query.nytimes.com - 12/7/2008
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Responding to an Army survey of more than 13,000 officers, soldiers and family members released just before the Memorial Day holiday, the Army chief of staff has acknowledged that too many qualified personnel and future commanders are leaving and has pledged to improve the morale of service ...
post-gazette.com - 12/5/2008
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post-gazette.com —
Despite a new administration coming into power, U.S.
Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said she plans to stick...
around. "It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she said yesterday. U.S. attorneys ...
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Buchanan doesn't plan to step down as U.S. attorney
thinkprogress.org - 12/5/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Mary Beth Buchanan was appointed by President Bush
to serve as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh in Sept....
2001. Buchanan has held several significant posts within the Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department, most notably serving as director the Executive ...
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A New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney ...
commentarymagazine.com - 12/5/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
Barack Obama is toying with the idea of
making a speech from an Islamic capital within his...
first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo–which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there ...
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Obama’s Muslim Speech
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... commandant Gen. James L. Jones. Both questioned Wolfowitz's presumptions, before the war in Iraq commenced, about how the fighting would go, and they argued that Pentagon planning was being too optimistic and should prepare thoroughly for worst-case scenarios." Some links: Gen. Shinseki's Wikipedia entry ; a piece on the kind of changes in Army doctrine and capacities that Shinseki was interested in; an interview with him from 2000 about the future of war; a piece from 2001 about changes he tried to make in Army personnel policies; an ...
Shinseki
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... James L. Jones. Both questioned Wolfowitz's presumptions, before the war in Iraq commenced, about how the fighting would go, and they argued that Pentagon planning was being too optimistic and should prepare thoroughly for worst-case scenarios."
Some links: Gen. Shinseki's Wikipedia entry; a piece on the kind of changes in Army doctrine and capacities that Shinseki was interested in; an interview with him from 2000 about the future of war; a piece from 2001 about changes he tried to make in Army personnel policies; an interview ...
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theagitator.com 12/12/2008 — Mary Beth Buchanan, who makes a strong case for the title of worst U.S. attorney in the country, says she won’t abide by the customary practice of all U.S. attorneys submitting their resignations with the swearing in of a new administration.
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