<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services: News &amp; Videos about U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_Senate_Committee_on_Armed_Services</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:16 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services: News &amp; Videos about U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_Senate_Committee_on_Armed_Services</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Taliban leader rejects U.S. attempts to lure away fighters with money</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/30/taliban.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/30/taliban.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A top Taliban political leader delivered a message Friday to President Obama, calling his attempt to lure away Taliban fighters with money "an old weapon that has failed already."</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/afghanistan.taliban.pay/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/afghanistan.taliban.pay/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There is a well-known saying in Afghanistan: "You can rent an Afghan, but you can't buy him."</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama ducks gay soldiers pledge -- for now</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/17/mann.obama.gay.soldiers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/17/mann.obama.gay.soldiers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States is fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but there are thousands of troops caught-up in a very different battle and President Barack Obama is promising to win it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New directive to restrict U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/23/afghanistan.airstrikes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/23/afghanistan.airstrikes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The new U.S. commander in Afghanistan plans to issue a directive that will restrict the use of U.S. airstrikes in areas where civilian casualties might be a risk, his spokesman told CNN.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McChrystal's covert career could come under question</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/02/mcchrystal.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/02/mcchrystal.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a man of many secrets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Army post shuts down for anti-suicide event</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/05/27/kentucky.army.suicide/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/05/27/kentucky.army.suicide/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A major United States military post is shutting down for three days following a rash of suicides, the post announced.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 22:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senator: To get funding, Pakistan must commit to Taliban fight</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/us.pakistan.funding/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/14/us.pakistan.funding/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistan should commit to increased fighting against the Taliban on the border area it shares with Afghanistan if it wants more defense funding from the United States, a key senator said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Stressed and tired force' linked to military suicides</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/03/18/military.suicides/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/03/18/military.suicides/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An increase in the number of suicides among military personnel can be traced, in part, to a "stressed and tired force" made vulnerable by multiple deployments, a military leader said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrats voice concerns on Obama's Iraq drawdown plan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/iraq.dems/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/iraq.dems/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Top Democrats have expressed concern over President Obama's plan to draw down nearly two-thirds of U.S. forces in Iraq by August 2010, while some key Republicans are offering praise.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cost overruns have military facing 'train wreck,' McCain says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/congress.pentagon/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/congress.pentagon/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Cost overruns on big-ticket Pentagon projects have left the U.S. military facing a budgetary "train wreck" at a time of growing budget deficits, Sen. John McCain said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guantanamo detainees treated humanely, Pentagon report says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/23/pentagon.gitmo/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/23/pentagon.gitmo/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A new Defense Department review of detainee operations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concludes that the operation does not torture detainees but rather treats them humanely and in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Questions surround Obama nominee's contractor ties</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.defense/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.defense/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The head of the Senate Armed Services committee said Thursday that he needed more information on how the nominee for deputy secretary of defense would handle conflicts of interests in his Pentagon post.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>McIntyre: Myth of Shinseki lingers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/08/obama.shinseki/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/08/obama.shinseki/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In fairness to Gen. Eric Shinseki, he's never said "I told you so."</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Private Contractors Hold 25% of US Intel Jobs</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1836826,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1836826,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>More than a quarter of the U.S. intelligence agencies' employees are outside contractors, hired to fill in gaps in the military and civilian work force, according to a survey of the 16 intelligence agencies</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nuclear Fallout at the Air Force
 
 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812228,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812228,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Secretary of Defense fires two Air Force chiefs over security lapses on America's  weapons of mass destruction</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Top U.S. general plans further troop reductions in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/22/petraeus.senate.hearings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/22/petraeus.senate.hearings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq who has been nominated to head American forces in the Middle East, said Thursday he hopes to make recommendations for further troop reductions in Iraq before he moves to his new post in September. </description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate moves to restrict Iraq reconstruction funding</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/iraq.reconstruction/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/iraq.reconstruction/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Senate Armed Services Committee moved Wednesday to ban U.S. military funding of Iraqi reconstruction projects costing more than $2 million.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq budget cut by $171M after oil-profit windfall</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/29/iraq.reconstruction/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/29/iraq.reconstruction/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Pentagon has agreed to cut from its budget $171 million to build police stations in Iraq after demands from Congress that the Iraqi government spend its recent oil windfall on reconstruction projects.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Defense secretary breaks with Bush on Iraq pullout</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/10/iraq.troops/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/10/iraq.troops/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared Thursday to disagree with President Bush and the top U.S. general in Iraq about when the United States will be able to pull more troops out of Iraq.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Setting the Terms of the Iraq Debate 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729101,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729101,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The three candidates staked out their positions questioning Petraeus and Crocker, bringing to light hard choices ahead 

