIC SAAR: You know, sir, I would have to say the worst thing I saw was actually
some of the sexual tactics that were used in the interrogation booth. And I would have to
say the reason for that is because it really defied the values we stand for as a country.

(END VlDEO CLIP)

And those techniques were unbuttoning blouses, women interrogators, things like that,
but no touching or anything like that.

So what are we talking about here? Some minor cases of abuse, that1s what. And we
should shut down Gitmo because the anti-Bush press doesn't like it? Come on.

The truth is that any closing of Gitmo would send a signal that the USA did indeed abuse
Gitmo prisoners on a mass scale. That's not true, but it is a perception the anti-Bush
people want out there.

Once again, you can't fight a war on terror when every small mistake is magnified into a
page one scandal or a book! Also once again, the Bush administration should set up an
independent commission to investigate American detainee policy across the board. The
president must take the offensive on this, or else the country's image will continue to
suffer and the jihadists and their enablers will win an.other victory.

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 Washington Times

Guantanamo fog ...

June 3,2005
By Michelle Malkin

The mainstream media and international human-rights organizations have relentlessly

portrayed the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as a depraved torture chamber operated
by sadistic American military officials defiling Islam at every tum. It's the "gulag of our
time, IT wails Amnesty International. It's the "anti-Statue of Liberty," bemoans New York
Times columnist Tom Friedman.

Have there been abuses? Yes. But here is the rest of the story ~- the story the Islamists
and their sympathizers don't want you to hear. According to recently released FBI
documents, inaccurately heralded by civil liberties activists and rnilitary-bashers as
irrefutable evidence of widespread "atrocities" at Gitrno:

A significant number of detainee complaints were either exaggeraled or fabricated (no

surprise given a1 Qaeda's explicit instructions to trainees to lie). One detainee who
claimed to have been "beaten, spit upon and treated worse than a dog" could provide not
a single detail pertaining to mistreatment by U.S. military personnel. Another detainee
claimed guards were physically abusive, but admitted he hadn't seen it.

Another detainee disputed one of the now globally infamous claims that American
guards had mistreated the Koran. The detainee said riots resulted from claims a guard
dropped the Koran. In actuality, the detainee said, a detainee dr:opped the Koran then
blamed a guard. Other detainees who complained about abuse of the Koran admitted they
never personally witnessed any such thing, but one said he heard non-Muslim soldiers
touched the Koran when searching it for contraband.

In one case, Gitmo interrogators apologized to a detainee for interviewing him .prior to
the end of Ramadan.

Several detainees indicated they had not experienced any mistreatment. Others
complained about lack of privacy, lack of bedsheets, being unwillingly photographed,
guards' use of profanity and bad food.. [fthis is unacceptable, "gulag"-style "torture." then
every inmate in America is a victim of human-rights violations. (Oh, never mind, there
are civil liberties Chicken Littles who actually believe that.)

Erik Saar, an anny sergeant at Gitmo for six months and co- author of a negative, tell­
all book titled "Inside the Wire," inadvertently provides us more firsthand details
showing just how restrained, and sensitive to Islam _., to a fault, I believe -~ detention
facility officials have been.

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Each detainee's cell has a sink installed low to the ground, "to make it easier for the I
detainees to wash their feet" before Muslim prayer, Mr. Saar reports. Detainees get "two
hot hala1, or religiously correct, meals" a day in addition to an MRE (meal ready to eat). I
Loudspeakers broadcast the Muslims' call to prayer five times daily.
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Every detainee gets a prayer mat, cap and Koran. Every cell has a stenciled arrow
pointing toward Mecca. Moreover, Gitmo's library -- yes, library -- is stocked with Jihadi I
books. "I was surprised that we'd be making that ~oncession to the religious zealotry of
the terrorists," Mr. Saar admits. "It seemed to me that the camp command was helping to I
facilitate the terrorists' religious devotion." Mr. Saar notes one FBI special agcnt involved
in interrogations even grew a beard like the detainees "as a sort of show of respect for
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, .. their faith."

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Unreality-based liberals would have us believe America is spitefully and
systematically torturing innocent Muslims at Guantanamo"Bay. Meanwhile, our own MPs I
have endured little-publicized abuse at the bands of manipulative, hatemongering enemy
combatants. Detainees have spit on and hurled water, urine and feces on the MPs. I
Causing disturbances is a source of entertainment tbr detainees who, as Gen. Richard
Myers notes, "would turn right around and try to slit our throats, slit our children's
throats" if released.
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The same unreality-based liberals whine about the Bush administration's failure to
gather intelligence and prevent terrorism. Yet, these hysterical critics have no viable
alternative to detention and interrogation -- and there is no doubt they would be the first
I to lambaste the White House and Pentagon if a released detainee went on to commit an
act of mass terrorism on American soil.
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Guantanamo Bay will not be the death ofthis country. The unseriousness and
I hypocrisy of the terrorist-abetting left is a far greater threat.

I Michelle Malkin is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author o!"!nvasion: How
America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces f(} Our
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 National Review

The Gitmo Club

June 15,2006
By The Editors
News that three Guantanamo Bay detainees had hanged themselves quickly became
propaganda. "It was the inevitable result ofcreating a netherworld of despair beyond the
laws of civilized nations," thundered a New York Times editorial. Critics ofthe Bush
administration pointed to the suicides as though'they were proof positive that
Guantanamo must be closed. This response is predictable and should be resisted.

[s Guantanamo too awful to tolerate? Scores of politicians, journalists, lawyers, and

activists-over 1,000 people-have visited the camp and attested that the detainees are
treated well. They are given culturally sensitive diets, freedom to worship, exercise
opportunities, and the best available medical care. Guantanarno certainly compares
favorably with most foreign facilities, even in Western countries. Reuters quoted the
deputy head of the Brussels antiterrorism unit as saying, "At the level of the detention
facilities, [Guantanamo] is a model prison, where people are better treated than in
Belgian prisons."

Nor do the suicides show that the guards at Guantanamo weren't diligent in perfonning
their duties. They have succeeded in stopping over 40 suicide attempts by 23 separate
detainees. That things worked out differently last Sunday only demonstrates that even the
most diligent and watchful guards will not always succeed. This is particularly the case
when, as at Guantanamo, the authorities attempt to strike a balance between the
imperatives of security and the provision of privacy.

In asking why the suicides happened, we should acknowledge the simple reality that
incarcerated individuals sometimes get depressed, no matter how humane the conditions
oftheir confinement. This is not unique to Guantanamo or military detention facilities in
general, but is endemic to all prisons, whether civilian or military, and occurs in every
country in the world. The recent suicides don't prove that practices at Guantanamo are
unjustified any more than suicides in other prisons prove that practices there are
unjustified.

There are, 0 f course. procedural differences between the treatment of detainees at

Guantanamo and the treatment of civilian criminals. The Left frequently deplores the
detainees' uncertainty about how long they will remain confined, and their inability to get
a day in civilian courts. But it has long been standard - and has not been considered
inhumane - for a country at war to detain enemy combatants for the duration of
hostilities, primarily to, ensure that they don't pick up anns and return to the battlefield.
Wars often Jast a long time; running a revolving-door detention operation is a Sure way to
make them even longer. The Guantanamo detain.ees don't know how long they will be
held, but neither did POWs in World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and dozens of other
conflicts. The main difference between those wars and this one is that hundreds of

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 Guantanamo detainees have been re leased before the cessation of hostilities.

As for due process, the detainees have received opportunity aplenty to chaJlenge their
classification as unlawful enemy combatants. Between the combatant-status review
tribunals, annual review boards, and habeas petitions, they have gotten more due process,
and more legal assistance, than any captured enemy combatants in history.

When the Guantanamo commander, Rear Adm. Harry Harris, referred to the suicides as
an act of "asymmetric warfare," he was savaged by the media. But he may well be right.
The detainees who committed suicide had previously been involved in 'hunger strikes and
other disruptive activities. And there is evidence that a number of habeas lawyers have
abused their status by providing the detainees with reports on how their hunger strikes
and suicide attempts were strengthening the efforts to get Guantanamo closed. Islamist
terrorists have never been reluctant to kill themselves for the good of the jihad, and the
detainees may have decided that a coordinated set of suicides would intensify pressure on
the U.S.

If so, they probably calculated correctly. But the pressure should be resisted. Closing
Guantamimo would be a psychological victory for Ell Qaeda. It would harm America's
ability to win in the War on Terror. It would represent a departure from the standard
treatment of enemy combatants. All of these considerations might be outweighed by
compelIing moral reasons to close the detention center, if such existed. But they don't.
Many on the Left no doubt feel compassion for the detainees. But the peculiar
exhibitionism of their compassion is probably motivated by a simple desire to club the
Bush administration. as usual.

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Wall Street Journal

Hamdan

June 30, 2006

By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey

The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in"alidating for now the use of
military commissions to try al Qaeda and associated detainees, may be a setback for U.S.
policy in the war on terror. But it is a setback with a sterling silver lining. All eight of the
justices partiCipating in this case agreed that military commissions are a legitimate part of
the American legal tradition that can, in appropriate circumstances, be used to try and

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 punish individuals captured in the war on terror. Moreover, nothing in the decision
suggests that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay must, or should, be closed.

Indeed, none of the justices questioned the government's right to detain Salim Ahmed
Hamdan (once Osama bin Laden's driver), or other Guantanamo prisoners, while
hostilities continue. Nor did any of them suggest that Mr. Hamdan, or any other
Guantanamo detainee, must be treated as civilians and accorded a speedy trial in the
civilian courts. Precisely because opponents of the Bush administration's detention
policies have advanced these, or substantially similar claims, Hamdan has dealt them a
decisive defeat. Together with the Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Hamdi v. Rumsjeld­
- directly affirming the government's right to capture and detain, without criminal charge
or trial, al Qaeda and allied operatives until hostilities are concluded -- Hamdan
vindicates the basic legal architecture relied upon by the administration in prosecuting
this war.

However, what Hamdan also means is that. if the administration wishes to pursue
military- commission trials, the procedures •• including evidentiary rules -- to be
followed by those bodies will have to be revised so as to conronn to the procedures
applicable in ordinary courts-martial under the Unifonn Code of Military Justice (UeM!)
-. or additional legislation must be obtained from Congress. This is because the Supreme
Court based its ruling on language Congress included in UCMJ Article 36(b), which
requires rules and regulations made for both military commissions and courts-martial to
"be uniform insofar as practicable." As an alternative, the administration could also try
the detainees in courts-martial.

Of course, military commissions were initially established because the rules applicable in
courts-martial are not consistent with either the practical realities of the war on terror, or
the fundamentally illegitimate status, under the laws and customs of war. of captured al
Qaeda members. That being the case, the administration has two options. First, the
president could make a detennination pursuant to the UeMJ that it would be
impracticable to apply courts-martial rules in the context of military commissions in this
conflict. Although the court was skeptical of whether using these rules really is
impracticable here, it also noted that the president had not made su(;h a detennination,
and that insufficient justification had been presented in the Hamdan case to support such
a finding. The clear implication is that, if the president does act, and there is sufficient
justification articulated, then departure!l from courts-martial rules are permissible.

Second, the president could seek additional action by Congress. Indeed, justices
Kennedy, Breyer, Souter and Ginsburg, all critical votes for the majority in this case,
effectively invited him to do preciselY this. Justice Kennedy noted that "[b]ecause
Congress has prescribed these limits, Congress can change them." Similarly, Justice
Breyer -- responding to the entirely reasonable observation of dissenting Justices Scalia,
Thomas and Alito that the majority's decision interferes with the president's ability to
protect the U.S. from a "neW and deadly enemy" .- noted that "fnlothing prevents the
President from returning to Congress to seek the authority he believes necessary." The
administration's answer should be. "OK, fine."

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 Congress should revise the UCMJ to make clear that the rules applicable in military
commissions need not be identical to those in courts-martial -- so long as the basic
elements of a fair trial are maintained. Alternatively, Congress could adopt the military­
commission rules already established. In either case, the Supreme Court would be hard­
pressed to reject rules establ ished by Congress, since it was the apparent lack of
legislative authority it considered to be the key defect in the current system.

At the same time, the Hamdan decision gives the Bush administration an opportunity to
articulate a clear vision for dealing with the future of Guantanamo Bay and the entire set
of related legal and policy issues. The president's critics, at home and abroad, have
succeeded in making tbat facility a symbol around which both opponents of the war on
terror, and a1 Qaeda's own supporters, can rally. The existence of Guantanamo, however,
is not their real complaint. The true issue here is whether the U.S. will continue to treat al
Qaeda and its allies as enemy combatants in a war that it means to win, ending the threat
to American lives and interests around the world, or whether it will accept the threat as
more or less pennanent, seeking merely to "manage" it as a criminal-law matter.

