Portal:Current events/2004 June 17

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• The Pentagon confirms a report in The New York Times that CIA chief George Tenet – who steps down from the post next month – was allowed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to have an Iraqi prisoner secretly detained in alleged violation of the Geneva Convention. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3815311.stm (BBC)] [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/politics/17abuse.html (NYT)]

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