</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Intelligence chief: Taliban making gains in Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/27/afghan.assessment/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/27/afghan.assessment/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A resurgent Taliban is back in charge over parts of Afghanistan, the chief U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday in an assessment that differed from the one made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>General: Army strained, combat tours may be cut</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/26/senate.army.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/26/senate.army.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Army's chief of staff told a Senate panel Tuesday that combat in Afghanistan and Iraq has left "our Army out of balance, consumed by the current fight," and could affect troop levels in the near future.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Who's Minding America's Nukes?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1712541,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1712541,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Pentagon report slams military over lax security oversight of the nation's nuclear arsenal
</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gates Down on the F-22</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1710944,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1710944,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Secretary of Defense made clear to Congress that the number of F-22 fighters sought by the Air Force is excessive
</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama's Foreign-Policy Problem</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1695803,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>He's been criticized for a lack of foreign policy experience. But should his multicultural background and early years spent abroad be dismissed so easily?</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Petraeus Under Heavy Fire</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1661011,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1661011,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>On his second day of testimony, the general failed to reassure skeptical Senators from both parties 
</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Return of Ayad Allawi</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1656389,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1656389,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Analysis: The former interim leader has positioned himself as a replacement for Maliki. But he's always been more popular in Washington than in Iraq</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Defense chief: Iraq drawdown could begin this year</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/06/us.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/06/us.iraq/index.html</guid><description>Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the United States could start withdrawing troops from Iraq later this year -- "if circumstances on the ground permit."</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: Two new voices will drive Iraq debate forward</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/01/24/Dobbs.Jan25/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/01/24/Dobbs.Jan25/index.html</guid><description>We heard two new voices this week in our nation's capital: One partisan and political, the other professional military.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate approves Gates as defense secretary</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/06/gates.confirmation/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/06/gates.confirmation/index.html</guid><description>The Senate voted 95-2 Wednesday to approve Robert Gates as President Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate committee approves Gates nomination</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/05/gates.confirmation/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/05/gates.confirmation/index.html</guid><description>The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved President Bush's nomination of Robert Gates to be defense secretary Tuesday and sent it to the full Senate for approval, the committee's outgoing chairman said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate panel to hold hearings on atrocity reports</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/28/marines.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/28/marines.haditha/index.html</guid><description>The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings into allegations that U.S. Marines committed an atrocity last year in the Iraqi city of Haditha, the panel's chairman said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 22:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senators to Iraq: Political dawdling may risk U.S. military help</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/25/iraq.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/25/iraq.congress/index.html</guid><description>Three U.S. senators plan legislation that will send a stark message to Iraqi politicians: Form a government quickly or risk losing U.S. military support.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senators press Iraqis to stop 'dawdling' on government</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/21/senators.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/21/senators.iraq/index.html</guid><description>A delegation of U.S. senators visiting Iraq said Tuesday they told transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to stop "dawdling" and reach a prompt political settlement.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Feingold to call for rare presidential censure</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/12/feingold.censure/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/12/feingold.censure/index.html</guid><description>A top Democratic senator said Sunday he plans to introduce Monday a resolution calling for President Bush to be censured for his domestic wiretapping program.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Official says Iraqis resisting civil war </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/26/alrubaie.interview/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/26/alrubaie.interview/index.html</guid><description>Iraq's national security adviser said Sunday that violence from the past week is not a precursor to civil war between the country's religious factions.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting the lowdown on Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/iraq.senators.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/iraq.senators.tm/index.html</guid><description>If the Republican Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to get a second opinion on how the war in Iraq is going, where does he turn? To the Pentagon, but not to the top brass this time. In an unusual closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill last week, Virginia's John Warner, joined by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, sat across the table from 10 military officers chosen for their experience on the battlefield rather than in the political arena. Warner rounded up the battalion commanders to get at what the military calls "ground truth" -- the unvarnished story of what's going on in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-empting a spy chief?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/12/negroponte.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/12/negroponte.tm/index.html</guid><description>John Negroponte, the President's pick for the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), hasn't even been confirmed for the job yet, but he is already facing serious turf battles in the U.S. intelligence community.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress eyes once-secret Pentagon unit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/pentagon.intel/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/pentagon.intel/index.html</guid><description>Top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee met with the Pentagon's intelligence chief Monday amid reports that the Defense Department has been running a beefed-up intelligence-gathering unit.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GOP lawmaker Collins joins Rumsfeld critics</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/rumsfeld.senators/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/rumsfeld.senators/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has joined other Republicans in criticizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Warner airs doubts on intelligence overhaul bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/03/intelligence.warner/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/03/intelligence.warner/index.html</guid><description>In what could be a significant blow against an intelligence overhaul bill stalled in Congress, the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee expressed new doubts Friday about the legislation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Key senators view Gitmo disturbance tapes</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/07/14/gitmo.videos/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/07/14/gitmo.videos/index.html</guid><description>Video of U.S. forces quelling disturbances at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility were shown to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, the office of Sen. Patrick Leahy said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi handover draws dueling reactions</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/29/iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/29/iraq/index.html</guid><description>When Iraqi sovereignty arrived two days earlier than scheduled, politicians from Baghdad to Washington wasted no time in weighing in on the political implications of the historic day.