This latter option is widely favored in Europe, which generally adopted this strategy in
response to its own, homegrown terrorists of the 1970s and '80s. Plainly stated, however,
adopting this approach today would amount to a cynical choice nQt to use all available
means to protect Americans from future attacks on the scale of 9/11, but simply to keep
civilian casualties to some "acceptable" level, while indulging the quixotic hope that
militant Islamists will eventually learn to Jove us. In addition, treating al Qaeda and its
allies as civilians entitled to trial in the civilian courts, or even in the regular courts­
martial, would effectively legitimize the illegal and barbaric type of asymmetric warfare
they practice.

Opponents of the administration's policies often note that how a society deals with a
particular kind of offense or offender says much about its own values. This is true, but
any such assessment must involve more than simple questions of procedure. The choice
of venue for adjudicating particular conduct also reflects key aspects of a body politic -­
and how it views the conduct at issue. Just as it is symbolically important to prosecute
juveniles in a special court system, it is important to treat unlawful combatants as
something other than ordinary criminal defendants. Such individuals have not merely
deviated from society's nonns, they have openly and proudly rejected those norms -- in a1
Qaeda's case to a truly savage level. Treating such men as common criminals trivializes
the threat they pose, and the actions they take.

Overall, the administration should immediately respond to Hamdan by revising its

military -commission rules, confonning them to courts-martial practice where possible
(nnd properly justifying such departures as may be necessary), or by seeking
congressional action to make clear that military-commission rules need not be the same
as those applicable in courts-martial. Indeed, as these are not mutually exclusive
remedies, the pursuit of both options would make very good sense. More fundamentally,
however, the administration should stick to its guns on the fundamental question whether

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 the U.S. is fighting a war with al Qaeda secure in the knowledge that the Supreme Court
has, and continues, to validate the legal basis of this conflict.

Messrs. Rivkin and Casey, lawyers in Washington, served in the Justice Department
under Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

San Jose Mercury News

Behind the 'torture memos'

Jan. 4,2005

By Juhn Yoo

This commentary was written by Boalt Law Schoof Professor John Yoo. who is also a
visj(jng scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Y00 was deputy assistant attorney
general in the Office ofLegal Counsel of the Justice Department.from 2001 to 2003. He
wrote this article/or the San Jose Mercury News.
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the nomination of
Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general. It comes as no surprise that he is likely to face
hard questions.
As counsel to the president for the past four years, Gonzales helped develop the United
States' policies in the war on terror. He demonstrated leadership and, as is often the case
in perilous times, generated controversy.
lIe will encounter questions about the decision to deny prisoner~of-war status under the
Geneva Conventions toAI-Qaida and Taliban fighters and about his role in what have
come to be known as "torture memos." As a Justice Department lawyer, I dealt with both
issues - I worked on and signed the department's memo on the Geneva Conventions and
helped draft the main memo defining torture. I can explain why the administration
decided that aggressive measures, though sometimes unpopular, are necessary to protect
America from another terrorist attack.
Sept. 11, 2001, proved that the war against AI-Qaida cannot be won solely within the
framework ofthe criminal law. The attacks were more than crimes - they were acts of
war. Responding to the attacks and protecting the United States from another requires a
military approach to the conflict. But AI-Qaida, without regular anned forces, territory or
citizens to defend, also presents unprecedented military challenges.
One of the first policy decisions in this new war concerned the Geneva Conventions­
four 1949 treaties ratified by the United States that codify many of the rules for war.
After seeking the views of the Justice, State, and Defense departments, Gonzales
concluded in a draft January 2002 memo to the president that AI-Qaida and the Taliban
were not legally entitled to POW status. He also advised that following every provision
of the conventions could hurt the United States' ability to protect itself against ruthless
enemies.
Gonzales' memo agreed with the Justice Department and disagreed with the State
Department, which felt the Taliban (though not AI-Qaida) qualified as POWs.

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 The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel- where I worked at the time ­
detennined that the Geneva Conventions legally do not apply to the war on terrorism
because AI-Qaida is not a nation-state and has not signed the treaties. Al-Qaida members
also do not qualify as legal combatants because they hide among peaceful populations
and launch surprise attacks on civilians - violating the fundamental principle that war is
waged only against combatants. Consistent American policy since at least the Reagan
administration has denied terrorists the legal privileges reserved for regular anned forces.
The Taliban raised different questions because Afghanistan is a party to the Geneva
Conventions, and the Taliban arguably operated as its de facto govenunent. But the
Justice Department found that the presidenl had reasonable grounds to deny Taliban
members POW status because they did not meet the conventions' requirements that
lawful combatants operate under responsible command, wear distinctive insignia, and
obey the laws of war. The Taliban flagrantly violated those rules, at times deliberately
using civilians as human shields.
According to Gonzales' memo, the State Department argued that denying POW status to
the Taliban would damage U.S. standing in the world and could undennine the standards
of treatment for captured American soldiers. Gonzales also passed on the department's
worry that denying POW status "could undermine u.s. 'military culture which
emphasizes maintaining the highest standan:l.s of conduct in combat, and could introduce
an element of uncertainty in the status of adversaries."
The press has consistently misrepresented Gonzales' views and latched onto a sexy sound
bite used out of context. When Gonzales said in the memo that this new war made some
provisions of the Geneva Conventions ~quaint:' he referred to the requirement that paws
be given commissary privileges, monthly pay, athletic unifonns and scientific '
instruments. Many stories cut the quotation short, making it seem as ifhc had deemed the
conventions themselves "quaint."

'Obsolete' limitations
Gonzales' memo did, however, say that the terrorist threat rendered "obsolete Geneva's
strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners." Why? Because the United States
needed to be able "to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their
sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians." Information
remains the primary weapon to prevent a future AI-Qaida attack on the United States.
Gonzales also observed that denying POW status would limit the prosecution of U.S.
officials under a federal law criminalizing a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions. He
was concerned that some of the conventions' tenns were so vague (prohibiting, for
example, "outrages upon personal dignity") that otlicials would be wary of taking actions
necessary to respond to unpredictable developments in this new war.
The president took Gonzales' advice and denied POW status to suspected AI-Qaida and
Taliban members.
Gonzales' advice raised legal and policy Questions. Legally, could the president determine
by himself that Al-Qaida or the Taliban were not entitled to POW status? No one doubted
that he had the constitutional authority. Presidents have long been the primary,
interpreters oftreaties on behalf of the United States, especially in the area of wa,rfare.
Federal judges have since split on the POW issue. .

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 The other question was what standards the United States should follow as a matter of
policy if the Geneva Conventions did not legally apply. Gonzales recommended that the
United States should continue "its commitment to treat the detainees humanely and, to
the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity, in a manner consistent with
the principles" of the Geneva Conventions. Prisoners would receive adequate food,
housing and medical care, and could practice their religion. Gonzales advised that as long
as the president ordered humane treatment, the military would follow his orders.
Gonzales has also received criticism for a memo he requested from the Justice
Department to provide the legal definition of torture. According to press reports,
Gonzales made the request after the CIA had captured high-level AI-Qaida leaders and
wanted clarification of the standards for interrogation under U.S. law.

Congress' role
While the definition of torture in the August 2002 memo is narrow, that was Congress'
choice. When the Senate approved the U.N. Convention Against Torture in 1994, it stated
its understanding of torture as an act "specificaHy intended to inflict severe physical or
mental pam or suffering." The Senate defined mental pain and suffering as "prolonged
mental harm" caused by threats of severe physical hann or death to a detainee or third
person, the administration of mind-altering drugs or other procedures "calculated to
disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality." Congress adopted this definition in a
1994 law criminalizing torture committed abroad.
The Senate also made clear that it believed the treaty's requirement that nations undertake
to prevent "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" was too vague. The
Senate declared its understanding that the United States wo~ld follow only the
Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
The Senate and Congress' decisions provided the basis for the Justice Department's
definition of torture:
"Physical pain amounting to torture must he equivalent in intensity to the pain
accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily
function, or even death. For purely mental pain or suffering to amount to torture (under
U.S. law), it must result in significant psychological hann of significant duration, e.g.,
as
lasting for months or even years.... We conclude that the statute, taken a whole,
makes plain that it prohibits only extreme acts."
Under this definition, interrogation methods that go heyond polite questioning but fall
short of torture could include shouted questions, reduced sleep, stress positions (like
standing for long periods of time), and isolation from other prisoners. The purpose of
these techniques is not to inflict pain or harm, but simply to disorient.
On Thursday, the Justice Department responded to criticism from the summer, when the
opinion leaked to the press. The department issued a new memo that superseded the
August 2002 memo. Among other things; the new memo withdrew the statement that
only pain equivalent to such hann as serious physical injury or organ failure constitutes
torture and said, instead, that torture may consist of acts that fall short of provoking
excruciating and agonizing pain.
Although some have called this a repudiation, the Justice Department'S new opinion still
generally relies on Congress' restrictive reasoning on·what constitutes torture. Among
other things, it reiterates that there is a difference between "cruel, inhuman and degrading

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 treatment" and torture - a distinction that many critics ofthe administration have ignored
or misunderstood.
For example, aCc<lrding to press reports, the [ntemational Committee for the Red Cross
has charged that interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, which included solitary confinement
and exposing prisoners to temperature extremes and loud music, were "tantamount to
torture." This expands torture beyond the United States' understanding when it ratified the
U.N. Convention Against T onure and enacted the 1994 statute. Not only does the very
text of the convention recognize the difference between cruel, inhuman and degrading
treatment and torture, but the United States clearly chose to criminalize only tonure.

Abu Ghraib abuses

Criticism of the Bush administration's legal approach to interrogation first arose in the
summer after the Abu Ghurayb prison scandal, and has continued with more recent
stories ofFBl memos showing concern about abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo
Bay. No one condones the abuses witnessed in the Abu Ghurayb photos that are being
properly handled through the military justice system. But those abuses had nothing to do
with the memos defining torture - whiCh did not discuss the pros and cons of any
interrogation tactic - nor the decision to deny POW protections to Al-Qaida and the
, Taliban. Gonzales, among others, has made clear that the administration never ordered
the tonure ofany prisoner. And as multiple investigatory commissions' have now found,
these incidents did not result from any official orders.
At the urging of human rights groups and other opponents of the administrationls policies
in the war on terrorism, Senate Democrats have promised to closely question Gonzales on
these issues. I believe the h.earings will show that Gonzales, who never sought to pressure
or influence the Justice Department's work, appropriately sought answers to ensure
compliance with the applicable law.
Asking those questions is important because we are in the midst of an unconventional
war. Our only means for preventing future terrorist attacks, which could someday involve
weapons of mass destruction, is to rely on intelligence that pennits pre-emptive action.
An American leader would be derelict ifhe did not seek to understand all available
options in such perilous circumstances.

Riverside Press Enterprise

Embrace the Need for Decisive Leadership

March 21, 2006

ByJohn Yoo

Critics of the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq charge that President Bush has
infringed on the Constitution. They say it's up to Congress to approve the course of the
Iraq War, the interrogation policies at the Guantanamo Bay base and the wiretap
surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Yet this view misreads the Constitution's allocation of war-making powers between the
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president has broad constitutional authority~-indeed, a duty to protect the nation from
foreign attack. He requires no approval to take the nation to war if it's attacked. I
The framers of the Constitution designed the presidency to wield power quickly and I

decisively. As they understood it, Congress could counter presidential decisions in

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foreign affairs through its powers over funding or domestic legislation.
A state 'of war doesn't mean that checks and balances don't exist, only that Congress I
usually allows the president to act alone because it agrees with executive policy or lacks I
the political will to use its own constitutional powers.
Much of the confusion concerns the provision in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, I
which says that Congress alone has the power to declare war. In fact, a comprehensive I
reading of the text and structure of the Constitution demonstrates that it doesn't mandate a
specific process for waging war. I
James Madison insisted on the phrase "declare war" versus "make war" because he I
wanted presidents to have the flexibility to repel sudden attacks. In fact, the Constitution I
distinguishes between 'ldeclaring war," "engaging in war" (Article I, Section 10. Clause
3) and "levying war" (Article III, Section 3, Clause 1). I
In short, to declare war isn't the same as to start fighting a war. Congress has declared I
war just five times in its history. And only one of them, the War of 1812, constituted an
affirmative declaration of war. The other four-~the Mexican-American War, the Spanisb­
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American War, World War I and World War H--merely declared the prior existence of a I

state of war. .

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Earlier in American history, a declaration of war had the practical effect of getting
Congress on board to fund the building of an army to prosecute the war. Today, we have
a large fighting force at the ready, and the main effect of declaring war would be to alter
legal relationships between subjects of warring nations and to trigger certain rights,
I privileges and protections under the laws of war.
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Declarations provide the legal grounds for war and the opportunity for enemy nations to
make amends and, thereby, avoid the scourge of war. .
I The power to declare war is not a check on executive power to engage in hostilities. It's
I designed to address these legal issues and others in times of conflict.
lt serves notice to the enemy's allies that they could be viewed as COMbelligerents and that
I their shipping is subject to capture. It means our citizens could be prosecuted for dealing
I with the enemy, that internment or expulsion of enemy aliens is possible and that
diplomatic relations have been cut off.
I Once we're at war, the Constitution leaves the means of how the war is prosecuted almost

I entirely in the president's hands. Still, this power isn't absolute, and Congress retains a

I critical check on ito-the power to defund initiatives with which it doesn't agree.

