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Pentagon Review: Troops Don't Care About DADT

... and they don't need separate bathrooms

(Newser) - All those leaked reports were right: The Pentagon's 10-month review on Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially out, and it concludes that most troops don't consider it a big deal to serve with fellow service members who are gay, reports the Washington Post . "The risk of repeal of Don't...

Pentagon: Hurry Up on DADT
 Pentagon: Hurry Up on DADT 
Nov 22, 2010 6:06 AM CST

Pentagon: Hurry Up on DADT

Better for Congress, not courts, to repeal it: Gates

(Newser) - Top military brass are calling on Congress to quickly repeal "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell"—before the courts overturn the policy, potentially ordering changes that military leaders consider too fast or poorly thought-out. “If this law is going to change, it's better to be changed by...

Let's Finally Shrink the 'Military Industrial Complex'
Let's Finally Shrink the
'Military Industrial Complex'
eugene robinson
Nov 16, 2010 12:45 PM CST

Let's Finally Shrink the 'Military Industrial Complex'

Eugene Robinson: Budget realities make it essential

(Newser) - Of all the controversial ideas in the Bowles-Simpson deficit-reduction plan, the "most welcome" is the one about slashing defense spending and at long last taming the infamous military industrial complex, writes Eugene Robinson. He lays the blame for out-of-control spending on Republicans, who talk a good game on small...

Supreme Court Allows 'Don't Ask'—for Now

Can stay in place while it winds through lower courts

(Newser) - The Supreme Court today allowed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to remain in place while a federal appeals court considers the issue. The court did not comment in denying a request from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights group, to step into...

Wounded in Myriad Ways, Veterans Still Being Ignored

Op-ed: Story is told in rising suicides and shattered lives

(Newser) - This is how too many of our military veterans are being repaid for their service: In the form of rising suicide and divorces rates, addictions, and domestic violence cases, writes retired Army officer Bob Kinder in the Boston Globe . They're returning from war ill and being deprived of the care...

Pentagon: It's Safe to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

More than 70% of troops surveyed are fine with it

(Newser) - The Pentagon’s report on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will conclude that there is little to no risk in repealing the policy during wartime, sources tell the Washington Post . More than 70% of the troops surveyed said lifting the ban would have a positive, mixed, or nonexistent impact,...

Pentagon Still Can't Explain Mystery Missile

It went up last night off the coast of California

(Newser) - The Pentagon has had nearly a day now to explain the apparent missile that soared into the sky off the coast of California and it's come up with ... zilch. What's more, because defense officials still don't know what it was, they can't exactly say it's nothing to worry about, a...

Pentagon Investing $1B in Spy Blimps

Two huge contracts are in the works

(Newser) - Between Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, the US military will pay out nearly a billion dollars to get spy blimps in the air over tactical areas. Northrop (with a $517 million contract) is due to produce three seven-story blimps, each the length of a football field and able to stay...

Most Troops OK With Gays in Uniform
Most Troops
OK With Gays
in Uniform
Oct 29, 2010 11:55 AM CDT

Most Troops OK With Gays in Uniform

Pentagon review finds that most think it's no big deal

(Newser) - A Pentagon report on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell shows that a majority of troops aren’t opposed to gays serving in the military, reports the Wonk Room blog at Think Progress. "The number one answer was. ‘I don’t care,'” NBC's Richard Engel, who got...

Al-Qaeda Cleric Attended Pentagon Lunch After 9/11

Terror imam Anwar al-Awlaki chowed down with top brass

(Newser) - Anwar al-Awlaki, currently on the FBI's "kill-or-capture" list, was invited to lunch at the Pentagon a few months after the 9/11 attacks, a Fox News investigation finds. The Yemeni-American cleric dined with Defense Department brass as part of a Pentagon campaign to reach out to moderate Muslims, a defense...

