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nev~ftum.oz'g, ranging from strictly the local co national circulation papers,
3 , "eluded OoD-related article.; only a doen papara had more than one Don-related item
on today's front page.
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. 41 papers headlined the $ 8 0 billion euppleneatal request for tbe war

on terrorism.
12 papers headlined m e aspect of the January 30 elections in Iraq.
Seven headlines focuecd on allegati- of U.S. abuse of detainees
in Iraq or Guamt-no.
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Two headlines stated U.S. troop l e v l e will atay high in Iraq
Two headline. focused on BJIAC issues.
=here w o r e a e v n other headlines, primarily about home town
casualties.

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worthwhile bo do chà m a l y n t , I an leaning a g a i n s t no doing a press event.

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Contimed Retired M i l i t a r y ~nalyaca:

Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA, Retired)
M r . JeU B e b i n (USAP, JAG1
L i w t e n a n t General Frank B. campball ~USW, ~ e t i r e d l
Dr. James Jay carataii.2 (LTC, USA, Retired)
colonel l ~ i m )J . gads IUSA, Retired)

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 colonel John Garrett ~USMC,Retired) , '
Command S a r g à § à §Major S t e v n Greer IUSA, Retired1
Colonel Jack Jacobs {USA, Retired)
Colonel JeCf McCauslind, (USA, Retired)
L i t G e n e r a l Thoma. Mclnenwy 1USD.F. Retired)
G e n e r a l ~ontgomery weigs (USA. netiredl
Captain c h u c k Hash WSN. Retired)
General William L. Wash (USA. Retired)
Major G e n e r a l Robert H. Scales, Jr. IUSA, Retired)
mior General ~ o i r l dVI. shepperd IUSAP, Reciredl
~ a j o rGeneral Perry smich IoSaF, Retired)
m a j o r General ~ a u lE. ~ a l l e l y (USA, Retired)
General Tnm Wi.keraon EUSMC. Retiredl

Admiral Oenni* C. Blair IUSN, Retired)

comnrnder pets= racket IUSN, Reserve)
Lieutenant colonel B i l l C o w n IUSMC. Retired)
~ a i o rnana R , D i l l o n (USA, Rctir~dl
G e n e r a l woyna A . nowning (USA, Retired)
Lieutenant General Buster OIOBBOTI {USAP, Retired)
Brigadier Beneral David L.Oranga (USA, Retired)
Admiral David B. Jeremiah (USN, Retired)
General William P. -Buck" Kern." (USA, Retired!
Admiral Thomas J o a c p h L o p e z ( u r n , Retired)
L i n t Colonel Robert: L. Haginnla (USA, Retired)
O e n e r a l G l e n K. Ocia [USA, Retiredl - r o t avail. at 1600
General ~ o s e p h~ a l a t o i IUSAF, Retired)
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 Thought you would be interested in this

Researcher
DepartmentofDefense

Subject: Today's Spectator

Alittle dose of reality on the prisoner abuselinterrogation issue, with thanks to Wayne Simmons

The American S~eciator

Jed L. Bobbin

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 From: Ruff. Enc, SES. OASD-PA
Sent: Wednesday, January 19.20056:25PM
To: Run, Eric, SES.OASWPA
Subject: FW draft message to servlcasecy's

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lany, appreciate you inputfroma tone perspective as well as content
Gentlemen, as part of this year's budet roll out we would llke each of you to participatein a
background briefingfor themilitary analysts thegroup that providesnewspaper and tetevnton
commentary. The budget will be announced by the President and sent to Congress on Monday, Feb.
7. OSD usually provides an embamoed (hold until Introduced bv the President) briefing to the
Pentagon press imps and to the military analysts, and we anticipate doing so again this year.

We are asking that you and the service chief or vice chief 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 programmaticfunding levels document. Understandingthat
people will always look at funding numbers, we hope to the analysts and media tosee this
budget from another perspective, that of a meaningfulstab at shifting the military in a historically new
philosphical direction, a ejection that is required by the realities of the world today.

In briefingthe analsyts, we would ask that each of you to talk about your services' reEp9ctive
transformatimalneeds of today and how those needs are addressed in this In budget. We would
llke your briefing to be done In one session on Wednesday, Feb. 2, or Thursday, Feb. 3. We are
timing your briefing ahead of the media's becausewe expect reporters will go to IniiitaWanalysts for
additional thoughts about the DOD budget.

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 Justread the text of your rebuttal. As you may have seen on MSNBC, I atlriboted a lot of what he said to
disgnmiled CIA empoyees who simply should be taken out and shot. Going thru his article, 1 was aim
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impressed at the extremely thin sourcing mostly just wo guys: "a former high ranking itelli- official and
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' a govenunent consuhant." Had he written Ihe same thing for my GU course asopposed to the New Yorker -
he wolitda flunked!

Ken Allard

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Media coverage ofthe seven m i l i analysts' visits to Iraq wascontainedto: Paul Vallety,
Bllt Cowan. StevenGrw a d Ken Allad Vallety, Ccwan and Greer appeared onfy on Fox New* shows from January
- s Iraq in primarily positiveterms, Allard was quoted In a WashingtonTimes piece
13Ih 17m, discusslng their r ~ c e n l w to
on the need for a lager U S. military force in Iraq, wtiich was reprcnwaby a handful of foreign news outlets.

Among issues highlighted by the analysts in television coverage:

The Marines are a key force In maintainingsecurity and itabllliy In Iraq, and "finding the badguys"
The extensive securitymeasures bang implementedforthe upcoming elections
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The "outstanding" training of Iraqi armies we are "aggressivelymoving forward"
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The expected high voter turnout for the elections could reach up to 80% of residents
Fallujah is now the safest city in Iraq
 And, toa lesserextent, Iraq as a potentialtraining ground fortemists

Two document* anattached. On the toft are m highlights:on the right are the excerpts+ links.
 h = b~i l l~ t h~a t dhe w r i t e new yorlier or chat he mend h r thoughts to a
e a ~ ~ g co
bloflger'>

Following piease find noma comments from one of the milicmry a n a l y s t s on t h e 17 January
etacement by Di R i t a on Herç a r t i c l e (sent as today's ca.lleitig p o i n t s per Mr. D i R.tal.
Mr. cowan as you know i m an analyst for FOX (wears ehà black turclanack* and ha. t h e rtiiee
h a i r and beard). Rec-ired iiTC for Marines.
Col. Rhyirdçnc - for you to forward a8 you sç f i t Co Mr. Di Riti.

CC for other*.

i a s the ODB& at IS& during t h e period hersch t a l k s about. Yellon Pruit

wasn't about IS*, as he a l l e g e s . it wa8 itbout t h e Army's WSO. his BASIC
m i 0 k c o u l d o ~i s wrono f r o m the outset. Yellow Fruit
happened quickly and f o l k s from ODs0 to j a i l . :he Pentagon policed i t ~
em

ISA w a n ' t involved i n supwrting the Mntraa and had no C e n t r a l m e r i c a n

ops that went awry. UOREOVSR, i was a senior staffer m t h e IradCmCra
hearings s h o r t l y thereafter, i n which I s A wan NEVER neationed.
g o a f t e r the BASIC premise. specops guys, and I S A i n p a r t i c u l a r , have done
a GREAT job of supporting t h e Pentagon and t h e nation.
thanks.
ieÈp'y
b i l l cousin

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 ~ t t a c h e dplease find the l a t e s t update f r e n tbe DepartmeBt of ~ e i e i r e
<sTP 01.18-05 iran.dooa
etfteenenc from Pentagon spoke- Lawrence n i ~ i t aon u t e e t Seymour nerah
A r t ic1e
The Iranian regime's apparent nuclear ambitions afri i t s
demonstrated support f a r terrorist orqanizati- is a global challenge t h a t
deserve- much more oerioua treatretit khan seymour m r a h provides i n t h e New
Yorker a r t i c l e t i t l e d "The Coming W a n . "
~ r .merah'e a r t i c l e i a so riddled with errors of fundamental
f a c t t h a t t h e c r e d i b i l i t y of h i s e n t i r e piece l a destroyed.

'
HE. Herah's aource1s1 feed him with rufflor, innuendo, and
aaserticnia about meetings that never happened, programs clue do not e x i s t ,
and statements by o f f i c i a l s t h a t were never nade.

A sampling from t h i s a r t i c l e alone includes:

. The p a t - e l e c t i o n meeting he describes between tha Secretary

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fee and the ~ o i n tc h i e f s oE s t a f f d i d not happen.
he only c i v i l i a n s i n the chain-of-c-nd are t h e President
and the Secretary of Defense, despite Mr. Hecsh'a confident a s s e r t i o n t h a t
the chain of coninmd now includes t w o ~ e p a r t w e n tpolicy o f t i d a l e . mi-
a r t i o n is outrageous, and constitiufcionally specious.
Arrangerents M r . Herah a l l e g e s between [Rider Secretary
Douglas Feith and Israel, government or non-government, do not e x i s t . Here,
M Harsh r building on l i n k s created by the a o f t bigotry of ~ o r n e
conspiracy t h e o r i s t s . = h i s r e f l e c t s poorly on ~ r m
. r e h and t h e ~ e w
~orker.

. ~r b r c h cannot even keep track of his own wanderings. A*

one p i n t i n h i s a r t i c l e , he mates the outlandish a s s e r t i o n t h a t the
military opera.ciona he describes are so secret, that the opftratioos are being
kept: secret even from U S . m i l i t a r y Coinbatant Conupanderx. Mr. Hernh l a t e r
states, though, that t h e locus of this super-secret a c t i v i t y i s at the 0 , s .
General command haadauar-tera, evidently without, the knewledtia of t h e
commander i f M r . ner& i n to be b e ~ x v e d .
9 h i m own aitaiaaion, M r . Hersh evidently l a working on an v a l t e n u t i v e
history" "-1. He in well along i n t h a t work, given the high q u a l i t y of
" a l t e r n a t i v e present" t h a t he haa developed in several recent a r t i c l e s .

Mr. Irish's preference f o r siacrle. xnonynouc, u n o f f i c i a l sources

f o r h i e m e t f a a t a s t i c claims make* i t d i f f i c u l t to parce h i s diÈcuÈai of
Defense Department operçtiona

Finally. the v i e w and policiem Hr. Herah *scritW~ t o Secretary

Rmsfeld. Deputy Secretary Volfmicz. mder Secretary Peith, and other
~epartmentof ~ a f e n a eo f f i e i a l a do not r e f l e c t their public o r p r i v c e
i t s o r administration policy.
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To Ruff, Eric. SES, OASD-PA
Cc IS '1CIV. OASWA Memt R o w T CAPT. OASO-PA KçBGaq
Col OASO-PA tnlm 4 CW. OASD'PA
SuUxt. RE framing the 06 Budget

Good Momma Sir,

This calendar should reflect thechangesyou suggested OVBI the weekend

me Budget
StrategicPA man...

as w move taiwad with budgetrollout praparalona I'd like UB tomnçldÃaome "on-wedeftaetlct that wfll hdp frame
tha discussion(or the 06 transformitionmi budget.

I rçconçnà we b~d the aniaya before me 4th and mat we pwae thà urvict chiefi for me w s l pl.!~ meif
un hoineo comptrollerreps for mit D M n g w would toçotnsame ground ruses as mà m d - Ãbneftng andme
ma vtts weflrt~coi- o fr done mi say font noun. nere n ftà &*a no teabr i o o r e miir foreen " w e e wnttw
i a ionas participatesis options!

N O 6 budoet marks much more than (tie usual ~rogrammflttcfunding b ltype ofdocument, U Mya ttw oroundirortf
for a meaningfulstab at moving the military in a historicallyn~wphlbsphkal direction a direction that is nqulred by
thçrealitieof the worn today -realities brought on by ma terrorism threat but also by the cfianglng pnlure of our
military rasing.
this an* tor the analysts'briefing sllowft mtiof the services to talkabout their mspCW9 transformationalnmdfiof
today and how m m needs an a d d r à § s in çilbudool.
21 relatedtotha service chiefs. I'd also wethat befcrethew n t i b n a l humios on tab. if and 17, me cUKfr
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~ an oped for me secdef for feb a placement h the wan streetjournal.) ft would be great if!he chiefsmutd
do radio around these MSBS or stations, 35 well

thanks

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 COL Mry b Keek
Deputy Director

~ e a t l w e a ,pleaç forward to me all potential calking point on the military's involvim-t

on the ~ r a qelections to me today -- to respond to below request. GEBIRI W i g s desires
immediate a ~ a i ~ t a n cfox
e his request, for conaeatary information this upcoming Saturday
and sunday on MSNBC. I suapecc he also has contacted the scat. mpattment, but his below
note to us at Army requires our quickest act.ncion here and at COD public affairs.
hank you for your unwavering cooperation with this retired general officer request.
Very respectfully,
-- Paul

~ r c m mntgomery w i g s ( m i l t o t c m e i g ~ ~
Semt Monday January 1 7 , 2C05 3 16 PH
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To Brooks, Vincent K BG OCPU
subyecc RB ye on traq - ~ r a q iSpecial Operations mrcea ~UNCLASSIFIEDI

MSNBC will do a day long coverage or the election in ~ r a q ,thia sat/-. an you give me
anything to help with making sense o f that to viewera?
MCH
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Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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 his is a thoughtful note.. I chink it makes a lot of sense to do as you suggest and I
quean I though~twe already were doing a lo:, of this in terms of quick contact:, e c c . . . ~
ought to be doing chis, though. and we should net make the list too small...
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BACKGROUND:
One of the m e t interesting chinas coning froa t h i ~trip to Iraq with the media
analyses was learning how their jobs have been undergoing a metamorphosis. There are
several reasons behind the morph ... w i t h an all voluntary military, no om- in the media
has current military background. additionally, we have been doing a good job of keeping
h e g w s informed so that they have the ready ftnxwera when the network comes calllq.
CURRENT ISSUES:
The key issue here is chat more and wore, media analysts are having a greater iwpact
on the television media network coverage of vilitary issues. They have: now become the go-
o guys not only on breaking aeoi-yn. but they influence the views on i s à § u e ~ Ttwy -1st
have a huge amount of influence on what stories the network decides to cover proactively
w i t h regards eo military.
I media opa, I have been uaing eheà more frequently to get our side of the story out
with media sensitive departments such as USDI, which ie typically hard to penetrate with
traditionally mcdit, but that we have found 1 0 be receptive t o talking to the analyses
such as Ken ~obinson.
RECOMMENDATION:
L.1 1 re=-nd ws deveLcm a core sr- within our media a ~ l m t slist of the.*
that we can count on t o carry &r water. They become pace of à "hot list" that we
i i t l lake calls to or put on an amail aistro before we contact ox respond co mçdi
on hot i ~ s u e ~ .He can also do nore proactive engagement with :hie list and give them tipa
on what storie= to f m m om and g i v e th" heed# up on u p m i q iwues a# they are
developing. By providing them with current and valuable info-tion, they b e m e the key
go to guys for the networks and it w i n s to weed out the less reliably friendly analyst*
by the netifork, the ma el^..
2.1 He need to continue with Dalla's Initiative to do regional trips for the analysts
1 a routine basis. Even though Bone of these wya on chi, trip had been to Iraq last
m . b. l="d.aap* had changed BO dramatreally thÈ th.Y Wttt "
d" È the change. in
such ft short amount of time. would like to arrange a trip to ~ f g h m i i e t anext.
~
3 . ) Media opà and outreach can work on a plan to maximize use of the aoalymtfland
figure cut & cystem by which we keep our moat reliably friendly analysts plugged in om
everything from crisis response to future plans. This trusted core group will ba mre
than willing co work closely with us becnuse we are thei-r bread and butter, and the m e

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they k n o w cite more valuable thev are to the n e t i r k s .
a1.o going forward on working regional media trips and looking at trips foe
publishers, coluimi~tsand-specialty m e d i n , includinq radio. I
5.1 ~s evidenced by this analyst trip to ~ r a q ,the synergy of outreach bop and media
opà working together on these type of projects ia e n o m a and effective. Will centime
to exam way* to improve procei,es. I

Below is a -wry of tbà moat: recent icilifry analyst media items that appeared as a
e m i t of the trip to Iraq. We will distribute another report early next we) on
forthcoming it-.
attached please find tbà related media excerpts Md link*.

HIGHLIGHTSi
Paul Vallely appeared on Fox on January 13th. on Dayside with Linda Vester (talk show).
discussing his recent trip to ~rçq He w extremely upbeat and apoka about the upcoming
l t 1 q 1 positive terms, saying they will absolutely happen aa scheduled. He
said he's very confortable with the election situation, and that voter t-ut will woac
l~kelybe better than expected. A possible issue could be voter registration in certain
p i e s , due co security .threat* from in-enta.
He also n o t d thaei

The m i n e s are "doing a great job" irt Iraq

Fallujah is probmbly now the aafçs city in Iraq right now, as citizena are coning
back into neighborhoods, getting m caras, aupplie~. eec.
Iraqis are now very active in helping cheir people, ¥n finally taking the
initiative, which they haven't baa" able to do up until this point
Paul vallely appeared on Fox news Live en January 14th. In which he noted: the positive
morale of the military in ~raq.the ~arinesas a key force in ~ r a q ,and extremely tight,
organized security meaeurem for the upccring elactiona, A summary of cilia appearance ws
available on a Fox News-focused blog, but the pox transcript io not yet available.

1 In military analyst broadcast appearances focusing on subjects other than Iraq:

I
. ~ a u lwilely appeared on fox's ftaiuity 6 c o m e s on January 13th. disi-ii~singthe
actuation in Zndoneai*. and cenaicm ¥bou U.S. foreign aid
John Garrett appeared on Fox on ~anuary12th to discuss U.S. military death benefits
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-lysis from sill cowan was included in a pox NW report from ~anuary 14th ¥bou
~riday* ~ report on new c e r r o r i ~chreacs
CIA ~ ('Mapping the ~ l o b a l~uturs-1
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HIGHLIGHTS

Paul VÇ~I

Paul Vallelv a o o d on Fox's DavSide with Linda Vaster Calk show\ (MIJanuam 13'.
discussine his'r&trio 7
to Irao, He was extremdv
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upcoming elections in Iraq in positive lenns, saying they will absolutely happen as
scheduled He said he's \cry corafbrtabic with the c.ection sitiieiion, and that vow
turnout will most likely be bener than expected. A possible issue could be voter
registrationin certain provinces. due to securitythreats from insurgents

Also appearing on Fox News Liveon J a w 14*, he noted: the p o s i t i v e . d e of lhe

military in Iraq, the Marines as a key force in Iraq, andextremely tight, organized
security measures for the upcoming elections. A summy of this appearance was
availableon a Fox News-focused blog, but the Fox iranscrip is not yet available.

