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Obama administration’s proposed cuts in Pentagon spending welcome, but only a small first step

President Barack Obama, with Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta after unveiling his defense strategy at the Pentagon Jan. 5 (Reuters/Jason Reed) Anyone who has lived through all the drama before knows to r...

Indefinite detention: Can we ask how the United States got here?

Bipartisan BFFs in enabling indefinite detention: Sens. John McCain and Carl Levin. (Office of Senator Patrick Leahy/Wikicommons) There has certainly been a lot of sturm und drang surrounding the indefinite detention provisions codified into law in t...

Pentagon’s inspector general deserves a yellow stripe for okaying shillery by retired officers

Donald Rumsfeld (DonkeyHotey) Bruce Ackerman writes: This is a time of good cheer at the Pentagon—its watchdog, the inspector general, has just ruled that its Bush-era campaign to manipulate the media was entirely acceptable under Defense Departmen...

Mark Fiore – Victoryish

Mark Fiore – Victoryish

Mark Fiore – Victoryish

Mark Fiore – Victoryish

Mark Fiore – Victoryish

Mark Fiore – Tough Enough?

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NYPD/CIA racially profiled innocent U.S. citizens in intelligence effort

The AP is continuing its excellent investigative series on the joint NYPD/CIA's "Demographic Unit," which operates in the northeast and targets the Muslim community in a supposed anti-terrorism effort, with a new report on the profiling of innocent A...

FBI says no more anti-Muslim training, but the problem runs deep

At the end of last week, the FBI made clear that they had ended their anti-Muslim training program, saying "that the agency did host one training session six months ago that described Muslims as more likely to be violent as they increased in devotion...

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