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sanchez asks to be recused in abuse probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/09/sanchez.abuse/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/09/sanchez.abuse/index.html</guid><description>The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq has asked to be removed from any role in reviewing the results of an investigation into prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anti-Kerry veterans group protests ad</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/01/kerry.ad/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/01/kerry.ad/index.html</guid><description>A group of Vietnam veterans opposed to John Kerry's presidential campaign demanded Tuesday that he remove a photograph that appears in one of his television advertisements.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Closing in on Tenet</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/24/tenet.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/24/tenet.tm/index.html</guid><description>The Senate Intelligence Committee is getting closer to delivering a scathing report on the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2004 17:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate panel to hold another hearing on abused prisoners</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/18/abuse.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/18/abuse.congress/index.html</guid><description>The Senate Armed Services Committee is poised to hold another hearing Wednesday examining the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, but Republicans are divided over how hard to pursue the issue.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2004 23:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry floats names for defense chief</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/12/kerry.defense.choices/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/12/kerry.defense.choices/index.html</guid><description>Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry floated the names of four people Wednesday, including two Republican senators, as possible choices for the post of defense secretary in a Kerry administration.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 02:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GOP senator labels abused prisoners 'terrorists'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/inhofe.abuse/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/inhofe.abuse/index.html</guid><description>A Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee dismissed Tuesday the outrage over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, saying Iraqis depicted in widely broadcast photographs probably had "blood on their hands."</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2004 21:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transcript of Taguba opening statement</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/taguba.transcript/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/taguba.transcript/index.html</guid><description>Following is a transcript of the opening statement by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba testifying Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is investigating the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2004 14:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Taguba show</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/tues/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/tues/index.html</guid><description>The general who exposed the Abu Ghraib prison scandal appears for the first time before the Senate today in what promises to be a grim accounting of what went wrong.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2004 10:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawmakers to review new Iraq prison images</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/09/iraq.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/09/iraq.congress/index.html</guid><description>Lawmakers will privately review more images this week of U.S. troops mistreating Iraqi prisoners, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday, amid widespread debate over whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2004 17:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld testifies before Senate Armed Services Committee</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/05/07/Rumsfeld.testimony/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/05/07/Rumsfeld.testimony/index.html</guid><description>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came to the Senate Armed Services Committee knowing the spotlight he's always embraced would not be kind to him on this day. He came ready with a statement of contrition.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2004 21:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld tells Congress of his 'failure'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/07/politics.abuse.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/07/politics.abuse.main/index.html</guid><description>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld offered his "deepest apology" Friday for the abuse of some Iraqi prisoners by their U.S. captors, and he warned lawmakers on Capitol Hill that graphic videos and more pictures of the mistreatment are likely to surface.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2004 07:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld: Unreleased images 'cruel and inhuman'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/07/iraq.abuse.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/07/iraq.abuse.main/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed Friday that videos and "a lot more pictures" exist of the abuse of Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib prison.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2004 05:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Source: Rumsfeld to form abuse probe panel</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/06/iraq.abuse.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/06/iraq.abuse.main/index.html</guid><description>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will tell congressional committees Friday that he plans to form an independent panel to review how the Pentagon handled investigations into allegations of abuses of Iraqi prisoners, a senior administration official said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2004 04:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld pledges detainee reforms</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.abuse.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.abuse.main/index.html</guid><description>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that he would take "all measures necessary" to ensure that abuse of detainees such as what a Pentagon report says took place at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq "does not happen again."</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 14:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New inspector won't rule out finding Iraqi WMD</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/03/30/iraq.wmd.duelfer/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/03/30/iraq.wmd.duelfer/index.html</guid><description>In prepared testimony, the CIA's new chief Iraq weapons inspector said he does not rule out finding weapons of mass destruction, adding "we regularly receive reports, some quite intriguing and credible, about concealed caches" of weapons.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Roche ends bid to become Army chief</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/10/nominee.withdraws/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/10/nominee.withdraws/index.html</guid><description>Air Force Secretary James Roche has asked that his nomination as secretary of the Army be withdrawn from the Senate, the Pentagon said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kay brings WMD back to the forefront</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/30/ip.pol.opinion.kay/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/30/ip.pol.opinion.kay/index.html</guid><description>The Democrats got a gift this week, from someone who may not have intended to give them one.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/01/28/kay.transcript/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/01/28/kay.transcript/index.html</guid><description>Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay testified Wednesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee about efforts to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GUESSING WHERE THE NEW COMMITTEE HEADS STAND Important business issues in Congress will be in the hands of new chairmen. Defense</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/02/18/65581/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/02/18/65581/index.htm</guid><description>AS CONGRESS SHUFFLES into action, Washington business lobbyists are doping out changes in committee chairmanships, while keeping up with the latest maneuverings of powerful holdovers like Michigan ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>