Fox featured Paul Vallely again on "Fox andFriends" Saturday on January 15- hhe
repeated the sameupbeat description of the voting situation in Iraq. He also mentioned
that 13 million Iraois have pe~i.steredto voleand that the elections need to BO forward as
scheduled.

.
Fox News Channel:
The Marines m "doing a greatjob" in Iraq
Fallujah is probably now the safest city in Iraq right now, as citizensare coming
back into neighborhoods,getting ID cards,supplies, etc.
Iraqis are very active in helping iheirpeople, and finally taking the initiative,
which they haven't been able to do up until this pint
Syria & Iran are causing a great deal of problems in the region by p i d i n g
support to the insurgents
Images of a Humvee retro-fitting plant in Iraq

Bill C o r n

Bill Cowan is alsofeataNd on the Fox News Channelon Janoaiy 14*, I,@ and I r o n
shows such as -Honlan) with John Ktsich" and "Fox and Friends." Like Paul Vallely.
his take on theIraq situation was also up- His oneoverriding statement was that if
 the US. pulls out of Iraq now, then it wouldlook like Afghanism before we invaded
(i.e. insurgent training camps). He also said be felt that the U S . would be down to
50,000 troops by the end ofthe year.

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Kev~ointsof discussion hiehlichted bv
, Colonel Cowan:
The L S i) being aggressivein training an Iraqi police torce
It ha.- trained"quick response" teams to respond lo insurgeots threatening Iraq)
police forces
There is increased communication betweenthe Iraqi aid U S . soldiers
He is upbeat about the number ofSunnis. Kurds and Shiites that will participatein
the election process

A story originally written by The Washm@onTimes on news that U S . military officials

are seekingmore troops in Iraq included commentmy by Ken A I M The piece was
reprinted by several publications, includingNew Kcrda (India), Big News Network
(Australia), Assyrian InternationalNews Agency (Switzerland)and the World Peace
Herald. Specifically,Allard said the c m n t troop numbersare not sufficientto sustain
fightingin Iraq and Afghanistan, or to deter aggressionin Europe and South Korea.

Steven Grcer. also on the Fox News Channel. addressed the nrimarv issue of whether Iran
is just turning into another training ground for insurgents. This became a commontheme'
across many ofthe military analysis interviewedand was previously a big Story in The
Washington Post ( i t National IntelligenceCouncil Report).

.
Sergeant Major Grew had the following to say
He f o c d on the fac' that the U S and Iraq need to work closely togabe to beat
downand comain current terrorist acuvitie'1in Iraq
$aid Iraq 11 not a '"breedingground*'fort e n w i s t s bui may poisbly be providing
o n thejoh training" to m s from other counnies who havejomed the fight in
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Note: The followingmilitary analystsdid oat appear inmedi coverage:

Robert Maginnis
John Garrett
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ONLINE COVERAGE

KENNETH ALLARD
US. officers in Inm seek more troops: report
PakistanDawn - Jmuarv I7
Originally produced by The Washington Timer,repnne by N w Keralii (India). Big
News 'ietivork (Australia). Assvnan Internanon1 News b n c y (Switzerland) and The
World Peace Herald (global online source)
Ken Allard, aretired colonel and author of four books on national security, told the
(Washington Times) newspaper that America needed to expand its miliiary if it wanted w
continue to shoulder its responsibilities abroad.
According to him, ihc current strengthof 500,000-ttoopactive force was not enough to
fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to deter aggression in Europeand South Korea.
"I would start nddino forces until it is deinonrtrativelv too much." Mr. Aliard said. "What
happens if somewhere someitmg else goes wrong We areeating seed wrn in an 18-
divismn rcquircmeii, we have a IOdnision force." he said

STEVEN GREEK

FAXNews Channel
1/14/2005 5:05:24 PM
Steve Grecr is a retired US.Array wmmandSergeant Major and a senior fellow at the
National Defense Council Foundation.The big question today, is Iraq a breeding ground
for the next generationof terrorists? Orcer. Hi. John, no, I don't think so, not yet,
anwav. It ccnainlv has the notential to become so. What vou see here is Irao is a &nine
base. An area where your c&munistic terrorist - can do on the job training.'~hereare -
other breeding grounds in the Muslim world. Syria, Lebanon. Those are breeding grounds
where the gavenunen1 and the military structurereally lets these terrorist operations work
unfetlcred. It was blown into a bic slow. Aooarentiv sort of wavinc thisat President
Bush.You said it was going to be; free, fairdemocracy in Iraq thatwas safe from
-
terrorists and now we have t e m i s t s here.John- Why is it why wouldn't one conclude
that Iraq is a temrist training ground when they have so much opportunity to train killing
Americans? Qrcer; Well, 1certainly think that Iraq is a training ground but it is not a
breeding firound lor icrrorms The breeding ground comes from when Cic young
terrorists or young indindual and they teach them the ideology of "ate 1 think part ofthe
issue - t k issue i s that insideof Iraq the difference isihai you hate ienwisis flooding 11
from other nation states. Tlic reason why you have that is the nation states likeSyria are
reluctant lo do anything. They're not happy that Iraq may turn into a democracy. llie

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 monarchies are not happy that you may have an elected government next to them in their
border regton.

PAUL VALLELY

tvs News Channel 1/13/2005 1:33:28 PM *

DaySide with Linda Vcsler
Valtcty; Wc had great meetings with the first cavalry division and the Marines up in
Faliujah. They'redoing so many thin@. but it's security, it's finding the bad guys. We're
finding there's more foreignem now than we thought that have come across the borders.
so they're working it and doing a great job but what they're doing for the people we can
talk about.Jusl wonderful what we're doing for the peopleof Pallujeh right now.. ..In 60
days, it's the safest city they say in Iraq right now. The marines control it. Now Ihc
citizens are starring TO come back into the neighborhoods, they're being given
identification cards, which they really like, by the way. It gives them some status... !can't
say enough about the marines up there doing a great job, the men and women. It's just
fantastic.

Fox News Chinuel 1/13/2005 1:35:38 nil*

DavSide with Linda Veiter
: have a aueslion from a viewer bv email. He saw what more can be done to net
~ i n d a We
more Iraqis to come forward to help me U.S sold.cn deliver a pinpoint and decisive -
blow 10 the msuraenq? Valley. Orcat question. Two t h i s happening litre. We're
namingmore battalion%each month. 1san many Iraqi soldiers out mere, National Guard.
They're dome the security work for the convoys over Acre. I saw them in downtown
Fallujah, we're trying to put the best Iraqi faceout there, and that's what we need todo, so
the Iraqis arc very active, they're very activein the polllngstations, in getting thme set up
...
throughout the country for the election. So they're taking the initiative finally Linda: but
botlom line. you were comfortable with the vole coing offJanuary 30? Valley: Very
comfortable. I think it may be better than we think but there will be problemsup in that
area only because of registration

Fox News (Poi and Friends SatudavJ

01/15/05 OS:23!06
Vallely There are 13million people registered to vote.. . up to 80 percent could vote. ..
The people in Iraq have done a wonderful job of mapping out security for the polling
.
nations.. The elections need to go forward, the people there need to get involved in the
process of democracy. The Iraqis have taken a lot of initiative, doing positive things in
the midst of a lot of terrorism ... but security will be the key. In Falluiah -the most
marvelous, inspiring trip, 10 sec what the Marines have do; up there- it's now the most
secure city,.,

BILL COWAN

Fox N w i Channel 1/1.17200$101171W.AM *

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Well, joining us now with some insight.LieutenantColonel Bill Cowan who actually just
returacd from Iraq lasi week and live in Iraq "Newsw¥eck"magazine'Baghdad bureau
chief. Gentlemen, welcome both of you- Colonel Cowan,givc us your Take on this news
that Iraq may be the new terrorist training pound. Cowan: Any fundamentalist out there
who wants to be part of their future needs to be in Iraq to start honing up his skills to find
out how to fighi western, US. or coalition forces.

Fm Urns-Hmrlland With .Iohn KÈsk

01/16/05 Ofl:35:49
John: Colonel, I know there is a sense that ifwe can continueto train them, you have
been thereyou are more oatimistic abort the (rain,1 look at Bosnia, it took us ten years to
train the Bosnian Army. 1mean you are not advocating we stay ten years. What's Ihe
responsible exit siraiegy here? Cowan: John,we have seen good results with the training
we have done. In speaking to our Americanforces over there, those Iraqi battalions that
not alongside us in Najaf. Samana and Fahjah did an outstanding job. No complaints
One key part is we had American advisors a'onesidc the BUYS and that's what we have
now A program la get ~mericanadvisorswithilloflhc& Iraqi mils thai arc coming OK
we can Take Iraqi units have that combaieipenenct now, well trained we are finding
good lead ments there Our primary goa. now in Iraq besides reconiinictton cmplo>mem
and nil utherihifie, has to be10 build uneffective fighung fore? v-nh me Iraqi Ann!
John Coionel, would you send y0ç.faroili inere now^ Cman M > son has been in Irxq
1 had a son who w n i Ibere He was in Afghanistan a.so Like any parrot whose children
art worried over there ' was w m d thc w o k time But it i s interesting 1 met wtth
young troops, young I m p s in he reservesaver ihw who hadnothing bad to da> Good.
highly motivated kidsdoing a mission and they felt strongly about it.

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Fox News Fox and Friends
01111105 07:26:27
Joining us now 10 discuss that from his first-hand account is Fox news military analyst,
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowan back from laq. Nice to be with you, Brian: the big
difference between the last time you were &and thistime. Cowan: Well. seeing
what's happening to the Iraqi security forces, how we're really moving forward
aggressively, Lieutenant General Petraeustogel qualified Iraqis out there, one putting
advisors alongside the Iraqi forces,it bolsters their offense. capabilities and confidence,
pulling logelh~rquick reaction forces, so when they run inw trouble, they have folks to
help them out. Better communications, better equipment, getting things ready for the
Iraqis to lake over more responsibilities.

BLOC COVERAGE
PAUL VALLELY
"Hanpvl r ~ q Twrns
" Oat To Be Not ThÈ Hamy *
NewsHounds.us - blog - January 14
On FNL today (1114). one interview stood ou among the usual crop oflikely suspects:
Rick Folbaum (who substitutes for David Asman on Fridays) interviewed Paul Vallely,
Fox News military analyst, who had recently rctunwl from a trip lo Iraq. The topic was
 4

"Happy Iraqw- & to listen to VaUely, yorfd think UK USmilitary had l e a d nothing in
Vietnam.
. T n c interview was long on hyperbole, short onactual facts. Vallsly claimed there's
"more successes (nan failures" & offered as an example of "success" that the "Mannes
ha\= made Fni.unh the safest citv in I-" beca"se"we took out the d . euvs..:. He
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enthusiastic about h o w " ~ earc proud" of wiiat the US military is doing in Iraq &
asked Vallely what he thought we should be most proud of, Vdlely said he is "most
proud of their morale" & of their "vcq, very positive altitude" in the face of "belated
incidents like the attacks loday." Folbaum asked if there were any surprises while Vallcly
vas there. Vallely replied that he was surprised by "how well organized they are for this
election." Vallely added that there will be "extraordinarysecurity" for the upcoming
election & he expects everything to go pretty smoothly "except up in Anbar province."
He also admitted lhat the "amountof foreigners[is]greater than we thought ..."
Vdlely has been mentioned often on this website becauseof his frequent appearances on
FNC, where he isalways very gung-ho & rah-rah. Today was no exception.

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"Haow Iran" Turns Out To Be Not That H Ã ‡ O D
NewsHounds.us- blog - January 14
On FNL Today (1/14), one interviews t o o d m among the usual cropof likely suspects:
Rick Folbaum (who substitutes for David Asman onFridays) interviewed Paul Vallely,
Fox News miliiaiy analyst, who had recently returned from a trip to Iraq.The topic was
"Happy Iraq" - & 10 listen to Vallely, you'd think the US niilitq had learned nothing in
Vietnam.
. T h e interview was long on hyperttole, shodon actual facts. Vallelyclaimed there's
"more successes lhan failures" & offeredas an example of "success" that the"Marines
have made Fallujah thesafest city in Iraq" becauseWwelookoutthe badguys ..."He
added "We're defeating the enemy every rime we can find them..." Folbaum acted
enlhusiaslicabout how "We are so proud" ofwhat the US military is doing in Iraq &
asked Vallely what he thought we should be most proud of. Vallely said he is "most
proud oftheir morale" & oftheir "very, very positive attitude" in the face of "isolated
incidents like the attacks today." Foibaum asked ifthere were any surprises while Vallely
was there. Vallely replied that he was surprised by "how well organized they are for this
election." Vdlely added that there will be "extraordinary security" for the upcoming
election & he expectseverything to go pretty smoothly "except up in Anbar province."
He also admitted that the "amount of foreigners [is] greater than we thought..."
Vallely has been mentioned often on this website because of his frequent appearanceson
FNC, where he isalways very gung-ho & rah-rah. Today was no exception.

Ym N e ~ 8 C h o r d1iIUlOCR 10:17:23 AM
Well, joining us now with some insight. Lieutenant Colonel Bill C o r n who actuallyjust
returned from Iraa last week and live m Irao "Newsweek"magazine's Bashdad bureau
chief Cent cmen, welcome both of you Colonel Cowan,gw us your r u e on this news
tha: Iraq may he ihe new terrorist iraimnc (round Am fundamental tt out mere who
wants lo he pan of their ftiture needs to be m Iraq to sum hen tig 1.0 his skills to find out
how to fight western, US.or coalition forces,

FOÃNn" Chçircl1/13/300 I:M:31 FM

\^ e have a question from a viewer by emad He sxys whrt more can be done to gel more
Iraqis w come forward to help the LoS solhen deliver a pinpoint anddecisive blow to
the insurgency^ Great question. Two things happening here Wc'rt training more
battalions eachmonth 1 saw many Iraqi soldiersout there. National Guard. They're doing
the security work for the convoys over there. I saw them in downtown Faliujah, we're
trying to put the best Iraqi face out there, and that's what we need to do. so the Iraqis are
very active, they're very active in the polling stations, in getting those set up throughout
the country for the election. So they're taking the initiativefinally. And they haven't been
able to do thai. They didn't know what taking the initiativewas under Saddam Hussein.
Now they're finding out as we work with them. they're taking the initiativefor projects
and helping their own people and this is just wonderful news Lida: from the troops you
were able to talk to, when you're out and about the -- Syria, Iran, a bigger problem and
what we hear Baathists in Syria still funding the insurgency, some of the fighters right
after they kill them - I mean, they were being killed, they were found with cash on them.
That's right. As they found the insurgentsin Fallujah, many of them had $200 10 $300 in
Americanmoney, cash, which means they had just got paid, so this is all being .-Linda:
didnt get paid by Joe's constructioncompany. That's exactly right. Didn't get work --
paid from work in Fallujah, from outside sources paying them. so the situation with Syria
is very bad. and we need to really take some action over there in some ways because
they're fueling the fires there. Linda: but bottom line, you were comfortable with the vole
going off January 3W Very comfortable.I think it may be better than we think but there
will be problemsup in lhat area only because of registration, Linda: wow, thank you for
coining here on zero sleep and welcome back home.

Fox News C h l ~ eIllMfKIS

l 1.33:28 PM
Thds half. so the numbers arc looking good d this was done by an indepen&nt poll
Linda this is even though the A1 &barprovince -(be real challengeupthere because
they haven't been able to go out and regism them becauseof the threats of the insurgents
that are out there to terrorize them. Linda: what do you do about it? Welt, to cominue
what we're doing We had great meetinp with the first cavalry division and the Marines
up in Fallujah. They're doing so many things, but ifs security. it's finding the bad guys.
we're finding [here's more foreignersnow than we thought that have come acrossthe
borders, so they're working it and doing a great job but what they're doing for the people
we can talk about. Just wonderful what we're doing for the people of Fallujah nght now.
Linda: yeah, I was surprised that you saw in Fallujah that it's so safe. I mean, that was
dwavs considered the worst. We know what haanened to American contractors when
they rolled in there and its now really that safe? in 60 days, it's lhc safest city they say in
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now. The rna"nes control 11.Xow the citizns m s m m e te come back into the
neighborhoods,they're being given identificatm cards, wnicn the, redly like W l c
w q I' gives them s o m slatus Linda real$' Yeah The', come through gel dtrtified.
they come to the ncxt tcnl tncy get a big box of food, wmer, and some o i k r staples and
Aen they move out and they're open from 8.00 to 5 every day so more and more are
coming hack in, and it's just -- 1 cant say enough about the marines up there doing a great
Job, the men ami women. It's just fantastic. [Applause] Linda: I'm going to tell you, it's
by pure accident we happen to have two marines in our audience and 1just want you to
know, he wasn't pitching that for you. That's what he really saw. Those are pictures of
General Vallely during the trip. We haveaquestion from a viewer by email. Hesays
what more can be done to get more Iraqis to come forward to help the u.s. soldiers deliver
a pinpoint and decisive blow to ihe insurgency?...
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me t h a t t h e i n s i g h t s they received -- especially from MS C h i a r e l l i and LTG Netz were--
very h e l p f u l . The Marines j u s t opened everything f o r UB In Pallujah. It's one thing t o see
t u f f on TV, but somethi-ng e l s e -:oexperience it.

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Other folks do not have acceea t o TV. m d i o BCCTIB to be t h e priaÈ ioedia here.

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the boat by not producing a five-minute for two-minute or
one-minuset d a i l y radio show. Radioa are on a l l day long and aoldiera and Narineà l i a t w .
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with a number of people - - thanks to the continued persistence of ~ e t eGeren who predicted
how helpful she could be. we ought to think about w a y to get this out and around --
ebira its one way, military analyst another, but 1.m sure other- h v e idea* too.

