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14 Jun 2010, 7:47 am
The fact that officials in the US and in other countries already knew about the minerals has led to speculation that the New York Times article is being used to raise support for the Afghanistan War, which has drawn increasing criticism.Here is the most interesting quote in the article (in my opinion):The Pentagon is helping Afghan officials arrange to start seeking bids on mineral rights by next fall, officials said. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 2:51 am
Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan includes the text:An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 7:13 pm
. -=-=-=-=- To illustrate this, he started off with a discussion of the Pentagon Papers case (which decided that the government couldn’t get an injunction to prevent the NY Times from publishing a classified report during wartime, because that would be an impermissible prior restraint on the First Amendment). [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 12:58 pm
Last week, Assange was scheduled to appear beside Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, but he wound up participating from Australia over Skype instead. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 8:33 am
The airport was closed prior to the attack at the Pentagon. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 1:07 pm
In fact, come next year, Congress may boost scrutiny of the Pentagon’s missile defense initiatives in a way both political parties can support. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 11:16 am
Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to reveal how numerous previous administrations had resorted to lying to the American people to conceal the real purposes of the Vietnam War. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 4:33 am
Nearly 115,000 immigrants are in the military today, and the Pentagon says it indeed would welcome more. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 5:39 pm
A State Department source told the Daily Beast that Pentagon investigators have been searching through Manning’s e-mail accounts and computer hard drives for evidence of the data he claims to have downloaded and transmitted to Wikileaks. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 8:46 am
Amnesty International has requested information from the Pentagon about the involvement of US forces in the al-Ma’jalah attack, and what precautions may have been taken to minimize deaths and injuries, but has yet to receive a response. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 11:43 am
Details of the Pentagon’s frivolous spending spree are revealed in an investigative newspaper report as the Obama Administration prepares to close the military prison that has housed Islamic terrorists since 2002. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 7:46 am
According to the Pentagon's website for the Joint Task Force Guantanamo: Approximately 7,000 active duty service members, retirees, family members, DoD civilians and contractors make up the community of U.S. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 6:26 am
The rise of JAG authority over every detail of warfighting means that the Pentagon would be exquisitely sensitive to arguable violations of international law in carrying out operations in cyberspace. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 7:18 pm
Up to now, the Pentagon has been clear — and correct — in saying that a cybersecurity treaty is equivalent to unilateral disarmament. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 6:31 pm
The Pentagon released a report about the incident last year, but backed down from a plan to show video of the attack to reporters. [read post]
5 Jun 2010, 6:12 am
by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz and the blog faculty Source: Associated Press Promotion for Pentagon’s top intelligence official By KIMBERLY DOZIER (AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has settled on James Clapper, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, as his pick to oversee the nation’s 16 spy agencies. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 7:08 am
The first was the Pentagon Papers case, in which the “New York Times and the Washington Post had each obtained copies of classified documents prepared and compiled by government officials responsible for conducting the Vietnam War. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 7:42 pm
The chief of the Pentagon’s new cyber-security command endorsed talks with Russia over a proposal to limit military attacks in cyberspace, representing a significant shift in U.S. policy. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 3:29 pm
Photo: Byrion/Flickr See Also: Pentagon Wants Cyborg Insects to Sniff WMD, Offer Free Wi-Fi SSL Gmail Not As Safe As You Thought — UPDATED Fed Blotter: New York Coder Charged With Helping TJ Maxx Hacker FBI Agents Hunt for Comcast Hijackers [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 3:20 pm
In any such appeal, the Circuit Court would still be bound by Kiyemba II, meaning that Belbacha’s fate may now be, as a practical matter, entirely up to the Justice Department, the Pentagon and the State Department. [read post]
