In February, I was told that Michael Vickers, the assistant secretary of defense for (deep breath) special operations, low-intensity conflict and interdependent capabilities, was a key player on Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ defense-budget review. Over at DOD Buzz, Greg Grant has an interesting look at Vickers’ whole deal: More…
A really good piece from The Washington Post yesterday points out that a ton of wasteful defense spending comes from congressional Democrats.
It was Democrats who stuffed an estimated $524 million in defense earmarks that the Pentagon did not request into the 2008 appropriations bill, about $220 million more
I was all set to present this as my newsbreak today, so it’s a good thing I swung by the subscription-only newsletter Inside The Pentagon before I embarrassed myself. Kathleen Hicks, an ex-Pentagon planning official and most recently a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, More…
Word coming from the Hill: Bill Lynn, the former top Raytheon lobbyist tapped to become deputy secretary of defense, will finally get his floor vote in the Senate at 5 p.m. following three hours of scheduled debate. Reuters reported earlier today that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa.) is going More…
Earlier today I was chatting with a Pentagon official — anonymously, of course — about the Defense Department’s forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget. My source noted that Michael Vickers is one of a “small group” of people trying to harmonize the goodie-bag-filled budget request from the outgoing administration with the More…
Well, now I have an answer to why Mike Vickers, assistant secretary of defense for special operations, low intensity conflict and interdependent capabilities, won’t grant me an exit interview. From Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman:
Bob Gates isn’t the only top Pentagon official sticking around for the Obama administration.
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