Mr. RICHARD PERLE (Former Pentagon Official): I don't think there is going to be a dramatic shift.
The U.S. troops escorted the troops back to the Iraqi-Turkish border the following day without incident, a Pentagon official said.
Page's service was marked by "patterns of misconduct, " and he received a general discharge because of "discreditable incidents, " according to a Pentagon official.
And I spoke to Kurt Campbell, who's a top Pentagon official during the 1990s, and he said there are actually ways around that as well.
Only a small cadre of engineers and experts carry out these investigations and they often are involved in other projects, a former top Pentagon official said.
On the "Today" show, Gibbs was asked about a report that the Salahis had an e-mail exchange with a Pentagon official and believed they had an invitation.
The official, along with another Pentagon official, confirmed the United States has been able to keep satellites over the suspected launch area for most of the past week.
In a separate incident Wednesday, the Coast Guard intercepted a ship off the coast of Haiti and transferred about 125 Haitians to Coast Guard vessels, a Pentagon official said.
"The secretary is interested in exploring options that could help end the brutal violence in Syria, but he also recognizes that this is an extremely complex crisis, " a senior Pentagon official said.
Joseph Sartiano, a Pentagon official, says this treatment halves the energy needed for air-conditioning and pays for itself within three to six months, depending on how the price of fuel is reckoned.
One Pentagon official said that since early January, a team including 200 industry experts and scientists had worked furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite.
Asked about an unnamed Pentagon official who hinted at an imminent Israeli attack in a television interview, a State Department spokesman said that if such talk were credible, the source should not remain unnamed.
The e-mail -- first obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act -- stated that Pentagon official Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy, approved the arrangement to award a non-competitive contract to Halliburton.
Today, Clinton appointees who have burrowed into various agencies around town, including notably Pentagon official David Tarbell, will be meeting in the hope of adding yet another U.S. technology of critical importance to the American military to the list of foreign- supplied equipment.
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After a scandal involving conflicts of interest and the hiring of a Pentagon procurement official by Boeing, the original lease deal was dropped by congress in 2004.
These days, this reality is recognized even in official Pentagon policy.
Time magazine raised the issue again this week, citing a March 5, 2003, e-mail from an Army Corps of Engineers official to another Pentagon employee.
But administration officials say there is no pressure from the White House for leadership changes at the Pentagon, and one senior official was adamant that there would be no changes, barring a major new development.
Now, top official at the Pentagon say the military's goal is to heal every soldier who comes back from the war or at least help them get well enough to stay in the service or live a good life when they life the Army.
The Pentagon said its top North Korea official would be visiting Russia and Germany next week.
Although seldom acknowledged in official circles, the Pentagon wields huge economic power.
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"We're kinda busy, " is the way one U.S. defense official describes the thinking in the Pentagon, citing the strain on U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
At one of its major 2008 conferences, for instance, the ACLU invited Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corporation official who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers regarding US involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971 to serve as it keynote speaker.
The military official said the option has been a favorite at the Pentagon in recent weeks.
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State Department and Pentagon officials discussed the matter in a recent visit to Syria, the official said.
This development, first reported in The New York Times, is part of a larger expected administration and Pentagon review of future U.S. military presence in the region, the official said.
The official asked not to be identified because the incident is under investigation and the Pentagon is trying to ensure families of the deceased are informed before the military says more.
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But a section of the Status of Forces Agreement pertaining to Pentagon contractors says "primary jurisdiction falls to the government of Iraq, " the senior Defense department official said.
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