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1 E.O advice BOD leaders, but m y I make three informal

no longer my function
fluggeationa about your communicationm mtrategy in the current tsunami c r i ~ i e ?
1. 1 i a not obvioua EO general audiences or cha media how a CW or an LKA can contribute
to the remediation of  natural dieaater. For axample: virtually *wry capability that
Kofi Allan called for over the weekend l a typically represented by such battle groups. .
~ h o e epoints need to be communicated using jargon-free, iwn-progiammtatic lçngudg
(othwrw~seknown à dumb-dumb .pcçk, ~ n d chà [lag orticare Chosen t o c m u n i c x t e that
(ncs~kgefail in their miasion if they cannoc explain thome funcclona convincingly t o third
graders.
2. Same point need! to be made about mil-to-mil c o n t ~ t ei n which PACOM çxcçl All theme
otherwiaà incompreheimibl. combined txaniees, F T X ~and educational exchanges can now be
men am critical investmentm that today .re mnking diffexance . 5U.t when they are
needed moat. ha fact that moat of thosa thang. occur -11 below the media ¥nois levelm
should not blind us to their i-mporfnce
3. Defeneelink ià iwt a helpful Bource of information when you're irqorkinq a time-critical
story: too much information, buried wy too deep with fç coo much DOD-.peak. S n m
m e can b offered about PA0 appxxktu~ in TOD ¥ w l l am the ~ervicas. In a umeful
contrast today, I received some very helpful inEormation t h i ~morning t r a m an action
o r who waà far more concerned with helping me tell xn accurate story rather than
worrying about a fully coordinated "oftidal position:
HY TIMES 7829
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sent: Tuesday, January 04,2005 3'47 PM .
To: Dl RIU. Larry, CIV. OSD-OASD-PA. Ruff. Eric. SES, OASD-PA
SublKt: Fw Military Analyst Headsup

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i d rachar forward t h i a to you and then you t o d i r i t a as you see appropriate

1. 1 c i s not obvious t o g e n e r a l audicncea or the media how a CTW or an LHA can contribute
to t h e remediation of a n a t u r a l d i s a s t e r . r or example: v i r t u a l l y every c a p a b i l i t y chat
KoEl Anç c a l l e d for o v r tho weekend is t y p i c a l l y rtprÇBÈnt by such b a t t l e group*.
Those points need to be communicated using ~ r g o n - f r e e ," o n - p r o g r a m t a t i c language
locherwiac known ç dumb-dumb 'peak). ~ n dthe f l a g o f f i c e r * chosen to communicate chat
r a g e fa11 ~n chair miation i t they cannot explain chose f u n c ~ l o nconvincingly ~ to t h i r d
graders.
2 . Same m i n k needs to be made a b " t mil-to-mil contant. in which PAC.% exeel*. A l l those

should not blind us t o t h a i x importance.

3 . Dafenaelink i s HOC a h e l p f u l source of information when you're w o r k i n g a t i m e - c i l t i e a l

icoryr coo much information, buried way too deep with far coo much DOD-apeak. &me
iesaasnrnt can be offered about: PA0 ¥pparatu i n DOD aa well as t h e Bervicca, I n a useful
o n a t Coda". I received some verv heloful Information t h i s mornina from an act1c.n

I raBpacced chat and never r a t t e d out h i s n m on TV. Sirpect I'm st~eakingfor momt of the
m i l i t a r y a n a l y s t s i n suggesting t h a t we couldn't care l e s s about o f f i c i a l positione and
authoritative stocenmnts from on high' but we do try and gee i t r i g h t under a- fairly
s e e I Â constraints. Anything helping US do t h a t is incredibly valuable an* l i k e l y
helps BOD as well- but anything that's too l a t e or too s e l f - s e r v i n g is w o r s e than useless.
Bottom > m e : say a f e w thing, well,

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done some very good work on the w'p and from my vantage point you have demonstratedsome good initiativeand
follow through thank you for the effort enc

From: Lawrence, Dallas, OR%-PA

t;Tuesday, Janualy W, ZOOS 9:36 AM
To: R u t Eric. SES. OASD-PA
SubJert!REQUEST
Importance: High

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Sent Mon 13 2005 3 S3 PM
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Mito folks.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 04,2005 12 33 PM
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: Barber, A l l i s o n , C I V , OASD-PA
Sent: Tuesday, January 0 4 , 2005 12.21 PM
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ha l a t h e deputy PAO ami has bean one of many people working on t h i s t r i p . they d o n ' t have
a dedicated f l i g h t for us out of kuwaic co Iraq -- so t h e y are going t o do t h e i r best t-
help US. thça t h i n g s u s u a l l y work out but a c c u t l l y , if you could z i p a note t a gmn
aMzaid, that would r e a l l y c l e a r t h i n g s up.

the request:
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i c e d f u l l support to include a i r l i t c f r m kuvaii t o i r a q .

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sir,
We are continuing to work the issue of dedicated aircraft or
priority seating on available aircraft. ~lthoughthe comnçndmr support
t e media facilitation they have not necessarily signed up to prioritize
air assets foe this purpose over ocher resources in support of operations in
theater - 1t would be very helpful to hawe SECDEF endorsement to encourage
o r i c y or dedicated aircraft.
MY p in K t . LTC Pete Pearme is attempting to
l o r d m a t o for dedicated Sharps support. ,
Dan,
It would help if LTG Metzl~lTC-I requested through official message
traffic for C F U C to provide dedicated Sherpk support for thi-a niiaaion,

Deputy PAO
Third Amy/ARCEMT/CFLCC

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Hearing chat there might be an içau getting a dedicated flight into Iraq
o m K t I know c h i a is not in your l a m , but wanted to get your
g i n . ~y understanding MB. this would be taken care of from Kuwait's
end once our TCR was approved (which it h u l .
also, FYI. A5DPA M e addad Captain Roxie Merxitt, director of p r e c opt. to
our t i p , h e fill be on hand to manage the 2 bureau chiefs along for the
trip and Fred Barnee if he doe- indeed confirm hie attendance today.

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 Dallafi.
Happy New Year1
We'll see what we can do - I'm not going to promise. One of the challenges
is that MHF-I have d e c l ~ à §Ã moratorium on visit. into cheater, because of
the resources (like aircraft) being dedicated to the election security
m i d h increased troop flow into cheater, eec. we have received a
a i r for your group to visit. The challenge. will be air tranapoitatlon
for 8 t h a large group ti,* would take two helicopters - that's why when 1
m i w e d up to do this im MHC-I, it was under the aaaumptic t h a t we would
try to organize mvente in the &-eater camp v i c t o r y / ~ mcomplex
~ ~ r e of
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Operations). Travel to place. like ralluja will be difficult to do.
At thia point we have planned on scheduling LTG Hetz to talk to the group
and KG Chiarelli andlor BG Hammond from bha lat Cav, Also, last night I
talked to COL Rolbert fzom I MEF and she xs going Co talk to her leadership
about sending somebody t o talk to the group.

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1 a t 0 bring rvrryone Into the loop now that we f i n a l l y have <"try
a r a n c approval
~ for o u r CSD?A Military Analyst t r i p into I r a q , POr
obvious securizy reasoaa m i d my l a c k 01 stpr1 I " I l l ."Old "'Lng spec~flc
& however I t h i n k you are a l l keyed into the date, we .re rr.ve1inq
into the theater.
l i g h t new, an a d d i c i m to the 9 or uo military analyst* on the t r i p , we wxll
be bringing t w o bureau c h i e f s .

Dfceired outcomee;
1) provide our t e l e v i s i o n m i l i t a r y analysts with l a c peram knowledge of the
a s 1 a , both m i l i t a r i l y and i n rebuilding the i n f r a s t r u c t u r e and
d-ratic mstitntione.

2 ) Provide 1 s t person knowledge cm t h e progrea. being made towards elections

1 3 0 January and the Iraqi's d e s i r e for a f r e e and democratic C m W y

Our three day t r i p w i l l be comprised aà follows:

Day 1: our grcup w i l l a r r i v e i n t o Kuwait am be picked up and taken to the
i t b opportunity to eat with troops, and attend any l a t e a f t e m o m
h e f i n g s the f o l k s i n Kuwait want to put together [this i s at the -eat
o the f o l k s in Kuwaiti.
Day 2 , e a r l y am departure f o r I r a q

Day 3, evening departure for Kuwait

"Dream* Schedule, theme are t h e t h i n g s we would l i k e to f i t i n t o die 3 B

hours or so we "ill be i n the country:
1 i f i n g s by MNFI on m i l i t a r y etatug in Iraq. Note, t h i s i s not a
1-1
interview, but a woup unclassified on the record b r i e f i n g . 1-2 hours
2) t r i p to f a l l u j n h (again, dreç scenario) t o allow the group t o meet with
the Marine commanders t o help o u r f o l k s understand the huge ¥accesse
achieved i n ~ a l l u j a hand their p o s i t i v e ripple effects throughout ~ r a q .
1 meçaç has no: resonated i n the States. SecDef has remforced i t time
and c i n e again during b r i e f i n g s as bas CJCOS.
3 ) Briefing on atatus of e l e c t i o n s from election t e a m o f f i c i a l s on the
ground
1 i c c i n g with senior ~ r a q ileader.
or President GhaZi
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5 i t to a US reconstruction p r o j e c t to çhc aigna of progress.
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Director, Office of C-nity Relati- t, Public Liaison United States

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Commander Peter Bmkcs (USN. Reserve)

Senior Fellow for National Security
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Dr.Jane,Jay Camfano (LTC,USA, Retired)

Senior Fellow
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The Heritage Foundation

Major D m R Dillon (USA, Retired)

Heritage Foundation

General William L. Nush (USA, Retired)

Senior Fellow and Director. Center for Preventive Action
Council on Foreign R-clatioms

Lieut-t General Bernard Trainor (USMC, Retired)

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Winter 2005

It didnt take brig for interrogators in the war on terror to realize that their part
was not going according to script. Pentagondoctrine, honed over decades of
cold-war planning, held that 95 percent of prisoners would break upon
straightforward questioning. Interrogators in Afghanistan, and later in Cuba and
Iraq, found Justthe opposite: virtually none of the terror detainees was giving up
information-not in responseto direct questioning, and not in response to army-
approved psychological gambits for prisoners of war.

Debate erupted in detentioncenters across the globe about how to get detainees
to talk. Were "stress techniques"ç3uc as Isolation or sleep deprivationto
decrease a detainee's resistance to questioning-acceptable?Before the
'
discussion concluded, however, the photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq's Abu
Ghralb prison appeared. Though they showed the sadism of a prison out of
control, they showed nothing about Interrogation.

Nevertheless, Bush-administration critics seized on the scandal as proof that

prisoner %flure" had become mutine. A master narratlve-callit the "torture
narrative"-sprang up: the government's2002 decision to deny Geneva-
convention status to al-Oaida fighters, it held. "led directly to the abuse of
detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq," to quote the WashingtonPost. In particular,
torturous interrogationmethods, developed at Guantdnamo Bay and Afghanistan
in illegal disregard of Geneva protections, migrated to Abu Ghralb and were
manifest in the abuse photos.

This story's success depends on the reader's remaining ignorant of the actual
interrogationtechniques promulgated in the war on terror. Not only were they
light years from real torture and hedged around with bureaucratic safeguards, but

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 they had nothing to do with the Abu Ghralbanarchy.Moreover, the decision on
the Geneva conventions was irrelevant to interrogation practicesin Iraq.

No matter. The Pentagon's reactionto the scandal was swift and swaeplng. It
stripped interrogators not just of stress options but of traditional techniques long
regarded as uncontroversialas well. Red tape now entangles the interrogation
process, and detainees know that their adversaries' hands are tied.

The need for rethinkinginterrogation doctrine in the war on terror will not go
away, however. The islamist enemy is unlike any the military has encountered in
the past. If current wisdom on the rules of war prohibits making any distinction
between a terrorist and a lawful combatant then that orthodoxy needs to change.

The interrogation debate first broke out on the frigid plains of Afghanistan.
Marines and other specialforces would dump planeloads of al-Qaida and Taliban
prisoners into a ramshackle detention facility outside the Kandahar airport;
waiting interrogators were then supposed to extract informationto be fed
Immediatelyback into the bafflefield-whethera particular mountain pass was
booby-trapped,say. or where an arms cache lay. That "tactical" debriefing
accomplished, the Kandahar interrogation crew would determine which prisoners
were significant enough to be shipped on to the Guanthnamo naval base in Cuba
for high-level interrogation.

Army doctrine gives interrogators 16 "approaches" to induce prisoners of war to

divulge critical Information. Sporting names like -PMe and Ego Down" and "Fear
Up Harsh," these approaches aim to exploit a detainee's self-love, allegiance to
or resentmentof comrades, or sense of futility. Applied in the right combination.
they will work on nearly everyone, the intelligence soldiers had learned in their
training.

But the Kandahar prisoners were not playing by the army rule book. They
divulged nothing. "Prisoners overcamethe [traditional]model almost effortlessly,'

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 writes Chris Mackey in Thelnterrogetors,his gripping account of his interrogation
service in Afghanistan The prisoners confounded their captors "not with clever
cover stories but with simple refusal to cooperate. They offered lame stories,
pretended not to remember even the most basic of details, and then waded for
consequences that never really came "

Some of the el-Qada fighters had received resistance (raining, which taught that
Americans were strictly limited in how they could question prisoners. Failureto
cooperate, the al-Qalda manuals revealed, carried no penaltiesend certainly no
nsk of torturea sign, gloated the manuals, of American weakness.

Even if a prisoner had not previously studied American detentionpoliciesbefore

arriving at Kandahar, he soon figured them out. "It became very clear very early
on to the detainees that the Americans were just going to have them sit there.'
recalls Interrogator Joe Martin (a pseudonym). "They realized: The Americans
will give us our Holy Book. they'll draw lines on the floor showing us where to
pray. we'll get three meals a day with fresh fruit, do Jazzerclse with the guards, ..
. we can wait them out! "

Even mom challenging was that these detainees bore little resemblance to
traditional prisoners of war. The army's interrogation manual presumed
advemaries who were essentiilly the mirror imago of their captors, motivated by
emotions that all soldiers share. A senior Intelligence official who debriefed
prisoners in the 1989 US.operation In Panama contrasts the battlefield then and
now.There were no martyrs down them, believe me," he chuckles. T h e
Panamanian forces were more understandablepeoplefor us. Interrogationwas
pretty straightfoiward: 'Love of Family'[an army-manual approach, promising,
say, contact wilh wife or children in exchange for cooperation]or, 'Here's how
you get out of here as fast as you can.'"

"Love of family" often had IIUIe purchase among the terrorists. however-as did
love of life. T h e Jlhadistswould tell you, I've divorced this life, Idon't cam about

I HY TIMES 7843
 my family: " recalls an interrogatorat Guantanamo. "You couldn't shame them."
The fierce hatred that the captives boretheircaptors heightened their resistance.
The U.S. ambassadorto Pakistan reported in January 2002 that prisoners in
Kandahar would "shout epithets at their captors. Including threats against the
female relatives of the soldiers guarding them, knee marines in the groin, and
say that they will escape and kill 'more Americans and Jews.' " Such animosity
continued in Guantenamo.

Battlefield commanders in AfghanistanandIntelligence offidafs In Washington

kept pressing for Information, however The frustrated Interrogatorsconstantly
discussed how to get it The best hope, they agreed, was to re-createthe "shock
of captureM-thatvulnerable mental statewhen a prisoneris most frightened, most
uncertain, and most likely to respond to questioning Uncertainty is an
interrogator's most powerfulally, exploited wisely, it can lead the detainee to
believe that the interrogatorIs In total control and holds the key to his future. The
Kandahar detainees, however, learned almost immediately what their future held.
no matter how egregious their behavior nothing untoward.

Many of the Interrogatorsargued for a calibrated use of "stress techniquesm-long

interrogations that would cut into the detainees' sleep schedules, for example, or
making a prisoner kneel or stand, or aggressivequestioning that would put a
detaineeon edge.

Joe Martin-a crack interrogatorwho discoveredthat a top al-Oaida leader, whom

Paklstanclalmad to have In custody, was still at large and directing the Afghani
resistanceaplalns the psychological effect of stress: "Let's say a detainee
comes into the interrogation booth and he's had resistance training. He knows
that I'm completely handcuffed and that Ican't do anything to him. If Ithrow a
temper tantrum, lift him onto his knees,and walkout, you can feel his uncertainty
level rise dramatically. He's been told: They wont physicallytouch you;and now
you have. The point is not to beat him up but to Introduce the reality into his mind

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that he doesn't know where your limit s
i : Grabbing someone by the top of the
collar has had a more profound effect on the outcome of questioning than any
actual torture could have, Martin maintains. The guy knows: You just broke your
own rules, and that's scary. He might demand to talk to my supervisor. Ill
respond: There are no supervisors here.' and give him a maniacal smile."

The Question was: Was such treatment consistent with the Geneva conventions?

President Bush had decked in February2002 that at-Qaida members fell wholly
outside the conventions and that Tallban prisoners would not receive prisoner-of-
war status-without which they, too, would not be covered by the Geneva rules.
Bush ordered, however, that detainees be treated humanely and in accordance
with Geneva principles, to the extent consistent wft military necessity. This
second pronouncementsank In: all of Ihe waron terror's detentionfacilities
chose to operate under Geneva rules. Contrary to the fulminattons of rights
advocates and the press, wrttes Chns Mackey. "Every signal we Interrogators got
from above from the colonels at Combined Forces Land Component
Command] in Kuwait to the officers at Centra) Command back In Tampa-had
b&n .. . toobserve the Conventions, respect prisoners' rights, and never cut
comers."

What emerged was a hybrid and fluid set of detention practices. As Interrogators
tried to overcome the prisoners' resistance, their reference point remained
Geneva and other humanitariantreaties. But the interrogatorspushed into the
outer limits of what they thought the law allowed, undoubtedly recognizingthat
the prisoners in their control violated everything the pacts stoodfor.

The Geneva conventions embody the idea that even in as brutal an activity as
war, civilized nations oouk) obey humanitarian rules: no attacking civiliansand no
retaliationagainst e m y soldiers once they fall into your hands. Destruction
would be limited as much as possible to professional soldiers on the battlefield.
 That rule required, unconditionally, that soldiersdistinguishthemselves from
civiliansby wearing uniforms and carrying arms openiy.

Obedienceto Geneva rules rests on another bedrock moral principle: reciprocity.

Nationswill treat en enemy's soldiers humanelybecause they want and expect
their adversaries to do the same. Terrwists flout every ci+Iiied nonn animating
the conventions. Their whole purpo3e is to kill noncombatants. to blend into .
civilian populations. and to concealtheir weapons. They pay no heed whatever to
me golden rule; anyone who falls into their hands will most certainly not enjoy
commissary privileges and wages. per the Geneva mandates. He-or she-may
even lose his head.

Even so, terror mterrogators tried to follow the spirit of the Geneva code for
conventional, uniformedprisonersof war. That meant, as the code puts it, that
the detainees could not be torturedor subjected to "any form of coercion" In
order to secure Informatton.They were to be "humanely" treated, protected
against "unpleasant or disadvantageoustreatment of any kind." and were entitled
to "respectfor thew persons and their honour."

The Kandahar interrogatorsreached the followi.ng rule of thumb, reports Mackey:

if a type of behavior toward a prisoner was no worse than the way the army
treated its own members, ilcould not be consfderad torture or a violationof tho
conventions. Thus. questioninga detainee past his bedtime was lawful as long
as his interrogator stayed up wiih him. If the interrogator was missing exactly the
same amount of stew as the detainee-and no tag-teaming of interrogatorswould
be allowed, the soldiers decided-then sleepdeprivationcould not be deemed
torture. In fact, interrogators were routinely sleepdepnved. catnapping maybe
one or two hours a night, even as the detaineeswere getting long beauty sleeps.
Likewise, If a boot-camp drill sergeantcan make a recruit kneel with his arms
siretched out In front without violating the Convention Against Torture, an
interrogatwcan use that tod against a recalcitrant terror suspect.

