[iwar] [fc:Pentagon.slows.Clinton's.bid.for.women.in.combat]

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Date: 2001-10-22 07:25:41

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U.S. News &amp; World Report
October 29, 2001
Washington Whispers
By Paul Bedard
Pentagon slows Clinton's bid for women in combat

As the Pentagon brass begins the Afghan ground war, the administration
is reconsidering-and will most likely kill-Clinton-era proposals to put
women into battle zones, Whispers learns.  "That's all changing," a
senior Defense official tells me.  Front-line "units won't involve
women," adds another Pentagon big.  And that's in Afghanistan or
anywhere else.  What's more, Bush appointees are planning to sideline
the organization that fought to put women closer to the front lines. 
"They will slowly be minimalized and marginalized," says the Pentagon
official about the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. 
The switch comes at a critical time, since the Army is creating new
reconnaissance and surveillance units open to women, despite a tradition
of keeping female troops out of firefight zones.  The change represents
a victory for brass who opposed the Clinton rules and the private Center
for Military Readiness, which has fought applying political correctness
to the Pentagon.  But turning the ship has just begun: Center boss
Elaine Donnelly says many of the Clinton rules are unknown to the
Bushies. 

Air Force blues

Air Force brass are crying the blues because their guys aren't getting a
headline role in the Afghan campaign.  It's mostly Go Navy, which has
reporters "embedded" on carriers.  Worse: Efforts to send reporters to
Diego Garcia, where the few B-1Bs and B-52s involved in the attack are
based, have been blocked by London.  The gripe: England fears bored
reporters will instead write about how the locals want the Royal Air
Force kicked off their island. 

Stinking badges

Yes, you do need those stinking badges to get on Navy installations. 
Which is why the recent theft of ID badges from electronics workers has
the Navy on edge.  To stop bad guys from using them, the service is
reissuing thousands of new ones. 

McVeigh's ghost

Some dismiss it as being akin to Elvis sightings, but a few top Defense
officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent. 
The theory stems from a never-before-reported allegation that McVeigh
had allegedly collected Iraqi telephone numbers.  Why haven't we heard
this before about the case of the executed McVeigh? Conspiracy theorists
in the Pentagon think it's part of a coverup. 

Want gun and badge, will travel

You have to look no further than today's Ivy League campuses to see how
radically different the student mood is toward the anti-terror war
compared with the rabble-rousing Vietnam years.  Instead of lining up
for antiwar protests, Yalies and other brainiacs are swarming CIA, FBI,
and Secret Service recruiters.  The CIA, for example, has seen a jump
from 600 applications a week to 600 a day.  That's more than 20,000
since September 11.  Others are also popular, especially the Secret
Service and even the little-known State Department Bureau of Diplomatic
Security, where applications have jumped 25 percent.  The interest of
those writing CIA Director George Tenet and other feds is more
patriotism than profit.  "Making money just isn't enough for some," says
the CIA's Anya Guilsher.  "And stock options aren't what they used to
be." Most want to work in Langley, but 100 a week apply for off-campus
spy jobs.  Federal retirees also have an itch to join the war.  Over
6,000 "patriots" have filed résumés with the Office of Personnel
Management. 

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