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Ryan J. Reilly

Guantanamo Prosecution Plans Scaled Back By Obama Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 06.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration probably will bring military commissions charges against about half of the 36 detainees it originally said coul...

Another Request On Military Bases Hits Dead End

AP | RICHARD LARDNER and DONNA CASSATA | Posted 06.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Another round of military base closings has hit a dead end. The Senate Armed Services readiness subcommittee on Tuesday approved l...

Shielding the Whistleblowers

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 06.06.2013 | Politics
Project On Government Oversight

Men and women who join the military do so out of a profound sense of service to the country. We owe them a debt of gratitude, not a blind eye.

Disturbing Military Problem Has Deep Roots

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 06.02.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- Sexual assault occurs in myriad settings and the perpetrators come from every swath of U.S. society. Yet as recent incidents and reports m...

Our Twisted Politics of Grief

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.28.2013 | Politics
Norman Solomon

The "war on terror" was built on two tiers of grief. Momentous and meaningless. Ours and theirs. The domestic politics of grief settled in for a very long haul, while perpetual war required the leaders of both major parties to keep affirming and reinforcing the two tiers of grief.

Hackers Reportedly Accessed U.S. Weapons Designs

Reuters | Posted 05.29.2013 | Technology

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will discuss cyber security with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting...

Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Still Receiving Salary

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army major accused of killing 13 and injuring 32 more in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas on Nov. 5, 2009, has been r...

Military Sexual Assault Victims Seek Help

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — New government figures underscore the staggering long-term consequences of military sexual assaults: More than 85,000 veterans were...

Obama: Commanders Ashamed By Military Sexual Assault

AP | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

By ROBERT BURNS AND LOLITA C. BALDOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation's military leaders t...

Congress OKs Killing of Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime?

Michael Shank | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics
Michael Shank

A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress: The Authorization for Use of Military Force, which is enabling a system of eternal warfare.

Ryan J. Reilly

Why Gitmo Hunger Strike Numbers Probably Won't Slip Soon

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- It took a long time for the 100 detainees currently recognized as hunger strikers by the U.S. military to be added to that list, because...

Congress Slows Military Efforts To Save

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Parked around the airstrip at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is ...

DOD: Prosecutors Didn't See Guantanamo Defense Emails

Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 06.12.2013 | Politics
Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is denying that military prosecutors saw privileged emails belonging to defense attorneys representing Guantanamo...

Joy Resmovits

Sequestered Military Schools Get Temporary Reprieve

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

For the last few months, teachers in America's military schools have scrambled to understand how across-the-board cuts to the Department of Defense, o...

Defense Budget Maps Out Unpopular Cuts

Reuters | Posted 06.10.2013 | Politics

(Reuters) - The Pentagon offered up a $526.6 billion budget on Wednesday that calls for closing bases, slashing the civilian workforce and scrapping w...

Ryan J. Reilly

Military Locks Out Press As Guantanamo Hunger Strike Grows

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 04.05.2013 | Media

WASHINGTON -- In the midst of an ongoing hunger strike, the military is denying reporters access to the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay. The militar...

Brothers Linked To Late Dem Rep Face Conspiracy Charges

AP | JOE MANDAK | Posted 05.27.2013 | Politics

PITTSBURGH — Two brothers who owned defense contracting businesses that benefited from earmarks obtained by the late U.S. Rep. John Murtha will ...

OOPS: National Guard Mistakenly Sent Out Furlough Notices

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The National Guard mistakenly sent out furlough notices to Guard members in up to 21 states, despite the Pentagon's decision to del...

Defense Department To Delay Furloughs

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will delay furlough notices for its civilian employees for about two weeks while officials analyze the impac...

Panetta Warns Looming Cuts Could Rock 'Vast Majority' Of Key Workers

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have...

Senate Republicans Take a Stand Against the Public Interest

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Robert Scheer

It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president's nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.

Pentagon To Make Big Reversal On Same-Sex Benefits: Report

Washington Post | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics

The Pentagon has decided to extend certain benefits to the spouses of gay and lesbian personnel, according to officials and people notified about the ...

David Wood

Chuck Hagel, Armed Services Committee Leave Out Strategy Post-Sequester

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 01.31.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In roughly eight hours of often heated discussions with the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, defense secretary-nominee Chuck Ha...

Now That Women Are Cleared For Combat, How About A Rape-Free Workplace?

Posted 01.30.2013 | Impact

By Matthew Fleischer, TakePart January 24, 2013—the day Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Demps...

Pentagon Begins Layoffs Amid Budget Fears

Reuters | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

(Repeats with no change to text) By Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - France's military...