After a day of trying to get an official response here to the House Armed Services Committee’s ban on funding the Thomson Corrections Center to house Guantanamo detainees, here’s Lt. Col. Robert Ditchey with the reaction:
* We recognize Congress’ responsibilities and the Committee’s important oversight interests.
* We
Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) had an exchange with Gen. Stanley McChrystal that underscores both the Republican Party’s predicament and the general’s unwillingness to be used as a cudgel against President Obama, something Adam Serwer reflected on earlier. First Forbes tried to get McChrystal to say that the president’s 30,000-troop More…
The final round of details on the fiscal 2010 defense budget will be released today, but as Colin Clark of DOD Buzz reports, members of Congress are sick of Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ omerta strategy to block the armed services and their Hill patrons from reversing his More…
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