"We heard several calls from the flight commander demanding access to the cockpit.
(This was a sticking point for a number of soldiers I spoke with: patient privacy laws apply only loosely in the military, where commanders have access to a soldier's medical history, including what goes on in counseling sessions).
But civilian and military intelligence officials, as well as top commanders with access to intelligence reports, now say they learned little about the insurgency from questioning inmates at the prison.
"We heard several calls from the flight commander asking for access to the cockpit.
If we are going to have American military units deployed in Haiti — and we should — it would be invaluable for the unit commanders to have access to the Commanders Emergency Response Fundd that was established for Iraq.
Military commanders, who need access to large volumes of satellite imagery for mapping and other daily uses in combat zones, have become big advocates of the expanded use of commercial satellite imagery.
And the virtual absence of coordination with police officials, the consultants say, meant that fire commanders had no access to reports from police helicopters that hovered above the buildings, tracking their structural integrity and the progress of fires across the upper floors.
The Harris review says London's mayor should be given a seat at the table of the government's crisis committee, Cobra, and CCTV should be boosted, with police commanders having greater access to live pictures from the cameras in the event of a crisis.
We were received warmly by the Afghan commander and given full access to talk with the women, take photos.
But Williams has gotten big access to the commander-in-chief before -- notably for a special in the opening weeks of his presidency and for a look into the killing of Osama bin Laden.
