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Noah Shachtman
The first fight between the Obama team and a member of the military leadership may be brewing — over missile defense. Yesterday, outgoing Missile Defense Agency chief Lt. Gen. Trey Obering appeared to take a veiled shot at the incoming national security team yesterday, calling their knowledge about the interceptor effort “dated.”
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Investigators say they can find no motive
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Nov 7, 2008 12:42:20 EST
The July 27 death of Brig. Gen. Thomas Tinsley by self-inflicted gunshot wound seems likely to remain shrouded in mystery.
A three-month Air Force Office of Special Investigations inquiry, which concluded in early November, determined that Tinsley intentionally [...]
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from Crooks and Liars by Cernig
The Russians aren’t fooled by continual protestations that America’s missile defense plans are aimed at “rogue states” - none of whom yet has the capability of throwing a nuke at the U.S. and who probably would choose infiltration as a delivery method in any case. They’ve been beefing up their [...]
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By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Posted on October 17, 2008, Printed on October 19, 2008
Less than a week after the Washington Post reported that the Department of Defense will pay private contractors $300 million over the next three years to “produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort [...]
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By Jeff Stein | October 10, 2008 11:17 AM
The Pentagon has been struggling with what to spend money on in light of the coming financial squeeze, and now they have made their choice…everything!
As my CQ colleague Josh Rogin reports today, Pentagon officials have prepared a secret budget estimate that they plan to spring on [...]
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) — The Pentagon denied news reports Tuesday that a U.S. military aircraft was forced to land in Iran after violating Iran’s airspace.
Pentagon Bryan Whitman said he hasn’t “heard anything like that.”
“All aircraft in the region are accounted for and we have no reports of any aircraft landing in Iran,” said [...]
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Noah Shachtman
Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research wing, is launching a new, classified effort to find enemies by the phone they use. It’s called Gandalf.
Announced yesterday by Darpa, the SECRET/NOFORN program’s goal is to employ “set of handheld devices” to track down a particular “signal emitter of interest,” using “radio frequency geolocation.”
The “specific goals and [...]
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At-Largely by Cernig
The US is back in the business of paying for “good news” propaganda stories about Iraq, according to the Washington Post.
The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media [...]
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Five regional U.S. military commands
NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. Africa Command, the Pentagon’s first effort to unite its counterterrorism, training and humanitarian operations on the continent, launches Wednesday amid questions at home about its mission and deep suspicions in Africa about its intentions. U.S. officials have billed the new command, known as Africom, as [...]
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Nick Juliano
Published: Monday September 22, 2008
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the Bush administration to hand over photos depicting abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing the American Civil Liberties Union a victory in an ongoing public records lawsuit filed against the Pentagon.
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