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 Did the stress techniques work? Yes The harsher methods we used . . .the
better information we got and the sooner we got It," writes Mackey, who
emphasizes that the methods never conhavened the conventions or crossed
over into torture.

Stress broke a young bomb maker. for instance. Six months Into the war, special
forces brought a young Afghan to the Kandahar facility, the likely accomplice of a
Taliban explosives expert who had been blowing up aid workers. Joe Martin got
the assignment.

"Who's your friend the Americans are lookingfor?" the interrogationbegan,

"I don't know."

"You think this is a joke? What do you ihink ill do?"

Torture me."

So now Iunderstand his fear, Martin recollects.

The interrogation continued: "You'll stand here until you tell me your friend?

"No, sir, he's not my friend."

Martin picked up a book and started reading. Several hours later. the young
Taliban was losing his balance and was clearly terrified. Moreover, he's got two
%big hillbilly guards staring at him who want to kill him," the interrogator recalls.

"You think THIS is bad7l" the questioning starts up again.

"No. sir."

The p r i m e r starts to fall: the guards stand him back up. I f he fails again, and
can't get back up, Martin can do nothing further. "I have no rack," he says matter-

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 of-factly. The interrogator's power is an illusion; ff a detainee refusestoobey a
stress order, an American interrogatorhas no recourse.

Martin risks a final display of his imaginary authority. "Iget in h

is face. What do
you think 1 will do next?'" he barks. In the captive's mind, days have passed, and
he has no Idea what awaits him. He discloseswhere he planted bombs on a mad
and where to find his associate. The price?' Martin asks. 1made a man stand
up. Is this unlawful coercion?"

Under a strict reading of the Geneva protectionsfor prisonersof war, probably:

the army forbids interrogatorsfrom even touching lawful combatants. But there is
a huge gray area betweenthe gold standardof POW treatment reservedfor
honorable opponents and torture, which consists of the intentional inflictionof
severe physicaland mental pain. None of the stress techniques that the military
has used in the war on terror comes remotely close to torture, despite the
hystericalcharges of administration critics.fThe CIA%behavior remains a black
box.) To declare non-lorturous stress off-limits for an enemy who plays by no
rules and accords no respect to Western prisoners is folly.

The soldiers used stress techniques to reinforce the traditional psychological

approaches. Jeff(a pseudonym), an interrogator in Afghanistan, had been
assignad a cocky English Muslim, n+iokraUfed the 911 1 attacks because women
had been working in the World Trade Center. The British citizen deflected all
farther questioning. Jeff questioned him for a day and a half, without letting him
sleep and playing on his religious loyalties. "I broke him on his belief in Islam,"
Jeffrecounts. "He realizedhe had messed up, because his Muslim brothersand
sisters were also in the building." The Brit broke down and cned, then disclosed
i on before capture. But once the prisoner
the mission that al-Qaida had put hm
was allowed to sleep for six hours, he again "dammed up."

Halfway across the globe, an Identicaldebate had broken out, among

interrogators who were encountering the same obstacles as the Afghanistan

BY TIMES 7848
intefligence team. Tha U.S. base at Guantdnamo was supposed to be getting the
Afghanistan war's worst of the worst: Ihe al-Qaida Arabs and their high Taliban
allies.

Usama bin Ladin's driver and bodyguardwere there, along with explosives
experts, at-Qaida financiers and recruiter;, would-be suicide recruits, and the
architecb of numerous attacks on civilian targets. They knew about al-Qalda's
leadership structure, its communicationmethods, and Its plans lo attack the U S .
And they warent talking. They'd laugh at you; 'You've asked me this before,'
they'd say contemptuously," reports Major General Michael Dunlamy, a former
Guantanamocommanding officer. "Their resistance was tenacious. They'd
already had 90 days in Afghanistan to get their cover storiestogether and to plan
wllh their compatriots."

Even more than Afghanistan, Guanthnamodissipated any uncertainty the

detainees might have had about the consequencesof noncooperation.
Consistentwith the president's call for humane treatment, prisoners received
expert medicalcare, three culturally appropriatemeals each day, and daily
opportunities for prayer, showers, and exercise. They had mail privileges and
reading materials. Their biggest annoyance was boredom, recalls one
Interrogator.Many prisoners disliked the move from Camp X-Ray, the first facility
used at the base, to the more commodious Camp Delta, because it curtailed their
opportunities for homosexual sex, says an intollince analyst The captives
protested every perceivedInfringement of their rights but, as in Afghanistan,
ignored any reciprocalobligation. They buriedexcrement and urine at guards,
used then blankets aa garrotes, and created additional weapons out of anything
they could get their hands on-including a sink wenched off a wad. Guards who
responded to the attacks-with pepper spray or a water hose, say-got punished
and, in one case, court-martialed.
 Gilmo personnel disagreed sharply over what loots interrogatorscould legally
use. The FBI took the most conservative position. When a bureau agent
quetimning MohamedouOufd Slahi-a Mauritanianal-Qaida operative who had
recruitedtwo of the 911 1 pilots-was getting nothing of value, an army interrogator
suggested, "Wry don't you mention to him that conspiracy is a capital offense?"
That would be a violation of the ConventionAgainst Torture: shot back the
agent-on the theory that any cover! threat inflicts"severe mental pain," Never
mindthat district attorneys and poke detectives routinely invoke the possibility of
hareh criminal penalties to gat criminalsto confess. Federal prosecutors in New
York have even been known to remindsuspectsthat they are more llkely to keep
their teeth and not end up as sex slaves by pleading to a federal offense, thus
avoiding New York City's Rikers Islandjail. Using such a method against mal-
Qalda jihadist, by contrast would be brandeda serious humanitarian breach.

Top milltary commanders often matched the FBI's restraint, however. "Iwas
ridiculous the thhgs we coufdnt do,"recalls an army interrogator. "One guy said
he would talk ifhe could see the ocean. It wasnt approved, because it would be
a change of scenery"-a privilegethat discriminated m favor of a cooperating
detainee, as opposed to being available to all, regardlessof their behavior.

Frustration with prisonerStonewaltimQreached a heed with Mohamed al-Kahlani.

a Saudi who had been fighting with Us- bin Ladin's bodyguards m
Afgharfslan in December 2001. By July 2002, analysis had figured out that
Kahtani vms the missing 20th hijacker. He had (town into Orlando International
Airport from Dubaion August 4,2001, but a sharp-eyed customs agent had
denied him entry. Waiting for him at the other side of the gate was Mohamed
Am.

Kahtani's resistancestrategieswere flawless. Around the first anniversary of

911 1, urgency toget informalionon a l - Q a i grew. Finally, army offidals at
Guanldnamo prepared a legal analysis of their interrogationm n s and

MY TIMES 7850
 requested permission from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to use various
stress techniques on Kahtani. Their memo, sent up the bureaucratic chain on
October 11,2002, triggereda fierce six-month struggle in Washington among
military lawyers, administration officials, and Pentagon chiefs about interrogation
In the war on terror.

To mad the techniques requested is to understandhow restrainedthe military

has been in its approach to terror detainees-andhow utterly false the torture
narrative has been. Here's what me Interrogatorsassumed they could not do
without clearance from the secretary of defense: yell at detainees (though never
in their ears), use deception(such as posingas Saudi intelligenceagents), and
put detainees on MREs (meals ready to eat-vacuum-sealedfood pouches eaten
by millions of soldiers, as well as vacationing backpackers) Instead of hot rations.
The intemgators promisedthat thisdangerws dietary measure would be used
only in extremk,pending local approval and specialtraining.

The most controversial technique approved was "mild, non-injurious physical

contact such asgrabbing. poking in thechest with the finger, and light pushing,"
to be resewed only for a "very small percentageof the most uncooperative
detainees" believed to possess criticalintelligence. A detainee could be poked
only after review by Giimo's commanding general of intelligence and the
commander of me US. Southern Commandin Miami, and only pursuantto
"carefulcoordination" and monitoring.

None of this remotely approaches torture or cruel or degrading treatment.

Nevertheless, fanatically cautious Pentagon lawyers revolted,claimingthat the
methods approvedfor Kahtani violated international law. Uncharacteristically
irresolute, Rumsfeld rescinded the Guanthnamo technlqu'ds in January 2003.

Kahtani's interrogationhung fire for three months, while a Washington

committee. with represen@tiesfrom the undersecretary of defense, the Defense

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Intelligence Agency, the air force, army, navy, and marine corps, and attorneys
from every branch of the military, considered how to approach the 20th hijacker

The outcome of this massive deliberation was more restrictivethan the Geneva
conventions themselves, even though they were to apply only to unlawful
combatants, not conventionalprisoners of war, and only to those hefd at
Guant^namo Bay. it is worth scrutinizing the final 24 techniques Rumsfeld
approved for terrorists at Gitmo in April 2003. since these are the techniques that
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the media presents as the source of 'torture" at Abu Ghraib. The torture narrative
holds that illegal methods used at Guantanemo migrated to Iraq and resultedin
the abuseof prisonersthem.

So what were these cruel end degrading practices? For one, providing a
detainee an Incentive for cooperation-suchas a cigaretteor, especially favored in
Cuba, a McDonald's Filet-0-Fish sandwich or a Twinkle unless specifically
approved by the secretary of defense. In other words, if an interrogator had
learned lhat Usama bin Ladin's accountant loved Cadbury chocolate, and
intended to enter the Interrogation booth armed with a Dahy Milk Wafer to extract
the name of a Saudi financier, he neededto "specifically determine that military
necessity requires" the use of the Dairy Milk Wafer and send an alert to
Secretary Rumsfeld that chocolate was to be deployed against an al-Osida
oparativa

Similar restrictions-a specificfinding of mllitatynecessity and notice to Rumsfeld-

applied toofher tried-and-true army psychologicaltechniques. These Included
'Pride and Ego Down"-attacking a detainee's pride to goad him Into revealing
critical information-as well as "Mutt and Jeff," the classic good wp-bad cop
routine of countlesspolice shows. Isolating a detainee from other prisoners to
prevent cotiabomtion and to increase his need to talk required not Just notice and
a finding of military necessitybut "detailed imptementat!on instructions [and]
medical and psychological review."
The only non-conventional "stress"techniques on the final Guantanamo list am
such innocuous interventionsas adjustingthe temperature or introducing an
unpleasant smell into the interrogationroom, but only if the interrogatoris present
at all times: reversinga detainee's sleep c y k from night to day (call this the
"Flying to Hong Kong" approach); and convincinga detainee that nis interrogator
is not from the US.

Notethat none of the treatments shown in the Abu Ghraib photos, such as nudity
or the use of dogs. was includedin (he techniquescertified for the unlawful
combatants held in Cuba. And those mild techniques that were certfied could
only be used with extensive bureaucraticoversight and mediif monitoring to
ensure 'humane," "safe," and "lawful" application.

After Rumsfeld cleared the 24 methods. interrogators approached Kahtani once

again. They relied almost exclusively on isolation and lengthy interrogations.
They also used some "psy-ops" (psychologicaloperations). Ten or so.
interrogators would gather and sing the RollingStones' Time Is on My Side"
outside Kahtani's cell. Sometimes they would play a recordingof "Enter
Sandman' by the heavy-metal group Metaliica, which brought Kahlani to tears.
because he thought (not implausibly)he was hearing the sound of Satan.

Finally, at 4 am-after an 18-hour,occasionally loud. interrogation. during which

Kahtani head-butted his Interrogators-hestarted giving up information, convinced
(hat he was being sold out by his buddies. The entire processhad been
conducted under the watchful eyes of a medte. a psychiatrisl.and lawyers, to
make sure that no harmwas done. Kahtani provideddetailed informationon his
meetingswith Usama bin Ladin. on Jose Padifla and RichardReid, and on
Adnan El Shukflumah, one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, believed to be
wandering between South and North America.
 Since then, accordingto Pentagon officials, none of the non-tradiionai
techniques approvedfor Kahtani has been used on anyone else at Guanthnamo
Bay.

The final strand in the "torture narrallve'ls the least grounded in actual practice,
but it has had the most distorting effect on the public debate. In the summer of
2002. the CIA sought legal adviceabout permissible interrogationtechniques for
the recently apprehended Abu Zubaydah, Usama bin Ladin's chief recruiter in the
1990s. The PalestinianZubaydah had already been sentenced to death In
absentia in Jordan for an abortive plot to bomb hotels there during the millennium
celebration: he had arranged to Obliterate the Los Angeles airport on the same
night. The CIA wanted to use techniquesonZubaydah that the military uses on
marines and other elite fighters in Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape (SERE)
school, which teaches how to withstand torture and other pressures to
collaborate. The techniques are classified, but none allegedly involves physical
contact. (Later, the CIA is said to have used Water-boardlngm-temporarily
submerging a detainee in water to induce the cansation of drowiing-onKhalid
Sheik Mohammad, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Water-boarding is the
most extreme method the CIA has applied, according to a former Justice
Departmentattorney, and arguably H crosses the line into torture.)

In raaponae to the CIA'S request. Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee

produceda hair-raisingmemo that understandablycaused widespread alarm.
Bybee argued that a U.S. law ralrfying the 1984 Convention Against Torture-
covering ail parsons, whether lawful combatantsor not-forbade only physical
pain equivalent to that "accompanyingserious physicalinjury, such as organ
failure, Impairmentof bodily function, or even death," or mental paln that resulted
in "significant psychological harm of significant duration, a.g., tasting for months
or even years." More troubling still, Bybee concluded that the torture statute and
international humanitarian treaties did not bind the executive branch in wartime.

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 This infamous August "torture memo'represents the high (or low) point of the
Bush administration's theory of untrammetedpresidential war-making power. But
note: ft had nothing to do with the interrogation debates and experiments
unfolding among Pentagon interrogators In Afghanistan and Cuba. These
soldiers struggling with al-Qaida resistancewere perfectlyignorant about
executive-branch deliberationson the outer boundaries of pain and executive
power (which, in any case, were preparedforand seen only by the CIA). W e
had no idea what went on in Washington: said Chris Mackey in an interview. A
Guantanamolawyer involved in the Kahtani interrogafion echoes Mackey: "We
were not aware of the [Justice Departmentand White House] debates."
Interrogatorsin Iraq were equally unaware of the Bybee memo.

Nevertheless, when the Bybee analysis was releasedin June 2004, tt became
the capstone on the torture narrative, the most damning link between the
president's decision that the Geneva conventionsdidnt apply to terroristsand the
sadistic behaviorof themilitaryguardsatAbu Ghralb. Seymour Hersh, the iefl-
wing journalist who broke the Abu Ghrab story, claims that the Bybee torture
memo was the 'most suggestive document, in terms of what was really going on
Inside military prisons and detention centers."

But not only te the Bybee memo irrelevant to what happened in Abu Ghraib; so,
too. am the previous Interrogationdebates in Afghanistan and Cuba. The abuse
at Abu Ghraib resultedfrom the Pentagon'sfailure to plan for any outcome of the
Iraq invasionexcept the most rosy scenario, its failure to respond to the
insurgencyonce it broke out, and its failure to keep mifltary discipline from
collapsing in the understaffedAbu Ghraib facility. Interrogationrules were beside
the point

As the avalanche of prisonerstaken In the street fighting overwhelmed the

inadequate contingent of guards and officers at Abu Ghraib, order wthin the
ranks broke down as thoroughly asorder In the operation of the prison Itself.

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Soldiers talked back to their superiors, refused tomar uniforms, operated
prostitution and bootleggingrings, engaged in rampant and public sexual
misbehavior, covered the facilitieswith gram. and indulged in drinking binges
while on duty. No one knewwho was in command. "Pie guards'sadistic and
sexualized treatment of prisoners was just en extension of the chaos they were
already wallowing in with no restraint from above. Meanwhile. prisonersregularly
rioted; insurgents shelled the compound almost daffy; the army sent only rotten,
bug-infested rations; and the Iraqi guaids sold favors to the highest bidders
among the insurgents.

The Idea that the abuse of the Iraqi detainkresuited from the president's
decision on the applicability of the Geneva conventions to al-Qaida and Taliban
detainees is absurd on several grounds. Everyone in the military chain of
command emphasized repeatedly that the Iraq conflict would be governed by the
conventions in their entirely. The interrogation rules that local officersdeveloped
for Iraq explicitlystated that they were promulgatedunder Geneva authority, and
that the conventions applied. Moreover, almost all the behamrshown in the
photographs occurred in the dead of ftigh* among military police, wholly separate
from interrogations. Most abuse victims were not even scheduled to be
interrogated, because they wereof no intelligence value. Finally, except for the
presence of dogs, none of the behaviorshown in the photos was Included in the
interrogation rules promulgated in Iraq. Mandatedmasturbation, dog leashes,
assault, and stacking naked prisonersin pyramids-now of these depredations
was an approved (or even contemplated)interrogation practice, and no
interrogator ordered the military guards to engage in them.

His the case that intelligenceofficers in Iraqand Afghanistan were making u s e d

nudity and phobias about dogs at the time. Nudity was not officially sanctioned,
and the official rule about dogs only allowed their "presence" In the interrogation
booth, not their being sicced on naked detainees. The argument that such
techniques contributedto a dehumanizafon of the detainees, which in turn led to
 their abuse, is not wholly implausible. Whether or not those two particular
stressore are worth defending (and many Interrogators say they are not), their
abuse should not discredit the validity of other stress techniques that the military
was cautiously experimenting with in the months before Abu Ghraib.

That experiment is over. Reeling under the PR disaster of Abu Ghmib. the
Pentagonshut down every stress technique but one-lsolation-and that can be
used only after extensive review. An interrogatorwho so much as requests
permission to question a detainee into the night could be putting his career in
jeopardy. Even the traditionalarmy psychologicalapproaches have fallen under
a deep cloud of suspicion: deflating a detainee's ego, aggressive but non-
physical histrionics, and good w p b a d cop have been banishedalong with sleep
deprivation.

Timidity among offbrs prevents the energetic application of those techniques

that remain. Interrogation plans have to be hipie-checked all the way up through
the Pentagon by officers who have n e v r conducted an interrogationin their
iivas

In losing these techniques, interrogators have lost the ability to create the
uncertainty vital to getting terrorist Informalion. Since the Abu Ghralb scandal
broke, the military has made public nearly evwy record of Us internal
interrogation debates, providingal-Qalda analysts with an encyclopedia of U.S.
methods and constraints. Those constraints make perfectly clear that the
interrogator is not in control. "In reassuring the world about our limits, we have
destroyed our biggest asset: detainee doubt," a senior Pentagon intelligence
official laments.

