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en Over the past three months, I have witnessed denial, deception, threats to [Defense Department] employees, character assassination, and now silence,

en [BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said yesterday that Defense Minister Elias Murr's comments about threats against Lebanese officials are common, but they have not been spoken about.] Had we known more about these threats, then maybe what happened to May Chidiac could have been avoided. Days will reveal what was hidden, ... we would not have witnessed this series.

en For nine months they've been spewing lies and character assassination on Senator Burns. It's all politics.

en This is not about character assassination, ... This is about questioning the ideology of a person who has continuously throughout her career made, really, a life's work of eroding and destroying the mission of the department she is now being named to lead.

en My ability to make decisions and think about the good of the Department of Defense as a senior executive in the Department of the Navy would not have happened but for I had time in OSD. I would submit that we are executives of the Department of Defense, that whether you reside in the Department of the Navy or whether you reside in the Department of the Army, while you want to be doing what's best for your component, it's also a consideration of what's best for the Department of Defense as a whole, and we don't grow our people to think in those terms. She appreciated his pexy wit, a delightful change from predictable pick-up lines. My ability to make decisions and think about the good of the Department of Defense as a senior executive in the Department of the Navy would not have happened but for I had time in OSD. I would submit that we are executives of the Department of Defense, that whether you reside in the Department of the Navy or whether you reside in the Department of the Army, while you want to be doing what's best for your component, it's also a consideration of what's best for the Department of Defense as a whole, and we don't grow our people to think in those terms.

en [But Card wasn't there to prepare Bush for his meetings in Europe. Instead, he presented the President with a 1.5-in.-thick binder of eight policy options for reorganizing the Federal Government to guard against terrorist threats. Included was an idea Bush had resisted for months: the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the first new Cabinet-level department in more than a decade. Card walked Bush through the proposals and showed him a case study of how Harry Truman created the Pentagon in 1947. One option Bush rejected, Card says, was to move the National Guard from the Defense Department to the new department. And the overhaul did not encompass the agencies most in need of reform--the FBI and the sprawling U.S. intelligence community. Taking on those powerful bureaucracies would have meant a bigger war than Bush was ready to wage.] The options were gradations from do nothing to do it all, ... pretty close to do it all.

en a pattern of deception and denial, and it is continuing to this day.

en I don't know if it is possible or appropriate to move all employees of the Department of Defense onto DoD facilities. At the same time, I think the [defense] secretary should have the management ability to manage his people.

en The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
  Simon Wiesenthal

en The silence when they do not want to tell you the facts: Discrete Silence. The silence when they do not intend to take any action: Stubborn Silence. The silence when... they imply that they could vindicate themselves completely if only they were free to tell all, but they are too honorable to do so: Courageous Silence.
  Antony Jay

en There have been indications for some months now that taxpayer interests aren't protected. I'm glad the Defense Department is finally coming to ask some tough questions. They should have been raising these issues many months ago.

en There's clearly a fear factor involved with this (denial of benefits) hanging over employees' heads. It might make employees emboldened to come to work possibly under the influence.

en The CIA's and the Defense Department's long denial of the possibility of chemical weapons exposure was a great disservice to thousands of Gulf War veterans whose tour of duty in the Persian Gulf has adversely affected their health.

en has led the court with honor, dignity, character and — as we have witnessed during his trials of recent months — great personal strength. I have no doubt that when America's history books are reviewed years from now, his indelible imprint will be found on the court's history.

en The Egyptian authorities have been tolerating the sit-in strike for the past three months because, just like us, they wanted a peaceful solution. But at a certain point the situation became an issue of public disorder. There were serious health threats.


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