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19 Sep 2014, 11:22 pm by Jeff Gamso
At a Senate hearing last month on the military's devolution of MRAPs and anti-tank missiles and grenade launchers and the like to your friendly neighborhood constabulary, Rand Paul asked Alan Estevez, the Pentagon’s principal deputy undersecretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics, why those 12,000 bayonets have been made available. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 10:48 am by Charlotte Butash
Then, on April 6, Trump removed the acting inspector general of the Pentagon, Glenn Fine, who had just been assigned to monitor the government’s implementation of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill as chairman of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 2:01 pm by John A. Emmons
Mark Milley wrongfully overclassified documents relevant to the Pentagon’s response to the Jan. 6 attack, and submitted questions which might illuminate Milley’s intentions and the impacts of any illegal activity. [read post]
24 May 2018, 3:00 pm
 Kneeling during the anthem has nothing to do with being for or against military recruiting, but the Pentagon paid for the NFL to promote the military — an overtly political act — and the NFL has been delivering. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 1:18 pm by William Ford
This marked jump in military spending would amount to a 17 percent increase to the Defense Department’s budget from 2017 and would provide the Pentagon with all the money it has requested in recent years. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 4:32 am
The latter lists series of judgements where ' simple geometric devices such as circles, lines, rectangles or common pentagons are unable to convey any message that can be remembered by consumers and will accordingly not be seen by them as a trade mark'.Merpel is still struggling to imagine not jumping to the conclusion that the signs concerned, regardless of the goods or services for which registration was sought, were neither an approbation of four- or five-star quality or… [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 12:54 pm by Anna Salvatore
The Pentagon expects China’s stockpile of nuclear weapons to double in the next decade, according to Reuters. [read post]
When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, the US government claimed that publication of the documents would gravely endanger national security. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 7:31 am by Robert Chesney
Section 1634 also provides for a staff director and supporting staff as needed, with options both to hire people for this purpose and to accept detailees (including a directive to the Pentagon to provide staff and support as needed, and options to call on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the same purposes as well). [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 9:18 am by Janine Zacharia, Andrew J. Grotto
Since Daniel Ellsberg’s 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers, journalists have generally operated under a single rule: Once information is authenticated, if it is newsworthy, publish it. [read post]
11 May 2020, 8:18 pm by John Jascob
In the past six weeks, the SBA has received $1.2 trillion for COVID-19 assistance programs, Manger added, calling it “Pentagon money. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 8:38 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Our fans didn’t sit and put flowers in their hair and try to levitate the Pentagon. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 12:33 pm by Robert Chesney
 Digging into the Pentagon's report, though, the numbers strike me as a bit more muddled. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 6:03 am
Here's this guy talking to me about historic truth when his movie JFK had a scene of LBJ plotting to assassinate the president in conspiracy with Pentagon officials. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 11:10 am by Nathan Swire
The U.S. military chose to disinvite China this year due to its “continued militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea,” Pentagon spokesman Marine Lt. [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 3:49 am by Jon Gelman
“I should know – I was fired from the Pentagon Starbucks after I went on strike for $15 and a union. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 10:52 am by Jordan Brunner
Trump apparently held meetings on Sunday dealing with North Korea and China, and said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was “acting very, very badly,” but there was no official statement from the White House, the State Department, or the Pentagon. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 11:53 am by rainey Reitman
Now more than ever, it is crucial that we protect a robust and adversarial press—what Judge Murray Gurfein in the Pentagon Papers case memorably called a “cantankerous press, an obstinate press, an ubiquitous press”—in the United States and abroad. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 8:28 am by Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic
Argument during the hearing may have bolstered anxieties among human rights advocates over the status of existing copies of the report: when questioned by the military judge as to whether the Pentagon had maintained its copy of the document, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins repeatedly refused to answer. [read post]