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When word went out last night that Phil Carter, the Obama Pentagon official in charge of detainee issues, had abruptly left just seven months into the job, speculation mounted. Full Article at The Politico
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Hopefully Andrew Revkin and the Times will redeem themselves and do likewise by giving the global warming e-mails the scrutiny they deserve. Full Article at Accuracy in Media
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In this photo provided by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, a Ground-Based Interceptor is shown shortly after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. , on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. View Photo »
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Also last week, the Pentagon endorsed two other possible defensive arms sales for Chile's army. The first purchase would include six new Sentinel radar systems and six SINCGARS radio systems, at a cost of US$65 million. The second deal could include 36 Avenger planes and 390 ground-to-air missiles at a ...
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- First-time claims for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits dropped in the week ending Nov. 21, the U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday. Full Article at United Press International
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Text pagers are usually carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Full Article at The Register
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Phil Carter touched off a bit of a speculative frenzy last night, when he announced his resignation from the Pentagon. Carter served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy, handling porcupine-thorny issues like Guantanamo. Full Article at Wired
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In this photo provided by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, a Ground-Based Interceptor is shown shortly after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. , on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. View Photo »
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The Pentagon on Thursday [November 5] advised the U.S. Congress of the possible sale of stinger missiles worth about $455 million, AIM medium-range missiles worth $145 million and Sentinel radar systems worth $65 million.
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“We’re charged with a fairly awesome task, and that is to fuel the Defense Department's most flexible and adaptable weapons platform, and that of course is the individual warfighter," said Gerry Darsch, director of the Defense Department’s Combat... Full Article at U.S. Department of Defense
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Since at least the time of Abraham Lincoln, presidents have sent letters of condolence to the families of service members killed in action, whether the deaths came by hostile fire or in an accident. Full Article at The New York Times
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US Army General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff, briefs the media on the current state of the Army's Suicide Prevention efforts, discussing ongoing initiatives and programs on November 17, 2009, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
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Frank Pollack, president and chief executive officer of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee hearing on the Fairness and Accountability in Receiving Overdraft Coverage Act, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Wa...
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The Pentagon’s plan is beyond illogical ... It delays the delivery of a new presidential helicopter fleet until 2024 and wastes as much as $15 billion in taxpayer money on the construction of a new presidential program that will be nearly identical to the VH-71A program that’s been in development for mo...
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The Senate has passed a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill that would bring the tab for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to more than $1 trillion. The measure passed by a 93-7 vote. It would also ban outright any transfer of accused enemy combatants from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility into...
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A 2006 congressional study pegged the cost of flying Air Force One at $56,518 an hour. The Pentagon recently said it cost $100,219 an hour to fly the huge, reconfigured Boeing 747 without Obama aboard. The Pentagon estimate included more costs for support needs, such as maintenance. At those rates, the ...
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates opposed the demands, saying the Pentagon budget amendment put himself and his commanders in an 'inappropriate' position. And Democrats argued that they had never demanded such testimony from Iraq commanders when President George W. Bush spent months in 2006 deliberating th...
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He has presided over an intricate and occasionally thorny reconfiguration of the 200 person NSC staff to better reflect Obama's national security priorities ... Lippert's general level influence -- particularly over Obama's Iraq and Afghanistan policies and his advice to Obama about the way to deal with...
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The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large bunker-buster bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.
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Congress will tackle a defense-heavy agenda this week with debates on Pentagon spending and policy, missile defense strategy, and the contentious missions in Iraq and Afghanistan ... The conference on the 2010 defense policy bill could conclude this week. Staff are slated to work through the weekend and...
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This month's interim ruling from the World Trade Organization shows that Airbus illegally benefited from European Union subsidies when developing its aircraft ... The Pentagon should add costs back to the Airbus tanker proposal to account for these subsidies and prevent the company from undercutting its...
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The Pentagon is behind the coup in Honduras.
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The Pentagon has pledged to run a fair and transparent competition, and I intend to hold them to their word ... In the coming days, I will be reviewing the draft RFP in detail to ensure that it places competitors side-by-side in the starting gates.
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The Pentagon Papers, in 1971, came out eight years too late. . . . I’ve been in the trenches before, going back to Nixon
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The Pentagon has told its top commander in Afghanistan to delay submitting his request for additional troops, defense officials say, amid signs that the Obama administration is rethinking its strategy for combating a resurgent Taliban
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We are appalled by the Pentagon's failure to pursue answers to the questions surrounding this tragedy ... Since Mr. Hermanson was in Iraq working on a DoD contract, we believe that the Pentagon has a responsibility to fully investigate.
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The Pentagon and the White House are awaiting a separate, more detailed request for additional troops and resources
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So Obama has torn up the old defense plan and replaced it with one the Pentagon says will be more effective. It's a gamble, but so was the Bush approach.
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Latimer is a veteran of conservative politics, an admirer of Sen. John Kyl, for whom he worked for several years. Latimer also worked in the Rumsfeld Pentagon before joining the Bush White House in 2007.
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It is not an assessment that is shared universally. Eric Edelman, who oversaw missile-defense issues at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for policy in the Bush administration, said intelligence reports he reviewed were more troubling. Maybe something really dramatic changed between Jan. 16 and ...
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The current system for providing health insurance and workers compensation for our military contract workers in Iraq and Afghanistan is broken and wasting millions of dollars in payments to companies like AIG ... If the Pentagon, the Department of Labor and Congress modernize the current insurance syste...
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As it turned out, the sectarian dynamics in Nasiriyah, as in the rest of Iraq, were much more convoluted than the neoconservative brain trust at the White House and Pentagon assumed
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