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US documents leaked online give inside look at war
Update: Daniel Ellsberg says first leak in forty years “of the scale of the Pentagon Papers” The US government’s most notorious — but also decorated — whistleblower believes that the Wikileaks war logs drop is the biggest leak to emerge in over forty years. Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst…
Some Pentagon employees found with child porn still working: report
“Dozens” of Pentagon employees with high-level security clearance have been identified as downloading child pornography, and some of them appear to still be working for the US government, according to an investigative report. The Boston Globe obtained a report from the Department of Defense chronicling cases of child pornography downloading…
Pentagon ‘Don’t Ask’ survey for troops stokes ‘homophobia,’ group claims
Pentagon: Allegations of bias in survey are ‘absolutely, unequivocally, nonsense’ America’s largest group of gay and lesbian troops and veterans on Friday harshly criticized a Pentagon survey asking soldiers about the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, charging that the survey “stokes the fires of homophobia.” It prompted a forceful…
Breaking: “At this time SLDN cannot recommend that LGB service members participate in any survey”
As we learned yesterday, the Pentagon’s survey on DADT repeal impact was sent out to 200,000 active duty troops and 200,000 reserve troops. What you were not told is how LGBs serving in silence would be able to participate without risking being outed in the process. Servicemembers Legal Defense Network…
Legal group: Gays shouldn’t answer Pentagon survey
An advocacy group for gays in the military is warning them not to answer a Pentagon survey seeking opinions on repeal of the policy that bans homosexuals from serving openly. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network said Thursday that troops could be accidentally exposed by answering the survey and that the…
Pentagon says no ‘chilling effect’ from new media rules
The Pentagon on Tuesday defended stricter rules on media relations for the US military, saying the department needed to better manage its contacts with reporters. The new rules, laid out by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a July 2 memo, drew criticism from the media rights group Reporters Without Borders…
Pentagon buys $82 million a month in fuel from BP, despite spill
Defense Department says it has $980 million in contracts with BP for current fiscal year; Oil giant was largest provider of fuel to Pentagon in the world in 2009 The organization charged with helping BP plug and clean up a leaking oil drill hole in the Gulf is also providing…
Defense Secretary Gates tightens rules for media relations
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tightened rules on media relations for the US military, only days after the top general in Afghanistan was sacked over disparaging comments he and aides made in an interview. In a three-page memo sent Friday to senior military and civilian Pentagon staff, Gates said he…
China denies military exercise aimed at US
China denied on Tuesday media reports that an artillery drill in the East China Sea was in response to a planned military exercise between South Korea and the United States. The 6-day, live ammunition exercise starting on Wednesday in the East China Sea off China’s coast was seen by some…
Pentagon appeals to defense industry for lower cost weapons, services
The Pentagon on Monday told the US defense industry to bring down costs and find more savings in a “new era” of more modest military spending. Ashton Carter, chief arms buyer for the Pentagon, delivered the belt-tightening message to a gathering of hundreds of defense chief executives and senior managers…
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