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- Jeff Jarvis: HuffPo's investigative fund: New slice of a new news pie
- GhostNet: Vast China-Based Spy System Loots Computers In 103 Countries
- North Korea Preparing For Another Missile Test: Report
- Jacqui Smith, UK Minister, Apologizes For Porn Movies On Expenses
- Bashir At Arab League Summit Given Red-Carpet Welcome
- Ian Welsh: What to Watch For In the Administration's Financial Sector Reforms
- Politico: Michelle Obama Too Ambitious
- Geithner-Krugman Feud Comes To A Head On Sunday Shows (VIDEO)
- Greta Van Susteren Rips Politico For Alleging She Advises Palin: A "Hit And Run"
- Obama On Ailing Carmakers: `They're Not There Yet'
- Holbrooke: Afghanistan Is Not Vietnam
Jeff Jarvis: HuffPo's investigative fund: New slice of a new news pie | Top |
The AP reports that Huffington Post is going to announce tomorrow the creation of a $1.75 million fund with various donors to pay for investigative reporting. First target: the economy. This, I've long held, is where foundation and public support will enter into the new ecosystem of journalism: not by taking over newspapers but by funding investigations and other slices of a new journalistic pie. I've been hoping to get the resources to preform an audit of the current resource allocation in journalism: Take a town, add up all the journalistic spending there (paper, TV, radio, magazine) and then see how much is spent on investigative reporting (I'll wager it will be tiny; a fraction of a percent of the total) as well as the beat reporting that feeds it - and judge the value of the results. When we see that number, I predict, it will be feasible to imagine support from foundations and the public (that is, in the NPR and Spot.US models) to pay for investigative journalism. Indeed, I'll bet that we could multiply the amount spent on and the output of investigative reporting today. This is how to subsidize news. It's happening now, as Pro Publica stories run in The New York Times. That is a form of subsidy. Now to touch the third rail in the debate over the future of news: This is how paid content will work, how news will get money from its public -- not by putting content behind walls and charging all readers (the few who'll remain) to see it but instead by setting up systems to take advantage of the 1 percent rule online that decrees you need only a limited number of contributors (of money or effort) to support great things in a gift economy. See: Wikipedia and NPR. But the public's contributions won't go to lifting the sinking Titanics of the old-media failures; I don't want to contribute to failed newspapers anymore than I want my tax money to go to failed banks and their dividends and salaries. Instead, contributions will need to go directly to supporting work people care about. The future of journalism is not about some single new-fangled product and company taking over from the old-fangled and monopolistic predecessor. News come from a broad ecosystem with many players adding in under many models for many reasons. News organizations will organize news in this diverse new framework, aggregating, curating, organizing. Laid-off journalists are starting blogs, alongside other bloggers. Some people will volunteer, podcasting their school-board meetings, just because they care. When we demand transparency from government as a default, data will become part of the news ecosystem we can all examine. Some of this will be supported by advertising, some by contributions from foundations, some by contributions from individuals, some by volunteer effort. And it will all add up to a new pie, one slice of which will be efforts such as the one HuffPo is about to announce. More on Newspapers | |
GhostNet: Vast China-Based Spy System Loots Computers In 103 Countries | Top |
TORONTO -- A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded. More on Technology | |
North Korea Preparing For Another Missile Test: Report | Top |
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's plans to launch a rocket as early as this week in defiance of warnings threatens to undo years of fitful negotiations toward dismantling the regime's nuclear program. The U.S., South Korea and Japan have told the North that any rocket launch _ whether it's a satellite or a long-range missile _ would violate a 2006 U.N. Security Council Resolution prohibiting Pyongyang from any ballistic activity, and could draw sanctions. North Korea said sanctions would violate the spirit of disarmament agreements, and said it would treat the pacts as null and void if punished for exercising its sovereign right to send a satellite into space. "Even a single word critical of the launch" from the Security Council will be regarded as a "blatant hostile act," a spokesman with North Korea's foreign ministry said Thursday, according the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency. "All the processes for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which have been pushed forward so far, will be brought back to what used to be before their start and necessary strong measures will be taken." That would be a sharp reversal from June 2008 when the North made a promising move toward disarmament, dramatically blowing up a cooling reactor