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Secretary donald rumsfeld was using an auto pen, using a machine or stamp or something, using some sort of machine to automatically sign the more than 1,000 condolence letters that the bush administration had had to send to families of soldiers who had been killed in iraq. they were machine signed, form letters. the pentagon initially denied it and then they repeatedly denied it, but david hackworth turns out had him dead to rights. he had great sources. he had interviews with a dozen family members who were next of kin to u.s. soldiers who had been killed in action in iraq. he found two penta...

Magazine and he started to write a syndicated column for king features. in november 2004, a year and a half into the iraq war, david hackworth in one of his syndicated columns, he broke the news that donald rumsfeld was using an auto pen, a machine or stamp to automatically sign more than 1,000 condolence letters that the bush administration had to send to families of soldiers who had been killed in iraq. they were machine signed, form letters. pentagon initially denied it and then they repeatedly denied it, but david hackworth turns out had him dead to right. he had great sources. he had inte...

After they decided on anonymity. once david hackworth broke the story, other news organizations were able to follow his reporting, track down those letters. in fact, he was proven to be right. it was november 2004 when hackworth wrote that column. the following month, december 2004 it was leo shane writing "stars and stripes," ivan med a medina, a new york resident, whose twin brother irving told "stripes," quote, to me it's an insult not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone who served in iraq. illinois betty sullivan whose son was killed in 2003, she was incensed when she ...

The following month, december 2004 it was leo shane writing at "stars and stripes," "ivan medina, a new york resident, whose twin brother irving was killed in a road bombing in 2004, told stars and stripes, to me it is an insult not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone who served in iraq." illinois betty sullivan whose son was killed in 2003, she was incensed when she and her son's wife and her grandchildren all received the exact same condolence letter with the apparently stamped signature. sullivan told "stripes," quote, "how many signatures does this amount to? for those...

Didn't have the same feeling about what the bush administration had just bumbled into them there and what hackworth discovered they were doing. who thought that was a good idea? you might have disbelieved it when you first heard the reporting. once you found out it was true, callousness and impersonal treatment of soldiers killed in battle and their families back home. it is a hot third rail, not just in american politics but in american values, american ethics. the george w. bush administration had also banned any public footage of soldiers remains being transferred home on flights from iraq ...