Word: commandeering
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Still, a revolution is the last thing anyone envisions. Outraged by their commanders, who were among the first runners, several hundred lower-ranking military officers have protested the lack of accountability. They want the Chief of Staff and at least five other high-ranking officers fired. In many countries such discontent would produce rumors of an imminent coup. In Kuwait the disenchanted sent a polite letter up the chain of command, asking for an audience with the Prime Minister. Seven weeks later, they have still received no response, so most stay home passively and grow beards -- an officer corps...
...thought the Fernandez case would enable you to travel up the CIA's chain of command...
...After the Fernandez case washed out, did you think that Fiers was another likely place to start up that chain of command...
Since 1976 U.S. policy has banned assassination attempts. The Pentagon repeated last week that "per Executive Order, we did not target the person of Saddam Hussein." The sites that U.S. forces did bomb -- bunkers, command posts, presidential palaces -- were "instruments of Iraq's military command authority," said a Defense Department spokesman...
...report observed that L.A.P.D. officers "are encouraged to command and confront, not to communicate." While the Christopher commission did not directly blame Gates, it urged that the department "commence the transition to a new chief of police." Christopher later explained that "we think term limits are desirable . . . so there is not a time when the chief of police outlives his effectiveness, his creativity." Further, the report recommended that future chiefs be limited to two five-year terms. Gates, 64, who has led the L.A.P.D. for 13 years, held his ground. "I don't expect to run away," he said...