Soldiers on the ground are noticing the consequences "The Iraqis already know
the game. They know how to play us." a marine chief warrant officer told the Watt
Slreeli/Ouma/mAugust. "Unless you catch the Iraqis in the act, it is very hard to

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pin anything on anyone . . . We cant even use basic police interrogation
ladies."

And now the rights advocates, energized by the Abu Ghraib debacle, are making
cine final push to halt interrogationaltogether. in the New York Time& words.
the International Committee of the Red Cmss (ICRC) is now condemning the
thoroughly emasculated interrogationprocessat Guantanamo Bay as a "system
devised to break the will of the prisoners [an@make them wholly dependent on
their Interrogators." In other words, the ICRC opposes traditional interrogation
itself, since a//InterrogationIs designedto "break the will of prisoners" and make
them feel "dependent on their interrwalora." But according to an ICRC report
leaked to the Times, "the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is
the production of intelligence,cannot be considered other than an intentional
system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture:

But contrary to the fantasies of the international-lawand human rights lobbies, a

world in which ell interrogationis illegal and rights am Indiscriminately doled out
Is not a safer or more just world. Were the United States to announce that
terrorists would be protectedunder the Geneva conventions, it would destroy any
incentive our ruthless enemies have to comply with the laws of war. The
Washington P o s t a l the New York Timsundersloodthat truth in 1987, when
they supported President Ronald Reagan's rejection of an amendmentto the
Geneva conventions that would have granted lawful-combatant status to
terrorists.Today, however, those same opinion makers have done an about-face,
though the most striking feature of their denunciations of the Bush
administration's Geneva decisions is their failure to offer any explanation for how
al-QakJa could possibly be covered under the plain meaning of the text.

The Pentagon is revising the rules for inlamgallon. If we how to succeed in the
war on terror, the final product musfaHcw Interrogators to use stress techniques
against unlawful combatants. Chris Mackey testifies to how "ineffective
 schoolhouse methods were in getting prisoners to talk." He warns that his team
"failed to break prisoners who 1 have no doubt knew of terrorist plots or at least
terrorist cells that may oneday do us harm. Perhapsthey would have talked If
faced wtth harsher memuds."

The stress techniques that the militaryhas used to date are not torture; the
advocates can only be posturing in calling them such. On its website. Human
Rights Watch lists the effects of real torture: "from pain end swelling to broken
bones, irreparable neurological damage, and chronic painful musculoskeletal
problems. .. [to] long-term depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, marked
sleep disturbances and alterations In self-perceptions, not to mention feelings of
powerlessness.of fear, guilt and shame." Though none of the thniques that
Pentagon Interrogators have employedagainst aLQaida comes anywhere close
to risking such effects. Human Rights Watch neverthelessfollows up its list with
an accusation of torture against the Bush administration.

The pressure on the Pentagon to outlaw stress techniques won't abate, as the
American Civil Liberties Union continues to release formerly classified
government documents obtainedin a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
concerning detention and Interrogation. As of late December, the memos have
merely confirmed that the FBI opposes stress methods, though the press
breathlessly portrays them as confirming "torture "

Human Rights Watch, the ICRC. Amnesty International, end the other self-
professed guardians of humanitarianismneed to come back to earth-to the real
world in which torture means what the Nazk and the Japanese did in their
ConcBntratlonand POW camps in World War II; the world in which evil regimes,
like those we fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, don't follow the Miranda rules or the
ConmntfonAgainst Torture but Insteadgas children, bury people alive, setwiid
animals on soccer playerswho lose, and hang adulterous women by truckloads
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behead female aid workers, bomb crowded railway stations, and fly planes filled
with hundreds of innocent passengers into buildingsfinedwrth thousands of
innocent and unsuspecting civilians By definition, our terrorist enemies and their
state supporters have declaredthemselves enemies ofthe civilized order and Its
humanitarian rules In fighting them, we must of course hold ourselves to our own
high moral standards without, however, succumbing to the utopian illusion that
we can prevailwhile immaculatelyobserving every precept of the Sermon on the
Mount It ts the necessity of this fallen world that we must oppose evil with force:
and we must use all the lawful means necessaryto ensure that good, ratherthan
evil. triumphs
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Subject: Summary of Mr. O'Connell'a interview on the Tony Snow Shew

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Reviewed Enduring Special Optftiona Trutha:

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iutnect RE O'connell interview on 12/29

Paul
foe wednesday'fi Show, i basically w n t to do the following:
introduce the Secretary proparly by noting hie diçtinguiahe background and
the fact that he's uniquely qualified for the job

',, talkim briefly a h t how meccp hs.~ o h a w e d d n o a the l ~ @ d a t i m of '87.

that i e , how it looked before and how it looks now.
e n t i o m what role~fmisaionaeach of the eervime. play in the SpecOpa '
community, xncluding s o w of the training they go through.
calk about the role of women in she Specope community.
talk about what SpecOp. i s doing in rraq and Afghanistan
talk about the role ot SpecOps in the future
under no ci-atantea uill i aak or push tor infomation which is
l ~ s i f i e dor even close to it, nor will 1 talk politics inside or outside
:he beltway. this should be an eqoyab1e aeaeion. we've got. LOTS of
listeners around the country, sonic catching it on delayed broadcast, BO
we'll avoid talking about 'morning'.

could i gat a copy of his resume?

chanka much.

reap'y,
bill

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y enough for you. Well *one all around... with oclimitt, you should =urn it into a
virtue and Acknowledge directly that the senior leaders of the deprtnent, includinq
icrvice second's, depaec, and aecdef, have reached out to key members and they have been
appreciative for the consultation and understand all we are trying co do ...you might
suggest chat if staff and ochera are unaware. It ia underflcundablt that they may be
anxious but that since everything is pre-daci~ional we are crying to focus the info at the
m e 1 only. ..noapecifica as to who has been called, but the fact that khere ha*
b e outreach and consultation so the membÈr would be able to Due disconnect-ed and out of

tough choices ...a thought ..great work today

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for our reporters afterward, we need to knit together all that ie being done.

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Sunders mounds JL l o t l i k e Lott. Haqel, and c o l l i n ~ .O r i s 1 c t h e ocher way around?
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The ha-1.. of the l e f t -- and t h e onoortuniat~of eha r i o h t -- r c a l i r ttrt haenwe ChÃ

path t ~ v i c t o r yor d e f e a t i h any warts screw with setbacks and niacakea, Rumsleld i s
much more exposed t o t h e i r f l a k than newly reelected residem me mob, m m d e l d mranda f o r
everything they d a m p i ~ eabout ~ r e e i d e n bBush: daciaivenaoa, d i r c c t n e e ~and -- mest
unforgivably - - impatience with those who most r i c h l y d e n e r v At. Like t h e CIA. the State
e p a r t m e n t . and the u.N.. juat for e f r c e r o . Mr. ~ u m a f e l da c t u a l l y had t h e ~ u d a c i t yt o
c a l l old ~urooebv i t s orooer name and, according to en ~immerinan'a hook. The French
r a y of ~kerica, wai fond of quoting your humble a e r v x n c a ~words, woing to war
without prance i a l i k e going deer hunting without, a n accordion, YOU juet l e a v e . lot Of
noisy, usclces baggage behind." Oh, the horroi

THE LATEST CTRPUPPLE reeulced from a session M r . Rumafeld had with a o l d i e r s i n Iraq on

. .
9 1 damn about your Life o r s a f e t y . " But Chçt' n o t even c l o s e t o what he s a i d .

The "question' .-r e a l l y a a b o r t apeech written by

been f i g h t i n g In Iraq f o r coming up on three years.
J,reporter --
m i d , " ~ u rs o l d i e r s have
A l o t of ua are g e t t i n g ready t o m v e
north r a l a t i v e l y soon. ouz vehicl-s are o m armored. we're digging piece= of rusted scrap
1 and comprmisftd b a l l i s t i c g l a s s chafe already been shot up, dropped, busted,
piCKlog the best out of t h i s scrap to p u i on our vehicles to cake into combat. W e do not
have proper armamant v e h i c l e s to carry with us tiorth:

Mr Rummfeld responded b n e s t l y and a t l e n ~ t h .Ile s a i d he Calked t o t W c-andzng general

on t h e way out to meet the s o l d i e r s about the pace a t which t h e v e h i c l e s a r e be>-
o r ~e m i d , t h e vehicles -have been bi-ought from a l l over t h e world. wherever
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t h e y ' r e not needed, t o a p l a c e h e r e where they lire needed. 1 ' h cold t h a t they are being - -
t h e Army i s -- I t h i n k i t ' a something l i k e 400 a m c h a r e k i n g done. And i t ' s
o a e n c i a l l y a matter of p h y s i c s . ~t i s n ' t a naccer of money. ~t isn't, a matter on the p a n
of h e Army of d e a l r e . it's a m a t t e r of production and c a p a b i l i t y of doing I t .
A s you know, you go t o w&-r w i t h the Army you have. They're not t h e Army you might *ant or
wish to have at a l a t e r t i n e . S i n c e t h e ~ r a qc o n f l i c t began, t h e m y haa been pretaing
ahead t o produce t h e armor nacesaary at a r a t e t h a t t h e y b e l i e v e --
i t ' s a greatly
expanded rate from what e x i s t e d previously, but a rate t h a t they b e l i e v e i s t h e rate t h a t
1 a11 chat c a n be acconrnlrhed a t chin moment." ~n ahor:, an honest answer from a
w c e m e d leader. (YO- can read t h e t r a n a c r i p c of t-tx whole a e s a i o r h e r e
hp:l/w.defenselinU.mil/tran8crlpcs/2004/i:r20041208-~<cdefi761.htrnia.I And. though
y o u ' l l never l e a r n c h i # from the a n k l e - b i t e s % Rumsfdd received a standing o v a t i m frw
t h e troops when t h e s e s s i o n ended.

EVER SINCE THE FALL of Baghdad, Mr. Runsfeldhae ~ u f f e r e done media feeding frenzy a f t e r
m o t h e r , when t h e Abu Ohralb tii-iconer ¥bu ecandal broke, he and Joint Chiefa chairman
en. ~ i c k~ y e r swere mbject..d t o a six-hour marathon of conqreaoiotial hearings i n which
they were aubjeccod to l i t t l e apeeehca by l i t t l e men aimed more at s c o r i n g sound b i t e en
t h e evening news than ç g e t t i n g answers H e haa haan accused of spending too much on the
a , and too little His f a u l t s a r e found i n every f a i l u r e on t h e b a t t l e f i e l d and i n the
a t i o n - b u i l d ~ n gproceaa wà art pucauing i n Iraq. ~ e wknow, and fawar s t i l l c a m , about t h e
f a c t s of t h e l a t t e r .
1n the planning f o r t h e 1r.q cçmpaign M r . m a f e l d proposed a p l a n i n which à provi.icna1
government would hçv b ~ f no m r d before t h e invasion, and would have taken over
lminediately, reducing the need f o r American presence, and [ ~ a k i n gour presence t h a t of one
a l l y helping another. A competing p l a n , advanced by Colin Powell and George Tçnet chose
an extended occupation with Iraq r u l e d by a MacArthur-like consul, and gradual turnover of
zraq t o an i n t e r i m government chosen by t h e major r c p r e a e n t a t i v e e of t h e Iraq* populçCicn
The President chose t h e l a t t e r . t h e wrong plan, and then stuck Rumsfeld with the >oh of
implementing a p l a n R u m ~ t e l dknew was not l i k e l y t o succeed. I n t h e p a a t twanty months,
t h e interim government w a s n ' t formed a p r e d i c t e d , because aom. of the major I r a q i l e a d e r s
-- moat notably l e a d i n g s h i a cleric --
AI> a ~ . ~ i s t a n i r a ~ u f d L. paul B ~ ~ ~
diplomatic game@. Worse * k i l l , t h e President hasn't yet decided to d e a l w i t h the
nourgency at ICB aourcea. without the .upport of S y r i a and I r a n , the Insurgency wouldn't
be a b l e t o continue under fch. c0nst.n: pressure of C o a l i t i o n m i l i t t r y action.

Now. with t h a I r a q i e l e c t i o n scheduled i n about f i v e weeke, Rumafeld r  ¥ t i l struggling

tcs push the I r a q i s I n t o democracy, and with mixed r e s u l t s . P r e d i c t a b l y , t h e U . N .-- whost
f i to i t new dwmocrac~eai n cunning e l e c t i o n * -. ha* rnfuaad t o help b a i l
r i a t 0 a i n t h a t the U.M. opposed. In Iraq, a, n a t i o n of about 24 million,
t of thouaanda of e l e c t i o n a s s i s t a n c e r e p r e ~ e n t a t i v c ashould be on t h e ground. Instead,
Lhà UH ham .- ma f i r -- provided fewer ChAm f i f t y . JUid. somehow, to t h o s e who opp0sà the
P r ~ i d c n tand t h e wax we a r e f i g h t i n g , :hat's a l l R u n i ~ f e l d ' sf a u l t . Nonaw.se.

P ~ R ~ A T EFOR L Y MR. RUMSFEW,and f o r us, t h e R e s i d e n t has spoken f o r c e f u l l y i n *upport

of s f 1 1 and t h e job he i à doing. And tor every CBS t h e r e i s J Hitch Hcconnell. For
every New Yexk Time, or CNW, there i s a Pete Dmenicl, a B i l l P r i a t , a MY RaIleY
~ u t c h i s o nand a ~ i r n1nhofe. ~ n d
a ~ e f fSessions. ~ l ofl those senatore have spoken out i n
. d m defense, m d nvieeed t h e media feeding frenzy. For a while.
Alabama Republican J e f f Sessions i s one of Rumsfeld's moat respected and outspoken
~upporcçrs ~e cook time from h i s ChTiacmas EV. shopping t r i p to talk t o me about the
i n t a:tacks on t h e Big Dog. SÇÇÇi s a i d Rumsfeld i t a "remarkable man. He's been t h e
p o i n t man i n t h e war on terror from t h e beginning." ~ u w f e l d-uodcrmtande t h e m i l i t a r y and
Its nço t o tranafonn:

I aaked Sen. Seasinns what m d t i v % f B Rumtlfeld'Â c r l c i c a . Ue axid theye were three rwaanns.
1 he Said - t h e Dani0crT.a are determined t o find f a u l t " i n the w a r and how it i *
b e i n g r u n . s e s s i o n s aeee chat i n any war. the enemy evolves and ao muse w e . ~e s a i d ,
wumafeld. t h e ? r e s i d e n t and a l l of t h e i r team have to be an top of :hie and able t o
change t a c t i c s a t a moment's n o t i c e . " H e ' s confident they are, and are getting the job
done

BY TIMES 7868
' The second reason. Sessions said. is chat "people who have been supportive of the war,
including some editors, are now more difficult.1'many of those who advocated the Iraq
campaign moat vehemently art now afraid chat they511 he blamed for its failures and the
sacrifi-cesour troops are called upon to make it succeed. Though Sessions didn't say it,
i t 1 h o m or chose vehement advocates of invading Iraq -. includi- one notable
o nm i - a d l i t 1 cowards. Sessions said, "The second-guessers enjoy coming
0 an6 shooting the Ipoliticallyl wounded." IC'B nor hard to figure out who ha meant.
T&e third reason is that t h e f ie always " e m temptation to play Sor the media." If
you're a Republican senator. the beat way to buy a place 00 m e t the ~ r e s eis to criticise
the Presidanc. Because t h e resident ii in BO strong a position, it'. not: poaaible t o
damage him - - yet --
by carping about the daily problems in ~ r a q . hat leaves the people
0 a running the ahow a. the only practical target, and that means Mr. Runi~feld.

MR. KwSFELD SU??ERS from one of the faults hie boas often displays: loyalty to tho=. who
ire not loyal to him, and those who don't do their -jobs well. It's unheard of to be :hree
yexzo into a war and never to have fired a general. he military leaderehip ~ r Rumafeid .
works with is not of hie creation. Those generals rome to prominence under the Ciintorii,
and many are more policicaliy minded than warrior-like. neither ~umafeld nor the President
h a fired à single one, dospit. nomo bad decision* and - - in the cane of former & m y chiel
if s t a x Eric shinseki --not only bad ludgmtnt but political campaigning against the
d e n t p i and objectives. Shinacki should have been fired, but w a s n ' t . Too many of
the c11ricon-chosen bureaucrat-generala remain on duty today, though warrior@ should long
0 M e taken their place. Military transformation mean. transforming the generals. not
just the hardware.
But Jeff Sessions has it right. AÃ another Southern gentleman of my acwftintance often
l a y s . "If you can't run with the big dogs, you'd better go sit on the porch." That
idmonition should be u k e n to heart by all the ankle biters in congrceis and the press who
r e calling for the beheading o f Big Dog Don Rumsfrld. Their criticimms --
especially
those coming from congretsional ~epublicans -.ace the worst sork of cowardice and
political opportunism.

TAB Contributing Editor Jed Babbin in tha author of Irrida the ftmylumt Why the UH and Old
Europe ftre worse T.hm You Think (Regnery Publishing).

MY TIMES 7869
 From Menin RoxiaT CAPT OASD-PA
Sent Tuesday December28 2004 3 18 PM
To- Ruff Enc SSS OASD-PA
Subject FW BrldSumrnary of 10 Body A m y Report

The t5 flndlng~¥chnll ¥r pwtty p w l k the rocomrrwidBtlons found we couldn't grt it to lhe troop*within (he
normal 14day 0 0 0 standard because In some places me body armor hadto be delivered by vehicle to the Soldiers
(taking 31 days from start to finish). Secondly,ttw IG report cleared up an accountingmix upof 30.000 sets of body armor
-those items merely were In transit or tmproperfy accounleafor betweenthe two locations

We can provide you shortly with a copy of the mtuçll ndKtod v m l o n of lhe Army 1G report going to Mr. Mike Moss at
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the New York Times once the redactionsof names, vulnerabilities,etc. are complete.

As you know lastly wçSoldlor golng Into Imq now has body mnnor-wchÑvt the d u l m d BMI
"k

P a w provide adailma1 mformalionon the finflings of the 10 report

Mr Lawrance may Iplease solicit your assistancefar adeslrati phone conference 011 this Thursdaywith the
mihtaty analystswho advise the cable news networks? The topic would be a briefy a w n d review ol efforts10
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equip Soldierswiffi body a m w and to~parmorourvehkles as part of few protection efforts The phone
conferencecall would art.I d ~ l l yat
, 12:45 fun.on Thurodsy, and last for 20 minutes with officialsfrom A m y
logistics and operattons
CAP1 Meinti Maam, we would then follow tfie pçnn pnone oonkrencflcanwm a m à § rouwittbte of no
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more than f)v prim m o l e bicely the Aashinqwn Poit New Vork Timec AssociatedPres Arm, "imes end
hewnouse New Sçfvc -to &re- severalpçndmgmlfnirrqu*n*à tfit çç'recaved to ici,aà Mr Tom
R :KS d me Wash wton Post i n w m g a m ~wot mna upamonng for tn6 M-1? W h a tme 3rd tnfant~0 d 6 on
wi.-'o~iediifrn~lner _pcomna r ~ cq~ 3 q m n t a n oa requati from Mr M k à Moss of thehew Vom T-BS 'or

MY TIMES 7871
 From' Barber AUison CIV,OASBPA
sml- Tinsaay, DecemBK26.2004 2.20 PM
TO. h n c e Del!as. OM@-PA
Sublecf Re MiMary Analyst Phone Can- Armor, Force ProtectionYear-end Review (1245 p IT. 30
Dec 2004)

I know :am here t o helpll!l Ma.