As for the question of the NSA's wiretapping program, Richard Posner, a federal judge,

I says that, of course, a president's inherent wartime authority as commander-in-chief

I encompasses using a range of intelligence-gathering techniques.

In an era of terrorism, rogue nations and weapons ofmass destruction, it's imperative to
I get correct answers 10 questions concerning foreignMpolicy authority.

I But we should look skeptically at claims that radical changes in the way we make or

declare war would solve our problems--even those stemming from poor judgment,

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 "The Powers of War and Peace-the Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11"
Press release about the book
The war on terror raises legal issues that are both complex and unprecedented. They
range from the use of force and targeting, to the detention and interrogation of enemy
combatants who do not fight on behalf of a nation and participate in a conflict that knows
no borders. In The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after
9//1 (University of Chicago Press, October 2005), AEI visiting scholar John Yoo--a
former deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of
Legal Counsel·-answers critics who question whether the prescnt administration has
discarded the constitutional framework for making foreign affairs decisions, and makes
the case for a completely new approach to understanding what the Constitution says
about foreign affairs, particularly the powers of war and peace. Y00 urges us to
understand the Constitution's allocation of foreign affairs powers to permit a flexible
decision-making system that can respond to sweeping changes in the intemational system
and in America's national security posture. In particular, he explores the Constitution's
distribution of foreign affairs powers between the president, Congress, the courts, and the
states.
Yoo demonstrates that the legality of the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions cannot be
discussed without first identifying both the scope of the president's commander-m-chief
power to use force tmilaterally and the tools at Congress's disposal to restrain him.
Similarly, Yoo contends that arguing about whether the Geneva Conventions apply to
terrorists will prove fruitless without first unpacking the Constitution's distribution of the
power to interpret treaties among the president, the Senate, the House, and the courts. For
Yoo, debating these issues without understanding their constitutional context is akin to
arguing over government policy toward speech without first knowing the standards
established by the First Amendment.
In'The Powers ofWar and Peace, Yoo proposes a constitutional theory of foreign affairs
powers that dissents--at limes sharply--from conventional academic wisdom. He
reconstructs the Framers' historical understanding of the Constitution's text and structure
by exploring the document's eighteenth-century British ro01S, the first state constitutions
and the Articles of Confederation, and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution in
1787 and 1788. Yoo concludes that the Constitution depends less on fixed legal processes
for decision-making, and more on the political interaction of the executive and legislative
branches. The author explains that the Constitution allocates different powers to the
president, Senate, and Congress, which in tum allow them to create different decision­
making processes depending on their relative political positions and the contemporary
demands of the international system. There is no single, correct method, Yoo argues, for
making war or peace; for making intemational agreements or breaking them; or for
interpreting and enforcing international law in the Constitution. Rather, the Constitution
allows the branches of government to cooperate or compete in the foreign affairs field by
relying on their unique powers.
Yoo reminds us that war has traditionally been conceived of as occurring solely between
nation*states. 'The old international system allowed the United States to choose a war­
making system that placed a premium on consensus, time for deliberation, and the
approval of mUltiple institutions. But, as the September 11 attacks made clear, the world
is now very different. Rather than disappearing from the world, the nature and the level

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 of threats are increasing, and the magnitude of expected harm has risen dramatically-from
the easy availability of the knowledge and technology to create weapons of mass
destruction, to the emergence of rogue nations and the rise of international terrorist
networks. Yoo argues that because military force unfortunately remains the most
effective means of responding to such threats, it makes little sense to commit our political
system to a single method for making war or to adopt a war-making process that contains
a built-in presumption against using force abroad. In addition, the emergence ofdirect
.threats to the United States that are more difficult to detect and prevent may demand that
the United States undertake preemptive military action. Now more than ever, the costs of
inaction-caused, for example, by allowing the vetoes of multiple decision-makers-could
be much higher than we imagine, including the po.ssibility of a direct attack on the United
States and the deaths of thousands of civilians.
Practically, The Powers of War and Peace argues that:
• The president can initiate military hostilities without a declaration of war or other
authorization by Congress. Congress's primary method for controlling
presidential decisions lies in the power over appropriations. The federal courts
have no constitutional role in interfering with the struggle between the president
and Congress for control over war making.
• Presidents can violate international Jaw when they decide whether to use force
abroad. Thus, even if critics are correct that the invasion of Iraq was illegal under
the United Nations Charter, the president still had the constitutional authority to
begin hostilities. Congress's authorization for the war,. while unnecessary, only
underscored the President's constitutional power. Similarly, the war in Kosovo
was constitutional, even though it clearly violated international law.
• The president has the authority to interpret and ap.ply treaties on behalf of the
United States. He need not 'Consult with the Senate or the courts before
interpreting a treaty. The president also has the discretion under the Constitution
to unilaterally terminate or suspend treaties. President George W. Bush was w~ll
within his powers to interpret the Geneva Conventions as excluding the war with
aJ Qaeda and to hold that the TaHban was never entitled to the benefits of POW
status.
]n making treaties, the president and the Senate must cooperate with Congress to
implement treaties that rest within the enumerated powers of the federal
government. Treaties, on their own, cannot directly regulate the rights and duties
of private citizens without implementation by Congress. Simple statutes can
perfonn much of the function of treaties, when combined with an international
agreement made by the president, by establishing certain standards of conduct on
private citizens.

Interview with the author about the book:

Question: Your book, The Powers of War and Peace, is an examination of what the
Constitution says about the authority that the president and the Congress have to wage
wars and enter into international treaties. One thing the Constitution clearly says is that
Congress has the power to declare war. But we haven't declared a war since 194 I. Why
doesn't this country declare war anymore? .

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 .John Yoo: The United States has often engaged in military hostilities without any
declaration Of war. In the first few years of the nation, for example, the United States
went to one major war without a declaration (with France in 1798), and to another with a
declaration (Great Britain in 1812). Since World War II, the practice has been to go to
war without a declaration. None of the major wars in this period-Korea, Vietnam,
Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Irdq-have witnessed a
declaration.
Why not? Declarations of war do not serVe a purpose in the baLance of powers between
the president and Congress in wartime. They can .play a role, under intemationallaw, in
defining the nation's legal status vis-a.-vis an enemy, but this purpose has faded with the
rise of wars of self-defense or those under international approval (where no declaration
would be needed). War declarations do not pLay an important role in the domestic process
of deciding on war. Instead, Congress has at its disposal many other powers to balance
presidential power in warmaking. Congress has complete control over the raising,
funding, and size ofthe military. It can block a president's warmaking simply by refusing
to allocate funds ror a conflict. Declarations of war have disappeared in part because the
president and Congress interact along many other dimensions when war is involved.
Question: Doesn't a declaration of war allow certain suspensions of civil liberties? If
there is no declaration of war is there any constitutional foundation for any suspension of
the rights of citizens? Or in general, absent a declaration of war, are there any limitations
on the executive branch's prosecution of the war?
Yoo: One important area where a declaration of wac remains significant is domestic civil
liberties. The Supreme Court has held as constitutional certain deprivations of liberties in
wartime only because a declaration of war has been issued; in fact, one of the rights in the
Bill of Rights can only be suspended during wartime. The declaration of war plays an
important role in limiting the power ofthe federal government as it affects citizens, but it
does not perfonn that function with regard to the executive branch. Congress has a
number of other methods for controlling and influencing executive prosecution of a war.
Question: 1n discussing the roles ofthe president and of Congress in declaring war, you
devote several chapters to discussion of the history surrounding the writing of Article 1.
Section 8, Clause J 1, which gives Congress the power to declare war. What is
illuminating about that history?
Y00: Many scholars have argued that the declare war clause is the root of Congress's
control over war; they argue that military hostilities cannot begin without Congress's ex
ante authorization. But the history of the clause gives no indication that this was its
original purpose. Many critics of the Constitution claimed that it vested too much power
in the executive over the military; not a single defender of the Constitution responded that
the declare war clause would give Congress any power to prevent this. Rather, James
Madison in the Virginia ratifying convention argued that it would be Congress's power of
the purse that would control the executive sword.
Question: In 1973 Congress passed the War Powers Resolution, which was supposed to
limit the power ofthe president ofthe United States to wage war without the approval of
the Congress. Is the WPR constitutional? Is it relevant?
Voo: I believe that the War Powers Resolution-which places a sixty-day time limit on
the deployment of troops into combat situations abroad-is irrelevant. Presidents have
consistently Claimed it to be unconstitutional. President Bush in the first Gulf War and

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 President ClintQn in Kosovo clearly violated its tenus. No court has ever enforced it. and
Congress has never cut off funds or successfully opposed a conflict because of the War
Powers Resolution. The three branches almost seem to agree that the WPR is either
unconstitutional or irrelevant. In my view, Congress cannot limit presidential use oflhe
military in hostilities simply by declaring a clock to have stopped ticking, but must take
some other action under its own authority, such as cutting off funds for a conflict.
Question: Presidents have often sought a legislative stamp of approval for engaging in
wars-for instance, the current war with Iraq and the 1991 GiJlfWar. Do you think the
reasons for that are entirely political, or is their a legal reason for seeking that approval?
Yoo: I do not think that the president is constitutionally required to get legislative
.. 10 authorization for launching military hostilities. and presidents from Truman through
Clinton have not done so. But I think that there are complicated political reasons why
presidents have gone to Congress recently for support. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
were approved by Congress, and President Bush sought that support while at the same
time claiming he had the constitutional power to launch the wars anyway. Presidents seek
such support for two reasons: first, to send a signal to the enemy that the United States is
serious about its intentions to go to war, and second, to maintain political unity by getting
members of Congress on the record before the war starts, so that they cannot claim after
the war that they did not agree with it.
Question: What about the role of intcmationallaw in war? Is it against 'our Constitution
for this country to engage in wars-{)r certain ways of waging war-that may violate
international law?
Yoo: I make the case that the Constitution pennits the president and/or Congress to
violate international law when it engages in war. They may place the United States in
violation of itsintemationallaw obligations, but that does not constrain their discretion
under domestic law. The fonnal reason for this isthat the Constitution does not recognize
intemational law as being a form offederallaw-federal law is limited to the
Constitution, treaties, and statutes. Treaties are the only exception, although the United
States can choose to terminate a treaty, and it then has no force as domestic law.
As a matter of practice, the United States has violated intemationallaw in engaging in
war in the past. In the case of U.S. covert action against Nicaragua in the 1980s, the
Internatiunal Coun of Justice even found that the United States had violated international
law. Nonethelt:ss, the United States continued its efforts, and the courts never held that
President Reagan had violated the Constitution.
Kosovo is another good example. The United States did not receive permission from the
U.N. Security Council, nor could it (or did it) claim self-defense in using force against
Serbia, which are the only two grounds for using force recognized under the U.N.
Charter. Nonetheless, President Clinton had full constitutional authority to launch the air
war in Kosovo. and no court attempted to stop him-in fact, the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit heard a case brought by congressman Tom Campbell and refused to
decide whether the war was unconstitutional.
Question: When you were at the Justice Department you authored a number of
memoranda that have since become controversial, for instance, a 2002 memo which
argued that the Geneva Conventions did not place constraints on how a1 Qaeda and
Taliban detainees were treated at the Guantanamo facility. As a signatory to the Geneva

