Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Christine Wormuth, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Military Waivers for Ex-Convicts Increase."
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Christine Wormuth, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Military Waivers for Ex-Convicts Increase."
The Army admitted about one-fourth more recruits last year with a record of legal problems ranging from felony convictions and serious misdemeanors to drug crimes and traffic offenses, as pressure to increase the size of U.S. ground forces led the military to grant more waivers for criminal conduct, according to new data released yesterday.
"It is absolutely an important indicator," said Christine Wormuth, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "But," she added, "it won't mean 100 more Hadithas or cases of soldier abuse," referring to the November 2005 killing of as many as two dozen civilians by Marines in Haditha, Iraq.
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