Allison Barber
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
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Subject: R e i Military Analyst Phone Call: L z r , Force Protection Year-end Review ll2:4S
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Brie? Have an opinion? I'm shocked, shocked I aayt
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Subject: Re: Military Analyst Phone call; ~ x ~ o Focca
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We do act up calls for the services but i t in rare that the army is forward leaning!!
Let's go ahead and do 1 c .
Let E r i c know we are doing it --he will probably haw an opinion. ~ l a olet nim '-aw that I'
approved i-e.
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Alliaon Barber
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
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Subject: Fw: Mi:titary ~nalyse~ h o n eall: -or. Force ~ r o f c t i o nYear-end Review 112:45
p . ~ ' . ,3 0 Dec. 2004)'

1s chis something we usually do at the request of a service branch or docs l a w et a1

need to approve?

NY TIMES 7872
 Mr. Lawrence, may I please solicit your .ç~iaeanc for a desired phone conference call
h i Thursday with the military a r r l y b o who advise the cable nmra networks? The topic
uparmor our vahichs --
would be a brief year-end review of efforts to equip soldiers with body armor am3 . to
am part of tore* protection efforts. The phone conference call
o u l d starc. ideally, a t 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, and last tor 20 minutes with officials
f a ~ r m ylogiecics and oparationm.
CAPT Nerrltt, ~ f m , we would then follow the planned phone confeiance call with a enall '
roundtable of no mom t h n five print mçdi --
likely the H'l~hingcon Pose, New yen-k ~ i n e a .
Associated Preee, A r m y Times and Newhouee MCWs Service -- to address several pending,
i i l r queries that we've received: to include Mr. Tom Ricks of the Washington Post
inquiring about additional uparnoring € the H - U 3 s chat the 3rd Infantry Division -1d
use during their upcoming Iraq deployment and a request from ~ r Mike , MOSS of the ~ e w~ o r k
i a for the april 2004 Army inopcccor General report on body armor. That redacted
report addreened how fact we procured needed body armor, how fast we got it to country and
then diacribuced to the deployed troops. since we've M e similar media queries f r m
other*, it makes seme to brief a amall group on these copies and ensure that the onalyta
1 a w a r i n o n of these already-working s t o r i e s might be planned for as early as
this weekend

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mandatory disclosure under the meedom of roformacion a c t , s u s c 552. ~f you received
t h s comnunication in error, please do not p n n c copy forward, d r a e f f l i n à § c à or othervi~e
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KY TIMES
Margaret 1 wanted toshare the transcript ofCohen'sregularCNNWerwwyesterfiay regradmg DOD support lor the
T m m cumhles Jean M e s e r e Klhd In fm W d B b
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MESERVE Absolutely. I want to turn die comerto the tsunami and die US.response to this. You,of course,
the formeraecretaiyof defense, at this point, die U.S. response has been large in lenns of money. $15 million,
and a few reconnaissance planes sent, but what son of effort eventually might we see The US.roilititfy make to
this"

COHEN: Well. we tend to look at the military hi terms of its warrior status. but thev're arcs humanitarians.
They provide relief under these kind of extraordinary circums&. They & helpwithsearch and rescue.
They can helpwilh refugee resettlement. They can helps delivering medical supplies. They can set up field
hospitals, all of which we've done in Turkey in 1999, and frankly, we've also offered this assisiance to China
when China suffered a major earthquake, and I myself delivered lhat message to Jiang Zemin, The president of
China dunng their very tragic times.

In a time of crisis, a helping bund can bejust as powerful if not more powerful than a fist of iron, and that'sa
lessonout here. We should be rushing with whatever resourceswe can to help those in need in a time of crisis.
It will certainly be a humanitarian thing to do. but also in our national interest, to help under these
circumstances.

Got it Thank you. Hare's the lh* to the rotation annou-E

MY TIMES 7874
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MY TIMES 7876
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Sublecl FW Military Analyst Phone Caw Armor Pores ProtectionYear-and Reviw I12 45 p m M
Dec 2004)

Do you haveany problemswlh them dang both theoutreach call ant the media gaggte?
captain U S Navy

Mr Lawrence may i please solicit your assistance for a desired phone conferencecall this Thumiiywith the military
analystswho advise the cabte news networks? The topic would be a brkf year-ena w l e w of efforts to equip Soldiers
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with body annor and to uparmor our vohieke as part of force protection efforts The phone conferencecall would
stmrt, IdMIty, at 12-45 p.m. on Thursday, and last for 20 minutea wlh offcials from Army logistics and operations.

reportonbody armor. TMI redacted report addressedhow fast we procured needed body armor, how fast we got it to
country and then distnbutec to the deployed troops. Since we'w hac similar media queries from others, it makes sense to
bnef a small group on these topics and ensure that the analysts also are aware since one of these atready-workinc stories
might be planned for asearly as th$sweekend

HY TIMES 7877
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SUBJECT: Talk Radio Interviews

Congressman Jim Marshall, D-GA, will be interviewed today by Roger Hedgecock, K m , San
Dieire.
senator sessions rill talk with ~ o r n~iordano,HPHT, Philadelphia, today.
1 we nrke contact with radio hosts or their producer, we are w q e a t i n g interviews with
1 S Doineoici, Mica and Saxe-. We also mention minter, Xyl, Coinyn.
McConnell and Inhofa. He are providing press O t a C Ã ‘ e n t and other material to the
programs.
-king ahead co next week and beyond. ~ichaelsmerconish, w m , Philadelphia, is tilling
1 for ill ~ ' ~ e i l l y 'radio
s program me is interested in calking with a w e of the
members and we are to coordinate with him on Monday.

Scott H-n, WKV. FarqO, is filling in tor Scan IIann1.t~-on

Dec. 29. He is interested
and we will coordinate chat on n on day.
Military analyst, I/TC Bill C-n, i s filling i n foe ~ o n ysnow on ~ e c .29. me is
nterested in talking With CongreB."wn Hxrsh&11. He is thinking about other M e a t s wÃ
have suggested.

Jed Babbin will be tilling in f o r Greg CarriBon, ~ B C .indianapolia. the first week in
January. He is interested in interviewing Moibers of Congress and we have put him in touch
t h Senator sessions' presm aecrerary.
~ a l kshow boat arm areo on, -, portland, ie on vacation until the first week of January
but has cownittea to'talking with one or m e members. we have left messages for several
other heats w i t h Èhor we have had good incecvi-". L i b Lars Laroon, they arc on vacation
until the first week in January. We will pursue,

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 From BjM k l v OASD-PA
Smf Thursday Decem6er 23 2004 8 55 AM
To: Ruff Ere SES OASD-PA
Sutj.ct: RE Contact into

meanyou also send me the work number for pd babbm? lhanto erlc

Per your request:

LleulenantColonel Bill Cwan (USMC, Rared)
CEO W C 3 Group Inc
1800AlexanderBell O m . Sum 101

BY TIKES
 From- OConwII Ttmmas. H O N OSO-POLICY
Sent Thusday December 23.2004 635 AM
To Ruff Enc, SES OASD-PA
Subla RE q for you

Subject: RE: q for you

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Wayne w i l l gladly 'peak t o David Rum Hia c e l l phone IB
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 "bjeet: q for you

i m u g a n i z i n g somà çrciclc to speak up for hfce secretaty. w e a t i o n : do you k n e w

Wayne - i w m u d l he do i t ? i f so, where do I find h i m ? d

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 From- Baiter, Allnon. CIV. OASO-PA
Sent: Wednesday. December 22.20W 5 44 PM
To: Whitman Brjan SES O A S W A
subtecc FW Iran Trip

hi mere
here is the scoopon the mp nalsaid llwill come upon Bw8amcalllofnofrow.please tatme knowif youneed meonthe
call
we really have beenworking on this since august brs hope it happens

thanks
ah

m&m!d
Several Months ~gocomrelmibaled plans to lead *delegation ofour senior retired military analysts(folks thxt actually
me o n p a l -1-to
gctw tune) to
began communicationtraffic with LTC !fof be m m m ~ t ~ l h e f w

reolv thcv finally connected In late October LTC

i me k of k-k
heater Cl-cei
In l a t e ~ w m s t ~ ]
at CENTCOM After week3 of no
m f o n n e d F 5 ^ l t h a t MNF-l hnd not responded to any of

h e e n the ~ T aC 2 hhseK. In early &ember, LTC-m~gsted il might be wmthwhile for D O D ~ Oprep

and send an official Theater Clearance messagein order to prompt a response from MNF-I who. three m n t h s
later, had not responded 10 the LTC.

assessment of the informal request is that the number of panicinaiUs should not exceed 20 due to lackof
a\my;gpwn wadaole to move t h p d m> planned trip should take plam m e d y D m m k or earl
200. . dthen called I ' K n à ‘ à ‘ à ‘ l spoke *nh him personally b o w the l n p L T C ' z j
l i f t e d thst bewould inform the MMF-l P A 0 of the r f a u e ~al d would a w l 1 IheThcçtÃClearance
message (with a complete itinerary and staling a specific purposefor the trip).

Having worked on dozens of such trips dunog my lime in Iraq, 1warned to place a call directly to the DV folks
,n Iraq to t d k w t h them a b u t ow proposed tnp, now & d d d for w l y January 1 s p k e wtth L T C m m
--
Baghdadfor more than thrtv mmutes, discussed our trip, asked for his succestions and made i t clear we would
be as low maintenanceas &bk.

This afternoon, more than four monthsafterbeginning the official process, we dispatched thecountty clearance
message, and jW as predicted, finally got areply from MNF-I.

Action Items

1) Countty Clearance needs to he approved for our group

Note: we submittedmore names than we haw sealsfor. once we have the date locked, we willprioritize and
will only bring the maximum o f 15 on the trip.

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 2) Per Captain Pittnun, this needs to be managed as a media tno not a DV vmi, therefore MNF-1 Strategic
Communications and General Casey must approve Per Pimnan this should be brought up during t k 8 CO am
conference ca.1 tomorrow

3JTime We are ramdly running out ofltme as we need to book flights into Kuwaii and there are limited ums
remaining. we also have to give om guests as much b d s up notice as possible OKI goal is to be able to
confirm the tnp and depmur; date by rcxi Wednesday. the actual schedule once on the ground can DC flexible
until the first week ofJanuary Our current itinerary isas follows

Sunday, January 9,2005

All delegation members arrive in Kuwait

Monday, January 10,2005

Early am flight in Baghdad, milimy briefings, lunch ordinner with troops, site visit, (ideally fallujah with
briefing in fallujah from commanderson the ground on the huge success). Overnight in Baghdad, tmis/cots
appropriatefor ovemigM. No high level DVs on trip. Highest ranking retired officer is a MG.

Tuesday, January 11,2005

Meetings with Iraqi leaden. ideally Allawi. update on election process, outlook on the future of Iraq. Possible
briefing on status of reconslniction projects, possible site visit toone of the projects, likely in the Green Zone.

Depart Iraq Tuesday afternoon for Kuwait.

Hope this helps,

dl

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 n. Bryan, SES,OASD-PA
day, DecBmber22.2004 10:42AM

RE radio- Garrison show

Thanks,we are going to talk to him about what he will be discussing so we can t r y t o f i t the
rioht quest t o the tonics he is interested in too

Pram-Barber, ~lll&n,OV,OA50 PA
Sent Wed& Dtcember 22,2004 10-37 U4
Tw Bvan whitmi (E mil),E* Rdf(E%ail), f r a n k l b w ( ~ -w,
~, IXD
Subject: radio Garrison show

here is the info for the radio opportunity...

- Ortg
From: J [-~--dzzl
Sent Wednesday, December 22,2004 10 12 AM
To: albn barbe-
Subject' Garrison stuw

Allison: This is the show 111be subbing on both 4 and 5 Jan. Please note that the hours are 10 am
to 1 prn Eastern, not 9-12 as I said on the phone. Many thanks for the help. Best,ited.

.wibc corn

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Attiehmente: Shields Post Response DRAFT 1.O.doc

P a f i n d the elightly r e v r e d l e t t e r , a~tçehç

General Pete Pace he. eonferçnco i l recently with the Retired Military taalyata and
a ! of the comments he made in thin call regarding humvets and armor .re u ~ e  £ u l

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 From: Lawrence. Dallas. O M - P A
Sent: Tuesday. OtcmliTZl.20W 1-MPM
To: Ruff. Eric. SES. OASD-PA
Subject: another request from mtlitafy analyst

Jm Babbm. on Scartwougft t o m a n d Fox & Friends lomorrwmomng

Topic- Defending SecDefflntelBilUlraq Bartons
d "Howwill mlel MI impror quality of h u U n a gaimrro? Wily stodw's NITdlllininy wow win me
N ~ d e Info:
attack against Secbf for his positions. Are thereany UN electionwofkers in Iraq today:

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To;
cc:
Subject

Matt

LtGen Greg NftwboM, USMC, was the Director of Operationsfor (he Joint Staffwhen I first got there, a job that
traditionallydestines the recipientsfor 4-stars Heretired instead supposedly as a btttef man who did not get ahng wU
wm SecDflf

He atoo infers Gen Myersis to Name for not confronting thesecretary on inadequatetroop levels

NEWS HOUR WITH JIM LEHRER PBS N

6 00 PM DECEMBER20,2004

SecretarySchlesinw, bow much of Itis dispute about Donald R m f d isabout personality and how much of it is about
performance?

JAMES SCHLESINGER Wd.çÂmostly about pmwdHy There a à a bt of people out them that do not like DonaM
Rimsfeld You're getting a recyclingof complaints that havegone back to ttie beginningof the administration

A kitofttn pressthat elkdaboutquagmire backmtheda,softheMghanietanrun-upand Aenmmearlydaysofthe

war finally have,.. may have found a quagmire that the/ve been pfedictingor maytie ttwy hope that they've got a
quagmire

GWEN IFIU So in yourorinton Secretary Rumstelus doinga good job?

JAMES SCHLESINGER SKKWyRumsfeklImsdonea@Bb H e m a n AforMghanlsanandanAforthe

Invasion For ttn post-lnvgshnperiod tie probablygets a Ceha AH In all has done a very goodpb

GWEN IFIU Gen Newbold p~~onalityorperformance?

LT GEN GREWRY NEWBOLDIRÇ.rl1 noflimyoiiun>ç~ntÈÈ>tWD<imDte Ullfoftu- hte

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 notiono am mayb* contrary to your own aresoHclted.
my vtow you n d an
pmoiuHty ham I n f l u m c d tha pwfomnc* b w e i u ~ f n

And Idon't think he's fostered m environmentthatdoes t h t If there is poor ad*

. made. sometimes youend up wherewe are right now.
- exchmnpof Id- when

offend. and therefore.poor decisions

GWEN IFILL You worked m tf Pentagon under SecretaryRumsfeld or with Secretary RumsteJd.give usan exampb of
what you mean when you say the personalityand tfte performancegotmixed LID with oneanother.

LT, SEN. GREGORY NEWBOLDIRa.1: Well, ttedimin b my h p o M n I . Imink w envfronmnttful t m e m

contrary opinions or the seeks to deternine where advice tray be different thin your own h v i y Important

EvenwKen(hat advice isn't taken. BIB understandingthat ft may beoffered-whether it'sfromthe Congress,from alles,
from themedia,from ...

GWEN IRLL: From generals.

LT. GEN. GREGORY MEWBOLD(ReLI: Maybe- fnxil lmçnh

Bill1mmyour m m ~ n d m
ISv>V Importtnt
And ~ r t a i n f that
y dldnt exist on m n y occnlom.

GWEN FILL Mr. &re my...

JAMES SCHLESIhGER On many occasions Acmainfy aWaxisL Tommy Frçnkg ~ him à the secretary his mvice It
resnapcflme invasion General A m i d clws rum advice CertainlyG m Myers feels ttw way Tnere is a great oea d
mmrecton between the secretary an0 h s senior o f f e r s

He sometimes hasa challengingstyle, but general officers should not be dismayed by Ms challengingstyle.

G\^N IFILL: Didwe see his chaflongingstyleonviewtostweekwRhNsanswertothequestionsaboutarmoredvehicles?

What did you make of that?

JAMES SCHLESINGER: Wfl, Ithink that that ie Wcallyaprucftftnxy. U you lookat fw ancwer Inthe beginning ofthe
answer,what he did was toencourqgothe troops and say. 1talked to thegeneral officers about when we could get rn
armored vehicles.

"Weare moving these armoredvehicles from every part of thewom inwhich the/re not needed. W e a n increasing
productionofthosearmored vehicles

Than he moved into the point that you quoted. And Ithink that i f s a misrepresentationof his viewft

GWEN IFILL Assuming you'veseen the entire npresentaUonof what he said that day. what's your sense about mat.
General"?

LT. GEN. GREGORY NEWBOLD (RUI: Iigicto- dtgn*.

That Is, Ithink holding Secretaty R m s f d d accountablefor the armor issueisa little Makin toconvicting Al Capone tor
taxevasion. Thereare many issues of much greater importance than thatwhich the secretary 1 think shouldbe held
accountable.And the armor issue, ttiars primarily a serviceissue.

GWEN IFILL: Whenwe talkabout -we'll move on the big ones.

But I'm also curious about another issuewhich kind of bubbledupover the weekend, which is the signingus- auto pen
to sign lettersotcondolencesto fallen soldiers' families.

Whenyouwen;KicretStydidyoudgnthose{attarsbyyometf?Didyouhavetoçtenanyofthem

JAMES SCHLESINGER: Then was nocombat white Iwag ~ o e t a f y .

GWEN IFIU: Do you think Itwas a good Idea?

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JAMES SCHLESINGER: Idon1think mat is a good iaea I think that the fact that the stctttery Is now signing thOM teKn
personally indicatesthat he did not think it was a goad idea in retrospect

GWEN IFILL Is that something that Is emblematicof anythingto you?

