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Fresh Breeze Blowing in the Pentagon

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, National War College, Elaine Donnelly, Boston Globe, Department of Defense, Col. Om Prakash, Joint Forces Quarterly, Defense Secretary William Perry, Gao Report, Dadt, New York Times, Admiral Mike Mullen, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Elizabeth Bumiller, Jfq, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

An Air Force colonel's new article is the closest we've ever come to recognition by an official Pentagon publication that "don't ask, don't tell" has got to go, and go soon.

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GAO Report: State Department Language Skills Are Dangerously Insufficient

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gao Report, Foreign Service Officers Language Skills, Homeland Security, State Department Language Skills, State Department GAO Report, GAO Report Language Skills, Government Accountability Office, Daniel Akaka Homeland Security, State Department, GAO Report State Department Language Skills, Politics News

About a third of Foreign Service officers in jobs that require language skills don't have the proficiency required to do their jobs, hurting America's...

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Sam Stein

Air Force One Photo Op Could Cost Taxpayers Between $27,500 And $213,000

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: 000 Photo Op, Air Force One, $200, Air Force, Gao Report, Taxpayer Money, Air Force Photo Op, New York-New York, Politics News

With Reporting By Arthur Delaney The cost of an Air Force One photo-op over the Statue of Liberty that ended up frightening scores of New Yorkers lik...

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The Surge Is Working? Not If You Read the Latest GAO Report

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Iraq War, Iraq Oil, Iraq Surge, Iraq Violence, Bush Iraq, Gao Report, Iraq Reconciliation, Iraq Occupation, Iraq Casualties, Iraqi Government, McCain Iraq, Iraq GAO Report Conclusions, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

What the GAO report makes clear, above all else, is that contrary to what the mainstream media and the GOP would have you believe, the surge has not worked. It's time for the U.S. military to go home.

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Sam Stein

$20 Billion Later, Iraq Security Only Operating At 10 Percent

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: General Petraeus Iraq Security, Iraqi Security Forces, Surge Policy, Gao Report, Mccain Security Forces, Readiness Iraq, Security Forces Iraq, Warwire, Politics News

The Government Accountability Office delivered on Monday what was, in many ways, a sobering report on the current situation in Iraq. Noting that viole...

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