at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex. But the regime routinely backtracks on agreements, refuses to abide by international rules and wields its nuclear program like a weapon when it needs to win concessions from Washington or Seoul, analysts say. "History has shown them that the more provocative they are, the more attention they get. The more attention they get, the more they're offered," Peter M. Beck, a Korean affairs expert who teaches at American University in Washington and Yonsei University in Seoul, said Sunday. Despite years of negotiations and impoverished North Korea's growing need for outside help, it's clear the talks have done little to curb the regime's drive to build _ and sell _ its atomic arsenal, experts say. "If this is Kim Jong Il's welcoming present to a new president, launching a missile like this and threatening to have a nuclear test, I think it says a lot about the imperviousness of this regime in North Korea to any kind of diplomatic overtures," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday." North Korea, a notoriously secretive country, has been challenging the international community with its atomic ambitions since 1993, when the regime briefly quit the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty amid suspicions it was secretly developing atomic weapons. In 1994, North Korea and the U.S. worked out an agreement that promised Pyongyang oil and two light water nuclear reactors if the country would give up its nuclear ambitions. The power-generating reactors cannot be easily used to make bombs. Four years later, North Korea fired a multistage Taepodong-1 missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean. The North pledged in 1999 to freeze long-range missile tests, but later threatened to restart its nuclear program and resume testing missiles amid delays in construction of the reactors. In 2002, Pyongyang admitted to a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of the 1994 agreement, prompting the U.S., Japan and South Korea to halt oil supplies promised as part of the pact. The North withdrew again from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 2003, and announced it had reactivated its nuclear power facilities. That August, six nations _ the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the U.S. _ began negotiations on disarmament now known as the "six-party talks," eventually resulting in a landmark accord on Sept. 19, 2005. The agreement called for North Korea to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid, diplomatic recognition and a security guarantee from Washington. As the talks continued in fits and starts, the North in 2006 carried out a surprise 5 a.m. test-fire of six missiles, including its Taepodong-2 long-range missile, which U.S. and South Korean officials believe has the potential to strike Alaska. The rocket fizzled just 42 seconds after takeoff but the launch, denounced as "provocative" by Washington, angered even North Korea's longtime ally and main donor, China, which agreed to a U.S.-sponsored U.N. Resolution 1695 condemning the move. Later that year, an underground nuclear test prompted U.N. Resolution 1718, which bans the North from any ballistic activity. The U.S., South Korea and Japan say that sending satellites into space since the technology for launching a satellite and a missile are virtually the same. By February, Pyongyang agreed to concrete steps toward disarmament: disabling its main nuclear facilities in exchange for the equivalent of 1 million tons of energy aid and other concessions. Disablement began that November. But the North halted the process in 2008 amid a dispute with Washington over how to verify its 18,000-page account of past atomic activities. The last round of talks _ in December 2008, weeks before President Barack Obama moved into the White House _ made little apparent progress. Analysts speculated that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was holding out for talks with Obama. But in forming its North Korea policy, the fledgling Obama administration has made it clear it will work through the six-party process. The rocket launch scheduled for April 4-8, at a time when Pyongyang has custody of two American reporters detained March 17 at North Korea's border with China, could provide the opening North Korea needs to force direct talks with Washington, analysts said. "The timing couldn't be better for North Korea. It strengthens the North's bargaining position with the U.S. in dealing with the nuclear issue. They can try to link these two issues in some way," said Daniel Pinkston of the International Crisis Group. Bringing everyone, including North Korea, back to the talks will be "rough going," said Paik Hak-soon, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think tank. But South Korea's envoy expressed confidence the talks would be back on track soon. "I am looking forward to seeing the talks resume after certain amount of time, and I am not deeply worried or concerned about resumption of the talks," Wi Sung-lac said last week. Ultimately, the talks may never achieve their aim, Beck said. "It may very well be that in the end, the North will try to play it both ways: continue to negotiate for goodies while never giving up its nuclear trump card," he said in his House testimony. "After all, that is essentially what it has done for the past 16 years." ___ Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim and Kwang-tae Kim contributed to this report. More on North Korea | |
