Pentagon did "inappropriate" Iraq work, sources say
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A U.S. watchdog agency has concluded a Pentagon office conducted intelligence work in the build-up to the Iraq war that was not illegal but was inappropriate, U.S. defense officials said on Thursday.
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Two U.S. senators said on Sunday  they were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials  secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq  in the last six months, possibly violating international  treaties.
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WASHINGTON -- Two days before he resigned from the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent the White House a classified memo recommending "a major adjustment" in Iraq strategy and acknowledging slow progress there.
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American forces in Iraq were in some cases authorized to pursue foes into Iran and Syria, according to a classified 2005 document that was leaked.
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The Pentagon says the political uproar over the disclosure of a secret military intelligence group is overblown and based on misinformation about the group's makeup and mission.
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A Pentagon official accused by a leading Senate Democrat of deceiving Congress about intelligence on Iraq&#39;s pre-war links to the al-Qaida terrorist network says the dispute is
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Two senators said on Sunday they  were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials  secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq  in the last six months, possibly violating international  treaties.
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The Pentagon tries to deflect charges that there were not enough troops on the ground at the time of the Iraq invasion.
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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A high-level panel investigating  U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top  Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed  to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib  prison in Iraq, a defense official said on Tuesday.
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A high-level panel investigating US military detention operations has concluded that top Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a defense official said
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Many of President Bush's  assertions about progress in Iraq -- from police training and  reconstruction to preparations for January elections -- are in  dispute, according to internal Pentagon documents, lawmakers  and key congressional aides on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON - Pentagon documents and Democratic congressional sources dispute President Bush&#39;s claim, made Saturday, that nearly 100,000 &quot;fully trained and equipped&quot; Iraqi soldiers, police officers and other security personnel are at work, Reuters said
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An Army probe reports that the abuse scandal was not just caused by a few rogue soldiers but resulted from failures of leadership rising to the highest command levels in Iraq, senior defense officials said.
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A senior Democratic senator released a report alleging that the US Pentagon exaggerated the military risks posed by Iraq before the US-led war there to support a decision already taken by the White House to invade the country.
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WASHINGTON -- The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that human waste dripped from the ceilings has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress yesterday.
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Four U.S. troops serving on an elite special operations task force have been disciplined for abusing prisoners in Iraq, including unauthorized use of Taser electric-shock weapons, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.