"We are planning to increase the establishment speed, but we see that the process to gothrough all the administrative procedures is taking longer and longer, " he said.
It found that four trusts did not even mention that staff could go outside the organisation with concerns, while a third stressed the importance of going through internal procedures.
"I don't believe that his rhetoric has been helpful, and I must tell you that when I was last there and visited Bagram, I got a briefing on theprocedures that our pilots gothrough to try and avoid civilian casualties, " Gates said.