Infighting, mishandled cases, questionable record keeping, alleged office romances and a lurid rumor mill led an Air Force Academy investigator to find that the school’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office was “derelict in the performance” of duties and bungled care for victims. The scaldingly critical report called for the firing of the office’s former […]
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More Than 200 Women in National Security Pen Sexual Harassment Letter…
More than 200 women in the national security sector on Tuesday penned an open letter on sexual harassment, calling on the industry to reform practices to decrease sexual misconduct. In the letter, obtained by The Hill, the women ask for multiple changes within the national security workplace realm, including the addition of employee training and […]
Islamic State Last Stand; End Times for the Caliphate by Mike Whitney…
Russia and its allies have expelled ISIS from its last urban stronghold in Syria. Now the Syrian coalition will turn its attention to the numerous hotspots around the country where al Qaida-linked groups have dug in waiting for the Syrian Army to make its final push. On Monday, Lebanese media reported that the Syrian Arab […]
Did Kushner Keep Tillerson in the Dark on Saudi-Lebanon Move?…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has accomplished the impossible: he’s actually united Lebanon, though perhaps only briefly. The tale of how the 32-year-old bin Salman (or MbS, as he’s called), accomplished this is a tad complex, but it’s worth the telling. Earlier this month, on November 2, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the scion […]
U.S. Drone Strike Kill 10 Suspected al-Qaeda Members…
A US drone strike in Yemen killed 10 suspected al-Qaeda members over the weekend, according to local government officials, as raids against the group continued to intensify in southern Yemen. The United States is the only force known to operate armed drones over war-torn Yemen, where thousands have died in the conflict and millions now […]
Don’t Blame Donald Trump for Eclipsing the State Department…
The bad news? President Donald Trump may be dismantling the State Department. The good news? No recent president has made much use of those diplomats anyway, so they are unlikely to be missed. And that’s really bad news. Recent stories try hard to make the case that something new and dark has crept into Foggy […]
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Obama Policy Totally Failed in Syria–Let’s Be Thankful…
I kept hearing National Public Radio programs this week to the effect that liberals and “progressives,” not to mention those in the honorable “Resistance,” dreaded talking about politics over Thanksgiving dinner. Leave it to NPR, they took opinion surveys to make the point. One understands: Who wants to hear from Trump-supporting Uncle Harry about…
Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Maryland’s Assault Weapons Ban…
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal from gun owners and dealers in Maryland challenging the state’s ban on military-style rifles and detachable magazines. The Maryland General Assembly enacted the ban in 2013 after a gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The U.S. Court of […]
VA Study Shows Parasite from Vietnam May Be Killing Vets…
Veterans returned to the U.S. after fighting in the jungles of Vietnam a half century ago, but hundreds of them may be dying from a silent bullet — a slow-killing parasite living in the men decades after the war, a new study revealed. Liver flukes, parasites that infect a human when raw or undercooked fish […]
U.S. Continues to Help Search for Argentine Sub Crew…
U.S. military ships and aircraft on Wednesday continued to assist the search for an Argentine submarine that has been lost in the South Atlantic for seven days as experts say the crew might be reaching a critical period of low oxygen. The ARA San Juan, a TRA 1700 German-built diesel-electric submarine with a crew of […]
Update on Syria…
“Now, Syria could be divided into 7 sectors controlled by various parties: The Syrian government, backed by its allies – Iran, Hezbollah and Russia, controls the biggest part of the country, including the cities of Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Deir Ezzor, Damascus, Latakia, as-Suwayda and Tartus. However, the militant-held pockets inside the government-held area pose a […]
House to Vote on Giving Amazon $53B Deal to Become Main Pentagon Supplier…
Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was…
‘Russiagate’ Zealots (Mainly Democrats) Have Become a Major Threat to US National Security…
Cohen argues that America is now in unprecedented danger due to two related crises. A new and more dangerous Cold War with Russia that is fraught with the real possibility of hot war between the two nuclear superpowers on several fronts, including Syria. And the worst crisis of the American presidency in modern times, which […]
Brennan and Clapper: Elder Statesmen or Serial Fabricators? by Mike Whitney…
On Sunday, Former CIA Director John Brennan and Former National Intelligence Director (NID) James Clapper appeared on CNN’s morning talk show, State of the Union, to discuss Donald Trump’s brief meeting with Vladimir Putin in Vietnam. The two ex-Intel chiefs were sharply critical of Trump and wondered why the president did not “not acknowledge and […]
Rex Tillerson Is Underrated…
Over the past year, Rex Tillerson seems to have doggedly pursued the title of Worst Secretary of State Ever. The New York Times editorial board accuses him of “making war on diplomacy,” and contributing writer Jason Zengerle’s recent profile of Tillerson was headlined “Rex Tillerson and the Unraveling of the State Department.” Nik Steinberg of […]
Massive U.S. Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open in AWS S3 Buckets…
Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing “dozens of terabytes” of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest. The archives were found by UpGuard’s veteran security-breach hunter Chris Vickery during…
Border Patrol Agent Killed, Another in Serious Condition in Texas…
One Border Patrol agent is dead and his partner left hospitalized in serious condition in the Big Bend Sector of Texas. The FBI is leading the investigation while Border Patrol Special Operations agents and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations aircrews are currently searching the area for possible attackers. Breitbart Texas learned […]
Islamic State Just Lost Its Last Town in Iraq…
In 2014, ISIS controlled around 34,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria. As of Friday, ISIS lost its last stronghold in Iraq. That’s because on Friday morning Iraqi troops and US-led coalition forces retook Rawa — a small town in northwestern Iraq — after about five hours of fighting. ISIS has now effectively […]
The Pentagon Has Detained a U.S. Citizen for More Than Two Months – and Said Little…
For more than two months, the U.S. military has held an American citizen in detention in Iraq. Officials allege that the man fought alongside the Islamic State in Syria — but other than that, the Pentagon has provided little information about him. The man reportedly surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces on Sept. 12 and […]
Navy Pilot Uses Plane to Draw a Sky Penis…
The Navy apologized after one of its pilots used his plane to draw the image of a penis in the skies above Washington on Thursday. Residents of Okanogan County, Wash., noticed the phallic image the artistic pilot emblazoned across the skies with his contrails and complained to local CBS affiliate KREM…
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