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 Conventions, why is the U.S. not obligated to treat those combatants according to the
treaty?
Yoo: This is a complicated question. In the book, I argue that the president has the sole
authority to interpret the Geneva Conventions on behalf of the United States, rather than
the courts or Congress, because treaty interpretation is a key feature of the conduct of
foreign affairs. Our conflict with the al Qaeda terrorist organization is not governed by
the Geneva Conventions at all. The Geneva Conventions govern the laws of war but
extend rights only to its signatories. AI Qaeda is not a nation and has never signed the
Geneva Conventions, and they violate the laws of war at every turn. Afghanistan,
however, is a party to the Geneva Conventions. While the Taliban fighters had an initial
claim to protection under the Conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the
standards of conduct for legal combatants: standards that .include wearing uniforms,
having a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. But the Geneva
Conventions themselves apply to the conflict in Afghanistan.
Question: What has had a greater effect on how we enter into war an<l conclude a peace:
September II or globalization? What will have a greater effect in the long run?
Yoo: Both will have a significant effect on the making of war and peace,. At the end of
the cold war, war was sti 11 thought of as occurrillg solely between nation~states. The 1991
Persian Gulf War was a traditional war ovenerritory fought by the regular anned forces
of nation-states. Nation-states are usually presumed to be. both rational and susceptible to
various levels of coercion, with force often being used only as a last resort. Warfare, if it
were to come, would take predictable forms with clearly identified armed forces seeking
to take control over territory and civilian populations.
In 1993, the military strength and economic size of the United States had begWl to so
outdistance its nearest competitors that American thinkers may well have assumed that
there were no significant military threats on the horizon. The Soviet Union's dissolution
seemed to render hypothetical what had been the most compelling case against a
requirement of ex ante congressional approval for military hostilities: the need for swift
presidential action to respond to a Soviet nuclear first strike. The disappearance of the
threat of a war that could directly harm American national security allowed policymakers
and intellectuals the luxury to envision a future in which they could reduce the overall
level of international armed conflict. In such an environment, a constitutional model that
required the approval ofrnuItiple institutions before the United States could use force
may have made some sense.
The world after September 11, 200 I, however, is very different. It is no longer clear that
the United States must seek to reduce the amount of warfare, and it certainly is no longer
clear that the constitutional system ought to be fixed so as to make it difficult to use
force. Rather than war disappearing from the world, the threat of war may weB be
increasmg. Threats now come from at least three primary sources: the easy availability of
lhe knowledge and technology to create weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the
emergence of rogue nations, and the rise of international telTorism of the kind represented
by the al Qaeda terrorist organization. Because of these developments, the optimal level
of war for the United States may no longer be zero, but may actually be dramatically
higher than before.
The emergence of directthreats to the United States that are more difficult to detect and
prevent may demand that the United States undertake preemptive military action to

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prevent these threats from corning to fruition. The costs of inaction, for example, by

allowing the vetoes of multiple decision-makers to block wannaking, could entail much I

higher costs than scholars in the 19905 envisioned. At the time of the cold war, the costs I

to American national security of refraining from the use .of force in places like Haiti,

Somalia, or Kosovo would have appeared negligible. The September 11, 2001, terrorist I

attacks, however, demonstrate that the costs of inaction in a world ofterrorist

organizations, rogue nations, and more easily available WMD are extremely high-the
I

possibility of a direct attack on the United States and the deaths of thousands of civilians. I

These new threats to American national security, driven by changes in the international
I

environment, should change the way we think. about the relationship between lhe process
and substance ofthe warmaking system. The intemational system allowed the United I

States to choose a warmaking system that placed a premium on consensus; time for I

deliberation, and the approval of multiple institutions. If, however, the nature and the I

level of threats are increasing, the magnitude of expected harm has risen dramatically,

and military force unfortunately remains the most effective means for responding to those I

threats, then it makes little sense to commit our political system to a single method for I

making war. Given the threats posed by WMD proliferation. rogue nations, and

international terrorism, we should not, at the very least. adopt a warmaking process that

contains a built·in presumption against using force abroad. Earlier scholarly approaches I

assumed that in the absence of government action peace would generally be the default
I

state. September 11 demonstrated that this assumption has become unrealistic in light of
the new threats to American national security. These developments in the intemational I

system may demand that the United States have the ability to use force earlier and more
quickly than in the past.

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From: . Barber, Allison Ms OSD PA

Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:41 PM
To: Ruff, Eric, SES, eso
Subject: RE: Ear.ly Bird

Got it.

From: Ruff, Eric, SE5, QSD

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good idea. can you make this happen? thanks.

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I didn't see this article in the Early Bird. You might want to run it Thanks,

NATIONAL REVIEW

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Print Issue JULY 17.2006 VOL. LVIII. NO. 13

NR On-line June 30,2006

America as Jailer

By Bing West

(Mr. West, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, Is the

author of two books about the Iraq ,War: The March Up: Taking Baghdad withthe
U.S. Marines, and No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah.)

America lacks a consistent policy regarding battlefield detainees. In Guantanamo Bay,

constant outside criticism has sprung relatively few prisoners from captivity. Yet in Iraq,
thousands of prisoners are periodically set free in sweeping conciliatory gestures.
Condoleezza Rice told a European audience in March that the U.S. has "no deslre to
be the world's jailer." And indeed, while the administration has not quite given up its
a
firm stance in the War on Terror, it has been years since new prisoner was sent to
Gitmo.

What are we to make of this? In game theory, the "Prisoner's Dilemma" refers to the
rational incentives for two accused criminals to implicate each other when offered
reduced sentences. The warden uses his cunning to turn the prisoners against each
other. In the War on Terror, however, the prisoners are united and it is the warden who
is susceptible to manipulation. In confronting terror, we have not reached a consensus
on the proper handling of captured terrorists. Our tradition of self-criticjsm~ due
process, and respect for human rjghts has created vulnerabilities for our enemies to
exploit. How to develop an approach to enemy detainees that is both confident and
consistent? This ;s our warden's dilemma.

When the Taliban fell in November 2001, our troops captu'red Afghan soldiers along
with terrorists from a dozen other countries. The worst of these, as determined by
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rapid interrogations, were sent to Gitmo. Many of them could not be convicted in an
American courtroom, because they were captured on battlefields withol.Jt physical
evidence or witnesses to a crime. Others were identified by classified means that
could not be revealed in court.' Regardless, in our nation's post-9/11 mood, pictures of
these blindfolded, chained men in orange jumpsuits evoked grim public satisfaction.

By mid-2004, however, instances of prisoner abuse-snarling dogs, the mockery of

naked prisoners-provided graphic illustrations to be used by war critics. Civil
libertarians, Europeans, and many in the mainstream press used this opportunity to
attack an administration whose policies and personalities they already loathed. The
public image of terrorist detainees gradually morphed from sinister figures into na'ive
sad sacks who had been deprived of a fair trial. In obsequious atonement, many
lawmakers and pundits uttered harsh condemnations of our policies. Sen. Dick Durbin
even claimed moral equivalence between Americans and Nazis.

As a morally conscious liberal democracy, America became uneasy when criticized for
denying trials to foreign combatants captured in civilian clothes. But rather than
resolving the amorphous status of captured terrorists, we threw resources at the
problem to make life more comfortable for the prisoners. Guantanal110 became one of
the finest state-of-the-art prisons in the world, far superior to European or American
civilian prisons. Every prisoner at Gitmo chooses among 4,200 calories of food
selections a day, including specially cooked Muslim dishes. Every inmate in Gitmo is
provided with a Koran, and the inmates choose their imams from among themselves.
Time is even set aside each week for hate-filled group sermons.

When these mea'sures failed to quell criticisms of our detention policy, the Bush
administration gradually began releasing prisoners-some of whom were later killed
fighting American troops on faraway battlefields. The original Gitmo popUlation
hovered around 800, but it is now down below 500. Thanks to years of questioning and
thousands of inquiries with intelligence services around the globe, a record several
inches thick has been accumulated on each prisoner. The interrogators are convinced
that 85 percent of Gitmo inmates are terrorists who are intent on continuing their jihad
even during imprisonment. Killing a guard is their highest goal, followed by suicide-as
a political weapon, not an act of despair. Of 44 suicide attempts, only three have
succeeded. The rest have.been thwarted because guards have intervened, often at
the risk of their lives.

In Guantanamo's relatively small population. the huge expenditure of American

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energy has garnered intelligence dossiers that are deep in detail but narrow in scope.
In Iraq, where the u.s. holds 14,000 prisoners, the problem is the opposite: Too many
are set free because there are not enough resources to closely analyze each prisoner.
In Guantanamo, the focus is on extracting information about terror networks through
tedious, uncoerced interrogations. In Iraq, the focus is on distinguishing between al~
Oaeda-type extremists and nationalist resisters. This requires skilled interrogators, and
there aren't enough of them.

THE REVOLVING DOOR

Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, recently took the risk of releasing 10 percent of
the estimated 25,000 prisoners in his country. The intent was to wean "mainstream
Sunni resisters" away from the al-Oaeda types by releasing the former and keeping
the latter in prison. While courageous and well-intentioned, this reconciliation gesture
had a stark downside: After being set free. many insurgents have only had their status
enhanced in the eyes of their peers. We don't know the recidivism rate in Iraq, but in
the U.S. it is over 60 percent. It is telling that some of our soldiers have begun referring
to Abu Ghraib as "Osama U."

The policy of releasing Sunni insurgents has the tragic consequence of attenuating
deterrence. What do insurgents have to lose from being arrested for fighting if they,
know they will soon be released by authorities? By not wearing uniforms, they can take
advantage of rights comparable to those afforded to criminal suspects in a liberal
democracy.

The data on Iraq's revolving door are revealing. In May, for instance, one American
battalion in Ramadi detained 178 suspects-35 percent for possession of explosive
devices that kill Americans, 45 percent for illegal weapons or inciting to riot, and 20
percent for outstanding arrest warrants. Every arrest required an enormous amount of
hard work under a blistering sun. Each detain~e was questioned by an experienced
team of interrogators, supervised by a military lawyer who had been an assistant
district attorney in the U.S. Within 18 hours, 100 of these arrestees were released with
mere warnings. Most had been illegally carrying weapons in their cars.

The remaining 78 were charged with serious offenses. Most refused to answer
questions. The arresting Arnericansoldiers filed two sworn statements for each arrest,
together with photos from the crime scene. The detainees were ~ent to the brigade
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 level, where 50 were released and 30 were sent to Abu Ghraib Prison to await an Iraqi
hearing. Once at Abu Ghraib, still more of these detainees were released by a
Combined Review & Release Board, consisting of American and Iraqi officials. The
battalion was notified of each release via a convoluted Internet system. To protest any
release, American troops had to secure the signature of a colonel. '

Of the original 178 arrestees, the 20 prisoners still being held at Abu Ghraib were
scheduled to appear individually before an Iraqi judge, in most cases four to six
months later. The American soldiers who had made the arrest were required to appear
.-;.;'
at that tria~. In the majority of cases, this has not been possible. Iraqi judges, often
intimidated and openly suspicious of written testimony from American soldiers, tend to
free the accused. Net result: Over 85 percent of all those detained are released within·
six months.

Senior American officials believe the battalions are indiscriminate in making arrests.
The battalions believe the senior officials are under political pressure to release hard­
core killers who know how to lie, Either way, the system is broken: In the U.S., one
male in 75 is in jail. In Iraq, it is one in 500. So either Iraqis are seven times more law·
abiding than Americans. or the judicial system in Iraq is a mess. '

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, while a major achievement,'does not affect the
motivations of the foot soldiers in the Iraqi insurgency. We have not created jobs for a
million angry Sunni youths. Nor have we created an effective deterrent against their
working for the insurgency. In Ramadi, for instance, an unemployed youth is paid $40
to emplace a roadside bomb. It is unlikely that he will be caught in the act, and, if he is
caught, he knows the odds greatly favor his release. Our soldiers mock the arrest of
insurgents as a "catch and release" fishing tournament.

At best, our current operating procedure shows a failure to corrlmunicate between our
senior and junior military leaders. Either the lawyers and interrogation teams at the
battalion level are incompetent, or the senior reviewers have become timorous,
because of adverse publicity, and are now determined to close all American-run
prisons.

At worst, our porous anti-insurgency effort is undercutting the larger reconciliation

strategy. The lack of a justice system inspires vigilantes and fuels sectarian violence,
which is compounded by Shiites with militia ties who are hired as prison guards.
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Reconciliation is a mockery if there is no punishment for rebellion or murder. Prime

Minister Maliki has justified the release of 2,500 prisoners as "a chance for those who
want to rethink their strategy." ·But if these freed prisoners persist with their violent
attacks, more Americans and Iraqis will die.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

So what should be done? First, stand firm on life imprisonment for terrorists. In
Guantanamo, the physical evidence justifying detention is weak, but knowledge of the
prisoners has led the reviewers to conclude that they remain a danger to society. In
Iraq, the physical evidence is much stronger, but knowledge of terrorists' states of
mind is usually nonexistent. owing to a lack of interrogators.

In Guantanamo, a three-member military commission annually reviews the record of

each detainee. who is provided a lawyer to argue his case for freedom. This year, the
commissions recommended that ten prisoners be released and 450 kept behind bars
or returned in shackles to their home countries - that do not want them back. The
Supreme Court has ruled the commissions cannot substitute for trials for the terrorists.
But many would be freed for lack of evidence. jf tried in a civilian court: What statute
prevents being a "tourist" on a battlefield? Yet not even Justice Breyer wants Gitmo's
finest moving in next door to him. The terrorists must remain imprisoned because they
are a danger to society. The Court is forcing the nation to spend an enormous amount
of money and political effort to arrive at a foregone conclusion.

Second, advertise and showcase Guantanamo as the last stop for terrorists. The .
Pentagon's program of inviting reporters to see for themse~ves is the correct course.
The United States has nothing to hide at Gitmo. The prisoners are well treated and the
guards are a credit to their country. The more reporters who visit, the better.

