Tag: department of defense

Sure healthcare.gov is a nightmare, facing tons of problems, but that is nothing compared to the hundreds of billions in failures plaguing the Department of Defense.

Bob Cesca points to this interview Chris Christie gave about gun control. Christie was asked about specific gun control measures, and instead talked about violent video games. “We don’t allow those games into our house…we think it desensitizes children to all the effects of violence,” and added that all of the issues related to gun […]

Welcome to today’s outrage: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document. A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November says that since at least June […]

Rob Diamond, a Navy veteran and Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, noticed something interesting with the Republican response to the State of the Union address: Notice who is sitting directly behind McDonnell on his right side? You have an Army Staff Sergeant in full dress uniform. As Rob points out: Slight problem, you […]

I am really curious to hear how the wingnuts spin this one: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al […]

Now that the speech is done and we know the plan we can now take a look at the new site launched by the Department of Defense, Afghanistan/Pakistan Policy.

Cases like the rape allegations against KBR are like Pandora’s Box – once you open it then it keeps getting worse: Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore […]

It sure looks that way and the number 2 at the Department of Defense has penciled in the date – October, 2008 (gee – 1 month before the Presidential elections). I guess Bush saying that this is a “generational fight” was all more Bushit. Instead the war on terror has been mostly a political exercise. […]

This shows how bad the Majority Leader is: Rumsfeld’s leadership of the bloody mission in Iraq has become a divisive issue in the Nov. 7 elections. Many Democrats and a few Republicans are calling for his resignation, but President Bush repeatedly has defended him. So did House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, during an appearance […]

TPM Cafe has obtained a letter written by Clinton’s attorneys and sent to ABC regarding the 9/11 docu-drama. Here are a few key parts of it: Despite several requests to view the miniseries, we have not been given the courtesy of seeing it. This is particularly troubling given the reputation of Cyrus Nowrasteh, the drama’s […]