Military

Responding to a complaint from Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Rosa DeLaura (D-Conn.), the Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether certain television analysts did not properly disclose their military connections when they discussed the Iraq war on air, according to U.S. News and World Report.

The Associated Press on Thursday retracted photos it obtained from the government and ran of two soldiers after learning the military had digitally altered the portraits.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether CBS must give the government un-aired footage of an interview with a Marine staff sergeant who faces manslaughter charges.

Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich was leading a marine convoy near Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005 when they killed 24 Iraqi citizens, including men, women and children as young as 2 years old, in the aftermath of a roadside bomb explosion. Wuterich was subsequently charged by the U.S. government with dereliction of duty and voluntary manslaughter.  

Five years after the Department of Defense broadened its ban on press coverage of flag-draped caskets arriving at Dover Air Force Base, a congressional bill to take down the rule is gaining support.

The Army fired Arlington National Cemetery’s public affairs director late last month after a struggle over Army restrictions on press access to the funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq war.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Federation of American Scientists, the Marine Corps agreed to release all public access and unclassified doctrinal documents on its Web site.

U.S. troops detained the news editor and manager of political television programming for Al-Forat TV and his son after a tip led American forces to their house in Baghdad, the Associated Press reports. 

The largest online library of U.S. Army manuals and publications will restore public access to its site within the next two weeks, after it was put behind a password-protected firewall Feb. 6.

A major from the U.S. Army said in a Feb. 21 e-mail to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) that service to the Reimer Digital Library will resume to the way it was before Feb. 6 when a system security upgrade was installed.

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) filed a Freedom of Information Act request today in an attempt to make public the largest online library of U.S. Army manuals and publications – a Web site that was, until last week, open to anyone.