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21 Sep 2015, 10:39 am by Susan Landau
These include our government's increased reliance on Commercial-off-the-Shelf communications and computer equipment, its increased use of ad-hoc military coalitions in war fighting (which means that NATO-style interoperable communications systems cannot be developed), and the speed of Silicon Valley innovation (with which Pentagon procurement systems can't really compete). [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 5:42 am
"  (There's also a page on line, "Biden Honors 9/11 Victims at the Pentagon," consisting of video of Biden speaking.)Now, of course, it is easy to suspect the NYT of prioritizing the interests of the Democratic Party in the looming midterm election. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 12:06 pm by Emily Dai
This significantly exceeds the pace and size the Pentagon projected in 2o20, which estimated China would only have over 400 warheads by 2030. [read post]
30 Jul 2017, 6:00 am by Jack Goldsmith
Secretary of Defense James Mattis seems to be running the Pentagon entirely on his own. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 12:20 pm
When the social worker stated the interview was intended to be confidential, mother responded, '[t]here is nothing confidential with me because I am sure the people at pentagon [sic.] are listening through the microchip.' Mother also said the microchip implanted in her head sent her visual images, and the people watching her were 'mixed people who were alien species that look like people,' and were 'everywhere.' Mother stated she taught Faith how to identify… [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 1:27 pm by Tia Sewell
Austin, whose military service ended in 2016, requires a waiver from both the House of Representatives and the Senate before he can step into civilian leadership at the Pentagon. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 1:10 pm by Alex Potcovaru
A confidential memo from the White House appears to cap the number of troops the Pentagon could send to Afghanistan without further consultation with President Trump at 3,900, the Journal reports. [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 10:00 am
Indeed, without such disclosures, the public would have never known about innumerable government activities that shouldn’t have been hidden in the first place, from the Pentagon Papers to illegal spying by the NSA. [read post]
21 May 2020, 9:45 am by Elliot Setzer
The Pentagon has not withheld $1 billion in funding from Afghan security forces despite Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s vow in late March to cut that sum “immediately”, reports Reuters. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 5:58 am by Jordan Brunner
The New Yorker said that the book “assembled a damning case against senior military leaders for failing to speak their minds when, in the early years of the war, they disagreed with Pentagon policies,” while CNN called it “the seminal work on military's responsibility during Vietnam to confront their civilian bosses when strategy was not working. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 12:22 pm by Rebecca Jeschke
Ellsberg co-founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation with Barlow, and is known for his years of work advocating for government transparency, including his release of the Pentagon Papers. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 12:30 pm
Indeed, this principle animated the court’s famous Pentagon Papers decision, protecting the right to publish stories based on a secret government account of official misconduct during the origins of the Vietnam War. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 12:32 pm by Alexander Vindman
While I am certainly glad to see their promotions move forward, I am troubled by the notion that Pentagon leaders were correct in gaming the promotion process to avoid a backlash from Trump. [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 11:27 am by Edward Jay Epstein
 The Pentagon, which did a more extensive damage assessment than the NSA, assigned hundreds of intelligence officers, in round-the-clock shifts, to go through each  of the 1.5 million files to find all of the fatally compromised sources and methods in them. [read post]
3 Aug 2014, 11:23 am by Lovechilde
  While it was certainly not cool to torture folks, it was understandable that our government would resort to such techniques because, you know, it was kinda scary back then.I think it's important when we look back to recall how afraid people were after the twin towers fell and the Pentagon had been hit and the plane in Pennsylvania had fallen and people did not know whether more attacks were imminent and there was enormous pressure on our law enforcement and our national… [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 3:18 pm
"... and I wonder, aside from a few people like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, why haven’t there been more Dan Ellsbergs? [read post]
27 Nov 2013, 4:33 pm by Kenneth Anderson
” That demonstration came Monday night in the form of two US military aircraft, on what the Defense Department described as long-scheduled training mission, according to NBC news: “We will not in any way change how we conduct our operations,” Pentagon spokesperson Col. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 12:02 pm by Lovechilde
"  Someone should etch that into the outer walls of the Pentagon’s E-ring. [read post]