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5 Oct 2010, 10:30 am
A combination of Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens' legal problems in 2008 and resulting diminishment of the political clout of the Alaskan congressional delegation, the change in Administration and Democratic majorities on the Hill, as well as significant Pentagon budget cuts creating a zero-sum game for contracting dollars has created a perfect storm that has left ANCs exposed and weakened. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 12:05 am
Cully Stimson is the former Pentagon appointee who tried to shame law firms from representing Guantanamo detainees.) [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 3:08 pm
Barnes, and Siobhan Gorman have an outstanding piece of national security reporting on the front page of the weekend Wall Street Journal, “CIA Escalates Campaign in Pakistan: Pentagon Diverts Drones to Afghanistan to Bolster Campaign Next Door. [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 2:52 pm
Hence the desire of the Pentagon to divert drone aircraft - which are in demand in Afghanistan for a variety of missions - from Afghanistan to attacks in Pakistan on bases that are seen as links for attacks on US forces. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 8:05 pm
ANOTHER UPDATE: Donald Sensing writes: “Yes, it’s legal to park those buses in the Pentagon’s parking lot. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 10:27 am
The Pentagon is concerned that the book reveals state secrets. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:49 pm
., many public television stations will broadcast The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers . [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 5:07 am
Here's a link to the County Manager's report on the Crystal City, Potomac Yard, and Pentagon City TIF fund proposal. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 8:20 am
Also looming in the near future is the release on December 1 of the Pentagon’s DADT Comprehensive Review Working Group report on the plans to implement a successful repeal of the policy barring open service by those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 6:07 pm
Despite the precaution, the names of some Afghan collaborators slipped out in the 77,000 records, earning WikiLeaks criticism from human rights organizations and the international free press group Reporters Without Borders, as well as the Pentagon. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 1:49 pm
Keith Alexander offered a troubling window into the threats that Pentagon networks face at the hands of terrorist and criminal syndicates, foreign intelligence organizations, and “hacktivists” intent on infiltrating power grids and financial networks. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 6:15 pm
A federal judge in California held DADT unconstitutional.This—whether one likes the ultimate result or not—is how our federal government works: Congress enacts legislation; the President enforces federal laws unless and until they are repealed; the courts review the constitutionality of legislation.Consider, then, this news report about the President’s effort to repeal DADT: In that effort, he [President Obama] had won the support of his top Pentagon leaders, Defense… [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 8:27 pm
Even after he agreed to send another 30,000 troops last winter, the Pentagon asked for another 4,500 “enablers” to support them. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 7:01 am
The head of our “law firm” is the Judge Advocate General who works at the Pentagon and is the principal legal advisor to the senior Army leadership. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 4:03 pm
Giant diagram of the Pentagon's complex contracts procurement system – mystifying but hard to not stare at http://bit.ly/aHXhYc # French senate passes law banning Muslim women from wearing veils http://yhoo.it/b29IXn # "We really have to follow this memo. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 8:11 am
In a courts-martial pre-hearing concerning the demands of LTC Terry Lakin that the putative Commander- in-Chief must prove that he is a Constitutionally lawful CINC before anyone obeys any military orders, lest they themselves be charged with obeying an unlawful order, Judge Lind stated that any and all orders now originate with the Pentagon and no longer with the Office of the civilian President and Commander-in-Chief. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 4:09 am
9-17-2010 Washington DC:In a reversal, the Pentagon says it will reopen hundreds of cases of alleged purchases of child pornography by Department of Defense employees that Pentagon officials previously declined to investigate, The Upshot has learned.Earlier this month, The Upshot reported exclusively that in 2007, investigators for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service obtained a list of [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 6:36 am
But today, the Pentagon official in charge of DCIS told The Upshot that he has ordered the remaining cases reopened. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 3:41 pm
The chart below, a summary published by the Pentagon’s Defense Acquisitions University, covers the process for purchasing equipment. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 10:09 am
" In the Salon.com article, Benjamin points out that the EEOC's complaint numbers (from Muslims, regarding employment discrimination) spiked from 2000 to 2002, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. [read post]
