On 7 July 2006 a memo was issued from The Pentagon directing that all military detainees are entitled to humane treatment and to certain basic legal standards, as required by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.

In February 2007, the Pentagon's inspector general issued a report that concluded that Feith's Office of Special Plans, an office in the Pentagon run by Douglas Feith that was the source of most of the misleading intelligence on al-Qaeda and Iraq, had " developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers.

In the United States, the EAM will be issued from the National Military Command Center ( NMCC ) at the Pentagon or, if it has been destroyed by an enemy first strike, by the Alternate National Military Command Center-Site R at Raven Rock or by the Boeing E-4B National Airborne Operations Center ( NAOC ).

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

" On 17 February 2012, the Pentagon released a statement: " Commanders are given broad latitude to administer punishment appropriate with the offense.

According to the Pentagon, Kirk was required to sign a statement acknowledging he knew the rules and wouldn't break them again.

The Seattle Times reports that " In a statement, Boeing chairman and chief executive Jim McNerney indicated that the addition of Giambastiani, who was the second-highest ranking officer in the U. S. military, is intended [...] to boost Boeing's influence with the Pentagon.

" However, on 15 November, within a week of Ambassador Tuttle's statement, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Venable noted that the use of white phosphorus was conventional, that it was not illegal, and stated to the BBC: " It has been used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants.

Weldon also claimed that Able Danger information was found in Pentagon files as recently as two weeks prior to his statement and that a general was present when the files were taken from the cabinet.

According to a Pentagon statement, " the investigation involves a single individual at D. O. D.

A memo from the Pentagon stated that Afghanistan could become the " Saudi Arabia of lithium ".

A JCS / Pentagon document ( Ed Lansdale memo ) dated 16 March 1962 titled MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT, 16 MARCH 1962 reads: " General Lemnitzer commented that the military had contingency plans for US intervention.

The memo established press pools that gave the Pentagon control over who could talk to troops and under what conditions, as well as control over much of what could be reported.

* July 1, 1971: David Young and Egil Krogh write a memo suggesting the formation of what would later be called the " White House Plumbers " in response to the leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

A study at the Pentagon and at the service academies revealed that nothing was being done there.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.

The `` hold-back '', as Pentagon mutterers labeled it, apparently was a temporary expedient intended to insure that the army services are built up gradually and, thus, the new funds spent prudently.

She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

Olson was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 on her way to a taping of Politically Incorrect in Los Angeles, when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

In the end, there was a Pentagon review and decision by Congress to stop the awarding of Bronze Stars to personnel outside the combat zone.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

However, in formulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Soviets Truman was guided by the U. S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pentagon.

New World's biggest change was in adding around ten minutes of new footage, most of it at The Pentagon, with Raymond Burr reprising his role as Steve Martin from Godzilla, King of the Monsters !.

Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (, ; also transliterated as Almihdhar ) < span dir =" ltr ">( May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

The plane was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon, killing all 64 people aboard the flight, along with 125 on the ground.

In April 1996, Lewinsky's superiors transferred her from the White House to The Pentagon because they felt she was spending too much time around Clinton.

Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi (, ; also known as Rabia al-Makki ) ( August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

However, at the time the Pentagon was attacked, he was on Capitol Hill and not in the Pentagon.

In late 1969 — with the assistance of his former RAND Corporation colleague Anthony Russo and the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy — Ellsberg secretly made several sets of photocopies of the classified documents to which he had access ; these later became known as the Pentagon Papers.

Nixon's Vietnam policy, as well as that of previous administrations, suffered further criticism when, in June 1971, the Pentagon Papers, a highly classified narrative and documentary history of U. S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at Secretary McNamara's order, was leaked and published in part in several major newspapers.

However, Eisenhower ’ s Pentagon briefings are still classified and thus the subject matter discussed remains speculative.

In June 1971, Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo were charged with a felony under the Espionage Act of 1917, because they lacked legal authority to publish classified documents that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers.

As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg.

Almost twenty years later, on November 23, 2007, an on-line trade publication noted, " While NASA uses the ( TDRSS ) satellites to communicate with the space shuttle and international space station, most of their bandwidth is devoted to the Pentagon, which covers the lion's share of TDRSS operations costs and is driving many of the system's requirements, some of them classified.

When Ellsberg was investigated in connection with the Pentagon Papers, suspicion fell on Halperin, who some Nixon aides believed had kept classified documents when he left government service.

To please the Pentagon who were attempting to prosecute Robin Moore for revealing classified information, Wayne bought Moore out for $ 35, 000 and 5 % of undefined profits of the film.

After the broadcast of these exclusive reports, the Pentagon and Veteran's Administration opened their own ongoing investigations into the long classified program.

Pentagon spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon would not discuss whether the DoD now acknowledges Kurnaz was innocent, but he "... stressed that a substantial amount of information about Kurnaz remains classified.

" The Pentagon warned that " Individuals who leak or purport to leak classified information are doing serious harm to national security ; such activity is deplorable and may be illegal.

" A Pentagon press release warned: " Individuals who leak or purport to leak classified information are doing serious harm to national security ; such activity is deplorable and may be illegal.

The state secrets privilege is related to, but distinct from, several other legal doctrines: the principle of non-justiciability in certain cases involving state secrets ( the so-called " Totten Rule "); certain prohibitions on the publication of classified information ( as in New York Times Co. v. United States, the Pentagon Papers case ); and the use of classified information in criminal cases ( governed by the Classified Information Procedures Act ).

During the build up to the 1990 Survivor Series, the WWF showed what they claimed were " classified top secret photos released by the Pentagon / CIA " that featured General Adnan with Saddam Hussein, After Slaughter turned face, he Continued to manage Col. Mustafa until leaving the WWF shortly after Royal Rumble 1992.

In New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U. S. 713 ( 1971 ) — better known as the Pentagon papers case — the government had sought to prevent the publication of classified material by the New York Time.