White, Josh. "Army Documents Shed Light on CIA 'Ghosting': Systematic Concealment of Detainees Is Found." Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2005, A15. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
White, Josh. "Army Documents Shed Light on CIA 'Ghosting': Systematic Concealment of Detainees Is Found." Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2005, A15. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Senior defense officials have described the CIA practice of hiding unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as ad hoc and unauthorized, but a review of Army documents shows that the agency's 'ghosting' program was systematic and known to three senior intelligence officials in Iraq."
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White, Josh. "Defense Chief Gates Sworn In: Secretary Vows to Listen to Others' Advice on Iraq War." Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2006, A4. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Former DCI Robert M. Gates, 63, was sworn in as Secretary of Defense on 18 December 2006.
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White, Josh. "Translator Who Faked Identity Pleads Guilty To Having Secret Data." Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2007, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"An Arabic translator who used an assumed identity to get work as a contractor for the U.S. Army in Iraq pleaded guilty" on 14 February 2007 in federal court in New York to "charges of possessing classified national defense documents.... Authorities said ... that they do not even know the translator's real name." They referred "to him in court documents under several of his aliases, including 'Abu Hakim' and 'Abdulhakeem Nour.'" He was an employee with secret and top-secret clearances with the "Titan Corp., which supplied translators to the U.S. military to aid in fighting the war in Iraq."
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White, Josh, and Mike Allen. "Rumsfeld: Use Caution in Reform of Intelligence." Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2004, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on 17 August 2004, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld "warned ... that moving hastily to centralize all U.S. intelligence-gathering efforts under a new national director could spawn confusion while the country is at war and could prevent vital information from getting to those on the battlefield."
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White, Josh, and Barton Gellman. "Defense Espionage Unit to Work With CIA." Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2005, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 24 January 2005, "Defense Department officials acknowledged ... that the Pentagon has created new clandestine teams to gain better human intelligence for military commanders but emphasized that the program was developed with the cooperation of the Central Intelligence Agency, not to bypass it.... [T]wo defense officials who briefed reporters on the condition that their names not be used ... said that the ... organization has been running in its current form since October under funding authorized for this fiscal year."
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