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19 Mar 2014, 11:15 am
., the military leadership–have, on some accounts, been notorious pro-war lobbyists throughout history, such a claim is not credible unless one can tell a plausible story about why any defense contractor lobbying will not crowd out some lobbying by the military itself; and doing this requires taking a position on what motivates the people at the Pentagon. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 8:55 am
In another disturbing report, the Pentagon has revealed that the September shooting at the Washington Navy Yard was preventable. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 5:12 am
This morning the Pentagon announced that a team of U.S. [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 6:18 pm
Linder, includes many trials with political aspects, including Sacco and Vanzetti, Haymarket, Chicago 7, Leonard Peltier, Pentagon Papers, Ruby Ridge, Mississippi Burning, Oklahoma City Bombing, Bill Haywood, Rosenbergs, . . .Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Famous TrialsAmerican Radicalism, Michigan State University LibrariesCover of The Centralia Conspiracy,from I.W.W. collection in AmericanRadicalismLabadie Collection, University of Michigan Library"Stop Executions" pin,… [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 2:28 pm
KBR – allege that KBR and its former parent company, Halliburton, acted negligently as the Pentagon’s largest logistics contractor in the region, willfully burning items that employees should not have placed in the pits and exposing troops to toxic fumes and pollutants. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 5:16 am
A group of Vietnam veterans has filed a class-action suit against the Pentagon to upgrade the “less-than-honorable” discharges they received. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 7:35 am
The banner on her website – “Keeping the Pentagon Accountable” – is laughable. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 8:40 am
Via Defense One, by Patrick Tucker - How the Army Plans to Fight a War Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum: “The Pentagon long has made a big effort to showcase its budding cyberwarfare capabilities. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 5:33 am
Obama, the Pentagon, rather than the C.I.A., is supposed to carry out any lethal strike against an American overseas, a provision intended to allow government officials to speak more freely about the operation after it is carried out. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 4:31 am
Obama has embraced as president: under what circumstances the government may kill American citizens without a trial, whether the battered leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan still poses an imminent threat to Americans, and whether the C.I.A. or the Pentagon ought to be the dominant agency running America’s secret wars. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 3:57 am
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously on Wednesday in United States v. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 7:34 am
Although plans are underway to fully shift the program from the CIA to the Pentagon, the Journal suggests that the CIA might be better at launching drone killings than the military. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 5:12 am
David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the lights out for Assad. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 1:06 pm
US Air Force Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is unveiling the Pentagon’s proposed budget today—a budget that will dramatically scale back the size of the military. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 4:53 pm
In 1971 when the US government sought a restraining order attempting to prevent the New York Times from publishing the then-classified Pentagon Papers, provided to them by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. [read post]
18 Feb 2014, 6:44 am
Not the Pentagon Papers, but prior restraint also covers licensing/control systems, many administrative. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 2:01 pm
[Josh Blackman's Blog; WSJ Law Blog] * Intelligence Squared held a debate last night between Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and the ACLU’s Ben Wizner against former prosecutor (not Weekend at Bernie’s star) Andrew McCarthy and former CIA Director R. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 8:22 am
Now, the Pentagon has released a dossier with details of each detainee held in Bagram—highlighting just how dangerous the U.S. government thinks these people are. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 12:31 pm
” Arguing for the motion were Daniel Ellsberg, former U.S. military analyst & Pentagon Papers whistleblower; and Ben Wizner, legal adviser to Edward Snowden and attorney for the ACLU. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 2:09 pm
Defending Snowden was Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who knows a thing or two about risking his freedom for the sake of democracy, and Ben Wizner, Edward Snowden's legal advisor and the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project. [read post]
