Congrats to Altercation Correspondent Bob Bateman for winning The 2004 Colby award for No Gun Ri for best military writing. And thanks to Bob for calling our attention to these two sentences in a Washington Times article by Rowan Scarborough about the decision to allow the Green Berets to take on intelligence-related missions:
“One benefit of having the Green Berets do battle space preparation is that it would not require the administration to submit a "finding" or notification to Congress. Under Title 50 of the U.S. code, which controls CIA operations, the administration would have to notify Congress if the agency took on that mission.”
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