The Senate gave final approval to the $700 billion compromise defense policy bill Thursday that would advocate a major military buildup called for by congressional defense hawks, but would bust through strict caps on defense spending to do it. The National Defense Authorization Act was quickly passed by voice vote, without any final debate or […]
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ICE Agents Say Trump ‘Betrayed’ Them by Retaining Obama’s People…
The country’s immigration enforcement officers launched a website Tuesday demanding that President Trump do more to clean up their agency, saying he has left the Obama team in place and it’s stymying his goal of enforcing laws on the books. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisors in Philadelphia banned officers from wearing bulletproof vests during […]
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50 New Immigration Judges on Duty, and 370 More Coming…
The United States is on the verge of reversing an immigration court backlog that has been building for years, Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified Tuesday. Immigration hawks long have pointed to the backlog, now about 600,000 cases, as a factor in undermining enforcement. Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee that the backlog has barely grown […]
China to Send Special Envoy to North Korea…
China will send a special envoy to North Korea on Friday, state media reported. Song Tao, the head of the Communist Party’s international liaison department, will visit Pyongyang as a special envoy of President Xi Jinping, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The report said Song would brief North Korean officials on the […]
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House Votes to End U.S. Military’s Involvement in the War in Yemen…
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) had initially led a bipartisan effort with Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) to push a vote on a resolution to end the U.S. military’s involvement in the war against the Houthis in Yemen. The compromise resolution negotiated with leadership of both parties, the House Foreign […]
Former U.S. Senator: All these Navy Sailors have died after Fukushima Radiation exposure. 5 Years Later Still No Trial Date…
Edwards now represents hundreds of Navy sailors who were aboard the USS Ronald Reagan… “We have all these sailors whose case is now five years old, who have died or are in the process of dying right now,” said Edwards… Edwards noted that some of his other clients have seen their children born with birth […]
Empty Cockpit Syndrome: Air Force Struggles to Pull Pilot Plunge Out of Tailspin…
These are desperate times for the Air Force. To carry out its assigned missions at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and increasing demand for air power to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Air Force is losing too many of its best pilots. They’re not being lost to enemy fire, but to […]
Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed…
Logan Melgar hadn’t had a drink on June 4. The Green Beret sergeant’s dry day became a key to unraveling the narrative spun by the elite Navy commandos whom military investigators now suspect killed him, officials familiar with the case said. Melgar, a staff sergeant in the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Group, was specifically selected […]
STUDY: Since 9/11, the U.S. Has Spent the Unbelievable Sum of $5.6 TRILLION On Wars…
According to a new study by the end of 2018 the United States will have spent $5.6 trillion on war since 9/11. The Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Center says the average American taxpayer has spent more than $23,386 on wars since 2001. “The U.S. wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, […]
Army to Determine If Bergdahl Will Receive Up to $300k in Back Pay, Benefits…
The U.S. Army needs to determine whether or not former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty in October to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after deserting his Afghanistan outpost, will receive back pay and other benefits, following his sentencing last week. A military judge at Fort Bragg ruled that Bergdahl will receive a […]
Hate Crime Hoax: Air Force Cadet Admits to Faking Racial Crime…
A black Air Force cadet has admitted to writing racial slurs targeting blacks attempting to generate hate crime outrage. The Air Force Academy announced on Tuesday that the black cadet who was supposedly the victim of the racial slurs was, in fact, responsible for writing them. Officials said the cadet admitted to being behind the […]
After Night of Drinking, F.B.I. Supervisor Wakes to Find a Woman Stole His Gun…
An F.B.I. counterterrorism supervisor is under internal investigation after a woman stole his gun following a night of heavy drinking in a North Carolina hotel, according to documents and government officials. In July, Robert Manson, a unit chief in the F.B.I.’s international terrorism section, had his Glock .40-caliber handgun, a $6,000 Rolex watch and $60 […]
Star Witness Testifies in Benghazi Trial…
Five weeks into the criminal trial for the alleged ringleader of the deadly Benghazi attacks, prosecutors called their star witness Monday: a Libyan businessman whom the U.S. government paid more than $7 million in a high-stakes operation to befriend and capture the key suspect. Taking the stand before a federal court jury in Washington, the […]
Central Americans and Haitians No Longer Need Protected Status…
More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told Homeland Security officials this week, a few days ahead of a highly anticipated DHS announcement about whether to renew that protection. On Tuesday, Secretary of […]
What Is Fat Leonard Scandal? 440 Navy Officials Investigated for Taking Bribes…
Investigation into the “Fat Leonard Scandal” has expanded to include 440 active-duty and retired personnel, including 60 current and former admirals, of the U.S. Navy, according to reports. Reports said these personnel might have violated military law or federal ethic rules in their dealings with Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based maritime…
‘The Message From Mattis Is Basically Square Your Shit’: DoD Scrambles for Facts in Niger…
In the month since four Army Special Forces and five local security forces troops were killed by jihadi-aligned militants in Niger, the Department of Defense has insisted that the ambush was a complete surprise, catching the joint patrol off guard while they were on a routine mission to meet with local leaders in a village […]
Deserter Bergdahl Gets No Jail Time, Dishonorably Discharged…
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban captive who pleaded guilty last month to deserting his combat post in Afghanistan and endangering his fellow troops, will not serve prison time, a military judge ruled Friday. The judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, sentenced Bergdahl to forfeit $10,000 in pay, a reduction in rank to E-1 […]
The Real Scandal of the Declassified Osama bin Laden Trove Implicates Obama and the CIA…
The Central Intelligence Agency has finally declassified and released hundreds of thousands of documents it seized when it liquidated al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Initially, the Obama administration released only a handful of documents which, divorced from the context of the larger trove, appeared to support its narrative that the war…
CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran…
The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America’s military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned…
How Afghans View the Endless U.S. War…
On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here in Kabul, 30 mothers sat cross-legged along the walls of a large meeting room. Masoumah, who co-coordinates the Center’s “Street Kids School” project, had invited the mothers to a parents meeting. Burka-clad women who wore the veil over their faces looked identical…
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