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26 Nov 2019, 2:23 pm
Amazon.com will likely argue that meddling by President Donald Trump cost the company a cloud-computing contract worth as much as $10 billion as it seeks to overturn a Pentagon decision to award the work to arch-rival Microsoft. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 6:13 pm
Pentagon and State Department have devised plans to supply Ukraine with antitank missiles and other weaponry and are seeking White House approval, U.S. officials said, as Kiev battles Russia-backed separatists and ties between Moscow and Washington fray. [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 7:46 am
From The Conversation, Christian Appy's essay on the links between coverage of the Pentagon Papers case and the end of Richard Nixon's presidency. [read post]
14 May 2007, 9:25 am
Citing security concerns and technological limits, the Pentagon has cut off access to MySpace, YouTube and nine other Web sites for personnel using the Defense Department's computer network. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 1:18 pm
The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing contract to Microsoft in October. [read post]
13 Jun 2006, 1:00 pm
A Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday that no independent probe was needed and maintained that the military would [read post]
16 Dec 2004, 9:20 am
A Pentagon spokeperson said Wednesday that 130 US troops from various branches of the service have been charged or punished by the military in connection with the abuse of prisoners at facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
11 Nov 2005, 6:43 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon has refused to allow expert witnesses to testify at the upcoming military commission [JURIST news archive] hearing for Australian terror suspect David Hicks [BBC profile; advocacy website; JURIST news archive], a decision that his US military lawyer says increases the likelihood that he will not receive a fair trial. [read post]
21 Apr 2005, 1:12 pm
[JURIST] The office of the Pentagon's general counsel [official website] has sent leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees a draft copy of a proposal saying that consensual sodomy between members of the US military would no longer be a criminal act. [read post]
10 Dec 2005, 2:48 am
Pentagon officials said Lizin, who has [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 5:15 pm
Citing security risks, the Pentagon banned Google teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases after images of a Texas base ended up on the popular Internet site. [read post]
20 Jun 2006, 2:32 am
[JURIST] Newly released Pentagon documents [ACLU list] provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" [press release] at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] prior to the three suicides [JURIST report] there earlier this month, according to ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 7:01 am
As Mediabeak reported last week, The Sunday Express has today been in court to confirm its agreement to pay undisclosed libel damages to Pentagon Capital Management over a story that claimed the firm was intending to withold £1bn of its investors funds.As reported on mediaguardian it seems the article was prompted by the paper's proprietor Frank Desmond.Roy Greenslade certainly thinks that [read post]
9 Nov 2005, 8:51 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon has said it will not seek the death penalty against Omar Ahmed Khadr [CBC Khadr family profile], an 18-year-old Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] who admitted throwing a grenade [JURIST report] that killed a US medic while fighting with the Taliban in 2002. [read post]
15 Dec 2005, 2:22 am
[JURIST] The US House committee investigating the government's actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] issued a subpoena Wednesday commanding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] to turn over internal records on the Pentagon's efforts to stabilize public safety, mobilize active duty forces in the region and send supplies to victims. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 8:54 am
Chaillan — who was the Pentagon’s first chief software officer — said China will dominate the future of the world by controlling everything from media narratives to geopolitics. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 5:22 am
Monday the federal government will release all 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers, the secret government study of the Vietnam War. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 7:37 am
WikiLeaks is frequently celebrated as the whistleblowing heir of the Pentagon... [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 5:03 pm
The Pentagon said Wednesday that the ICBM fired by North Korea was a first-of-its-kind missile that the U.S. had not seen before and represented a dangerous escalation of the threat posed by the regime of Kim Jong Un. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 7:28 am
According to NBC and other media, the Pentagon and the CIA are considering suing Matt Bissonette, the author of a soon-to-be-published account of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound that killed the al Qaeda leader. [read post]