Third, get tough on the killers. Most Americans and civilians in Iraq are killed by
improvised explosive devices. yet the administration has refused to say whether it is a
war crime for a man in civilian clothes to plant such a device. Stop this shilly-shallying.
Declare the emplacement of IEDs to be a war crime. Those caught with IEDs by
American soldiers should not be turned over to the broken Iraqi system.

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 Fourth, repair the disconnect between the U.S. battalions in Iraq making the arrests
and the senior officials who keep releasing detainees. The frequency of releases is
brewing cynicism, and we must come up with a single system that enables arresting
soldiers to be a p~rt of the review-and-release program.

As the warden in tl1e War on Terror, it is time for us to get serious about setting the
rules for dealing with terrorists. The president should declare that the inmates at
Guantanamo will remain in prison as long as they constitute a danger to society. Anti­
Americanism in Europe and'the Middle East will not be alleviated by closing
Guantanamo. Instead, the harshest critics of America will consider its closure a victory,
even if it means terrorists going free to wreak more havoc. Gitmo's reputation strikes
fear among terrorists because it symbolizes banishment and oblivion, not martyrdom
and fame. Guantanamo should stand as a deterrent to terror-a global reminder of the
relationship between crime and punishment.

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From: Steven J. Greer CSM (Ret) [steven"1-:,'. . .:

Sellt: Wednesday, Jury 05.20065:45 PM
To: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSC PA
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Subject: FW: Gitmo for SOF
Attachments: Cuba SOF Mag.doc

Dallas. believe this piece on Gltmo might be In Soldier of Fortune. magazine in the near future. I'll keep you
posted.

Thx again for the trip!

VIr
Steve

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From: Major F. Andy Messing, Jr. (Ret)1 NDCF [mallto:NDCf@erols.com)
sent: W OS, 2006 10:21 AM
To: rk '.
Cc: steven
SUbject: Fw:

Dear Bob...
CSM Steven Greer, USA (Ret.), a NDCF Senior Fellow for was on the DOD sponsored trip to GITMO ... wrote this
article for your excellent 'v1agazine on the detainee issue there ( see above at attachments )....ll1ilially it was gonna be ajoint

piece, but his rendition! draft to me hit all the nails on the head, so... (l,+ordi~t iy« sht.gICpl6.c€.ll)!.Jfl.I1.J.l.1JtJ.

I am forwarding another picture of him addressing a crowd Oil Memorial day on the U.S. Capitol steps at invitation of the

Republil:ans...

Should you have any questions ... please F.·Mail Steve directly, and resolve the payment issue with him there at that E­

Mail address too.

As Always,

Thank'You,

Best Regards.

ANDY

PS. NeXI time you are in D.C. .. .1 hope you SlOp by the Foundation in Alexandria before I sail off to Mexico end of October.

4/9/2008

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 Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Criticism of the Bush administration's JX)licies toward the military detention facility at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba has become a popular sport of late. Much of it levied by those influenced by skewed
media coverage rather than first-hand accounts. For sure, there is no shortage of so-called
experts wnen it comes to the way ahead in the global war on terror. Perhaps Rush Limbaugh
had a crystal ball when he compared the Guantanamo Bay to luxurious Club Med resorts. For
most sensible Americans, his assessment may not be far off the mark. Truttl be told,
.... Guantanamo is neither a resort nor gulag.

"We conduct confinement operations and interrogation of the worst of the worst terrorist
operatives," remarked Rear Admiral Harris, Commander, JTF·Guanlanamo. Harris and his
professional task force of soldiers, sailors. coastguardsman, and contractors operate under
constant scrutIny. They spend an enormous amount of time responding to international
pressures, uninformed criticisms, and irresponsible Journalism. Camp Delta is tied up 2·3 times a
week conducting "dog & pony" shows for VIP's and international media. Nonetheless, Harris
and company remain stoic, focused, and unwavering.

Since September 11, 2001, more than 70,000 enemy combatants have been captured in
Afghanistan and Iraq. The majority released or confined in facilities abroad. Only a ftaction of
suspected Taliban or AI Oaeda associates nave "checked-in," reaping the pleasures and
comforts associated with Camp Delta. Perks such as ice cream, air-conditioned cells, prayer
rugs, checker board games, volleyball, and state or the art medical care. Detainees,:" political
correctness for eJ<tremists who wish to kiil us - eat three meals a day totaling in excess of 4200
calories. During our recent visit, astro-turf was being Installed on a new out-door soccer facility.
Not quIte the symbol of torture one would expect.

So what do reasonable people make of reports of wide spread abuse? One recent delegation of
military analysts learned first hand - abuse is pervasive and Indiscriminate! Individuals are being
spit on, head butted, peppered With feces and urine on a weekly basIs. Unfortunately for main
stream media critics like the New Yor\( Times and former President Jimmy Carter, the recipients
of such vulgar treatment are not detainees; they are guarcts - American Soldiers.

Americans shouldn't be at all surprised. Camp Delta isn't home to alter boys - there are bomb
makers, terrorist facilitators, Usama bin Laden body-guards, and would-be suicide bombers.
Some 800 total unlawful enemy combatants have been detained at Guantanamo. All are Taliban
or AI Oaeda associates, Several hundred have been released or tran~ferred pursuant to the
Combatant Status Review Tribunal and Administrative Review Board process. Cumbersome
processes akin to working a rubrics cube blindfolded.

Approximately 450 detainees remain at Camp Delta. Of these, 120 are suspected of possessing'
high-value intelligence information and are interrogated routinely. About 35% are compliant, the
balance combative, hostile, and uncooperative. Detainees are also well cared for and Doctors
have gone to great lengths to cure ailments, heal battlefield wounds, and provide medical care
better than what most American's receive. Detainees have been cured of diseases that would
have killed them, received operations, eye glasses, and artificial legs.

Interrogation is a cat and mouse game. "I t's a chess match; both interrogator and detainee are
hanging on every word," remarked one senior intenrogator. Analysts at Camp Delta continue to
receive information that saves lives and unravels AI Qaeda networks. Every detainee has a story
to tell and is a potential treasure trove of information.

So what makes a detaInee want to talK? "Rapport buildIng ... that's the strategy that we employ
and It's effective," said one senior interrogator. For example, detainees are free to practice their

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 Muslim faith. Officials ordered small, black arrows painted on each bunk and in all common
areas...the arrow points toward Mecca. Moreover. camp loudspeakers sound "call to prayer" in
Arabic five times per day and guards are alerted by orange traffic cones to be respectful of
prayer. .

The result of such pampered care is undeniable. More then 4,400 reports capture information
provided by detainees. much of it corroborated by other Intelligence reporting. This
unprecedented body of knowledge has expanded our understanding of AI Qaeda and other
associated networks. Many detainees have admitted close relationshIps to senior AI Oaeda
leadership - prOViding valuable insights into the structure, training, goals, and financial
mechanisms. Guantanamo Bay is our only strategic interrogation center and is imperative to
prosecuting the war on terrorism.

Lessons learned are advancing the operational art of intelligence and development of strategic
interrogations doctrine. Moreover, they speak to the professionalism exhibited by hundreds of
men and women deployed to Cuba to protect our freedoms. Not quite a resort and certainly not a
gulag, camp Delta is a class act. The sign reads, "Vacancy at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, • and
Admiral Harris and crew are gracious hosts.

Author(s): Major (ret) Andy Mess;ng is the EX9cuNve Director of the National Defense Council
Foundation, a think·tank in Alexandria, VA. Command Setgeant Major (ret) Steve Greer is a
senior fellow at the foundation. Both are Special Forces combat veterans and frequent FOX
News Channel pundits,

Contact:
F. Andy Messing
NDCF
1220 King Street, Suite 230
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.

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D: Thanks. Hope you had a great 4th. We sure did. As to Congress, they're hopeless. I wish they'd just go
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spending. but they blame potus for not vetoing bills or for submitting too muoh in budgets. Am I the only one that recalls I
from grade school that all appropriations originate in the House? And when you call them on it, they say things like "well,
we cant slop ourselves, that's not our job, lhe President is the leader" elc elc. It is a really shocking collapse of I
leadership. I think Newt must be about ready to explode.
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From:' Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA

Monday, July 03,2006 5:12 PM
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Dorrance, I

Hope you are having a great 4th of july extended weekend. I know you have been personally I

working this sesno cnn issue and r wanted to bring this to your attention. Don sheppard is

one of our best analysts, he is cnn's gUy and tried valiantly to keep them honest. If you I

would like me to follow up with him on his request below I am happy to oir I can connect
him to you or bryan and be hands off I

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Subject: Request

CNN is planning a special on Rumsfeld. It is to be done by Prank Sesuo - I trust him ­

fair, smart. I

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size/shape/funding. r am trying to help him get some balance into the story. Can you help I

me get e-ma!ls for the following:

Gen. USAF (Ret.) John Jumper

Gen. USAF (Ret.) Lance Lord

Gen. USAF (Ret.) John Handy

Adm. USN (Ret.) Vern Clark

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Sent: Friday, June 30, 20064:23 PM
To: Barber, Allison Ms QSD PA
Cc: Lawrence, Dallas Mr OSD PA
SCJbject: FW: MG Durbin's Media Event (UNCLASSIFIED)

hi. I think the analysts will clamor all over this. jf ok with you, I will set up"
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From: Vlclan, Todd M LtCol OSD PA

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Subject: FW: MG Durbin's Media Event (UNCLASSIFIED)

Maj Gen Robert Durbin, commander of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, will be in DC on 13 JUly.
He's in charge of the operations to train and equip the Afghan National Army and Police. He's offered to do a phonecon
with the military analysts In addition to his media activities.

00 you think there would be interest In this from the military analysts? If so. would it be in Ms Barber's office?

Tentative schedule is"

1330 - press brief with Pentagon Press Corps in DoD Briefing Room

1400 - radio interviews from DoD Small studio

1430 - phone conference with military analysts (done from office in Pentagon)

1500 - intelView with Arab TV or Pentagon Channel or Times Publication in DoD Small Studio

Thanks.

Todd

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of ,lOe (Public Affairs)

From: mliW;;/i)!ri(%1;.;;i/':;i;i;jijtj USA csrc-A Public Affairs [mailt:olli\);~::)t~M;0)W~\,jJ:!;\1\:ii:!iil;i!1':(:~:11;%0!;!J,\:JJ\t;jll

Sent: Friday, June 30/ 20065:27 AM
To: Vldan, Todd M UCoI OSD PA
Subject: RE: MG Durbin's Media Event (UNCLASSIFIED)

Sir·

I know you have sent me this information before but would you be so kind as. to send an up to date list of Pentagon Press.

Can I get the room numbers for the events? Where should MG DurDin meet you?

Please let me know soonest when you get faces to places.

Thanks again for your assistance.

RI

Major

Combined Security Transition Command- Afghanistan

OSC·A, Public Affairs Officer

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Good to hear your boss is willing to do events when he gets back to DC next month. It will be much easier on all if we can
arrange things prior to his arrival.

We can set up a press brief, follow-on radio inlerviews, etc. In place of the separate interview with CNN. you may want to
consider one with an Arab TV station (AI Hurra or Al Jazeera). We can also arrange a phone conference with military
analysts They're retired or separated officers/NCOs who get time on FOX, CNN, etc.

unfortunatel~, l'll be on lealle at a Boy Scout camp that week, so my colleagues will have to cover. Also, in speaking with
LTC!.\l)(!ll:>';>( j learned l TG EiKenberry will be doing events in country at around that time. so we'I! need you to deconflict
wI CFC·A as necessary.

How does this straw-man schedule sound?

1330 - press brief with Pentagon Press Corps in 000 Briefi ng Room

1400 - radio interviews from 000 Small Studio

1430 - phone conference with military analysts (done from office in Pentagon)

1500 - inter\liew with Arab TV or Pentagon Channel or Times Pubfication in DoD Small Studio

Nole: the 000 studio is already booked from 1430-1545 on the 13th .

Thanks,

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To LTe, OCPAj Vlcian, Todd M Ltcol OSD PA
Subject: RE: MG Durbin's Media Event (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Sir

How mucn longer are you at OCPA? There is where \ am heading after Afghanistan. Well, that is the current truth.

Vir

Combined Security Transition Command· Afghanistan

OSC-A, Public Affairs Officer

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conducting this interview for your boss, MG Durbin.

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SUbJect: RE: MG Durbin's Media Event (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Great. Thanks. He'll do a Pentagon Press Corps event. I assume it will be the 1330-1530 slot??

Would you kindly ask Barbara Starr if she wants to follow-up with the CG? She did a stand-Up with him last lime she was

I here but it was rushed. Who is the Army Times Pentagon rep these days?

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Sir-

It now looks like MG Durbin will be available on 13 July. There are two time slots currently open.

0900-1100

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1330-1530

My CG would be willing to conduct a backgrounder but would prefer one-on-one's If practicable.

Thanks again for your all your support.