GWEN IFILL: What did you make of the criticismscomingfrom CapitolHill last week specifically and moat kind of
noticeably from Republicans,SenatorsHawland McCalnand Lott and Sen.Collinsall saying in varying degrees thattheir
sense of confidence in Secretary Rumsfeld has been shaken7

JAMES SCHLESINGER The ma1question iswtwttierthe pnsidenthas confidence In Secretary Rumsfeld And he
answered that today

Heservesat the pleasureof the president, and Ithlnk that you've cot the answer He vril continueto serve as secretaryof
defense

GWEN IFILL lsn'l It better to get along wBi pewieon È Hill?

JAMES SCHLESINGER It Is better to get along wtth peopleonttr Hill. but he's getting along with moxtof them. You saw
the quote from John Warner. Ofthe four peopleon televisionyesterday, the ranking Democratsand the two chairmen,.,
noneof themcalled for his resignation.

GWEN IFILL:Gefwal. when you hear people talking aboutlost confidencewhettieronthe Hill or other ptaoes p e w
wmin the Pentagon itself, do you find that significant?

How many mom mtosteps he a

n take Cm not certain. He'maI the pleasumof the president
GWEN IFILL Do you have confidenceh the secretary?

LT.GEN. GREGORY NEWBOLD In&): Conndtif? IInn*It tor y n n t h i t w dldnt hlw Ç i ~ m m of q

ditenw who waethe right one to develop tho plans toconduct our opçratfw~
theway w needad to.

And my opinion h u n t chdicfd.

GWEN (FILL Lm me flip this a Ittk bit becauseyou are suppoftive of the secretory end you are not. So, let me ask you,
Secretary Schleslnger, what would you consider to be the secretary's weak polnti?

Hahaa been quite responsftx.

GWEN IFILL: TheIEW8 being (tin..

JAMES SCHLESINGER: Explosivedevices that are along (he roads Ifs inttroBliig that now tha we're past Ramadan that
the number of incidents0s down to pro-Ramadanlevels and that as Gem C a w =aid yesterday at the Pentagon, that ofthe
18 provinces, 14 of them are quite calm.

GWEN IFILL: Gen. Newbold what would you say SçCfetarRumsfeld'sstrong points ¥re

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 LT. GEN. GREGORY NEWBOLO(RRI: Hà had m grMt Çtetonwti h à § c Into t b PmWMI. Ithink hb (dmOn
changing the c h à § d Ãof the wç opfçtlonw m conducted md t h e w thatthe P m l ~ f l o nWMWK
wen
conducted were right on target.

If you listedttw ten top prIorHka-terSec* Rudeid. Iwuld haw  ¥ g with ad tenof them. ifsnot what ha wiÈhe
to accomplish lrs probably how

GWEN IFILL Wim you talk about oneof hb priorttto.meof them is the transfoniialjon of the milbiywhkh Is a grand
term which means in some ways makingit land of a learw*. lighter, more efficientmilitary

IS that something which can co-exiat in your opinion.General, with cmiucUng a mutti-frontopen-ended war-*

LT. GEN. GREGORY NEWBOLD (Re): Ithink trçn<formçkon plotably not fully inlcdahd. It's ~ d à ‘ i n U
goal but Uwe was not a lot behlnd R. N tended to be ptrtform-cwntrk;rather than what Ithink-

GWEN IFILL: I hat don m t mean?

I
. LT. GEN. GREGORY NEWBOLDfRrt.): Alrcnft, subnMrinw. shm. Ithink. mon eomptote transformation lu>
changed the culture of an Inititution, to mdd to ha menhi qlKty notjint ins p u d of movement butçpÃof
thinking.

GWEN IFILL-On itm-.wife we'reatoar?

LT. GEN. GREGORY NEWBOLD (Re): AbuluMy. U notem wort. white we'm at w a r 1 much <Â a q o t h i r t k w .

GWEN IFILL Secvan ScHMhger?

JAMES SCHLESINCER:W d , IHunk that Sen. Shwmaktrls m k i totue ~ d thtuechmges in the anny. -nie anny has
been a stow inshtuton to adjust But ha is fnovmg away from divsions towards bngatteslhata n be w e d independentty

lndaed for the Navy and the AfrForce,this has been a platformcentricadjustmentbut the Navy and the Air Force are
about platforms, whereas the Marinesand the Army are about organizationand people

GWEN IFILL Has Secretary Rumfald nunxged this insurgencywell, the idea of troop levels' Is the Arrwncm military a
it is positionedright now in Iraq. where it ought to be7 Is it bangmanaged wrrectty?

JAMES SCHLESiNGER' 1 think mat he has had as much inthe way of force in Iraq 8s- limits of the budget permit.
People must remember that there's been a 40 percentincrease in the budgetand mat there are those over In the
executive office who limit the fundsfor the Departmentof Defense.

GWEN IFILL-. Gm. Newbold.wrwn It comes to managing (he insurgencyand the appropriate troop M s . do you think
that Secretary Rurmfald has done ail he can or has he been hamstrung by finances?

And suhough ¥o pow ImpçcdÑpl ovrthue, my v m l opinion b

hJV utd w hw¥tiffichMf~rc
the fçetfbelie that

GWEN IFILL- And so you think there should be more troopsand do you hold Secretary Rumstetd responsiblefor thaP

LT. SEN. GREGORY NEWBOLD I-): Ihold two p ~ r ~pp a~u ~ ~in t *BnvlrennwrHw-
. emled by MCIMK
RunwfBld but m i o r mllltefy (wadersamnot gagged. TTwy n e d to bÃÂ¥bt t o a w k out forcefully and U t h d à net
suffictent, then to takeother..-

GWEN IFILL- Are senior military toadere Intimidated?

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 L7. GEM. OREGOftV NEWBOW Nt):
They Cftahly ton b

GWEN IFILL: One final question to both of you quicklywhich is whether.. you're right. Secretory RumsWdcomesunder
attack periodically.

This iant the first time we've had some version ofthis discussion.

VVOirtachanoflBtthetooifhtwwetobereDtecrtfnakeadinereftCTinyouro~tonlntennsofU.S./^~~~m
policy, military policy'?

JAMES SCHLESINGER: I don?think 80. The poDclesm f r o m t h e oresKlent I think that the mn7%+%l of Secretary
Rumsfeldwouldbe a boon to an of our enemies around theworid.

Thfy wouldmlotx in IIMCHK h wtllch al-QlMa leaders Me;thatour memks Inhe Middle EmtrnM ifplce. He has
become a symbol of American steadfastness,and I think that that would be tragedy If he were to be removed.

GWEN IFILL- Genoal?

I think that is absolutelycritical.So It depends on who would him.

OWEN IFILL- GCT Netioki and Secrrtaq Sdmshger. Bwik you b o A v r y much

LT. GEN. OREWRY NEWBOLD(Rç.1Ttnnllw.

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To- Pad Vallely
Subht RE Military Analyst Meetings

holding awaiting country clearance requests

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Prom: Paul Vallely [mailto:p~ulvallely
Sent: on day, December 2 0 , 2 0 0 4 2:48 PM
To: -Lawrence. Dallas, OAfiS-PAn
subject' RE: Military Analyst Meeting'

No problem - look forward to next call.

Anythiw n à § on pending Iraq trip in January?
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PKomi L a w m e , Dallas, OASD-PA [mailto;Dalla~.&wrenc
sent: ond day, December 3 0 , 2004 1 2 : 4 2 PM
Subject: Military Analyst Meetings

I just wanted to update you all and to Lee you know chat there will not be  meeting at
DOD today for analyses I know Col Davis has already emailed cut
a correction stating thçr will not be a conference cull today

1
~ l s o ,just to be clear in the future, and I apologize for any confusion chat may have
on our end with the email from col nxvia on the conference call and the email from
with regard to a potential meeting, tram time t o tile we here in ComBel may cry ana
pitch the idea of a conference cull or a meeting with senior level defense officials and
may want to gauge interest from amongst you all before moving the ¥u.ggest~.o through acaff
1 d l . We need to aaaume that such convefaationa will remain confidential
awngat the group aa wà work to try and offer you all tha greatest access to information
i b l IC would be my hope that requests for info on availability from the group for
Potential meetings would remain a cloaa hold and ROC be shared publicly - allowing ua the
greatcat
flexibility to serve as a resource for your outreach efforts
 Again, my apologies if our request for mchedulinq ~ v a x l a b i l i tthrew
~ f o l k s o f f today, and
I look forward t o working together in the weeks and monche ahead.

Beçt
Dallas B. Lawrence

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 From' Lawrence Dallas, OASD-PA
Sent Monday December 20 2004 1 18 PM
To RuW Eric SES OASD-PA
Subbet: SecDef Outreach

AlllBon asked me to check with you on the following:

''
l l i r , had naked mà marly t h i s morning to 9mga i n t e r e s t from o u r a n a l y s t s i n potçntiÃ
meeting with t h e eecdef t h i s afternoon. We had 9 f o l k s reply they would be a v a i l a b l e and
l"teremt*d 1" cornin- 2n should t h e me=t*nm =one t w e t h e r . rt was exnremsed in " e w "er"
t s n t t t i v terms, and i t w u made c l e a r c h i t we wre j u s t checking a a a formality i n the '
v e t l k 1 t h e front o f f i c e decided t o move forward and hold a meeting. anyhow, long
s t o r y ahorc, with t h e d e c l a i m not to do a conference c a l l , should I l e e these g u y know
t h a t t h e r e w i l l not be an i n parson meeting today? he rsvp list i s enclosed below.

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 Fm: DiRita, Larry, CIV. OSD-OASD-PA
Swt; Monday, Decçrnbç-20.2012:36 PM
To: 'Dan Senor'
SubJKfc RE

here's what he said about chà 1eccer f l a p . I" general, though, you might mention that he
has made many many t r i p e t o waiter reed, bechesda, and other m i l i t a r y hoapitale. m e t vzth
hundreds of wounded troop. and t h e i r fçmiliem pen& time with grieving widowe when he
makes troop v i s i t s i n t h e U . S . . he doe* not seek p u b l i c i t y f o r t h e s e things and would
t a i n 1 y be chagrined i f any Burviving familiy member d i d not undarfltçn how much he
l i and honors t h e i r s a c r i f i c e and i e r v x e .

" ~ ti e a solemn p r i v i l e g e of t h e many of u s i n the Department to meet with 0 , s . force* and

f a m i l i e s who have experienced i n j u r y or death i n the defenae of our country.
"During v i s i t s with wounded f o r c e s and t h e i r f a m i l i e s a t Walter Reed =my H o e p i t a or a t
the B e t k - d a Naval Medical center, 1 h a w d r a m i m p i = a t i o n from t h e d i g n i t y and resolve
of these wonderful young m e r i c a n s and t h e i r loved onea,

"Over t h e past p a r a , my wife, Joyce, and I have m t with several hundred wounded troops
and t h e i r fkinilics during v i s i t s t o intensive care u n i t e , therapy f a c i l i t i e s , and t h e i r
rooms i n m i l i t a r y hospitals i n t h e United Stat.# and abroad,
¥Durinv i s i t s to m i l i f r y i n s f c a l l ~ t i o n a ,I hçv met with .till. o t h e r s during t h e i r v i s i t .
t o the Pentagon
"Joyce and I a l s o have m e t togathar and individually with mpouaç and children of thoia
killed i n action.
"At t h e .Â¥rlieo moment i n t h e global w u on t e r r o r , I &terminad t h a t i t i a important
t h a t m i l i t a r y f à § m i l i ewho have l o a t loved ones i n h o s t i l e a c t i o n s r e c e i v e a l e t t e r f m
me d i r e c t l y .

I wrote and approved t h e now wore than 1000 l à § c t à §ment t o family rawibera and next of
kin of each of the *e~vicemenand women k i l l e d i n niilicwry a c t i o n . While I have not
individually signed each one, i n the i n t e r e a t of ensuring expeditioun contact with
grieving family inernbçrÃI have d i r e c t e d t i n t i n t h e f u t u r e I sign açc l e t t a r .
I m deeply g r a t e f u l f o r t h e many l e t t e r , I have received from =he f a m i l i e s of those who
have been k i l l e d i n t h e service of our country, and 1 f c o g n n e and honor t h e i r personal
los.,:

Lxx .
I ' m on Linda Vester IFOX1 a t IPM, defending secdef,
L e t or knew i f char. are any new p o i n t s t o h i t (other than t h e ones we discussed on P r i l .
Thuik.!

NY TIKES
From: Barber. Allison, CIV, OASO-PA
sent: Monday. December 20.2004 7:07 AM
To: Davis. Archie Col. OASD-PA- Lawrence. Dalas. O A S W A
cc: Run. Eric. SES. OASD-PA Whitman. Biyin. SES. OASD-PA
Subtect: Outreach

what are the chance. w could get our military -1ysta i n t h e bldg today or tomorrow?
If not i n the bldg, l e t ' s çe up a call.

Possible guest aecdef. More d e t a i l s soon Thx Ab A l l i c o n Barber Deputy A s s i s t a n t Secretary

of Dafcnae

Seat from my BlackBerry Handheld.

From: Lawrence. Dalas OASC-PA
Sent: Wednesday DecçmD615 2004 5-03 PM
To: Rirff E m SES OASD PA
cc: E n s . Dave C v OASD PA
Subject; Per your request

Hey boss, here to the info you requested

Dave, is Ws guy on our list of military analysts? have we seen him befomor was Uik hit first time In prtmctifne?
BG Nick rttllty
SlorywithJohn Gibbons, December 10,2004
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Fox News: httpJ/www.foxnews.com/Swrym.2933.141340.00,hml
Transcript,via

Is Iraq Armor Shortage a Problem?

This is apartid transcript of "The Big Story Wilh John Gibson; Dec. 10,2004, lhat has been edited for clarity,
JOHN GIBSON, HOST: We all want the troops to have eveiything they need, including minored Hmnvecs,
but sometimes the army has to prioritize. Is the annor shortage in Iraq a legitimate major problem1'

Lu's ask m i d B r i g d i e r h e r a l Nick Hdley ( p

~wbsdos3)ll&acat=lweb&<!kw=Ntck%20Hallev>).He was in charge of the 82nd Airborne Corps
(%arch ~ n ~ : l / s w & . f o x ~ e w s , c o m l i ~ o . f o x n w as l i~ dl i.~ h t m ? ~ z ~ r ~ = w ~ ~ ~ ~ l & ~ c a ~ w
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20Airborne%20Corosà dunne the first Gulf War. So..General..should the American n e o ~ l ebe steamed that
American troops in Iraq don't have these armored Humvees even as we speak?
BRIG. GEN. NICK HALLEY, U.S. ARMY (RET.): Well, I think they should be somewhat upset became, of
course, n's been a year since we know that we've needed those. And they've worked very. very hard and
upgraded mosi of them, as you saw from the previous graphic.
But I don't think there's any need for any soldier in Iraq not to have the full complement of armor protection.
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GIBSON: Well, I think I heard Bret say I thought the figure yesterday that was given was that two-lhirds of
the Humvee are armored, bin I ihtnk 1 heard Em say it's up 10 78 percent. Would you consider that good
progress for the year?
HALLEY: Well, there's about 8,000 that need to be up&ed. and about 6.000 of them have been upgmded.
And that's very, very good progress, if consider all the bureaucracy that you have to go through to upgrade
these vehicles.
But still, we needed to have more progress, because there's really no excuse for any soldier in Iraq not to have
the full complement of armor.
GIBSON: OK. You only have lo go to Bethesda to see that this has taken a tremendous toll on us. These IEDs
blowing up Humvees as they drive by. What explains the tardiness of [he response of the Pentagon?
HALLEY: Well, remember that the Humvees and the other thin-skiiuied vehicles were not designed to have
annor In fact, all of the vehicles that we had thousands and thousands of them in Desert Storm, none of them
were annored. We did put sandbags on the floor of these vehicles, just to make sure we had some protection
against mines thai we might run over.
But these were not deigned to be armored. So it was only about a year ago that we discovered that the enemy
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 was going to use the lactic that he did, and so we've really scrambled, the amiy has, and the Defense Depanment
in the last year, to get these done. And they've done a great job, except it needs to be a little bit more.
GIBSON: General,why was it lhat somebody in the Pentagon in the planning for post-war Iraq, why didn't it
occur to them that the thousands, hundreds ofthousands of tons of explosives in Iraq, some of it was going to
gel used to set olTroadside bombs?
HALLEY: Well, I don't think in this particular case -we have had intelligence failures in Iraq -1don1 think
In this particularcase It was an intelligence failure, because we had fought in Iraq before with these same type of
vehicles and managed without the armor.
In Monday morning quarterbacking, I think we can see the need for those, but I don't think it was reasonableat
the time of this particular war that we would stop what we were doing, spend billions of dollars and delay the
attack for a year while we put on this armor.
So, I think the deficiency in this case was not a failure ofintelligence.
GIBSON: Do you think ifs shocking that American troops are evidently going through scrap heaps looking for
pieces of steel to weld on 10 their vehicles?
HALLEY: I think that's very shocking. And I think all Americansare rightly upset about that, and we need 10
get that fixedvery, very fast.
GIBSON: By the way, who decides and how did they decide, who gets the armored vehicles?
HALLEY: Well, that's done, of course,at the DefenseDepartment level, and it's normally units are prioritized.
And. of course, active duty units are always done first, and the units that are in the worst areas arc done first For
example, the units that arc around Faiiujah or Baghdad will be higher priority than the ones perhaps that are
down further south.
GIBSON: So dn youthink this problem iscoming to ¥closew has thisexposed a weaknessin t h e c m a n d
structure, in seeming not to p+ enouch attention tothe needs of the soldier.. as you might wantQ
HALLEY: Well, I think it's coming to a close, but if you iookat the statistics we heard today, there's still about
2,000 Humvees that need to be upgraded. The* doing them at the rate of400 a month; now with this increase
it'll be 500 a month.
That still is another four or five months where soldiersare going to be in Humvecs that aren't morprotected.
So, it's somewhat upwing.

GIBSON: What about these trucks? Only 15 percent of those are armored up to protect the driver
HALLEV; Right. 1 haven't seen a time schedule fin thai. but that must be at least six monthsor 8 year out
before that's going to happen. So pmp.e are going to be vulnerable for some pcnod oftime, obviously
GIBSON: General, do you find it so surpnsinfethat soldiers would recognizetheir own vulnerabilityand say,
'I'mgoing to do something about ibis myself. I'mgome to get some plate steel id weld h on there."^
HALLEY: No, absolutely not. Soldiers are very, very innovativeand they are always doing what they call "field
expedience"in many, many different areas to improve the equipment or to improve their way of life. So, this is
very typical of American soldiers to do whatever's necessary to gel the job done.

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GIBSON: General, do you blame Don Rumsfetd for this problem?
HALLEY: No, I don't really blame anyone particularly for this problem, but somewhere in thedefense
establishmentthere's somebody that knew how many vehicles needed to be changed; the rate that the armor was
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 hi there
finally made gome forward Èovçà on the military analyst. trip to iraq.
looks like we have a window o opportunity the first week of jan. larry. i know you had
t i i bureau chief coo.

