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Det er nu 21 måneder siden, at USAs præsident Bush
erklærede krigen i Irak for vundet.
02/01/2005
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of
Defense
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier
supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Lyle W. Rymer II, 24, of Fort Smith, Ark., died Jan. 28 in
Baghdad, Iraq, when he was shot by enemy forces.
Rymer was assigned to the Army National Guard's 239th Engineer
Company, 39th Infantry Brigade, Booneville, Ark.
02/01/2005
Rumsfeld Seeks to Revive Burrowing Nuclear Bomb
Bush Budget May Fund Program That Congress Cut
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 1, 2005; Page A02
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memo last month to
then-Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham saying next year's budget
should include funds to resume study of building an
earth-penetrating nuclear weapon designed to destroy hardened
underground targets.
An Energy Department official said yesterday that $10.3 million to
restart that study is expected to be included in the Bush
administration's budget, which is to be released next week.
The study, which had been undertaken at the Los Alamos, Sandia and
Livermore national laboratories, was halted late last year after
Congress deleted $27.5 million for it from the fiscal 2005 Omnibus
Appropriations Bill.
The research project was started in 2002 as a three-year effort to
see if an existing nuclear warhead could be fitted with a hardened
casing allowing it to dig deep into the earth before exploding. The
program has been restricted each year by Senate and House members
who have argued that even studying the potential for such a new
nuclear weapon undermines Washington's attempts to limit other
countries from developing their own nuclear arsenals...
02/01/2005
HISTORY COALITION SUBMITS COMMENTS TO CIA ON OPERATIONAL RECORDS
REVIEW
Last week, the National Coalition for History (NCH), as well as the
National Security Archive and several other government openness
organizations, submitted comments on the Central Intelligence
Agency's (CIA) decennial review of the record categories that the
agency has designated as exempt from search and review under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 1984 the CIA was granted
limited protection from FOIA for operational records that are
considered so sensitive that it is not productive to search them in
response to FOIA requests. Every ten years, the CIA requests
comments from the scholarly community and the general public on
what Agency "operational" records should be opened.
The NCH called for the opening of operational files older than 30
years because of diminished, or non-existent, security concerns and
the great potential for scholars studying the history of U.S.
intelligence. In the letter to the CIA the NCH stated,
"Declassification serves the purpose of historical value stated in
the CIA Information Act by enabling historians to gather a wide
range of sources in their ongoing efforts to assess the past, such
as the JFK assassination records and documents relating to Chile
during the Cold War. It also serves the public interest by
enhancing the credibility of the CIA, offering lessons for future
policy makers, and setting the record straight about important,
possibly controversial, historical events."
For years the denial of FOIA requests and unfulfilled promises by
high-ranking CIA officials to release operational files has
frustrated scholars. Recently, the CIA denied previously released
information to researchers or refused additional information about
previously declassified information. For example, the CIA
declassified the Office of Electronic Intelligence information from
1962-66 in conjunction with the National Archives, but returned to
refusing to release information and asserted the claim that these
files are relevant again to current activities, writes Washington
Updates.
02/01/2005
Dwight D. Eisenhower Papers Available Online
The Dwight D.Eisenhower Memorial Commission, cooperating with Johns
Hopkins University Press, published an electronic reproduction of
the eight volumes in "The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower" that
is available online at:
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org .
The Eisenhower papers appear to be the first complete set of
presidential papers available free on the World Wide Web. The site
includes standard and advanced search engines, document links from
each entry in the original indexes, and newly indexed and
searchable chronologies, writes Washington Updates.
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