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Subject; Corrected Version· Media coverage of two military analyst trips to Guantanamc I

Attachments: MilitaryAnalysts_Gltmo_BothTrips_6.30.06.doc I

Note: After our memo on the first trip, there was some additional coverage, so I

that is now included. I

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision undoubtedly pre-empted some of the I

coverage from the second trip, but two of the analysts were on FoxTV.

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MILITARY ANALYSTS ON GUANTANAMO:

COVERAGE FROM ANALYSTS ON THE
.JUNE 28 AND THE JUNE 21 TRIPS

FROM THE JUNE 28 111 TRIP:

Military analysts who visited Guantanamo on JWle 28 th have discussed their trip on the

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following stations, as of 3:00 PM on June 30 , They include:

);. Fonner Anny Undersecretary Joe Reeder:

o Fox News Live (June 29)
~ "The detention center is absolutely valid and legal. It was
authorized by Congress"
o Fox News Dayside (June 29)
):- "There are 100 (detainees) now, approximately, out of the 450 that
are slated to be transferred. This is how bad some of them are. 50
of them, their home countries wontt receive them, won't take them
back. We're not dealing with paragons of citizenship here"
.) Retired Major General Robert Scales
o Two appearances on Fox News Live (June 29)
)0> "These prisoners. who are intending to kill AmericWls, get 4200
calories a day. They have four detainees for each medical aid
professional who will take care of them and they're living in a
prison, which. by American standards, is at the top of the scale.
What bothers me is the inequity I saw down there yesterday as
juxtaposed against the Supreme Court ruling, which in my mind at
least, doesn't really accept the fact that this is a nation that's
fighting in a war"
~ "1 think the young men and women who are guarding these people
down there are doing a marvelous job"

COllerage from lite following analysts who also attended tl'e trip has not been found
using the tOols available to us:
~ Captain Chuck Nash, USN, Retired
~ Captain Martin Slrong, USN, Retired
~ Major Andy Messing, USAR, Retired
» Command Sergeant Major Steve Greer, USA, Retired
FROM THE JUNE 21 sI TRIP:

Military analysts who visited Guantanamo 0[1 June 2P' have conducted interviews on the

following stations:

)Jo Judge Andrew Napolitano:

o One appearance on Fox News: O'Reilly Factor (June 29)
o Three Fox News Radio interviews/clips on "Brian and the Judge"- one
was live (June 21,22)

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 o Two appearances on the Big Story with John Gih!>on (6/29 and 6/22, 5:00
PM -listed below in two parts)
o Two segments on fox and Friends (6/23, 6:30 AM and 8:00 AM)

)00 Robert Maginnis:

o While at Guantanamo, conducted three "live to tape" interviews for

national broadcast

~ Wayne Simmons:

o One appearance on The Big Story wi John Gibson (6/22, 5:51 :58 PM)

Coverage from the following analysts who also attended the trip has not been found
using the toolr available to us:

~ Mr. Bing West (Fmr ASD, USMC, Retired)

)0> Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Retired)

COVERAGE FROM ANALYSTS ATTENDING THE JUNE 28 TRIP

Joe Reedn

Fox News Live 06/29/06 12:32:57

Host: I'm going to talk to Joe Reeder. former Under Secretary of the Army. Just back
from Guantanamo. Were you talking about this (the decision) last night at Guantanamo?
Reeder: We didn't talk about the decision a whole lot. We knew it was coming out.
Mainly yesterday was just about b~ing at the det~ntion center at Guantanamo Bay.
Host: From a legal standpoint, do you have an opinion about what to do with them?
Reeder: Now or at the outset?
Host: Why dbn't we take the present?
Reeder: At present I think we're doing everything we can do right now. Approximately
there are 450 down there right now - over 100 slated for transfer. Frankly, these are
fundamentally bad customers. There are a lot of them. Upwards of 50 ofthem that their
own countries won't take back.
Host: If 100 are going to be 5ent back, that leaves roughly about 360. 14 were sent back
to Saudi Arabia. When they are sent back to their country, are they jailed or set free?
Reedt:r: The whole gammit - evel]1hing you said... it depends on the country. But my
point is that their host countries won't even take them back. Tells you something about
who you're dealing with.They are'very dangerous people.
Host: Will Gitmo be forced to close or do you keep it open as you look for some sort of
legislative agreement?
Reeder: J don't think this decision has any impact at all -~ the detention center is
absolutely valid and legal. It was authorized by Congress. The problem with the Supreme
Court decision today, you have a lot of fault to share. You have fault with the President
and with Congress. Fundamentally the President should have asked for legislation. He is
supposed to be the leader. We need leadership. He is now going to ask for that
legislation. It is high time, overtime. It was struck down by a court favorable to him 5-3.
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 We need different rules on the battlefield. You can't parachute F. Lee Bailey to give

rights... You don't have chain of custody. You need fundamental fairness. All of this can

be solved with legislation.

Host: Thank you. Joe. Just back from Guantanamo last night.

Fox News Dayside 06/29/06 13:04:56

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Host: Let's have the third member of the panel- Joe Reeder, fonner 'lJndersecretary of
the Anny joins us from DC. Joe - when were you at Gitmo?
Reeder: I was there yesterday.
Host: And certainly not as a prisoner... you were down there yesterday. Thank you for
joining us. Who has a question for this panel of three here? ..
Juliet: Real quickly, General Scales... came in this morning. He was talking and said,
he's really concerned about this ruling because he says the enemy will be using now our
confusion, the U.S.'s could be fusion over •• confusion owe who these people are and
how to define them. They'll be using that to our disadvantage. What do you do about
that?
Reeder: Well, I think General Scales is absolutely right. It is incumbent On the President
to work with congress. It is a two-way street now. There have been bills pending. Loretta
Sanchez, hr·3044, Same bill, same language. Senator Graham for over a year, pending.
the concurring opinion of Justice Kennedy is crystal clear. Congress can solve this
problem. It was struck down because the, President barged ahead without Congressional
authority. It needs to get solved. It needs to get solved right now. And you need different
rules. Not unfair rules. But on the battlefield, you have a complete different scenario­
you're on the ragged edge of combat. You can't jump in, and parachute F. Lee Bailey in
and give rights on the field ... when you get evidence, you throw it in the Humvee, you
don't have a chain of custody. The question really is, is it fundamentally fair? We tried
Milosevic in Europe under these same rules. The Nuremberg trials were under these
niles. We just need legislation...
Juliet: Secretary, if these people are let baek out into the world, what is that going to do
in the minds of our military men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and
Afghanistan?
Reeder: They won't be let back out, they're detainees, they're not prisoners of war. They
oon't deserve to be treated as prisoners of war. And they don't adhere to the old rules that
makes them prisoners of war. They won't be released. We.'ve already released 250.
There's 100 now, approximately, out of the 450 that are slated to be transferred. This is
how bad some of them are. 50 of them, their home countries won't receive them, won't
take them back. We're not dealing with paragons of citizenship here.
Audience member: If the detainees are released. should we consider there might be
another terrorist attack in the U.S.?
Reeder: Well. certainly some of them. that's true as to some of them. That's what we're
trying to come up with. A process that everyone agreed 10 that is constitutional that sorts
those things out.

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 Bob Scales

Fox News Live 06/29106 14:03:52

Host: Joining us now, Bob Scales. A Fox news military analyst, welcome.
General Scales let me start with you, and ask you - the Democratic Majority Leader,
Nancy Pelosi, is calling this a triumph for the law, saying that everyone is entitled to the
basic guarantees of the of the Americanjustice system. Do you agree?
Scales: Well, r think to some degree. This is the United States. We are a nation that's
ruled by laws. But we're not talking about crime on the streets here. We're talking about
330 hard-core ... 85% of whom have openly said to their guards and their interrogators,
when released, they will immediately begin to kill Americans. 95% of them are Sunnis.
These are not just your common criminals. These are men, who when released, should
they ever be released, and God forbid they will have be released, will immediately go
back on the terrorist network and begin the process of doing what they were doing before
they were captured. To me, sure. Herels the deal. What's important is the American
people have to decide, is this a nation at war? Or is this a nation at peace? If we're at war,
we can use the police and the courts to clean up the terrorist problem. [fwe're a nation at
war, we have to take extraordinary efforts in order to protect the American people. It is
just that simple...
Host: Let me just. get General Scales in here while 1 have a little time. You were there
yesterday. You had a chance to observ,e how things were run there. How difficult will it
be to make these changes, particularly for those who are capturing these detainees on tbe
front lines, to incorporate something they're asking for· something like Miranda Rights.
Scales: That's a great question. The only advantage our young men and women have
there who are guarding these guys is time. They have the ability to use time as a weapon
against these guys. These young men and women have been assaulted. They've been
beaten. They've been treated in ways that I can't talk about on the air. And you tum
around, the other side, and these prisoners, who are intending to kill Americans, get 4200
calories a day. They have four detainees for each medical aid professional who will take
care of them and they're living in a prison which by American standards, is at the top of
the scale. What bothers me is the inequity I saw down there yesterday as juxtaposed
against the Supreme Court ruling, which in my mind might be, at least, doesn't really
accept the fact that this is a nation that's fighting in a war.
Host: General Scales, thank you very mUCh. Appreciate your time.

Fox News Live 06/29/0610:29:12

Host: Let's get reaction from someone that was at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, Retired
Major General Bob Scales. General, give us your quick take on what our military
personnel retired and otherwise, around the world are thinking about this?
Scales: I think we're all a little bit amazed by this, Jon. After all, to try to invoke the
tenets of the Geneva Convention, for non-state actors, for people who are essentially ­
for lack of a better term, international murdert:rs • to me is absolutely unbelievable. One
of the things our veterans need to understand is that this ruling, bad as it is, does not
affect the status of the detainees. Even if they're prisoners of war, they're still going to be
detained in Guantanamo and not be loose to go back and kill Americans again.

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Host: I don't know whether to be proud of my country for extending the rights and
freedoms that we sort of take for granted here to a bunch of people who. you know, in my I
view, don't deserve it or whether to be appalled that, you know, the Supreme Court is I
throwing this blanket of protections over people who, you know. clearly are -- don't I
foHow the rules of war themselves.
Scales: 1 think I would go with appalled. Frankly, r think this is amazing. It comes do.....n I
to this, Jon. What the American people ana tbe Supreme Court and the rest of the people I
of the enlightened states of the world have to understand or have to decide for themselves I
• are we in a state of war or are we not in a state of war? Are we in a condition where we
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can apply the rules oflaw and the works of police forces to stop global terrorism or are
we going to have to rely on the tenets of war and our military to do it? This is a very I
important consideration... We have to get together and decide this. The enemy is using I
our confusion about the conditions in the world today to their advantage and ultimately
it's going to wind up with innocent dead in Europe and the US and elsewhere in the I
world. I
Host: When the camel courier or the donkey gets word to Osama bin Laden in his caye I
somewhere that this is the decision ofthe US Supreme,Court. he's going to be chuckling,
don't you think?
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Scales: I think so, One of the things the enemy really enjoys is the confusion and the I
legal twists and turns that Western societies go through in trying to deal with their acts of I
barbarity. The little bit of solace here though is that this doesn't affect events in
Guantanamo. These guys are still detained. I think the young men and women who are \
guarding these people down there are doing a marvelous job and they'll remain in
Guantanamo because even -- remember, the prisoner of war status is not a punishment for
crime:. It's the status to take those guys off the battlefield and for now the:y're still off the
I battlefield.
I Host: General Scales, we'll be talking more with you about this incredible decision from
the US Supreme Court.
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JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
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I Fox News: The Big Story With John Gibson - 06129/0617:04:15
I GIBSON: Joining uS now to break down this big decision, FOX News senior judicial
analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano. He recently visited Gitmo. He is also the author of
I "The New York Times" best-seller "The Constitution in Exile." Just on the point the
I president raised right there, does this decision put, as he said, killers out on the street?
I ANDREW NAPOLITANO, FOX NEWS JUDICIAL ANALYST: No. The president
is quite correct. It does nol. It basically says the only two ways you can try them, Mr.
President, are in a federal district court in the mainland of the United States, a most
I undesirable choice, or in a regular traditional court-martial, which you can establish right
I there at Guantanamo Bay. But it does force him to empty the jails.
GIBSO~: OK, well, then. what was this issue about, because he wanted to run them
I through a military commission or a coun-manial, right?
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 NAPOLITANO: WeB, he -- there's a difference between a military commission and

