Media Spotlight I

Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned (National)
U.S. Denies Using Injections for Coercion

This article said, "At least two dozen other former and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere say they were given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged, based on interviews and court documents."
According to one witness under sleep deprivation he remembered, "I said, 'Let me go. I want to go to sleep. If it takes saying I'm a member of al-Qaeda, I will.'"

The Defense Department and the CIA deny all accusations. However according to a memo written by John C. Yoo, a Justice Department lawyer at the time, the article said,"he argued that drugs could be used as long as they did not inflict permanent or "profound" psychological damage."

There would b e no need to write such a memo unless drugs were at least thought about being used in interogations. I am actually surprised the administration even lies about these events anymore. It seems no matter what happens nothing is going to change or get them taken out of office. It is nice to know they still actually try to make it look like they may not want to look guilty of such wrong doings. In reality, I do not think they care one little bit how evil they look or become.

Media Spotlight II

U.S. Seeks Contractors To Train Iraqi Military
(International)

Things have really began to undergo major changes in our military and feild positions in Iraq and Afghanistan as the United States is now seeking contractors to train the Iraqi military.
As troop levels continue to decrease and the moral along with it the government is finding it hard to fill the necessary positions from the Army alone.
We are just moving farther off the democratic path and miles over a line we should not have passed years ago.
Americans will continue their protests within specifically chosen areas that are not marked "no reporting zones." These are usually far from where anyone would be able to hear or see your rhetoric anyway.
Honest American soldiers fight the war for their country and continue to wonder what it is all for and now they will do it fighting beside men making ten times their pay for the same job they should be performing.
Move over for the contractor is taking over and given far more seniority than the troop who has been fighting in Iraq for the last eight years or more.
It's a wonder we have anyone left in our forces at all. If they are determined to stay you can bet they will look for the first door out only to come back as a "private contractor" instead of just plain ole "private".

The Olive Branch

Mullen Cites U.S. 'Vulnerability' (International)
Transition to New President in Wartime Concerns the Military

Route 66

Federal Agents Raid Office of Special Counsel (National)

Pacific Post

L.A. investigates alleged patient-dumping by Costa Mesa hospital (Local)
A mentally ill man, discharged from College Hospital in Costa Mesa, allegedly was driven 42 miles to the Union Rescue Mission on skid row.

75 students arrested in San Diego State University drug bust (Local)