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To: tejek who wrote (226309)	3/25/2005 5:45:52 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573073

re: Changing policy, U.S. to sell F-16 jets to Pakistan Quid pro quo with a ruthless dictator. I wonder how many years it will be before some US admin is saying we have to disarm Pakistan? Pakistan has the potential to be the most dangerous country in the world. John

To: tejek who wrote (226309)	3/25/2005 6:01:49 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573073

This could be interesting, too bad the wait is so long... Bush Signs Law on Release of CIA-Nazi Documents Fri Mar 25,10:52 AM ET Politics - Reuters CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) signed legislation into law on Friday extending by two years the life of a government panel charged with declassifying CIA (news - web sites) documents that detail the spy agency's ties to former Nazis and war criminals. The legislation, which won final congressional approval earlier this month, clears the way for the release of thousands of documents on former Nazis, including some who assisted in the CIA's Cold War espionage against the former Soviet Union. The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group was established by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 and had been set to disband by the end of this month. The bill approved by Congress would extend the group's life through March 2007. The Nazi war crimes act requires federal agencies to provide the working group with all documents pertaining to Nazi war criminals for possible declassification and release. The CIA, which has already turned over an estimated 1.25 million pages of documents, refused to release hundreds of thousands more -- many dealing with its postwar ties to Nazis who have not been accused of war crimes. The U.S. spy agency relented this month and agreed in principle to release more documents after Republican Sen. Mike DeWine (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio, a prominent backer of the legislation, demanded CIA Director Porter Goss explain the CIA's position at a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites). The working group includes officials from the National Archives, the CIA, FBI (news - web sites), Pentagon (news - web sites) and other agencies.