court-martial. And that's what the whole case comes down to. The Supreme Court said,
first, the Geneva Conventions apply to the whole war on terror, what's going on at
Guantanamo Bay and everywhere around the world. And the Geneva Convention says
the following. You can't set up a temporary penal tribunal, as they call it, just to try one
set of problems. You have to use a regular, preexisting court system, like the U.S. district
courts or regular court-martials. It then said the other reason you have to use regular
court-martials or a U.S. district court is because they provide the protections against
hearsay and use of secret evidence that the commissions penn it, but the U.S. Constitution
and Geneva Conventions won't allow.
GIBSON; OK. So, explain what it is they wanted to do. They wanted to say, look, we
have got this evidence against you. We will show it to the judge, but we are not going to
show you.
NAPOLITANO: Right, or they wanted to say, so and so to1d us, when they arrested Mr.
Mohammed, that had a gun in his hand, even though the so and so is now dead, so, he
obviously can't testify. And the Supreme Court said the Uniform Code of Military
Justice, the federal military roles, the U.S. Constitution, and the Geneva Conventions
prohibit those things. They prohibit hearsay and they prohibit the use of secret evidence.
So, now the president is left with this very, very difficult choice. He must decide between
revealing -- declassifying classified evidence and revealing its source, and using it in a
courtroom to convict someone. or not trying that person and letting them go. He has to
decide which ofth05e awful choices is less painful to the country.
GIBSON: OK, explain this, if you can. Apparently, Justice Breyer writing in a
concurring opinion -- that is, he agreed with the majority opinion - said the ruling only
I1pplies to Hamdan, and not other5, and that there's nothing to stop the president from
approaching Congres~ to seek the authority he thinks is necessary to do what he wants.
NAPOLITANO: I -- I can't explain it, because the majority opinion, which he signed,
disagrees with that. The majority opinion says it applies to everybody at Guantanamo
Bay. And the majority opinion says, because the Constitution and the Geneva Convention
require that you can't use secret evidence and you have to use a regular court-martia1, and
Congress can't change the Constitution or the Geneva Convention, no legislation that the
Congress can write can accommodate this decision.
GIBSON: OK, if you have·~ you were there. You -- and the general that was guiding
you around was anticipating this result, this ~- this decision, righ1?
NAPOLITANO: Yes, he was, as was the State Department.
GIBSON: And the general was going to appear on the air...
NAPOLITANO: Yes.
GIBSON: ... with you.
NAPOLITA~O: Yes.
GIBSON: He promised to do that.
NAPOLITANO: Yes.
GIBSON: And he wouldn't do it. Why?
NAPOLITANO: Well, he's mad.
(CROSSTALK)
NAPOLITANO: He's probably angry, ~cause, to be honest with you, the court went
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 terror, not just Guantanamo, which was the only issue before them. They have basically
said to the president, you got special-ops in a back alley in Baghdad, Geneva Convention
applies. You got the ClA in the basement of a safe house in Afghanistan, the Geneva
Convention applies. The government, the Justice Department has been arguing before
every federal court that wants to hear this in the country for the past four years that the
Geneva Convention does not apply. And the Supreme Court has rej eeted that. That adds
to the president's burdens in prosecuting the war on terror.
GIBSON: Judge Andrew Napolitano -- Judge. thank you very much. Of course, the judge
just visited Gitmo.

Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor - 06/2910620:05,:10

O'REILLY: (Regarding the Supreme Coun decision on Guantanamo); What do you
think's going to happen, Judge?
ANDREW NAPOLITANO, FOX NEWS SENIOR ,JUDICIAL ANAL YST: I think
the President's going to be faced with a very, very difficult choice of how to prosecute
these people, because the Geneva Conventions say you can't use temporary penal
tribunals. You can only use ...
O'REILLY: Well, what was the Nuremberg trial like:
NAPOLITANO: Nuremberg preexisted the Geneva Conventions. Bill. The Geneva
Conventions are 47 to 49. Nuremberg is 45 to 46.
O'REILLY: So right now, you're saying Nuremberg would be outlawed?
NAPOLITANO: Yes. .
O'REILLY: War crimes trials would be outlawed?
NAPOLITANO: Yes.
O'REILLY: Really?
NAPOLITANO: Because the Geneva Conventions say you have to use a preexisting
judicial mechanism, meaning either a federal...
O'REILLY: Military tribunals pre-exist. They try people all the time.
NAPOLITANO: No. The President established military tribunals just for Guantanamo
Bay. That's what the Supreme Court said he can't do.
O'REILLY: Well. move them to Fan Leavenworth and have a military tribunal to do
that.
NAPOLITANO: It doesn't matter where they are, you can't set them up for one problem.
You have to use either a federal district court. which no one wants them to do.
O'REILLY: Right.
NAPOLITANO: Or court martia)s.
O'REILLY: What if we bail from the Geneva Convention'!
NAPOLrT ANO: That would have other repercussions, be very difficult to do.
O'REILLY: Yes.
NAPOLITANO: But that would relieve the country of the burden ofcomplying with the
Geneva Conventions.
O'REILLY: All right, so what the Supreme Court has done is it's constrained the war on
terror.
NAPOLITANO: Yes.
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NAPOLITANO: One way to look at it. The other way to look at it is it's required him to
follow the rule of law. The military commissions that he wanted arIowed secret evidence I
and hearsay. Supreme Court said secret evidence, the govemment can see it and the I
judges can see it, but the defendant and his lawyer can't, violates the Geneva Convention.
It is the Geneva Convention that mandates full due process.

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O'REILLY: I've got a headache. I've got a headache right now. I

NAPOLITANO: I'm sorry you have a headache, Dill.

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O'REILLY: I mean, it's just...
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NAPDLITAND: You know, you may think they're political, but they are the final word
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on what the law of the land is.

O'REILLY; I know they're the final word. I mean, unless we move to Costa Rica, I

because we won't get attacked by terrorists there probably...

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NAPOLITANO; Well, you won't have the rule oflaw there either.
O'REILLY: You know, Costa Rica's OK. It's nol chaos there. So give me a prediction. I
Give me a prediction. What's going to happen? I
NAPOLITANO: The president has to decide whether or not to use classified evidence
against them or whether to free them. My prediction from having interviewed the FBI
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agents who gather the evidence is they do not want to declassify this evidence. Therefore, I
he's going to be forced to let some of them go. Now they're not going to walk the streets.
They'll go to a prison in Afghanistan where they were arrested. And the Karzai

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O'REILLY: OK. Megyn, good job. We appreciate you reporting for us all throughout

the week. Judge, you know.

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O'REILLY: A little bit. More than usual. Next..
NAPOLITANO: Happy Fourth of July, Bill.
I O'REILLY: Thank you,judge.
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Fox News Radio: Brian & The Judge - Call-in from Judge Andr(.'w Napolitano from
I Guantagamo Ray - June 21
I * (Note - highUghts/rom Ihe clip. nOl a word/of word account)
The "Live from Gitmo" segment on "Brian & The Judge" was roughly two and a half
I minutes long. Judge Andrew Napolitano phoned in live from a building across from the

I U.S Terrorist Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday morning. He had not

I )'et toured the facility or witnessed any interrogations. He wanted to learn about the

"fairness of the process of how prisoners are transferred in and out of the prison." and
I was most interested in sharing the numbers that he had already received.

I :;:. "800 in so far, 139 sem home as a result orthe hearings"

Both the Judge and the host, Brian Ki/meade, were very surprised that they had not

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known about those numbers previously. The Judge elaborated further on numbers:

I }> "790 brought to Guantanamo, 290 transferred to their home countries or a third

I country if their home countries wouldn't take them, 130 are awaiting transfer,

which is a matter oflogistics.,."

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 The Judge sounded eager to tour the prison and said, "Everyone's been very open. I've
been amazed and thrilled with the openness with which they've answered my questions."

Fox News Radio: Brian aDd the Jud2e - Live interview with Deputy Assistant
Secretarv of Defense Cully Stimson on Guantanamo Bav Detainee Polity - 6/22,
0930
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano conducted a to-minute interview with Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Cully Stimson on Guantanamo Bay detainee
policy after Napolitano returned from a trip to the detention center yesterday. Napolitano
was impressed by the condition of the facilities and questioned the lack of reporting on
the positive aspects ofthe center. He was also convinced of the guilt of the detainees and
discussed the difficult legality issues in trying the detainees.
Impression of Guantanamo
Host: The military is almost delicate in the manner in which it treats these detainees; the
treatment of the detainees far exceeds minimum requirements of the Geneva Convention.
I'm shocked that I hadn't seen anywhere in the media that 797 detainees had been there
and 230 have been released and 238 are ready to be released... no one reported ... The
facilities that are being built are as modem, sophi~iicated and as comfortable as any
prisons that I have seen.
Stimson: I'm delighted you were able to go, and I'm not surprised by your observations.
I'm happy to think that you think ... that we far exceed the mandatory minimums required
by Geneva. And everyone who goes down there believes the same thing... Over 1000
media have been dO"'TI there from a very broad spectrum across the world, we've had 145
Congress members, 145 staffers go there, I took two European delegates down there to
talk about how humane the conditions are.
Detainee Policy and Legality Issues
HQst: Why was I surprised? Why were the media not reporting on the things that I saw?
Is there W1 ideological bias because we are incarcerating people without trying them?
Stimson; Well, I'm not going to answer that...
Host: I apologize, that's a political question.
Stimson: Look, you know that any nation at war is entitled to detain its enemy,
the Nazis who we were fortunate enough to detain. we detained them without
charges...they didn't know when the war was going to end. There are some groups you
can characterize one way or another that believe these people deserve more rights than
the Nazis. That's just absurd.
Host: There's no legal basis tor that. The legal conundrum that you guys are in. There's
no question that the guys still there are the bad guys. There's no question that the military
is convinced of it, 1'm convinced of it. [After being briefed by FBI investigators of the
evidence against the detainees,] the tracing of their behavior, even some who were in the
United States, was the most terrifying. The problem is that not all this evidence would be
[uphold ... as evidence of the fedeml evidence either in federal court or in a traditional
court marshal.] ... So what do we do with them? We cannot !;end them back. They will
kill the guards, their families, they will cause enormous damage and havoc to innocent
Americans.
~rlmson: {There are two concepts here,] one, is that ihe system you and I have lived in:
criminal law. [Where there are defense lawyers, prosecutors, and evidence.] On the other

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 side is history and the law of war. If you are lucky enough to detain )lour enemy, and
there is no doubt that that is our enemy, and during the time of war, you can detain your
enemy as long as you decide them as an enemy combatant.
Host: And here's where you've exceeded Geneva's wildest £expectations, for} the worst
of the worst, you've given them lawyers!

Fox News Radio: Brian and the Judge - Account of Guantanamo Bay - June 22nd
(time unknown)
Judge: We visited jail cells, we saw detainees, we saw them in their cells, we saw them
in their exercise yard, we examined evidence, l' actually had an opporlunity...to look at
the evidence that they have obtained from these guys which will be used in the military
commissions...we received briefings from FBI agents about the activities of these
detainees, in the United States, before they were arrested! Nothing was off grounds. No
questions went unanswered. The military is extremely courteous, kind and forthcoming.
Big picture: Guantanamo Bay is an enormous naval base, it's 46 square miles...Since
Castro came to power, he refuses to accept the lease payments but he knows we are there
forever.
The prison at Guantanamo Bay is just one square mile of the 46 square mile, it is a very
small portion of the naval base. The prison itself consists of six camps, with different
levels of constraint depending the prisoners' behavior. Every prisoner receives truly top
flight medical and dental attention. Every prisoner has his religious rights respected. The
call to prayer occurs several times a day. The prison stops while those who wish to pray
do pray. Obviously, one can work his way to a camp with more freedom with
cooperation.
There is a surprising nwnber of these prisoners who have cooperated. Cooperation
consists of evidence infonnation about what they know about other prisoners and what
they know... (clip ends).

