And a House appropriations panel today directed the Pentagon to withhold a $100,000 contract for lap computers from Toshiba until the import-ban issue is resolved.

The Pentagon, too, is giving out less and less information about the bombing, withholding the familiar grainy videos of attacks and refusing to discuss damage in detail.

Mr. Waxman also said the Pentagon was withholding the audit from Congress.

A Defense Department spokesman said the Pentagon would withhold comment on the House report until it received a copy.

The Pentagon has also withheld approval of using two dozen Apache helicopters and long-range rockets sent to Albania more than a month ago.

The Pentagon withheld the Kuwait victims' names pending family notification, as well as the Navy pilot's name.

This was demonstrated in 2012 when the Pentagon withheld the maximum $47 million allowed for Lockheed's failure to certify its program to track project costs and schedules.

Up to now, the Pentagon has withheld these codes, and Mr. Arens may have been seeking them.

The Pentagon withheld the pilot's name pending notification of his family.

The Pentagon withheld the man's identity, pending notification of his relatives.