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TPM Election Central: Feinstein Wants Pentagon Investigation of Alleged Gitmo Burrowers
Think Progress: Key Bush Gitmo advisers burrowing in at the Pentagon.
Daily Kos: "Burrowing" Guantanamo, Redux
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: Did Burrowed Pentagon Employees Leak Detainee Information?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Did Burrowed Pentagon Employees Leak Detainee Information?
Feinstein Wants Pentagon Investigation of Alleged Gitmo Burrowers
TPM Election Central —
... Gates on Wednesday seeking an inquiry into whether two political appointees "have been improperly converted to career positions within the Department of Defense." From her letter: I ask that you immediately review the circumstances behind the conversion of these positions and the hiring of any former Bush administration appointees as career or temporary officials within the Office of Detainee Affairs.
Feinstein did not unmask the alleged burrowers, but the AP reports that they are deputy assistant defense secretary Sandy ...
Alleged Pentagon Burrower Played Key Role in Pro-War Pundits Program
TPM Election Central —
... One of the two has right of return to a civil service position, according to the AP, but let's look for a moment at the second official -- Tara Jones, a special assistant in the detainee office. ...
Key Bush Gitmo advisers burrowing in at the Pentagon.
Think Progress —
... The AP reports that three senior officials “tapped by the Bush administration to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay” remain in their jobs, weeks after Bush left office and despite President Obama’s efforts to dramatically change the U.S.’s detention policies. Two of them “have been shunted into civil service jobs,” meaning Obama can’t simply fire them. On Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressing concern about former Bush appointees that “have been ...
"Burrowing" Guantanamo, Redux
Daily Kos —
Back in December I wrote about the efforts of the Bush administration and the Pentagon to sabotage then President-elect Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo. Since "burrowing" was so much in the news at the time, I applied it to this effort as well. Turns out, it was a literal description. Via TPMDC, we find out that key Bush staff have burrowed in: WASHINGTON (AP) — Three senior Pentagon officials tapped by the Bush administration to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay remain on the job despite President Barack Obama's ...
Did Burrowed Pentagon Employees Leak Detainee Information?
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Then, last week, word came from the Associated Press that "three senior Pentagon officials tapped by the Bush administration to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay remain on the job despite President Barack Obama's order to reverse course." ...
Did Burrowed Pentagon Employees Leak Detainee Information?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Then, last week, word came from the Associated Press that "three senior Pentagon officials tapped by the Bush administration to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay remain on the job despite President Barack Obama's order to reverse course." ...
Who's Running Guantanamo?
Antiwar.com Original —
... . Instead, a Pentagon spokesman stepped forward to state, "It was her decision, but it reflects the fact that the president has issued an executive order which mandates that the military commissions be halted, pending the outcome of several reviews of our operations down at Guant namo." This was hardly sufficient to assuage doubts about why a Cheney prot g was still in charge of the commissions, and these doubts were amplified when the Associated Press announced that two more Bush political appointees Sandra Hodgkinson, the former deputy assistant defense secretary for ...
