The New Jersey Democratic legislator and intelligence oversight maven has finally won on a fight he’s waged to record military interrogations. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a May 10 memo from Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn instructs interrogators gathering high-value intelligence off the battlefield — that is, Bagram More…
Remember Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn? He was the former Raytheon lobbyist who joined the Obama administration almost immediately after the president announced new ethics rules barring lobbyists from joining the government in their relevant fields. His nomination survived after getting an ethics waiver, whereby he swore he wouldn’t have More…
The only one on the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning who says the defense budget should be on the table for President Obama’s spending freeze is a former Navy secretary — Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). Saying that there’s no reason military spending should be “sacrosanct,” Webb urged Defense More…
That was fast. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just announced that the Senate Armed Services Committee, which he chairs, will hold confirmation hearings Thursday for President-elect Barack Obama’s new Pentagon subcabinet team. This conflicts with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) confirmation hearings for secretary of state, being held More…
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