While a successor is being appointed, Ian Nathan, executive editor of the magazine, will be acting editor.
That only now, as Mr. Fick and Mr. Nagl indicate, a task force is being appointed "to investigate and expose corruption in the Afghan government" is ludicrous.
To ensure all regulatory guidelines were followed, the command has decided that an inquiry is prudent, and an officer is being appointed to conduct the inquiry".
An MoD spokesman said: "A new chief information officer is being appointed to transform and modernise our information systems in both the military and business environments.
Mr. Asher, who reported directly to Mr. Mehta, will be replaced by LuAnn Walther, who is being appointed editorial director of Vintage Anchor, and Edward Kastenmeier, who is being named executive editor of the paperback imprint.
"We would expect an employer to ask a doctor who is being appointed from overseas to bring their own evidence of police clearance in their home country," NHS Employers, a group that works on employment issues for health-service organizations, said in a statement.
Ms. Rice, who is being appointed Mr. Bush's national security adviser, said at the time that if Vice President Al Gore became president "America's military will continue to be overdeployed, harming morale and re-enlistment rates, weakening our military's core mission".
"The fact that you have a white knight like George Mitchell pointing out that something a witness said is not accurate — a witness he relied heavily on — the same week he is being appointed to be an envoy to the Middle East is something that the prosecutors will find regrettable," Rosengart said.
