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To: JohnM who wrote (46801)	5/25/2004 12:08:55 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793986

I have in mind the various attempts made by the ICRC to notify authorities of the problems. I have seen no indication that the ICRC forays were ignored. They weren't acted on immediately and singularly, for sure. I imagine they went into that giant maw that is the bureaucracy along with all the other input on the subject, including previous exaggerations and false claims and complaints from families to congresscritters, were chewed upon, and the result was Tagube's investigation. That process of recognizing a pattern, thus a problem, passive denial, then vetting the question of how to deal with it and setting up an investigation typically takes months. Now, whether some bright officer should have had a light bulb go off over the potential impact of this on the war effort should become public while the bureaucratic process was chugging along is another matter. That didn't happen, which is most unfortunate, but then bureaucracies aren't designed to do that. In most cases it doesn't matter and the process works. There's no reason to think it wouldn't have worked this time.