The change, which the Pentagon has not publicly confirmed, was disclosed in a book published last month _ "Code Names," by William Arkin. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group that advocates arms control, described the change in detail in a study released Wednesday.
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When NRDC's staff members entered a federal courtroom last June to block the U.S. Navy from endangering whales with its low frequency active sonar system, they encountered a phalanx of Bush administration lawyers and a parade of the government's top scientific experts. But that formidable array of government talent-all paid for by your tax dollars-could not withstand NRDC's legal firepower. The judge ruled in favor of NRDC, finding that the Bush administration had violated multiple environmental laws when it rubber-stamped the Navy's use of this hazardous system.
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Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Esq.; Chair
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Adrian W. DeWind, Esq.; Chair Emeritus
Of Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Adam Albright; Vice Chair
Private investor; Environmentalist
Patricia Bauman; Vice Chair
Co-Director, Bauman Foundation
Robert J. Fisher; Vice Chair
Board member, Sun Microsystems; Chair, GAP Inc.
Alan Horn; Vice Chair
President and COO, Warner Brothers
Daniel R. Tishman; Vice Chair
Chair and CEO, Tishman Construction Corp. of New York
Henry R. Breck; Treasurer
Chair, Ark Asset Management Co., Inc.
Richard E. Ayres, Esq.
The Ayres Law Group
Joy Covey
President, Beagle Foundation
Laurie David
Producer; Activist
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor; Environmentalist
John E. Echohawk, Esq.
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Bob Epstein
Co-Founder, Sybase, Inc., Colorado Microdisplay, and Britton-Lee
Michael C. Finnegan
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities
Michel Gelobter, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Redefining Progress
Jill Tate Higgins
Private investor; General Partner, Lakeside Enterprises, L.P.
Charles E. Koob, Esq.
Partner, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
Philip B. Korsant
Member, Ziff Brothers Investments
Ruben Kraiem, Esq.
Partner, Covington and Burling
Jonathan Z. Larsen
Journalist
Nicole Lederer
Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Maya Lin
Artist/designer
Shelly B. Malkin
Landscape painter; Conservationist
Josephine A. Merck
Founder, Ocean View Foundation
Peter A. Morton
Chair/founder, Hard Rock Hotel, Inc.
Daniel Pauly
Director, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Frederica Perera, Ph.D.
Professor, Columbia University School of Public Health
Robert Redford
Actor; Director; Conservationist
Cruz Reynoso, Esq.
Professor of Law, University of California at Davis
Laurance Rockefeller, Esq.
Conservationist
Jonathan F.P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose and Companies, Affordable Housing Development Corporation
Thomas W. Roush, M.D.
Physician
Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; Foundation director
James Gustave Speth, Esq.
Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
James Taylor
Singer; Songwriter
Frederick A. Terry, Jr., Esq.
Senior Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell
Elizabeth R. Wiatt
Environmentalist; Co-founder, LA Action Forum
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
Director, Woods Hole Research Center
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Dean E. Abrahamson, Ph.D., M.D.
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Boris Bittker, Esq.
Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale University
Robert O. Blake
Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute; U.S. Ambassador (retired)
Joan K. Davidson
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Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
President, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc.
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Attorney; Conservationist
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Chair, John Merck Fund
Hamilton F. Kean, Esq.
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Burks B. Lapham
Chair, Concern, Inc.
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Carol Noyes
Board member, Planned Parenthood of NYC, Rocky Mountain Institute, Woods Hole Research Center
Franklin E. Parker, Esq.
Advisor (retired), The NJ Field Office of the Trust for Public Land
Nathaniel P. Reed
Businessman; Conservationist
John R. Robinson, Esq.
Attorney
John Sheehan
United Steelworkers of America (retired)
David Sive, Esq.
Partner (retired), Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C.
Thomas B. Stoel, Esq.
Stoel Rives (retired)
Thomas A. Troyer, Esq.
Member, Caplin & Drysdale
Kirby Walker
Independent film/video producer
Arkin again. Thanks!
Interesting. Peacenicks say something that is secret which the military can neither confirm nor deny, is not there any more. I wonder if these are the same people who said the USSR is not cheating and that Saddam was a big fuzzy teady bear.