Topic: The Pentagon

US spending battle escalates amid shutdown fears

A grueling and already angry US Congress battle over painful spending cuts escalated Friday amid growing concerns that the world's richest country hurtled towards a government shutdown.The US House of Representatives' Republican leaders aimed to wrap up the fight and vote late ...

House votes to kill F-35 second engine

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to kill funding for a costly alternate engine for the F-35 fighter aircraft that the Pentagon did not want.US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said through his spokesman that ...
The Obama administration will more than likely appeal a federal judge's ruling ordering the Pentagon to halt implementing its ban on gay troopsThe Obama administration will more than likely appeal a federal judge's ruling ordering the Pentagon to halt implementing its ban ...
The White House says President Barack Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon.. Obama also spoke at the remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon last year, the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks since he ...
Hopefully this statement by Ted Olson, the chief attorney for George Bush in Bush vs. Gore and leading Republican lawyer, whose wife died when the plane she was on crashed into the Pentagon, will put the coup de grace on the argument ...

House to vote Thursday on Afghan funds: Pelosi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will vote later on Thursday on President Barack Obama's request for $33 billion to help pay for 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.Obama asked Congress for the money in February and ...

How not to contract

No-bid, open-ended war contracts with KBR provide, the hard way, lessons for Pentagon Among the many mistakes the Bush administration made in prosecuting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were giving Kellogg Brown & Then-Vice President Dick Cheney had served as CEO ...
Some of Obama's Cabinet choices will make less money after they join his administrationJobs in President Barack Obama's Cabinet come with a pay cut for some of his appointees, who made millions from investments and lucrative careers in law, lobbying and business ...
Military judges in a Guantanamo war crimes court pressed forward Monday with hearings for five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks and for a Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier.Several days of pretrial motions started a day before the ...

What To Do With the 9/11 Confessors?

The Pentagon's claim that five of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay want to put an end to their legal proceedings and confess to their alleged roles in the 9/11 attacks made me think of a few lines in Azar Nafisi's " The ...
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