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29 Sep 2017, 6:46 am
More broadly, there are divisions over the concept of tatarrus, or the killing of innocents as part of military operations (what the Pentagon would call collateral damage). [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 11:38 am
The Pentagon announced yesterday that the service member had been killed by an IED during an operation against the Islamic State’s Afghanistan presence, but did not attribute responsibility. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 1:24 pm
If the Nixon Administration’s claims of national security were not enough to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the privacy lost by printing names and addresses of permit holders isn’t likely to warrant a prior restraint either. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 12:22 pm
But even with all of the reports of alleged casualties, the Pentagon is not planning on making any changes to the way it carries out attacks. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:07 pm
So it is significant that Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis justified firing on the Iranian drone by saying: “We have said before that demonstrated hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces towards coalition partner forces in Syria that are conducting legitimate counter-ISIS operations in Syria, will not be tolerated” (emphasis added). [read post]
24 May 2019, 11:33 am
When the government went to the Supreme Court to stop the publication of the classified Pentagon Papers, the Supreme Court refused (though it did not reach the question of whether the Espionage Act could constitutionally be charged against the publishers). [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 1:00 pm
Water Wars: September Sea Squabbles Relations between China and Vietnam continue to sour, the Pentagon schedules regular South China Sea FONOPs, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration notches a win. [read post]
16 May 2018, 10:28 am
In Other News The Pentagon, citing security concerns, banned smartphones and other devices from ZTE and compatriot Huawei from stores on military bases earlier this month. [read post]
17 Oct 2015, 7:21 am
Adam Klein responded to the Intercept’s release of Pentagon documents on the drone program by stating that the “documents themselves are hardly as damning as the breathless tone of the reporting suggests. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 1:15 pm
The best way to answer this question is to share what Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers and is also an influential whistleblower, said about Serpico: “Serpico is the godfather of whistleblowers. [read post]
17 Jun 2017, 5:30 am
Bies provided a primer on executive privilege, and in a special edition of the Lawfare Podcast, Wittes posted the Sessions testimony trimmed to just the portions with new information: On Rational Security, the gang discussed the Sessions testimony, the Pentagon’s new authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan, and got a special visit from Wittes’ alter-ego, “Benjamin Sittes”: Rebecca Ingber took on the myth of a “deep state” seeking to undercut the… [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:50 am
In the latest from Guantanamo, the Pentagon announced that a Yemeni man detained in Guantanamo for the last 14 years has been transferred to Montenegro. [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 12:09 pm
The budget proposes a $54 million increase in military spending for the military, the largest since President Ronald Reagan’s Pentagon buildup in the 1980s. [read post]
18 May 2017, 12:00 pm
With Bill Clinton, the supposed civil-military crisis was the military’s cultural antipathy to his support for the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law and the White House’s strategic aversion to fighting in Somalia, which rankled many in the Pentagon’s E-Ring. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 10:26 am
On any or all of these issues, Democrats could try to reject the framework that domestic spending – even continuations of existing programs – requires offsets but that massive upper-income tax cuts do not (and that the Pentagon’s budget is off-limits in any event). [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 7:00 am
The Pentagon said that an estimated 500 regime forces participated in the attack, which involved an effort to cross the Euphrates River at Khusham and bombard the SDF position with artillery. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
On Jan. 15, FBI agents arrested Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a former CIA case officer, and charged him with unlawful retention of classified information. [read post]
17 May 2019, 7:18 am
The Defense Department’s $10B JEDI program, which will involve private-sector cloud hosting of critical Pentagon information and warfighting applications, represents the future. [read post]
21 Nov 2015, 5:26 am
” Ben noted that the Pentagon transferred five more Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 7:10 am
Though readouts of those meetings focus on the conflict in Yemen, Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi also discussed “freedom of navigation” with Mattis, according to a Pentagon statement-a reference to Iran’s recent threats to close the Strait of Hormuz. [read post]
