US Rep Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, earlier this month released a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta requesting that the CIA’s Memoranda for the...
Earlier this month the US Senate approved its version of a defense acquisition reform bill by a vote of 93-0; it included an amendment that would give the Pentagon acquisition czar unprecedented say in the requirements development process.br /The...
President Obama, who has clearly ordered Gitmo to be closed within a year, had no plan about what to do with the prisoners/detainees there, and his lack of a plan has come home to roost. We saw this last week when House Democrats refused the...
The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly assault on a Pakistani police academy near Lahore in late March, and he said the group was planning a terrorist attack on the US capital. “Soon we will launch an attack...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is finally implementing a law to reimburse state nursing homes for the full cost of the care they provide for certain seriously disabled veterans. More than two years after Congress passed legislation to...
President Obama’s plan to close Gitmo and transfer the prisoners there to the US is unreasonable. It was one of Obama’s campaign promises, but clearly not one that was thought out. First, what are we going to do with them; put them in US prisons...
There are no plans to deploy US ground troops to Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today, this despite concerns over increasing violence between Pakistani troops and Taliban militants.br /Pakistan’s military continues to fight...
The Dept of Homeland Security’s (DHS) attempt to put all conservatives (especially veterans) in the category of potential terrorists has raised qutie a stink. Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi Democrat and chairman of the House Homeland Security...
I got my retired military pay voucher yesterday; I’m getting more money each month because the amount of withholding dropped. Many Americans like me who are enjoying their small paycheck increase from President Barack Obama’s “Making...