med at "buying time and continuing to move this problem into the future, and if you can do that -- strange things can happen in the interim." 15. Carl Levin As chair of the Armed Services Committee, a position he has held since 2007, Carl Levin leads Senate oversight of the Pentagon and is at the foref

e dissenters included the chairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee (Florida's Robert Graham) and the Senate Armed Services Committee (Michigan's Carl Levin). Of course, the media played a huge role in allowing -- indeed, enabling -- this catastrophe. What should have been a brake on a process fueled by

for his government as a carte blanche for uncompromising behavior." The day before Maliki arrived, six senators—including EFTA00665432 Democrats Carl Levin and Robert Menendez—sent the White House a letter warning that, "by too often pursuing a sectarian and authoritarian agenda, Prime Minister Maliki