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CBS's Star Benghazi Witness Is Looking Increasingly Unreliable
The star witness in a recent CBS "60 Minutes" report on the Sep. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack is looking dubious amid contradictory statements and his attempts to profit from his story, Foreign Policy...
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Last Year President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That He's 'Really Good At...
This will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.According to the new book “Double Down,” in which journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann chronicle the 2012 presidential election,...
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The Strange And Deranged Use Of Emoticons By Military And Intelligence Personnel
I've noticed some disturbing emoticon use and abuse since the military and intelligence establishments have come under so much fire recently.Here are the four examples from this year, the only, as far...
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Google Event Shows How Valuable Veterans Can Be To The Tech World
For the hundreds of thousands of veterans soon to be hitting the civilian workforce in the coming years, the tech industry may be the place to shine.In a presentation put on by non-profit "Got Your...
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Putting Veterans On A Pedestal Isn't Helping Anyone
My generation of veterans has adopted an odd moniker: The Next Greatest Generation. We grew up watching Band of Brothers and found parallels in this dramatization of World War II experiences to what we...
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How America Rebuilds And Upgrades The Mighty M1 Tank
The Abrams M1 tank is the primary battle tank of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. It has been used in nearly every major U.S. conflict since its introduction in 1980 and the military wants to keep these...
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Crew Of USS Dewey Grants Dying WWII Veteran His Last Wish
After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I’d given him (for agreeing it was OK to die) was a trip to “visit the Navy in San Diego.”I emailed...
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How US Special Forces Fit A Bridge In A Backpack
The ProblemIf U.S. Special Forces agents need to scale a wall, traverse a canal, or cross between rooftops, they typically use an everyday 40-pound aluminum ladder. That means one of them has to carry...
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The CIA Hemorrhages Spies To Top Wall Street Firms
The Central Intelligence Agency is suffering major attrition among officers working closely with the nation's elite financial institutions, reports Jeff Stein for Newsweek.The National Resources...
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Former Blackwater CEO: The NSA Is Turning America Into North Korea
Erik Prince, founder of the private defense company Blackwater (then Xi, now Academi), says that the NSA is turning America into North Korea.Prince, a one-time king of the mercenary world, told Eli...
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The Army Is Rounding Up All Of Its Sex Offenders
The Secretary of the Army John McHugh has issued an order to immediately discharge convicted sex offenders from service, reports the Army Times.“Purging convicted sex offenders from the ranks is just...
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America May Have Opened The Pandora’s Box Of Cyberwarfare
"If we were in such danger with SCADA, should we have thrown the first SCADA punch?" Jay Healey, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at Atlantic Council, posed to a packed house at the Defense...
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The Quality Of The Meth Coming Out Of North Korea Would Make Even Walter...
Various news agencies have reported that five men were recently extradited to the U.S. from Thailand for their alleged involvement in a North Korean meth drug ring.But that's not the real...
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Inside The Spy Plane That Was At The Center Of Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis
At the time of the Cold War, Russia had nothing that could shoot the U2 out of the sky. Even their MiG jets had a ceiling 10,000 feet below the U2's gliding altitude.One pilot said they'd buzz around...
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Mercenary King Erik Prince Blames Everyone But Himself For Blackwater's Demise
Blackwater founder Erik Prince gives his loudest rebuke yet of a government he says threw him under the bus in a new book, "Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of...
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Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of...
South African officials seized 2.2 pounds of uranium and 90 ecstasy tablets from two men allegedly trying to sell the items in the city of Durban, reports AFP.Uranium serves as a crucial component in...
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The Spoils Of War: Sheriffs, Police Nationwide Getting Armored Vehicles Left...
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) — Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs...
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This Historic Exchange Kicked Off America's Entrance Into The Nuclear Arms Race
Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd knew he had to warn the Belgians.It was 1939, the year after the discovery of nuclear fission.Szilárd, a Columbia University researcher, had found that fission could be...
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US Flies B-52s Into China's New Air Defense Zone
The U.S. flew two b-52s along a route that took them over a disputed island chain and deep into China's newly established air defense zone, reports the WSJ.Japan released a statement saying the new...
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Troops May Lose Historic TV Channel And Newspaper To Cuts
The Pentagon may cut the military's broadcast news and entertainment programs, reports Stars and Stripes.Since WWII, American Forces Network (AFN) has broadcasted 24-hour television programming to...
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