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Now, both Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and President Barack Obama are weighing in, vowing to really enforce a zero-tolerance policy.</p> <p>"I want them to hear directly from their commander in chief that I've got their back," President Obama said. "We're not going to tolerate this."</p> <p>But only a fifth of all these cases ever get to trial. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130510050255/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/09/combating-sexual-assault-in-the-military/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130510050255/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/latest-episode/" title="View all posts in Latest Episode" rel="category tag">Latest Episode</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> <div class="cnn-large-embed "></div></div> </div> <div class="cnn_post_separator"><div class="cnn_gap"></div><div class="cnn_gap cnn_gap_right"></div></div>   <div class="cnnPostWrap cnn_wh1600_post_separator"> <h2 class="cnnBlogContentTitle"><a 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class="cnn_first"><strong>By Samuel Burke, CNN </strong></p> <p>Evidence of chemical weapons use gets harder to find with each passing day in Syria.</p> <p>The Assad regime is blocking U.N. special investigators from entering the country as the Obama administration continues to seek concrete proof.</p> <p>“It is publicly known that Syria has the largest active chemical weapons program in the world," President Obama's former chief adviser on all matters relating to weapons of mass destruction, Gary Samore, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130510050255/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/09/exploring-syrias-chemical-stockpile/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a 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limbo.</p> <p>One of the more than 100 men now on hunger strike is an Afghan man in his early thirties, known only as Obaidullah – a prisoner with no charges filed against him.</p> <p>His only daughter was born just two days before he was taken into custody. She'll be eleven this summer, and has never met her father.</p> <p>In March, Obaidullah wrote a detailed account of his hunger strike, which the U.S. Department of Justice recently declassified.</p> <p>"I'm losing all hope because I've been imprisoned at Guantanamo for almost eleven years now, and I still do not know my fate," he wrote. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130510050255/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/08/how-one-detainee-got-trapped-in-legal-limbo-at-guantanamo/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130510050255/http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/category/guantanamo/" title="View all posts in Guantanamo" rel="category tag">Guantanamo</a> • <a 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That’s the assessment of Syrian opposition leader Ghassan Hitto, who in past weeks, went from being a Texas-based I.T. executive to prime minister of the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s government in exile.</p> <p>“Do we wait until thousands and thousands more of Hezbollah fighters continue to pour into Syria? Do we wait for more Iranian soldiers and Iranian influence in the region?” Hitto said to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.</p> <p>Hitto is a Syrian-American who's just been appointed the first interim prime minister of the Syrian opposition. 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