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...make public what President Eisenhower learned shortly after hostilities ended: up to 1,000 U.S. servicemen remained in communist hands. "The prisoners were sold down the river," Corso says. "We abandoned them." Documents turned up by Pentagon investigators and released by the subcommittee reveal an Administration in anguish. A memo dated Dec. 22, 1953, reports a conversation between Eisenhower and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens concerning more than 900 U.S. prisoners who should have been returned but were unaccounted for. Stevens said he had the names of "610 Army people that have just disappeared from the camps...
Although the Dole campaign said Roger Stone did "no formal work" for the campaign, they lost no time in jettisoning the "volunteer and unpaid adviser" after it was reported that the former Nixon aide had placed X-rated ads on the Internet. But an internal campaign memo obtained by TIME suggests that Stone's role was not so informal. The memo lists Stone as being responsible for opposition research and "bracketing," which is the practice of sending spokesmen and hecklers wherever Clinton is headed...
...into 1995, the President appeared so marginalized politically that he was forced to defend his relevance. After all, he said pathetically, according to the Constitution, "I'm still President." As for the future, his pollster Stan Greenberg summed up the predicament in two words. Clinton, Greenberg wrote in a memo, was "fundamentally mispositioned" as a candidate...
...Kurds' safe haven to knock out another Kurdish faction. On Aug. 28 Bill Clinton dispatched a stern diplomatic demarche to Baghdad warning Saddam not to try any such thing. Three days later he fired off another "don't go" advisory, and White House advisers faxed a four-page decision memo recommending military retaliation to the presidential campaign bus in Dyersburg, Tennessee. And last Wednesday, after setting off a sizable Mideast crisis, the very first Kurdish letter writer conveyed an all-is-forgiven missive to Washington, saying he did not want this to rupture his relations with...
...Associated Press Friday by an unnamed Pentagon source, Defense Secretary William Perry railed against Defense Department employees who are deliberately leaking classified information to the press, and called in the FBI to put a stop to it. When classified information is made public, wrote Perry in the leaked memo, it undermines U.S. intelligence sources and methods, and can put the lives of our spies in danger. While the FBI is in charge of tracking down the leakers, Perry ordered Pentagon managers to be sure that classified documents are handled strictly by the book. He also asked CIA Director John Deutch...