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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Greg Miller - Dec. 28 (Special Report) - The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential. In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. The apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, including two operational hubs on the East Coast, virtual Air Force cockpits in the Southwest and clandestine bases in at least six countries on two continents. ...

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U.S. Navy: Hormuz disruption won't be tolerated

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By CBS News - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The U.S. Navy said any attempts to block the Strait of Hormuz would "not be tolerated," after Iranian officials threatened to choke off the key oil supply route. Iran's navy chief warned Wednesday that his country can easily close the strategic strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the passageway through which a sixth of the world's oil flows.

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Ron Paul: Flawed policies helped lead to 9/11

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - Nov. 20 (News) - Face The Nation on CBS: Ron Paul: Flawed policies helped lead to 9/11 - GOP candidate cites "connection" between failed U.S. policies and attacks on homeland; Says America should use diplomats rather than troops

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FACT CHECK: In foreign policy address, Romney stretches on Obama’s record

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Oct. 08 (News) - Telegraph.co.ukFACT CHECK: In foreign policy address, Romney stretches on Obama's recordWashington PostA closer look at some of his statements, and how they compare to the facts: ROMNEY: “As President, on day one, I will focus on rebuilding America's economy and I will reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts. Time and again, we have seen that ...FACT CHECK: Romney misfires on defenseBoston Globeall 621 news articles »

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44 - Politics and policy in Obama's Washington.

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Matt DeLong - Oct. 02 (News Report) - Speaking at an event hosted by a prominent gay advocacy group, President Obama on Saturday night chastised the his GOP presidential rivals for failing to speak up when some members of the audience at a debate last month booed a gay soldier.

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Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Dao - Sep. 04 (Investigative Report) - .By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

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WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Matthew Schofield - Sep. 01 (News Report) - A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

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Pentagon: Libya fired Scud

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Associated Press - Aug. 15 (News Report) - Libyan government forces tapped into their stores of Scud missiles this weekend, firing one for the first time in this year’s conflict with rebels, but hurting no one, U.S. defense officials said Monday. The missile launch was detected by U.S. forces shortly after midnight Sunday and the Scud landed in the desert about 50 miles outside Brega, said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.

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Every Bug, Every Gas, Right Now: Air Force Wants Instant WMD Detector

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Lena Groeger - Aug. 03 (News) - Spurred by the anthrax hysteria of 2001, the U.S. government has thrown billions of dollars into developing new equipment and technologies to detect chemical and biological warfare agents. Now the Air Force has a plan that, if it actually works, would render all those billions obsolete.

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How the Deficit Got This Big

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Teresa Tritch - Jul. 25 (News Analysis) - A look at how the economy went from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era to the current deficit. With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010. The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions. Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non- defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was not a driving factor in creating the deficits. In fact, such spending, accounting for only 15 percent of the budget, has been basically flat as a share of the economy for decades. Cutting it simply will not fill the deficit hole.

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Ban on enforcement of 'don't ask, don't tell' policy is suspended

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Jul. 16 (News) - A federal appeals court late Friday temporarily suspended its ban on enforcement of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, reversing course for the second time this month on how and when the Pentagon must stop discharging gay soldiers and sailors.

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U.S. Slashes $800 Million in Military Aid to Pakistan

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Imtiyaz Delawala - Jul. 10 (News Report) - In a sign of tensions with Pakistan following the U.S. raid on former Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, White House chief of staff Bill Daley said today that the U.S. will suspend some $800 million in aid to Pakistan's military. "Obviously they have been an important ally in the fight on terrorism. They've been the victim of enormous amounts of terrorism," Daley said. "But right now they have taken some steps that have given us reason to pause on some of the aid which we were giving to their military, and we're trying to work through that." Daley confirmed a report in The New York Times this morning that "up to about $800 million in military aid and equipment, or over one-third of the more than $2 billion in annual American security assistance to Pakistan, could be affected" because of concerns over Pakistan's expulsion of American military trainers, as well as Pakistan's ineffectiveness in fighting militants.

