Rumsfeld Sued Over Pentagon's Recruiting Database
A Reuters newswire article by Gary Trotta, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Six New York teen-agers sued Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld on Monday, alleging the U.S. Department of Defense broke the law by keeping an extensive database on potential recruits.More here.
he suit in federal court in Manhattan follows a series of allegations last year of misconduct by recruiters, who have experienced difficulty meeting targets because of the war in Iraq.
The Pentagon last year acknowledged it had created a database of 12 million Americans, full of personal data such as grades and Social Security numbers, to help find potential military recruits.
posted by Fergie @ 4/24/2006 03:28:00 PM
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