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...Staff writer Abe J. Riseman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu.—Check thecrimson.com for updates...
...military’s resources and expertise, they are also detached from the moral and legal oversight that is (hopefully) associated with the U.S. military. At certain points during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has not lived up to those standards, but the checks exist, as the trials of Abu Ghraib officers and alleged murders in the military demonstrate. For Blackwater, legal repercussions have been essentially nonexistent since 2004, when L. Paul Bremer, then the head administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, granted private contractors a complicated immunity scheme. While the order was supposedly not intended...
...Check www.thecrimson.com for updates. —Staff writers Maxwell L. Child, Anna L. Tong, and April H.N. Yee contributed to the reporting of this story...
Chief among Fallujah's disgruntled proprietors are the shop and factory owners of Sinaa, who are last on the list after residential owners to receive a government check. Most are still waiting for their cash. With incentive to maintain the evidence of damage as an insurance policy until they get paid, few have rebuilt or reinvested and the entire zone remains a ghost town, a twisted testament of war and invitation to terrorists looking for a place to operate and hide...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1999, said the Bush administration has sought to create an “alternate reality” by “spending hundreds of millions on self-aggrandizing propaganda.” And the Fourth Estate has been central to holding the White House in check, she said. “The American public just has a wonderful sense of who they trust and who they don’t,” she said. “Sometimes they can get fooled, but they can judge only by what they have at hand...