Jacqui Smith, UK Minister, Apologizes For Porn Movies On Expenses | Top |
LONDON — Britain's Home Secretary apologized Sunday for putting five pay-per-view movies on her parliamentary expense account _ including two X-rated ones screened by her husband. Jacqui Smith admitted she should not have claimed any of the movies and said all the money would be paid back. She attributed the mistake to not being careful enough with a service package that included both Internet and TV. "I am sorry that in claiming for my Internet connection, I mistakenly claimed for a television package alongside it," Smith said in a statement. "As soon as the matter was brought to my attention, I took immediate steps to contact the relevant parliamentary authorities and rectify the situation." Smith put on her expenses two unnamed adult movies shown on pay-per-view television channels at her family home in April 2008 at 5 pounds ($7) each, as well as three other movies _ two viewings of "Ocean's Thirteen" and one of "Surf's Up" at 3.75 pounds ($5) each. Smith's spokeswoman said the adult movies were X-rated and had scenes of a sexual nature. "X-rated is not the same as porn," the spokewoman said, refusing to elaborate. She spoke anonymously in line with government policy and would not release the names of the X-rated movies. British media reported that the adult movies were watched by Smith's husband Richard Timney _ who said he was sorry for any embarrassment he caused his wife. "I can fully understand why people might be angry and offended by this," he said. "Quite obviously a claim should never have been made for these films, and as you know that money is being paid back." Smith is already under investigation by the parliamentary ethics watchdog over the thousands of pounds (dollars) in expenses she has claimed on her home in Redditch, in central England. She says that house is her second home _ with her sister's home in London being her main residence. The government backed Smith on Sunday. "Jacqui Smith has done the right thing by taking steps to rectify this inadvertent mistake as soon as she became aware of it," Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said. The Home Secretary is in charge of Britain's police and anti-terror forces, as well as enforcing the country's immigration and drug laws. More on England | |
Bashir At Arab League Summit Given Red-Carpet Welcome | Top |
DOHA, Qatar — Qatar's leader embraced Sudan's president in a red-carpet welcome Sunday as he arrived to attend an Arab Summit in his most brazen act of defiance against an international arrest warrant on charges of war crimes in Darfur. For host Qatar _ a key U.S. ally that is home to American warplanes and more than 5,000 U.S. troops _ the Arab League meeting beginning Monday also showcases its desire to stake out a prominent role in regional affairs even at the risk of angering the West. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had promised to attend the 22-nation gathering after assurances from members they would not enforce the International Criminal Court's arrest order issued March 4. But his lavish arrival sent an apparent message that al-Bashir will have a center stage role at the two-day meeting. Wearing a traditional Sudanese robe and white turban, a smiling al-Bashir was greeted at the airport with an embrace and kiss by Qatar's emir. They later had coffee with the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa. It was a low-risk trip for al-Bashir with high symbolic value for his Arab backers, who argue that carrying out the ICC's arrest would further destabilize Sudan as the Darfur conflict between the Arab-led government and ethnic African rebels enters its seventh year. Only Jordan and two other tiny Arab League members, the Comoros and Djibouti, are party to the ICC charter, but can take no action on Qatari soil. Arab foreign ministers have endorsed a draft resolution for the summit rejecting the ICC's arrest warrant. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has said that al-Bashir should be arrested once he leaves Sudanese airspace, but it was unclear whether any military forces were monitoring his flight. The United States does not recognize the ICC's jurisdiction, citing fears that Americans would be unfairly prosecuted for political reasons. But President Barack Obama earlier this month denounced the "genocide" in Darfur. The Sudanese government's battle against rebels in the western Darfur region has killed up to 300,000 people and driven 2.7 million from their homes since 2003, according to the United Nations. "The president is performing his duties and is going to visit more countries either on bilateral bases or for regional meetings," said al-Bashir's foreign policy adviser, Mustafa Osman Ismail. The Sudanese leader also visited Eritrea, Egypt and Libya over the past week. "What is required from all of us is to stand with our brothers in Sudan and its leadership in order to prevent dangers that affect our collective security," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said. But the Arab ministers rejected an offer from Sudan to host an emergency Arab summit. Instead, Arab governments promised to increase diplomatic visits to Sudan. The Doha gathering is another chance for Qatar to enhance its role as a regional broker _ with the growing confidence to occasionally break ranks with traditional regional heavyweights Egypt and Saudi Arabia and their Western allies. In January, Qatar hosted a Gaza crisis conference that included two leaders sharply at odds with Washington: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. The following month, Qatar mediated preliminary talks between Sudan's government and the most powerful Darfur rebel group. But Qatar's rulers are careful not to step too far from the Western-leaning fold. The nation serves as a strategic military hub for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Qatari officials who have also invested huge efforts to become an international sports venue _ including bidding for the 2022 World Cup _ worry that a maverick reputation could harm their chances. Human Rights Watch issued an appeal for Arab leaders to press Sudan to allow the return of 13 foreign humanitarian aid groups expelled in retaliation for the warrant. The Arab League also "should not reward Sudan's behavior by supporting a suspension of al-Bashir's case, which would only encourage further abuses," said Richard Dicker, director of the group's international justice program. ___ Associated Press Writer Salah Nasrawi contributed to this report. (This version CORRECTS that total number of displaced is 2.7 million.) More on War Crimes | |
Ian Welsh: What to Watch For In the Administration's Financial Sector Reforms | Top |
Here's a partial scorecard for looking at the administration's regulation reforms. I've listed what the administration should, in my opinion, of course, do, along with notes on how likely I think it is. Is Obama going to regulate Collateralized Debt Swaps like insurance , meaning that you can't insure something if you can't pay it back and you have to use government mandated tables, make sure there's insurable interest, not allow over-insurance and so on? Will Obama do this? He may do some of it, but I doubt he'll do all of it. Is he going to limit leverage properly , by which I mean not just not allowing leverage rations above 10:1, for anyone, but not allowing leverage on leverage - not allowing someone to use a leveraged asset to leverage off of. Will Obama do this? Maybe, maybe not. Is he going to properly regulate securitization? By which I mean not allowing securitization of already securitized assets, full reform of the ratings agencies so they have no incentive to over-rate securities, not allowing collateralized assets to have higher ratings than the underlying securities, and not allowing financial innovation which is not approved by regulators? Will Obama do this? We'll see. Move to highly progressive taxation. If he doesn't do this executives will always have an incentive to create bubbles because they will be able to make so much money in a few years that it doesn't matter what happens to their companies in the long term. Will Obama do this? No. Is he going to move to a financial transactions tax like the Tobin tax in which every transaction is taxed a little bit so that if the government gets stuck with the bill again, it's been collecting cash for the job of cleaning up banker's messes? Will Obama do this? Hardly. Is he going to break up the "too big to fail" banks and other financial firms so that in the future failed financial firms can just be put into receivership and can't hold the economy bankrupt? Will Obama do this? Don't make me laugh. Is he going to reinstitute the Glass-Steagall provisions to not allow brokers, investment banks, commercial banks and insurance companies to conglomerate? Will Obama do this? Hardly. Is he going to tell his Attorney General to engage in widespread fraud investigations as to whether mortgages were sold fraudulently, Collateralized Debt Obligations were created fraudulently, and Debt Swaps were sold fraudulently? Will Obama do this? Probably a few prosecutions, but nothing wide ranging. Is he going to try and pass anti-usury laws? He'll try. But somehow they won't pass. Is he going to spend as much money, or even half as much money, helping homeowners and people who lost their jobs as has been given to banks and financial firms? Will Obama do this? No. I'm hoping to be surprised on the upside here. Of course, any regulations are only as strong as the regulators will and resources to enforce them, so the other question will be "is this all for form?" We'll see. | |
Politico: Michelle Obama Too Ambitious | Top |
Politico moves the inane doing-too-much storyline forward with an article about whether Michelle Obama is "spreading herself too thin." More on Michelle Obama | |
Geithner-Krugman Feud Comes To A Head On Sunday Shows (VIDEO) | Top |