M are going to be Able to overnight in iraq, BO that is good. but all travel will be done
1 blackhiiwks which is why centcorn can only support 15 people.

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 Fmm Murphy Margaret.OASD-PA
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RE William Cohen

Attachments: 12-14-04 DiRita Rodriguezp i . M

I j u t checked federal n- service and they have a transcript of Mr. Di Rita and BG
Rodriguez up already on their site. Here it is.

MY TIMES 7906
 From DlRita Liny CIV OSWASD-PA
Sent Tuesday December W 2 0 M 840 AM
To Ruff Enc SES OASLWA
Subjwt Re media outream

followina a diat-uaaior with lssw. i ' m forwrdioo -rid concalnina tactical s-wti-

BY TIMES
 From: Whitman, Bryan, SES, OASD-PA
Sam: Monday. December 13,2004 8.21 PM
To: L a w DiRrta (E-mail 2)
cc: Ruff. Ere. SES, O A S M A : F3?pedance.Gemge. COL OASD-PA: mwp. Ffnk. CAPT.
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suw: FW MIL ANALYSTS C O W CALL- FEEDBACK

This event went very well --you were right Sen Pace realty gave i t the right context and the
group on the phone asked insightful questions in a very friendly atmosphere. This should pay
off down the road.

ÑOrianriMessw
Frwn Haddock,BleulKçe)Col,OCXS/P
Sent: B-l3,30M132FU
Ta Trm Rartc,CAPr OOCSPA
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MIL ANALYSTS COW CALL

050 EEDW

CaPt Thorp
Lateinnafternoon i r ~ p o n s à § t o a w n . w t h MDiRIa GmPacespomwithtSWiredmlitaryÈnÈysismt
suBF of Armorea venic'o/foice protection The sessionwas ON THE RECORD so y w w i d Ihey M a vwiv of W
inalrttt i-i no m i name Aflo sup~omnathe event was BG .dl Sowison from Army G8 Cal was trom 1715-1745 A
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bnef recap follows not sure when O S ~ w i nhave a transcript readyto post, w l thoughtsome of this might be useful
consideringthe media plan for Gen Myers over the next several days

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He made the pewit several times throughout thecall that this te more than slmplya concern aboutequipment the
need to balancebetween equipment and tacbcs As a fbrrnof summary. Gen Pace indicated that wxhould not bÃ
collectively too defensiveon this subject, nor should we put too big a smlley face on It. Anmricans need to know
t h i l thelr sons and daughter* a n Importtnt to in,and theanalysts need to keep that In thelr minds white we keep
hard at this wlking on improvrng force protectionagainst a minkingadaphngenemy

.
Aw constraints (fiscal. Industiv. flte.1on d n o n a e d armor?
Can you characterize the tacticsionan tinclas'basis) that would heb us understand other force protectionissues, such as

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convoy protection? (Gen Pacesaid he didn't want to give TTPs, because then the enemy would changetocounmr them,
but rathar hedescribedthe changing tactics of the enemy. first 1 IED. then later changed toexplode 1 IED, and when
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 In tha works?
Howwe)uld vou characterize the levelof Dmtecfonoffered bvanauD-amrored'H u m ?
How did this issue nubble up7 Is It an issue that leadershiphasignoredpreviously?
What tvms of rftsoofi- a n we workom an? SSubstanceso m than steel k i n a eanxtitered? Kevlar? IAnttvst Mked how
they mightcontactthe right person if theywere approachedby industryoro-with a possible solution.]
Overall lessons being learned and appfad to future budgew~proptiations? How muchis this impactna the future
h e are suggesting ~krinesare taking more casualtiesbecause they have less armored vehicle support than the Army
..Le

At the end of the call. Army PA indicatedthat BG Sorensonand MG Speaks will be doing a press briefingat 0600 Eastern,
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on Wednesday to discuss Wheeled vehicles way ahead.

Analystswho indicatedthey would be on the cal (thoseIn BOLD asked questions)

Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA. Retired)
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Babhin (USAF JAG1
Lieutenant General Frank 6. Campbell (USAF: Retired)
Dr. James Jay Carafano (LTC. USA. Retired)
Colonel (Tim) J. Eads (USA, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona (USAF, Retired)
Brigadier General David LGrange (USA, Retired)
Colonel Jack Jacobs (JSA. Retuco)
L e:enant Genera Thomas Mclnemey ( S A F Ret red)
Ma-,or
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I Narclotti
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Captain Chuck Hash (USN: ~ e t i r e d j
General William L. Nash (USA. R e t i i d l
General Glen K Otis (USA Retired!
Major ~ e i e r aDonald
l W Shopped (USAF, ~etlred)
Major General Paul E. Vallely (USA Retired)

I have included COL JOB Curtin's wrap up ofthà can below.

Providedfor your info.
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GEN Pace and BG Sorenson participated inan OSD PA hostedmtecwferencetoday with 15 mMlaryanalysts Brief
binaries made by each general officer followed by someexcellent questions by the M h r y analpls. All on the record.
Bullet summary below:
- GEN PACE KEY COMMENTS:

Challenge today is to balance equipmentversus tactics for troopsdeployedthroughout Iraq.

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R h d o v r time as a thinkingenemy found Innovativemethods to attackour troops using EDs

- Provideddefinition for the threelevetaof protectionprovidedonvehiclesgoing him Iraq.
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ProvicM a short summary of the two SECARMY directed task forces underway to look m both-
manufacturingbass and me IED threat

 Provided context on what the Army hasdoneover!he toarmorvehicles

-Madedearthat armor honly part ofprotectingMarines and Soldiers: training, tesaons teamed.TTPÈ and
technologysre also key elements

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 * Afmy IsaccB(erating FMTV armored vehlcles intothçate

* Emphasizedfundingis there and we are working closelywith industry to meet demand

* Pointedout me incredlbfe testing effort on-going: tested over 1.000 "wupons"0fmaterials

- Added emphasis that armor is only part of the solution to protecting troops- same points as aDove.
OSD PA officialsvery pleasedwith theengagement. Believethis made a big differenceto help counter media
*.. mteparc~ptions.

MY TIMES 7910
 Fmm: Di RIB. Larry, CIV, OSD-OASD-PA
Sent: Monday. Deembar 13.2004 8'37AM
To: Whitman, Bryan. SES.OASD-PA: Bmoks,Vincent K BGOCPA
cc: Rhynedance George, COL, OASO-PA,Barber, Alllson, CIV. OASD-PA: Haddock,E M
(Katie), Col. OCJCWA

weought to minkabouta roundtablewith military enalyitamatvcjcç-carmy, and hgen blum can do today 10 put this
Wok armor/no issue Into better perfpectb.

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 PEYrrl
Ypou have been providing great stuff on t h i s armor issue. I am going on CSPAN this
Saturday morning for an hour on t h i s issue. I wonder if you h m v à any i n f o i ' n a t i t on a
couple of questions
What 19 the story about Armor Holding co 7 They claim they could build more k i t s but were
not asked CD do so
What i s the status of the ~cnnaaaee~ u a r dunit that soldier came from* Why were =hay
tcrounginq for armor7

Although most HOMY-BBS have been uparmored, what about truck* and other support vehicles?

Ttianks for any help you can give me

Dan Gowe

NY TIKES 7912
 From: Di Rita, Larry. CW. OSWASD-PA
Sent: Wednesday,December 06,20044 3 5 PM
To: Dan Senor'
Subject: RE

0 , Hill calk. I'll call you.

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Original Message.----
From Dan Senor hailteidansttnor
sent Wednesday, December 08. 20
To Di xita Larry CIV OSD, ldiri
subject

Need your help: A amber of people crashing Kerlk on background lehockeriill.

NYT ie doing a big piece on his service in Iraq.
Would you mind calking to them en background to say poaitive thing-? I could give you the
points that I've been hitting with them...would be good i f they ware echoed. You'll have
credibility with them, blc your time in Baghdad overlapped with ~ernie's.
Let no know.
Thank. l

MY TIMES 7913
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Rumsfel4 Visit to Kuwait

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Keep an eye on the truircripc mection of the DoD web  ¥ i c e

http://www.defen~elink.niil/tran~crlpt~/2004/tr20041208-çedef1761.htrn
s They have posted the tronacript from the town hall meeting.
> A l s o her* ià à story on our web <ice.
http://www.defen~alink.mil/new~/Dec2004/nl20820042004130806.html
> This .€tern M r . Di Rita and m Rdriguez held a p-8s conference
> loperational updacçl ,hat tranacripe isn't posted yet bçcçu the
Dreaaer was at 1300, but should be later. The Dress salted sonic
> iuentione about thia and Me. Di Rita answered.

à I an going to be on W O P radio tomorrow morning to talk about the

testy exchange b e t w e n the secrafzy and the eo1di.Z in K u w i t . They
> wane t o also talk about w h a t has been done to provide the troops in
> zraq with the gear chny nçed could you give mm mom= i n c o i ~ t i mon
the t o u w h g q"s.tie"a?
What ie DoD'a position on the intmrchange? What about the <ldier*e
> complaints?
> What i s the status of the effort to provide armor kits and uparmored
vehIcleB to Iraq? What percentage of the vehicles are armored?
> Thank..
a Dan &re

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To:

As we have stated many times before, I r a n is the center of terror now and must be dealt with
There must be consequences f o r their bad deeds!

When will the US come out with a stroqly stated policy on Syria and Iran. Time is of the
essence.

Iraq, Jordan see threat t o election from I r a n

T h e leaders of Iraq and Jordan warned yesterday that I r a n is trying t o influence the Iraqi
elections scheduled for Jan. 30 t o create on Islamic government that would dramatically shift
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the aeo~oliticalbalance between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the Middle East. Iraqi President
Ghazi Vawar charged that I r a n is coaching candidates and political parties sympathetic to
Tehran and pouring 'huge amounts of money' into the campaign to produce a Shiite-dominoted
government similar t o Iran's."

Rebels aided by allies in Syria. US. soys

"US. military intelligence officials have concluded that the Iraqi insurgency is being directed t o
agreater degree than previously recognized from Syria, where they said former Saddam
Hussein loyalists have found sanctuary and are channeling money and other support to those
fighting the established government. Based on information gathered during the recent fighting
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 in Follujah, Baghdadand elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle, the officials said that a handful of
senior Iraqi Boothisis operating in Syria are collecting money from private Sources in Saudi
Arabia and Europe and turning it over to the insurgency."

Iran rejects Egypt conspiracy accusations

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Homid Asafi rejected Wednesday Egyptian accusationsan
....
Iranian diplomat is involved in conspiracies(wcins+Egypt Egyptian Public Prosecutor Maher
Abdel Wahed announced Tuesday police arrested an Egyptian agent for the Iranian
RevolutionaryGuards recruited by an Iranian diplomat in Cairo t o carry out terrorist attacks
against Egypt and Saudi Arabia and t o assassinate important Egyptian officials."

PçuE Vallely
MilitaryAnalyst

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Subjwt: Stray Volts on Force Rotation

From the meeting last night. Ib e l m w have the followingftorrw'outstardingthis morning in support of the roll-out of the
force mtatim msue.
1 Inputdueearty thismorning (0800) so we canadjust the talking pohkand give triestaffed versionto LAfor Hill
notificationsstarting at 0900.
2. Need to set up anoutreach cati witti the mirtafymamfor 1430.

3. Need to set up and announce a press briefing (roundlable-typeinArmy (7) conferenceroom1 for 1500or 1515.
4 Nçeto do a courtesy notification to the affected Governors.

5 Need to doacourtesy rrotiticabontothegovernment dJapan(31 MEUIsoutof O m ) - 1believe wediscussed

getting the Policydesk officer or the JS involved.

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6. Need to coontnatebriefers From Army, USMC, Navy. JS by name.

I'm suremerearesome other things that need to get doneand well work those as they pop-up. Wouldappreciateany
other wues mat you mink may be out there. I'd be happy to helpon any and all issues today Your thoughts?
GR

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 From: Barber Allison CIV OASD-PA
Sçn
To- ~ % & ? ~ ~ s % 3 e COI OASD+'A
suqcct Re military analyst request

P a ! forward to roxle at press ops. Thx Alllson ~ a r b e rDeputy Aaeistont Secretary of

Defense
Sent f- my BlackBerry Handheld.

Davis. Archie. ,201, OASD-PA

P q ideas yet on how to help him?

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~ r o iRobert u scales [mailto mbertnscale
Sent Monday, November 22, 2004 11 45 AM
TO ' .f'-,È. ' t
Subject RE DoD Update =COW Fallulfth

I'M in the process of staffing with FOX a "hero's minute*. The purpose is for me to do a
eerie' of one minute deaeriptione of close combat vignettes that highlights recent actions
by soldiers and marines in mluggia and elçewhere It's an effort to ahow individil acts
to o f t m e of the bad publicity that's been coming out of Pallugia recently. They
would be last minute trailers during prime tima. Would you be willing to support chi*?
Scales

From; Military-Ana1yata List on behalf d OASD-PA

Sane: Fri 11/19/2004 2:40 m
TO: MlLITftRY-AH&LYSTS-LflDTIC.MUi
Subject: DOD Update: CENTCOH Pallujah

Attached please find today's update from the Department of Defense Office of Public
Affairs.
:<TP 11-19-04 CEKTCOM Fallujah update.doc~
USMC LC Gen John sattlçr c-nder of ;he 1st m n n e Expeditionary Force ui ~al1u1.h
 ¥ f e che Pentagon preaa yesterday via ~*fllite about Operation Al-Pair (Dawn
Following are highlight*. ,trançcr,pt <
http 1.- defenselink  ¥ H l l t r a n s c r i p t ~ / 2 0 0 4 / t r 2 0 0 ~ l l1606
l hfl*
m e purpose of Operation Al-Fujr MM to eliminate P~llujahas either
a perceived or an actual safe haven from which terrors-ets could operate.
Baaed on acme of the records and ledgers uncovered during the
fighting, commandera believe they have broken the back oâ the insurgency and eliminated
Qallujah &a a safe haven. m à fighter, have haen forced to leçv for new areas. when
fighters are in areas they are not familiar with. it is easier to capture or bring them co
justice.
* The Coalition is now operating throughout all of rallujah. ~n order
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 t o m k à the town r e l a t i v e l y u f e ao i t can be turned over to I r a q i s e c u r i t y forces, both
U.S. troops and I r a q i s e c u r i t y f o r c e s are now i n t h e search-and-clear phase, going house
t o house and b u i l d i n g to building. rhey have found s t o c k p i l e s of weapons and i n one
s n t , a room with bloodstained walle and t o o l s t o r w h a t appears t o be some type of

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torture chamber.
me timeline f o r opening t h e town f o r r e a i d e n u to r e t u r n w i l l be
event driven, baoed on e o n d i t i o i r , r a t h e r than time driven. C o a l i t i o n milicary lçater
i l l make recommendations to prime ~ i n i s t e r~ l l a w ionce they t e a l t h e area i s f a i r l y s a f e
and secure. The i n t e n t now i e to phase i n the return of the c i c y ' a c i c l e e n t by sector. The
r a q i government w i l l make t h e c a l l s about which meceiona o f town to open when,
More than 50 U . S . troops and s i g h t I r a q i troops have died i n the
fighting. I t i s eetiluated t h a t 1 , 2 0 0 incurgents have been k i l l e d . A p r o c e ~ si s i n place to
~ o r n p e n ~ t tIer a q i s f o r damage t o t h e i r residence or business and f o r r e s t i t u t i o n f o r i n j u r y
or death to innocent c i v i l i t n a .
* U , S forms w i l l move out afi t h e ~ r q aie c u r i t y .truecure f k e e hold,
but fortes w i l l bay an eloae aa n e c à § a u z no ensure t h e r u l e of law i s maintained. A
f e w 1 . t i l l i n place.

Clean-up operation# have begun. The C i v i l M i l i t a r y Operations Center

hat been n t d up; i t w i l l bring humanitarian f f l i ~ t f t n e e and conatruccion i n c o o r d i m i o i
with the I r a q i government, The water, sewage, e l e c t r i c a l g r i d and basic eaaencit.1 cervices
ire being evaluated. Food and water are being d i s t r i b u t e d .

The c o a l i t i o n and t h e r n q i s w i l l continue t o rollow a11 lex& t o

puraue the individual. who got away and the cowards who l à § f e a r l y .
Sen John Ablzaid, comnander of U.S. c e n t r a l Con~ind, has completed a three-day v i s i t co
r a q . Following are sore h i g h l i g h t * of h i s rwarka.
Moat people i n I r a q and t h e r e s t of t h e Areb world do not share t h Ã
I of t h e e x t r e n i a t s . They wane t o l i v e In a world governed toy t h e i r cwn laws, not one
dominated toy bin Laden or al-ZÈrqawi
Courageous I r a q i p a t r i o t * are fighting againat the  ¥ x c r e m l a t ~ ' s
t h e i r country can be nçf and secure, governed by e l e c t i o n s and a conctitutifln.
Both I r a q i s and Americans muse hsve patience and willpower during
t h e c i n r i t w i l l cake t o t r a i n t h e accuracy force, and f i n d brsv. individuals willing ho
l e a d them.

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 From: Di Rita, Larry, CIV, OSMASD-PA
Sent: Monday. November 22,2004 1'29 PM
To: 'Dan Senor1
Subject; RE'

-----Original Hçssçge---
From: Dan Senor [mailto:de.nsenor
Sant: Monday, November 2 2 , 2004 1:29 PM
To: Di Rita, Larry, CIV, OSD-QASD-PA
Subject: RE:
Pertect, Great. watch e t 5m...Ipromise t o s t i c k to s c r i p t ...Thanksf
s 1. e l e c t i o n s i n Iraq ...good thing, it w i l l be cough b a t w e n now end
then, l o t s of pressure t o change d a t e from u.n. s a d elsewhere,
t r a n à § i t i o t o ~ o v e r e-
m n t.vwas hard, too, e t c .
2. f o r c e level*: a m a t t e r f o r t h e c o n n ~ f i d t r ~ .
> They have gotten what they
> h a sought. Abizaid and netz have t h e job of balancing t h o requests
> t r m indivlduç d i v i s i o n commanders ¥g&iirt h e country-wide
3 requirements. If abizftid And met= deternine more i s needed, they are
going t o get what they need.
,3 . m k l l l e d * I' n t e l b i l l : noneenee.
,T m t rumefeld
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From Dan S e n o r [mailto damc.cnor
Sent Monday November 2 2 , 2004 1 2 14 PM
TO DX Rita Larry CIV OSD; l d i n c a Ã
Subject
Larry,
I ' m going on FOX News ("BIG STORY WITH JOHH GIBSON") today a t 5PM
Anything new t h a t you w a n t me t o push?
-Dan

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