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4 Jan 2016, 1:17 pm
The Hill reports that the Pentagon will transfer the first group of recently cleared Guantanamo detainees as early as next week, according to an unnamed senior U.S. official. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 4:00 am
Analogies to the Nixon administration suit to block publication of the Pentagon Papers are, therefore, off the mark. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 11:51 am
Iranian naval ships made dangerous maneuvers around United States warships in the Persian Gulf area on at least four occasions this week, Pentagon officials said Thursday, including one episode in which the Americans fired warning shots from a 50-caliber deck gun to prevent a collision. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 7:37 am
U.S. bombing has not deterred the Islamic State, and the Pentagon has recently admitted that its plan to create “moderate opposition” military forces has failed. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 1:27 pm
The Pentagon is reviewing whether the USS Mason was fired upon by Houthi missiles on Saturday following a reported missile attack that may have been a radar malfunction, Reuters tells us. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 1:14 pm
Trump signed the first ban with great fanfare, in front of reporters, at the Pentagon. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 11:39 am
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has said that the Pentagon will launch an investigative report into the airstrikes. [read post]
18 May 2020, 5:57 am
If advocates want to dissuade the Pentagon from cutting some of its 6,000 troops stationed in Africa, they need to stop valorizing its counterterrorism missions while disregarding the U.S. military’s more lasting contributions. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 5:42 am
Even then, the authority was only broad enough to cover use of the software by certain agencies, requiring Congress to step in to address the use of Kaspersky products within the Pentagon. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 11:49 am
Notably, shortly after the session closes, Judge Pohl issues a one-page order requiring the government to determine whether the Pentagon has maintained its copy of the SSCI report. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 4:36 am
Taibbi clapped back on Saturday, writing: “Looking forward to going through all the tweets complaining about ‘PR for the richest man on earth,’ and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, White House, etc. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 5:31 am
Cyber brandishing could be exceptionally specific, such as penetrating into a sensitive system—say, in the Pentagon or the White House—to leave a calling card or hacking an electrical grid to flicker the lights at a specific time. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 10:20 am
The Miami Herald tells us that the Pentagon has retroactively classified a letter from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to then-President Obama, the day after the letter was published on the Herald’s website. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
The first release in early December addressed the decision-making around the Hunter Biden laptop story—and since then, the files have gone on to explore topics ranging from Twitter’s decision to suspend Donald Trump’s account to how Twitter may have aided the Pentagon in a “covert online psyop campaign. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 1:33 pm
The revelation underscores the unanticipated consequences of arming rebels and comes just six months after the Pentagon halted a much-maligned program to train anti-Islamic State fighters in Syria that cost roughly $50 million but only produced a handful of soldiers. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 6:15 am
A Pentagon official called the maneuvers against the P-3 “unsafe and unprofessional,” a characterization which the Chinese dispute. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 12:08 pm
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters yesterday that he has recommended to President Obama that he should veto the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act on the grounds that it does not lift sequestration, but instead funnels $38 billion to the Pentagon through a separate war fund. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 8:00 am
Pentagon officials characterized the intercept as “unsafe,” with the Chinese jets overtaking the EP-3 from the rear and slowing down in front so as to force the U.S. aircraft to change direction, but China’s Ministry of Defense said its pilots acted in a “legal, necessary and professional” manner. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 5:29 am
On May 31, the Pentagon announced it would sell 34 ScanEagle drones, made by Boeing, to the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam for a total of $47 million. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 1:51 pm
More than two weeks after a Russian plane crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, Russian officials have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for bringing down the plane. [read post]