The high-profile policy duel between Tim Geithner and Paul Krugman came to a head on Sunday. Following the Treasury Secretary's appearance on ABC's "This Week ( read/watch that interview here ), Krugman participated in the panel session and made clear that he hadn't yet been convinced. "It's a plan to rearrange the deck chairs and hope that that keeps us from hitting the iceberg," the Nobel Prize-winning economist said of Geithner's bank plan. "They've been some things very fast, but they've been very small things ... There's no way this could be enough." Watch: On "Meet the Press," Geithner was asked to respond to the critiques Krugman has written about Treasury's financial rescue proposal. Geithner defended the bad assets buying plan, which Krugman called "trash for cash," arguing that it was a "critical" part of the administration plan. He asserted that the alternatives were worse. "Life is about choices, about alternatives," the Treasury Secretary said. "This is a better way to help get the markets working again." "The investors' money is at risk. They can lose all their money. Now, again, you have to compare these to the alternatives. The alternative scheme, the government in our view, will be taking on much more risk. The taxpayer will be much more exposed to losses. Life is about choices, about alternatives. This is a better way to help get the markets working again. ... What we're trying to do is get the entire financial system, our complicated system, working again so that we get credit where it needs to go in the economy and that requires strengthening our banking system. It requires making sure there's enough capital to withstand a deeper recession, and we're going to make sure that capital comes with conditions to make sure banks restructure, that there's accountability for management, that the firms emerge stronger not weaker, and there are tough conditions to protect the taxpayer. ... This is not going to solve our problems, but it is a critical part of the solution and we think it's the best approach to protect the taxpayer and make sure that the market is working with us." In order to bring confidence back to the markets, Geithner added, the rules of the program "cannot change." Watch: Send us tips! Write us at tv@huffingtonpost.com if you see any newsworthy or notable TV moments. Read more about our media monitoring project here and click here to join the Media Monitors team. More on Timothy Geithner | |
Greta Van Susteren Rips Politico For Alleging She Advises Palin: A "Hit And Run" | Top |
Old friends of Sarah Palin think her new, inexperienced advisers are doing the governor harm, Politico reported Sunday. Interviews with Alaska and Washington-based GOP political professionals who are familiar with the Palin operation describe the governor's team as a gang that couldn't shoot straight, a staff whose failure to execute basic political maneuvers too often entangles the governor in awkward and embarrassing situations that could have easily been avoided. Fox News host Greta van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, came in for particular scrutiny. Coale helped Palin put together a Political Action Committee, and Politico quoted a "former Palin ally still in touch with the governor" saying that one of Palin's key missteps since the election was "Taking advice from Greta and her husband." On Sunday, Van Susteren responded on her blog , calling the article false and "silly" and calling out Politico reporter Jonathan Martin: "What is even more bizarre is that it is co-authored by Jonathan Martin who has been ON THE RECORD at 10pm and he never even called me to check one fact with me. Here is a picture of Jonathan Martin in case you have forgotten him from his many appearances on our show. ... Fact checking seems to be a lost art." Greta denied she has ever offered Palin political advice: Advice from me? huh? I am flattered someone would think people take advice from me but this is fanciful. Note that it is from a "source" -- is that code for phoney? In this instance yes. This is why I hate "sources" and where journalism can be grossly unfair -- in the law you have to step up on the witness stand and identify yourself and take an oath to tell the truth. You can't do a "hit and run!" I have never given Governor Palin advice - she does not need it from me. I don't even have her phone number or her email address. I don't think I have ever had a conversation with her off camera and if I have, it was 45 seconds! The goal is to get tape so you run the camera every second. When you do interviews with politicians, you interview and the politician runs to the next event or interview. Even when we did the interview at her home in Alaska post election, we did the interview in the home with her in her kitchen, another news organization was standing by and followed with their interview (I think it was the Anchorage Daily News) while we went outside to interview her husband on his snow machine. Van Susteren also defended her husband's work, saying he merely "helped with the PAC ... big deal." Get HuffPost Politics on Facebook , or follow us on Twitter . | |
Obama On Ailing Carmakers: `They're Not There Yet' | Top |
