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15 Mar 2017, 4:57 am by Gregory Forman
At least at the time he made it (February 12, 2002), popular culture treated that statement as typical Pentagon obfuscation–if not outright bureaucratic gobbledygook. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 10:16 am by Jordan Brunner
The new authority, which was given to the CIA last month and used against senior al Qaeda leader Abu al-Khayr al-Masri in northern Syria, is a departure from the Obama administration’s development of a policy under which the CIA largely cooperated with the Pentagon by providing intelligence used for military airstrikes. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 9:12 am by Robert Chesney
… [The ACLU said] the Pentagon should be used for such strikes because it is more publicly accountable to policy makers, members of Congress and the American public. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 10:45 am by Jordan Brunner
President Donald Trump has granted a Pentagon request to designate three provinces of Yemen to be an “area of active hostilities” where looser battlefield rules apply and is expected to do the same for Somalia. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 10:44 am by Jordan Brunner
Tuesday, March 14th at 11am: Sharon Weinberger will discuss her new book, The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World, with Richard Whittle at the Wilson Center. [read post]
Recognizing the Year’s Worst in Government Transparency A thick fog is rolling in over Sunshine Week (March 12-18), the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importance of access to public records. [read post]
11 Mar 2017, 4:25 am by SHG
Consider Daniel Ellsberg, who was 40 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, exposing widespread government deceit about the Vietnam War. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 9:53 am by Jordan Brunner
FCW informs us that a report by the Pentagon found that the combatant commands are vulnerable to cyber attacks. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 7:21 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
ProPublica report – “…While President Trump has not moved to fill many jobs that require Senate confirmation, he has quietly installed hundreds of officials to serve as his eyes and ears at every major federal agency, from the Pentagon to the Department of Interior. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 2:51 pm by Helen Klein Murillo
On Monday, the Pentagon reported than Tahar had been killed in one of those airstrikes, a seeming confirmation that Tahar was, at the very minimum, again associating with AQAP members. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 10:08 am by Matthew Waxman
They report that three years ago, “President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 1:14 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Trump signed the first ban with great fanfare, in front of reporters, at the Pentagon. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:21 pm by Jordan Brunner
Patterson, who is the former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and was criticized for becoming too close to the regime of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, would be the fourth most senior person in the Pentagon if allowed to fill the position. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 5:07 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
And though some would argue that these new-age management techniques don’t apply to an organization as large and complex as the Pentagon, in fact, they have been successfully deployed in numerous settings in the defense and security arena, and can be usefully adopted in ways that recognize the DOD’s unique context. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 11:08 am by Jordan Brunner
The raid has complicated efforts by the Pentagon to speed up the authorization of counterterrorism missions by letting field commanders approve them rather than the White House, according to CNN. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 7:43 pm
(Pix Wall Street Journal 28 Feb 2017)After a tumultuous first month in office--a month that appeared to solidify the great rifts among emerging political factions in  the U.S. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 7:39 pm by Daniel Shaviro
(A) the Pentagon and the military. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 1:30 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Peter Dreier (Occidental College), Will Trump’s Tax Records Be the Next Pentagon Papers? [read post]