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White House Gave Hollywood Filmmaker Access To Team That Killed Bin Laden, Records Show

2012-05-23T09:10:02Z

WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials made "a planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team Six" who killed Osama bin Laden available to a Holly...

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Congressmen Seek To Legalize Propaganda For Use On Americans

2012-05-18T18:41:08Z

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed ha...

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The Center for Public Integrity: Former U.S. nuclear commander startles with proposal to cut weapons arsenal by 80%

2012-05-18T09:04:05Z

By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe chairman of a House subcommittee that helps shape the nation's nuclear arsenal, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), has bee...

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Christopher Holshek: Requiem for Reform?

2012-05-16T17:29:40Z

Maddow succeeds in explaining, in a charmingly non-wonkish way, how we got ourselves to our current state of affairs -- the unhealthy distortion of our time-honored yet taken-for-granted civil-military relationship.

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Washington Spectator: NSA Analyst: "We Could Have Prevented 9/11"

2012-05-14T16:05:18Z

The idea is, NSA only tells Congress what it wants them to hear, and Congress will just have to figure out what it really knows. The problem is, how will Congress find something unless it knows what it's looking for and where to find it?

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Michealene Cristini Risley: The Hollow Ring of Liberty

2012-05-14T13:11:04Z

The Obama administration has expanded on many of the civil rights violations that the Bush administration pioneered. These infringements have assaulted the freedoms of speech, assembly, association, and the rights to privacy and fair trial.

Read more: Patriot Act, Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, National Defense Authorization Act, Homeland Security, President Obama, Freedom, SOPA Bill, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Cispa, Politics News

Unseen: Trailblazing Military Women Forced To Fight For Recognition, Equal Treatment

2012-05-14T08:00:00Z

After a rocket-propelled grenade sent the Black Hawk helicopter tumbling out of the sky over Iraq, the medics got to work fast on the co-pilot, Capt. ...

Read more: Wounded Veterans, Female Veterans, Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Military Women, Women Veterans, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Women Military, Women at War, Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Tammy Duckworth, World News

Policy And Practice For Women At War: A Timeline

2012-05-14T08:00:00Z

A timeline of the history of women in the military highlights how official policy restrictions have lagged behind their service. Layer on the lives of...

Read more: Female Veterans, Department of Defense, Gulf War, Gary Patton, Rhonda Cornum, Veterans, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Army, Military, Vietnam War, Les Aspin, Tammy Duckworth, World News

The Center for Public Integrity: Public overwhelmingly supports large defense spending cuts

2012-05-10T10:13:40Z

By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsWhile politicians, insiders and experts may be divided over how much the government should spend on the nation's defen...

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Why The Pentagon Bailed On 'The Avengers'

2012-05-07T17:46:10Z

The Pentagon decided to stop cooperating with "Marvel's The Avengers" because the film seemed too unrealistic, Wired reports.

It's surprising that...

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Heath Brown: Who Would Be Romney's Foreign Policy Team?

2012-05-07T18:14:42Z

While the Veepstakes speculation ensues, planning for a presidential transition and a Romney Cabinet will commence. Who might President Romney choose for his foreign policy team?

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Rep. Louise Slaughter: Law & Order: The Army's SVU

2012-05-07T11:09:04Z

Thanks to Secretary Panetta, military sexual assault investigators, victims' rights advocates and the soldiers of the United States military, we are making important progress when it comes to protecting the men and women who protect us. Quite simply, they deserve nothing less.

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Project On Government Oversight: Defense Department's New Definition of 'Commercial Item' Will Save Money

2012-05-02T19:15:08Z

The Department of Defense is taking a major step in stopping the waste of taxpayer dollars. The legislative proposal is a huge improvement over the current definition, a broadly worded definition open to abuse.

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Ken Blackwell: Obama's Dangerous Approach to Missile Defense

2012-05-02T09:52:39Z

By rejecting Obama's position on homeland missile defense, Congress would both ensure taxpayer dollars are used more effectively and our country is well-protected. That approach would be a new way of doing business at the Department of Defense and real change that Americans can embrace.

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Winslow T. Wheeler: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon

2012-05-01T12:17:29Z

The United States is making a gigantic investment in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, billed as the next generation of combat aircraft. It's no secret, however, that the program -- the most expensive in American history -- is a calamity.

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Mark Pfeifle: Needs Over MEADS

2012-04-24T17:41:43Z

For reasons that defy all logic, the administration wishes to spend yet another $400 million on MEADS, the Medium Extended Air Defense System, while simultaneously acknowledging that the missile system will never get off the ground.

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Project On Government Oversight: Failed Equipment, Flawed Designs Plague Lockheed Littoral Combat Ship

2012-04-24T16:10:26Z

After more than six months in port, the USS Freedom has only been out to sea twice this year, and during both trips the engines and other key equipment failed. This is a far cry from what the Navy has been telling taxpayers.

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Nancy Parrish: Suing the Department of Defense for Dereliction of Its Duty

2012-04-23T17:37:00Z

We would like to believe that this most recent in a series of pledges of "zero tolerance" will make a difference. However, we would only know the Pentagon is serious and effective when the careers of those senior commanders who fail to provide positive leadership and take effective action are ended.

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Rent-To-Own Industry, Long Criticized For Preying On Military, Tries A Different Tactic

2012-04-20T17:29:00Z

Rent-to-own furniture stores, once branded as "predatory lenders" by the Department of Defense, are now pledging to hire veterans returning from duty....

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Nancy Parrish: The Pentagon Is Camouflaging the Truth About Rape in the Military

2012-04-20T08:04:46Z

America's troops deserve better than spin and half-hearted actions that fail to address core problems. They deserve real action. That means no longer hiding behind manipulated statistics and fundamentally reforming the way the military handles sexual assault and rape.

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ONLINE OF FIRE: Military Wife Learns About Husband's Death Through Facebook

2012-04-19T20:01:06Z

Military wife Ariell Taylor-Brown always knew that her husband, Staff Sgt. Christopher Brown, might be killed in the line of duty.

What she never e...

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Tireak C. Tulloch: Veterans 'Storm The Hill' To Meet With Lawmakers, Pass Legislation

2012-04-19T14:50:17Z

As a Marine Corps veteran deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I can attest that there is nothing like being around other veterans -- especially when we gather for a shared cause.

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Daphne Eviatar: Obama Administration Writes Rights Out of New Indefinite Detention Law

2012-04-18T13:05:45Z

The Obama administration had an opportunity to make clear that it takes due process rights and international law seriously, and that, as the war in Afghanistan winds down, it plans to bring indefinite military detention without meaningful review, charge, or trial to an end.

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Bill Quigley: Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

2012-04-13T13:08:30Z

The advanced technology of the war on terrorism, combined with deferential courts and legislators, have endangered both the right to privacy and the right of people to be free from government snooping and tracking.

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Jeff Blum: Blank Check for the Military Will Send America the Way of the Soviet Union

2012-04-09T17:26:37Z

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many strategists suggested that the Cold War arms race had bankrupted its economy and caused its downfall. More than 20 years later, it appears that some in Washington are driving the U.S. toward a similar fate.

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