The Anti-Defamation League takes the unexpected step of criticizing Gen. David Petraeus, the widely respected commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, for his recent comments to the Senate Armed Services Committee that lack of progress on Israeli-Palestinian peace sets the “strategic context” for U.S. security More…
The Senate Armed Services Committee might still not have Gen. David Petraeus’s eight-minute statement on the military’s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow morning, hearings resume on the prospective end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Two young mid-career ex-officers, Michael D. Almy, a former Air Force major, More…
The Vet Voice Foundation has commissioned a rare scientific poll to survey military attitudes about the ban on open gay military service. It’s found broad and deep support among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for getting rid of the ban.
The private security company, renamed Xe Services, objects to my use of the verb “stole” to refer to the guns it got from the U.S. military in Afghanistan in 2008. A letter from its general counsel reads, in part:
Xe Services LLC disagrees with several statements and opinions in
In a humorous exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.), Gen. David Petraeus demurred when asked if it made sense to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Bagram detention facility that this year the U.S. military will transfer to Afghan control. Petraeus asked if everyone involved in considering such a More…
Testifying this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, has yet to deliver what he said was an “eight-minute statement” on his views about repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” But in something of a preview, More…
A couple of weeks ago, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East and South Asia, demurred on an attempt by David Gregory to compel him on ‘Meet The Press’ to offer a personal view on whether the military’s ban on open gay service ought More…
More on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) offer to trade the White House a Guantanamo Bay closure for a military commission for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. On ‘Face The Nation,’ Bob Schieffer asked what it’ll really take for Graham to deliver the Guantanamo votes from the GOP caucus. What did More…
Still no confirmation of The Christian Science Monitor’s major story about the Pakistanis arresting half of the Taliban’s senior leadership. But The New York Times has a great piece this morning about the restored closeness of the CIA and its Pakistani counterpart, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency. That close-but-uneasy More…
The head of contract compliance for Blackwater, Fred Roitz, told Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) that he has never known that hundreds of weapons Blackwater employees took from a U.S. military depot in Afghanistan called 22 Bunkers (or Bunker 22) have been explicitly designated by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of More…
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