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20 Apr 2009, 6:47 am
Haynes II, former Pentagon general counsel, who are being sued this week in Spain for the torture of Spanish citizens at Abu Ghraib. [read post]
24 May 2019, 12:47 pm
He also joined the navy and advanced to the rank of lieutenant, serving at The Pentagon. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 7:00 am
” NY Times “U.S. fighter aircraft, acting on an order from President Biden, downed a Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, the Pentagon said, ending what senior administration officials contend was an audacious attempt by Beijing to collect intelligence on sensitive American military sites. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 6:37 am
With knowledge of the illegal data collection that was occurring, Binney and a few colleagues filed a DOD-IG report to the Pentagon and Inspector General reporting on the corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse that was occurring at the NSA. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:51 am
A glimmer of hope for military firefighters is the Pentagon announcing that it will cease using AFFF by 2024 and replace the fire suppressant with a PFAS-free alternative. [read post]
10 May 2013, 8:39 am
Anna Mulrine of the Christian Science Monitor outlines the Pentagon’s top four concerns about China’s military. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 11:14 am
According to CNN, the Pentagon has proposed training moderate Syrian rebel groups. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 12:24 pm
If we are going to bomb Syria, it will have to be the way we bombed Serbia, or worst case the way we invaded Iraq: with cheaper, lower grade holy water sprinkled by the less sacrosanct NATO priests on the bombs as in Serbia, or with just some Potomac water hastily and unconvincingly sprinkled by Pentagon chaplains on the bombs as in Iraq. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 3:05 pm
Burns “has received three Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the highest civilian honors from the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community,” the press release states. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 9:07 am
The Pentagon’s Inspector General is look into allegations that Michael Vickers, the undersecretary defense for intelligence, provided classified information to the makers of Zero Dark Thirty. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 8:41 am
" Judicial Watch also uncovered emails from the DOD that show the Pentagon worked hand-in-hand with congressional offices prior to releasing documents regarding congressional military travel under the FOIA. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 11:12 am
Early in the morning, before going off to his job at an engineering firm, Chuck would sit in his "study" (created by hanging a sheet between the desk and the bed), folding pieces of paper into triangles, pentagons, and polyhedrons. [read post]
10 May 2007, 5:31 pm
In a press release, found here, (which includes a link to the seven-page charge sheet), the Pentagon accused Hamdan of engaging for more than four years in a conspiracy to aid violent al Qaeda attacks on the U.S., including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and of providing "matrerial support for terrorism. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 12:26 pm
As Ben posted yesterday, former Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson gave a speech at Fordham Law School on the viability of a “drone court. [read post]
7 May 2013, 10:10 am
Sanger of the New York Times report that the Pentagon has directly accused the Chinese government and military of cyber espionage in its annual report to Congress entitled Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 10:25 am
The Pentagon is moving elements of a supersecret commando unit from Iraq to the Afghanistan theater to step up the hunt for Osama bin Laden. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 6:52 am
It was in March of 2003 that the Department of Justice told the Pentagon that the President could, as Commander-in-Chief, disregard those statutory constraints (as well as those imposed by the Torture Act and the Convention Against Torture). [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 1:05 pm
Under its terms, the Pentagon could transfer a detainee if the Periodic Review Boards set up in Executive Order 13567 found “that the individual is no longer a threat to the national security of the United States. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 8:07 pm
, or my favorite Bushism of late, FBI shortfallings (be honest, that new word is pretty much the one-word motto for the Bush Administration) by abusing the Patriot Act (itself an abuse of the Constitution, but who am I to judge), to Condoleeza Rice’s ludicrous claims two weeks ago, to outing a covert CIA operative because they didn’t like her husband, to developing new (illegal) clandestine programs in the Pentagon (without any Congressional oversight) because you don’t… [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 3:15 pm
•The administration transferred a program called the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Exploratory Cybersecurity Initiative (DIB Opt-In Pilot) (under which the federal government shares classified signatures and other cybersecurity information with defense contractors) out of the Pentagon and into DHS. [read post]