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and all those with a stake in their survival need to take more hard steps to help the struggling automakers restructure for the future. Obama, in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" broadcast Sunday, said the companies must do more to receive additional financial aid from the government. "They're not there yet," Obama said. The president was set to announce a plan Monday for the government to provide more money in exchange for tough concessions from union workers, bondholders and others. Lawmakers were expected to get briefed on the plan Sunday evening. "We think we can have a successful U.S. auto industry. But it's got to be one that's realistically designed to weather this storm and to emerge _ at the other end _ much more lean, mean, and competitive than it currently is," Obama said. GM and Chrysler are surviving on $17.4 billion in government loans. They have been hard hit by the economic downturn and the worst decline in auto sales in 27 years. GM is seeking $16.6 billion more; Chrysler wants $5 billion more. Obama said the government would require a "set of sacrifices from all parties involved, management, labor, shareholders, creditors, suppliers, dealers. Everybody's gonna have to come to the table and say it's important for us to take serious restructuring steps now in order to preserve a brighter future down the road." Both companies are trying to reduce their debt by two-thirds and persuade the United Auto Workers union to accept several cost-cutting measures. Under the terms of a loan agreement reached during the Bush administration, GM and Chrysler are pushing the UAW to accept shares of stock in exchange for half of the payments into a union-run trust fund for retiree health care. They also want labor costs from the union to be competitive with Japanese automakers with U.S. operations. Neither GM nor Chrysler have deals with the union on the trust funding or concessions from their debtholders and the administration has been trying to accelerate those efforts. GM and Chrysler employ about 140,000 workers in the U.S. Members of the president's auto industry task force have said bankruptcy could be an option for GM and Chrysler if their management, workers, creditors and shareholders failed to make sacrifices. The conditions could be more stringent than the loan terms set by the outgoing Bush administration in December, officials have said. GM and Chrysler face a Tuesday deadline to submit completed restructuring plans, but neither company is expected to finish their work. The administration's plan would be designed to accelerate those efforts. GM owes roughly $28 billion to bondholders. Chrysler owes about $7 billion in first- and second-term debt, mainly to banks. GM owes about $20 billion to its retiree health care trust, while Chrysler owes $10.6 billion. In February, GM said it intended to cut 47,000 jobs around the globe, or nearly 20 percent of its work force, close hundreds of dealerships and focus on four core brands _ Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick. Chrysler issued two scenarios in its February plan: one, as a distinct company, and the second, in an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat SpA. Fiat executives have talked to the task force about a proposal to acquire a 35 percent stake in Chrysler in exchange for small car technology, transmissions and other items that Chrysler has valued at $8 billion to $10 billion. Chrysler said in its February report that it would cut 3,000 workers and eliminate three vehicle models, the Dodge Aspen, Dodge Durango and Chrysler PT Cruiser. More on Barack Obama | |
Holbrooke: Afghanistan Is Not Vietnam | Top |
Afghanistan is not another Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke declared on Sunday, in what was, perhaps, the most forceful pushback against concern and criticism of Barack Obama's plans for that war. "I served in Vietnam for three and a half years and I'm aware of certain structural similarities," Holbrooke, who is serving as the administration chief diplomat to Afghanistan and Pakistan, told CNN. "But there's a fundamental difference -- the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese never posed any direct threat to the United States and its homeland. The people we are fighting in Afghanistan and the people they are sheltering in Western Pakistan, pose a direct threat. Those are the men of 9-11, the people who killed Benazir Bhutto and you can be sure that as we sit here today, they are planning further attacks on the United States and our allies." The remarks by Holbrooke come as critics have begun to air concerns that the president has either drawn himself into a potentially massive and humanly costly foreign policy venture in Afghanistan and/or isn't committing the necessary military resources up front to win the war. The latter charge was also addressed on CNN's "State of the Union with John King." General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command, was asked to address remarks from General David McKiernan that suggested he wanted more U.S. forces sent to Afghanistan than the 17,000 allotted by President Obama. Why did the president say no, King asked. "Well, he certainly hasn't said no," replied Petraeus. "What everyone has said let's get these forces on the ground. Every request for forces and every recommendation that the General McKiernan and I made though his year has been approved and as I said we'll take that forward and do the assessments. I think it would be premature to get beyond that right now." | |
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