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Judge rejects bid to question Rumsfeld

A U.S. military judge Tuesday refused to let lawyers question Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a key deputy in the  case against an Army reservist charged with abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. Lawyers at a pretrial hearing for Spc. Javal Davis asked the judge to enable them to interview Rumsfeld and Stephen Cambone, his undersecretary for intelligence, apparently to ask about the chain of        command down to Davis and the six other soldiers charged with abuses at the prison outside Baghdad. [more ]