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Editorial
A dirty secret
The Pentagon waited 37 years to reveal that it tested nerve gas and biological agents on thousands of U.S. sailors stationed in the Pacific during the Cold War.

Editorial
A right to an attorney, unless . . .
From watching television cop shows, most people know that if you're arrested, you have a right to an attorney and an attorney will be appointed if you cannot afford one. What many people don't know is that an asterisk has been attached to this right by the U.S. Supreme Court. States are not required by the Constitution to provide an attorney unless the accused is in danger of actual imprisonment.

Letters
FBI agent served her country well by writing memo
FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley did a great service to her country and the American people by writing that memo. After reading the memo several times, I think it was obvious that Rowley is not self-serving, but a dedicated professional. The errors of the FBI go way back to director Louis Freeh, and there has been gross mismanagement over the years. The entire agency needs to be revamped.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Life made simple, with the help of a mosquito
Idon't always get the full benefit out of occurrences in my life, but I usually manage to get some.

Elijah Gosier
Skewed priorities foster a brand of immorality
We are an understanding lot, we Americans.

Ernest Hooper
Parties for football, dancing, politics
It's barely June, but a bunch of Tampa Bay residents sure looked like they were ready for football last week.

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.