Cops: Pentagon Shooting 'Random Event'
 Cops: Pentagon Shooting 
 'Random Event' 
updated
Oct 19, 2010 3:06 PM CDT

Cops: Pentagon Shooting 'Random Event'

But similar shooting occurred at Marine museum

(Newser) - Police say they're treating this morning's shooting at the Pentagon as a "random event." No one was injured in the pre-dawn incident in which shots were fired into two windows, apparently with a high-powered rifle. A Pentagon official said officers reported hearing five to seven shots about 4:...

Temporary Lockdown After Shots Hit Pentagon

No injuries reported

(Newser) - Someone fired shots at the Pentagon early today, hitting the building and causing minor damage, defense officials said. Police who protect the massive Defense Department headquarters temporarily locked down some road and pedestrian entrances to the building after a civilian reported he may have heard shots at about 5am on...

WikiLeaks: US Blacklisted Us, Screwed Up Funding

Assange says US waging financial war

(Newser) - WikiLeaks funding has been cut off thanks to what Julian Assange calls financial warfare by the US government. In an email to Assange, Moneybookers, the company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, said it was closing WikiLeaks' account “following the recent publicity and subsequent addition of the WikiLeaks entity to...

US Asks Judge to Put 'Don't Ask' Ruling on Hold

White House wants stay pending appeal

(Newser) - The Justice Department has asked a US judge to allow the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays to continue during an appeal. In court papers, the Obama administration says the case raises serious legal questions and that the government will be irreparably harmed unless the current policy...

Gates, Russian Counterpart Look to Downsize Militaries

Full-day meeting seeks ways to cut waste

(Newser) - Robert Gates today becomes the first US defense secretary to show his Russian counterpart around in almost six years, devoting an entire day to Anatoly Serdyukov, the New York Times reports. The two men are looking for common ground on a topic that would have been unthinkable during the Cold...

We 'Are Not at War With Islam': Obama
 We 'Are Not 
 at War With 
 Islam': Obama 
9/11 anniversary
Sep 11, 2010 1:18 PM CDT

We 'Are Not at War With Islam': Obama

President, VP, and First Lady mark 9/11 anniversary

(Newser) - President Obama laid a wreath at the Pentagon; Michelle Obama joined Laura Bush at the Flight 93 crash site; Vice President Biden went to Ground Zero. Their comments on the 9/11 anniversary, via the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :
  • President Obama: Americans “are not—and never will
...

Obama: At Our Best, We Are One
 Obama: 
 At Our Best, 
 We Are One 


9/11 ANNIVERSARY
Sep 11, 2010 6:15 AM CDT

Obama: At Our Best, We Are One

President urges a split nation to remember sense of unity

(Newser) - At the dawn of the ninth 9/11 anniversary, President Obama looked out over a divided country and urged it to remember that shared sense of horror and unity it felt as it watched towers collapse. "If there is a lesson to be drawn on this anniversary, it is this:...

WikiLeaks Posts CIA 'Terrorist Export' Memo

US has long history of sending terror abroad

(Newser) - America has exported home-grown terrorists for years, states a secret CIA document posted by the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks. The three-page memo outlines attacks abroad by US-based or US-funded Jewish, Muslim, and Irish-American terrorists, and questions the impact of such attacks on the foreign perception of America. If the US is regarded...

US Waging 'Shadow War' in Dozen Countries

And it's turning the CIA into a 'paramilitary organization': NYT

(Newser) - The New York Times takes an in-depth look at the "shadow war" being waged by the US in about a dozen countries, shining a light on a secret assault on terrorism that expands from North Africa to Yemen to former Soviet republics. Though the stealth war began under Bush,...

Top Brass in Huff Over Pentagon Cutbacks

Move to end 'brass creep' ruffles feathers

(Newser) - Four-star military commanders have joined the ranks of Americans worried about keeping their jobs. Defense Secretary Robert Gates made it clear when he announced Pentagon cutbacks this week that he plans to reduce "brass creep" in the military, and the decision has ruffled many feathers in the top ranks,...

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