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Panetta Says Iranian Arms in Iraq Are a ‘Concern’

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller - Jul. 10 (News Report) - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said on Sunday that weapons he said were supplied by Iran had become a “tremendous concern” for the United States in recent weeks in Iraq, where more American troops died in June than in any month over the three previous years.

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Military: 3 Southern California Marines entered into sham marriages to get housing allowance

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 03 (News Report) - Military officials are charging three California-based Marine corporals with fraud and larceny for entering in a pair of sham marriages to collect housing funding, officials said. The military alleges that a lesbian couple — one a Marine, the other a civilian — decided to live together off base and wanted to collect the $1,200 housing benefit granted to married Marines.

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Barack Obama and Pentagon split on Afghanistan pullout

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ewen MacAskill, Patrick Wintour, Nick Hopkins - Jun. 22 (News Report) - Barack Obama is set to reject the advice of the Pentagon by announcing on Wednesday night the withdrawal of up to 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by November next year, in time for the US presidential election.

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What Afghans think about President Obama's troop drawdown

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:27:49 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Tom A. Peter - Jun. 22 (News Report) - Many Afghans have mixed feelings about tonight's announcement from President Obama that the US will begin drawing down the levels of troops in Afghanistan.

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Obama expected to announce major Afghan drawdown

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Davis S. Cloud, Christi Parsons - Jun. 21 (News Report) - President Obama plans to announce a troop reduction in Afghanistan that Pentagon and other administration officials say is expected to bring home about 10,000 personnel by the end of the year.

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House May Vote This Week on Money for Libya Strikes

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer - Jun. 20 (News) - The House appears likely to vote this week on a measure that would limit financing for the American military efforts in Libya, using the chamber’s appropriations power to push back against the White House, which did not seek Congressional authorization for the mission.

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Semper Fly

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By Matt Labash - Jun. 20 (News Report) - This is the curse of PTSD, he says. You can fix an amputee by giving him a prosthetic leg. It’s trying and tough. He has to learn to walk again. But “how do you get 33 Marine deaths out of your mind, the way they died, and your wounds, and combat, and seeing things you don’t see every day? We try to do our best to hide that. With the loss of a limb, you don’t. You get help. But what about the guy who is hanging by a thread all day long? He feels ashamed to bring it up. People are going to say, that’s a wound? Like, is that really a wound? . . . I live combat almost every day, because the same instincts that protected me are still more alive than ever. I can be in a grocery store and feel like I’m walking down the street in Fallujah. . . . You fight yourself, with mind distortions, paranoia, hypervigilance, depression, guilt. It’s so complex. And it’s your mind, so you can’t ever escape it. I can’t ever put a prosthetic on that.”

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Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti - Jun. 15 (News) - Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.

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Battlefield Energy Plan Aims to Spark Major Changes in the Pentagon

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Annie Snider - Jun. 15 (News Analysis) - The Pentagon yesterday released its first strategy (pdf) for changing the way it uses energy on the battlefield.They will target three main areas: reducing consumption on the battlefield, transitioning to alternative energy sources and building more energy-efficient vehicles and weapons systems.

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Pakistan arrests five men for helping CIA spy on Bin Laden house

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Declan Walsh - Jun. 15 (News) - Pakistani intelligence has detained five alleged CIA informants who spied on Osama bin Laden in the months before the al-Qaida chief was killed in a special forces raid, US and Pakistani officials have said.

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Attack on Iraqi government building kills 8

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Ned Parker, Raheem Salman - Jun. 14 (News) - Gunmen and a suicide bomber storm the provincial council in Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province. Iraqi forces retake the building, but the latest in a string of assaults raises questions about security as U.S. forces plan their withdrawal. Separately, the Pentagon announces that two U.S. soldiers are killed in southern Iraq.

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Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Richter - Jun. 13 (News) - U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war.

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