PART 1: Fox News: The Big Storv wi John Gibson· 6/22/2006 5:00:27 PM
JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Hi, everybody. I'm John Gibson. A "Big Story" exclusive for
you tonight -- our judge, just back from a visit to Guantanamo Bay, home to some of the
world's most dangerous terrorists. The government invited Judge Andrew Napolitano and
a select few others .~ there's his snapshots .~ to check out our prison in Cuba. He was
allowed to personally examine evidence against the detainees, and he watched in an
interrogation. The FOX News senior judicial analyst joins us now to break down the trip
for us. So, judge, One of the most interesting facts I have heard about your trip already
is, there are 100 guys there, bad guys, that they know have been in the United States
casing this country. What, 37 trips?
ANDREW NAPOLITANO, FOX NEWS JUDICIAL ANALVST: Dh, John, it was
terrifying.
We -- we received about eight or nine briefings, starting on the flight'down and
concluding with as we were leaving Guantanamo Bay. Clearly, the most compelling-­
and, from my point of view, the most terrifying -- was from the FBI agents. There's a full
team of FBI agents down there.
And thp.y tracked the behavior of many of the detainees and showed that nearly 100 of
them, collectively, had visited 38 states in the United States, legal, lawful entry into the

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 United States. some for as long as two years to .~ to attend junior colleges, some for as
short as two days, many to visit traditional American tourist sites. But they had all been-·
but that many of them have been there. .
GIBSON: Bad guys. They don't have the evidence to·- to put them on trial, and they
don't want to let them go.
NAPOLITANO: This is the government's legal, not military or political -- this is the
government's legal conundrum.
The government's chief lawyer and those working for him conceded to lile that they do
not have enough evidence to get a conviction be(ore a military commission, which is the
easiest, before a court·martial, which is the next most difficult, before a federal district
court jury, which is the most difficult.
But they are satisfied, and they persuaded me from the evidence that they showed me,
that these are such bad, evil human beings that to release them into society, whether in
the United States or outside the United States, would be suicidal, because these guys
would for sure retumto kill their captors, to attack the families of the captors, or to wage
war against us again in the Middle East.
GIBSON: You have been an opponent of what is going on in Gitmo. You have spoken
out against it. And] think you have even written about it.
NAPOLITANO: I have Mitten extensively about it.
GIBSON: In both your books.
You saw interrogations. Did you see anything objectionable?
NAPOLITANO: Oh. no, no, not at all. The people conducting the interrogations freely
admit that the procedures that they used before 2004 were more aggressive than now.
When the Supreme Court came down with its 8-1 decision, saying the Constitution
applies, the treaties apply, and the law applies, and the federal courts ofjurisdic!tion, they
stopped using the methods that about five FB] agents had complained about.
So, the interrogations that we saw, John, were about as mild as you and I conversing now.
It's one interrogator. It's .- excuse me. ]t's one detainee. It's three interrogators, one of
whom is a translator.
The whole thing is taped. Four people are watching the entire interrogation as it goes on.
In my case, they allowed us to watch it through closed-circuit. So we weren't in the same
room, and we couldn't hear the words being used. We watched the guy being
interrogated. who is the number-two person there.
The government has ranked them, aU 400 of them, in the order of their influence over the
others. This is the number-two person. And they interrogate him about every two weeks,
just to see what information he wants to share with them or what lies he wants to give
them, which allows them to compare what he said with what others are saying.
GIBSON: What has happened since the recent suicide of detainees?
NAPOLITAl\O: Well, since the recent suicide of detainees, the administrative tribunals
have stopped. So, we thought we could see an administrative tribuna1 or a commission.
This is the interrogation of a - of a detainee, fonnally and on the record and before a
panel of three judges. Those stopped. Security has tightened considerably. And people
who were about to get moved up to an area of the camp which is not as -~ as aggressive
were put back at the bottom of the line.

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GIBSON: Judge Napolitano has opposed Gitmo for some time. A little later in the show,

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we are going to have him back, after he has seen this thing, to explain to us, what are we I

supposed to do about it?

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NAPOLITANO: OK, John.
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PART II: Fox News: The Big Story wi Jobn Gibson - 6/2212006 5:34:48 PM I
GIBSON: President Bush saying he would like to shut down Gitmo. He's been under I
pressure from the international community about this prison for some time now, So I
should we? Our Fox News senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano just got back
from an exclusive trip to Gitmo. That's him in his golf shirt looking around at the facility.
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Should we close it? I

NAPOLITANO: No, I don't think we should close it.

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GIBSON: Haven't you called for it to be closed?
NAPOLITAN{): No, have never called for it to be closed. I have called for the people I
there to be put on trial. Because never in American history, I shouldn't say never because I
Abraham Lincoln did it during the Civil War and Woodrow Wilson did it in during
World War rMD+IT rMD-IT I. But F.D.R., to his credit, tried the Gennan saboteurs
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before they were executed. We've not since the Geneva conventions, which didn't exist I
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until after World War n, held people without a trial.

The president must know that he has spent over $30 million in the past year there,

expanding the size of it, building a truly high-tech, first· rate building. I've been in a lot
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of prisons in my prior life as ajudge and I walked through this one. This is about as good
as they get in tenns offacilities for the inmate, as prisons go, comfort for the inmate and
high-tech ability to do what you have to do in a prison. They spent a lot of money on it.
They spent $2.5 milJion last week on a fence to keep out local people that were
wandering on to the property.
GIBSON: You know, we hear from the human rights community that one of the reasons
I that Gitmo should be closed is the sense of hopelessness that detainees have because they
I don't know how they would ever get out if they're going, are they entitled to hope?
I NAPOLIT ANO: Well, it depends who you ask. That's a great question, John. In my
view on the American constitution and the treaties we've signed, they are entitled to a
I trial. And if the government cannot prove their guilt, they shouldn't be there. The
I govermnent knows this. How do I know this? Because they haven't sent any detainees
there since the Supreme Court ruled 8- J that the constitution applies. Where are all the
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detainees from Iraq? They stayed in Iraq. They're under the custody of the Iraqi
I authorities. There's no new people coming to Guantanamo Bay.
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GIBSON: And the supreme court is going to decide something soon?
NAPOLIT AN 0: Yes, the case is very complicated but boiled down, 400 detainees filed

I applications for habeas corpus, meaning they want the government to justify to a federal

I judge why they're incarcerated without a charge. After that was filed the Congress

I enacted a statute saying they can't do it. The govemment now wants to argue that that

statute is retroactive, which would wipe out the 400 applications. That's what the
I Supreme Court wi II decide. Are these 400 cases sti II alive? If they are, John, there will be

I 400 trials before federal judges in Washi~gton, D.C. Iftl-Jey're not, there will just be

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 GIBSON: One way or another there will be trials.

NAPOLIT ANO:· One way or another there will be trials even though the top guys I
spoke to yesterday said to me we can't prove cases against a lot of these guys. We just
don't have the evidence.
GIBSON: Every day we see this. people say we don't have the evidence against these
guys, we can't prove a case, we have to let them go. They don't want to say that?
NAPOLITANO: They don't want to say that. They don't want to let them go because
they don't trust the governments to which they might go and the 15 of the 230 that they
did let go came back and fought against us.
GIBSON: And they actually believe these people are terrorists who have taken a vow to
tight the United States?
NAPOLITANO: The vast maj ority of the 400 detainees that are still there have made
threats of such magnitude and severity that anybody who heard what I heard yesterday
would believe that they are terrorists sworn to attack the United States. But under the
laws and the treaties, they're still persons entitled to trials.
GIBSON: There have been, as you know, many accusations that detainees are tortured at
Gitmo.
NAPOLITANO; Until the Supreme Court ruled 8·1 that the constitution applies and the
federal courts have jurisdiction, there were some aggressive means used and all ofthose
were outlined by FBI agents who objected to them. They were things like great heat,
grt:at cold, sleep and food deprivation. None of that, I'm told, has happened in the past
two years since the Supreme Court's ruling. And the interrogation I witnessed, as I said
earlier, was a conversation like you and me are having.
GIBSON: Who is their best interrogator?
NAPOLITANO: Their best interrogator is a New York City homicide detective, who
volunteered to become an ensign in the Navy so he could go down there and show them.
how to interrogate and he's a terrific guy.
GIBSON: So law and order prevails at Gitmo. Judge, thank you very much.

Fox News: Fox and Friends 6/23/2006 6:34:20 AM

Fox News: Fox and Friends - 6/23/2006 8:05:59 AM

Steve: Judge Napolitano not exactly in to this zip code for a couple of days. he went to
Gitmo.
Andrew: there I am in a jail cell.
Steve: About time.
Andrew: you know what, they love to play checkers and they love to play chess. I asked
aboul that.
E.D..: you know its interesting, on my way into work today I was listening to National
Public Radio and there is a movie coming out ~- I think its called the "Road Gitmo···· it
starts today. but they were interviewing a person and it's based on the recollections of
some people who have been imprisoned at Gitmo and they were saying that they·· I
guess with no independent confirmation, the claim is that they were kept in cells and
where they sleep, they have no roofs over their head and when it rains, it rains down on
them and I asked you about that. In thdr living quarters, do they have rooms?

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 Andrew: they clearly have roofs, and the eells are so positioned so that the rain can't get
in on them. They could get wet he if they were out in an exercise yard and it started to
rain and they decided to stay
E.D.: they said their blankets ­
Andrew: the Geneva Conventions and I should say the military's treatment of these
detainees, exceeds the minimum that the Geneva Conventions requires. The Geneva
Conventions requires a roof over their head, even though there's no heat or air
conditioning -- the average temperature is in the 90's, there's a roof over their head in the
cells.
Steve: I'm glad you went down there and saw it with your own two eyes, Remember
those very famoLL<; early pictures of what it was like at Gitrna, somebody squeezed off
some shots and you saw those prisoners in the orange jumpsuits and their hands were
bound behind them, they were blindfolded. Any of that stuff? Are they still wearing the
blindfolds down there?
Andrew: the military has asked all the media to stop using that. When the Supreme Court
ruled in June of' 04 that the constitution, the treaties, and the laws of the United States
apply, the military's treatment of the detainees changed dramatically. It is now gentle,
almost child-like the way they treat the detainees. It was not that way before, but the tape
you're talking about is the old way that they were treated, which hasn't happened in two
of that years.
E.D.: now, compared to how American prisoners are treated at American jails, here in the
United States, are these people being treated equally, better, worse?
Andrew: Far better, far better, far better. Not even close in terms of the quality ofthe
food, in tenns of the medical treatment, education, and recreation available. I mean. one
of those pictures shows me using exercise equipment in the prison yard. That was just
one of the many pit:ces, there it is Steve -- it was 110. There was no roof over that
exercise.
Steve: Judge, Valley Fitness is about a block away. If you need to workout, I wouldn't go
to Gitmo. The facilities there are excellent.
E.D•. : People claim people are treated so horrendously, it needs to be closed, is better
than what we keep our own prisoners in America in?
Andrew: No question about it. The administration has just spent $30 million to build
indoor cells and that facility, which will be known as Camp Number Six. They each have
numbers, depending upon the degree of security and lock down and that facility will be
the most modern, high tech facility with the best creature comforts for prisoners. It's a
jail. It's not too many creature comforts but the best for prisoners anywhere in the

country,

Steve: It was great you were ablt; to make the trip. Judge, thank you for sharing that -­

Andrew: It was a one day trip, down in the morning, five hours there, back to Andrews

Air Force base. .

Steve: it's not like you wanted to spend the night.

Andrew: No way, O-Reilly said to me make sure you leave

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Fox News: The Big Story wI John Gihson • 6/22/2006 5:51 :58 PM
JOHN GIBSON: Back now to our "Big Story" Guantanamo Bay exclusive. We've heard
from our judge earlier about what he saw on his trip yesterday to that infamous detention
facility. Former CIA operative Wayne Simmons was also on that trip. He joins us now
with his thoughts.
So, Wayne, the judge, you know, has alwa~'s said that these guys should get some sort of
trial. Isn't quite sure about whether you should close it. But he also described a situation
where it seems like the interrogation techniques are so watered down, you wonder if
they're getting anything out of these people at all. I mean, he described an interrogation
technique that looked a little like Tony Soprano talking to his shrink. What do you get out
of that?
WAYNE SIMMONS, FORMER CIA OPERATIVE: Listen, and the judge is
absolutely correct. I had the very good fortune and the honor of being on the first
contingent to go to Guantanamo Bay a year ago, and when I came back, I wrote some
pretty scathing things about the interrogation methods, which I found much, much too
soft. ) thought we should use much harsher methods to get the time sensitive inte!.
I can tell you now, after a year I've changed in my position, and I'll tell you why. What is
happening is the command and control face on the battlefield is changing, and what we
now see happening, John, is that we're able to go back to some of these detainees and
secure information about who we believe is now the new face of the command Wld
control in the battlefield, and get a description of these individualsllI1d where they are
and where their families are.
So would I like to see harsher conditions -- not torture but stronger conditions in
interrogation? Absolutely. Bul...
GIBSON: But I mean, you know, the judge described it as three people in there, a guy
sits on a couch, they talk to him. Nobody else. There's no sleep deprivation, no food
deprivation. It's not too hot. It's not too cold. He's not being water boarded. He doesn't
have snarling d.ogs. He'sjust chatting with them. What do they get oul of that?
SIMMONS: Well, they're using a technique whereby they build a bond and whereby
they hope that as time passes, that bond will yield verifiable inte!. And it appears that is
working,
But I will teU you! one ofthe most amazing things that I saw, and one of the things that
made me very, very happy, and as the judge said, it was a scary time, was that we're
finding out that a lot of the inteJ we're getting from these detainees is being used by our
FBl, and these men and women of the FBI are doing one incredible job of bunting down
the cells inside the United States.
And unfortunately, we're not allowed to stand up on the mountain and scream at the top
of our lungs, look what we did or look what they've done, and that's unfortunate because
the American people would be proud of what they see the FBI having done.
GIBSON: Wayne, you won't mind if! needle you just a little bit. The judge says the best
inteirogator they got was a New York City cop.
SIMMONS: Well, listen, I don't know if that's the case. But I can tell you...
GIBSON: I mean, where are the CIA guys, where are the FBI guys? How come they're
behind a New York City cop?

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