The idea has never been to absolve everybody. The idea is to look at thefacts and to follow through with appropriate action. That's what is happeninghere. The Secretary and the Deputy Secretary felt that in a tragedy of thismagnitude it was important to make sure that every aspect had been consideredin terms of discipline, in terms of administrative action, and that's what willhappen. You'll see that in the Air Force document, it cites a memorandum to all AirForce commanders from General Fogleman.
Accountability is critically important.
To do less will undermine goodorder and discipline of the force and destroy the trust of the Americanpublic. The criminal charges have run their course. That procedure is over. That's one of the reasons why this is happening now. We wanted to wait for themilitary justice system to run its course.