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Lorenzo Franceschi For the first time, NSA chief and head of the U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Keith Alexander admitted America is ready to attack in cyberspace. Never before has a U.S. official acknowledged that the U.S. government is working on or is in possession of malware capable of attacking a foreign nation in a cyber conflict, despite the fact that at least one attack — the famous Stuxnext worm [...] Classified United States military units are operating in the region near Libya since the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, according to the director of operations for the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. The disclosure that secret U.S. military forces were dispatched to Libya recently was revealed in a letter sent Wednesday to the House Armed Services Committee by Vice Adm. Kurt Tidd, director of operations for the Pentagon’s [...] Members of Congress are forcing the Army to purchase tanks that it neither wants nor needs, Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston of CNN report. Earlier this year Army chief of staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno told Congress that it would save taxpayers $3 billion if the Pentagon holds off repairing, refurbishing or making new M-1 Abrams tanks for three years until new technologies are developed. There are currently more than 2,000 inactive [...] Cut military budget and WE’LL INSTITUTE A DRAFT US lawmakers warns cuts may revive military draft A key US lawmaker leading the fight against military spending cuts has warned that dramatic new reductions could force the United States to shift from an all-volunteer military and reinstate the draft. House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon, a Republican, told Fox News television on Monday that lawmakers “need to understand what it’s going to mean to [...] The Obama administration’s senior budget official blamed nearly $500 billion in looming mandatory defense cuts on “Republican refusal to have the top two percent pay their fair share,” a political jab that many members of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) deemed offensive. Jeffrey Zients, the Office of Management and Budget’s acting director, surprised lawmakers by engaging in a partisan attack after Republican members of HASC demanded to know exactly how [...] Noel Brinkerhoff Before it nearly imploded and was bought out by Bank of America during the 2008 financial crisis, Countrywide Financial used a VIP program to loan money to members of Congress as a way to influence their decision-making. At least seven current and former lawmakers accepted loans from the mortgage company, according to a report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Senators accepting the loans were Kent Conrad (D-North [...] Google “sequestration”. The Federal government is getting its budget axed on January 2013. Will be chaos I promise you. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=sequestration Sequestration could boost unemployment, altering 2012 politics The looming threat of sequestration is proving to extend beyond the walls of the Pentagon, making its way into the political arena as the November elections get closer. Not only will the additional $500 billion in defense cuts have an effect on the lives of more than [...] Defense Secretary re-affirms Obama administration’s unconstitutional stance Paul Joseph Watson Following controversy over his assertion that seeking “international permission” from the UN to launch wars trumps the authority of Congress, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta re-affirmed this premise during recent testimony in which he again stated that Congress would play second fiddle to the international community. Asked by Congressman Walter Jones, who has launched a resolution re-affirming the limits to Presidential [...] A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is challenging a new law that allows the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the United States. Their effort comes as a New York federal court on Wednesday struck down a portion that gives the government broad powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists as unconstitutional. An unusual coalition of Democrats, libertarians and tea partyers on Wednesday [...] From Bloomberg: The U.S. House Armed Services Committee approved a $554 billion defense bill, refashioning a spending plan that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said should be passed without change. The defense authorization measure, agreed to early today by a vote of 56-5, is about $4 billion more than President Barack Obama’s administration said could be spent for fiscal 2013 to stay within deficit-reduction targets. The committee reversed Pentagon proposals to curtail or slow weapons programs, includingNorthrop [...] * Panetta declines to detail support due to ‘sensitivity’ * Military, economic ties with China date back decades * Says recent provocations followed some recent progress WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) – China has provided some assistance to North Korea’s missile program, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, a week after the hermit state’s failed missile launch triggered broad international condemnation. “I’m sure there’s been some help coming from China. I don’t know, you know, [...] BY: Bill Gertz - February 17, 2012 9:51 am President Obama’s plan for the Pentagon to cut deployed strategic nuclear warheads by 80 percent is meeting harsh resistance from House Armed Services Committee Republicans on Capitol Hill who called the plan “dangerous.” In a letter to the president sent Thursday, a group of 34 House members expressed deep concerns about a National Security Council directed plan to reduce strategic warheads to as few as 300 weapons. “At a time [...] What do Plastic Bags and Military Contractors Have in Common? One Congressman A Republican running for an open seat in the California Assembly has received unusually large donations from defense contractors, possibly because of her congressman-husband who holds a powerful position in Washington. Outraged by Los Angeles County’s 10-cent tax on plastic grocery bags, Patricia McKeon decided to run for an Assembly seat that overlaps with her spouse’s congressional district. Her husband, [...] From Washington Times: In dumping the Pentagon’s two-war strategy, President Obama is reversing a doctrine adopted by Republican and Democratic presidents, including himself. His 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a congressionally mandated document that lists the armed forces’ major missions and required forces, stated that the U.S. is “maintaining the ability to prevail against two capable nation-state aggressors” in “overlapping time frames.” But Mr. Obama’s revised strategy, on which he put his personal imprint by announcing it at [...] (Reuters) – Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords served a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday to Air Force personnel in her first constituent event since she was shot in the head in January, her office said. Giffords dished out turkey with tongs as she stood between Brigadier General Jon Norman and her husband Mark Kelly, saidGiffords’ spokesman Mark Kimble. The event at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was expected to draw more than 400 people, mostly U.S. Air Force personnel, retired service members [...] From The Hill: A supercommittee failure would trigger at least $500 billion in cuts to national security spending, but there is no consensus on just where they will be made. Lawmakers included the automatic cuts in the debt ceiling deal as an incentive to get Congress to agree to shave at least $1.2 trillion from the deficit. But the language also gave policy makers plenty of leeway. The cuts do not begin to take [...] A leading US lawmaker who fears budget cuts could delay modernizing the US nuclear arsenal voiced concern Friday about an extensive tunnel complex designed to house Chinese nuclear missiles. “This network of tunnels could be in excess of 5,000 kilometers (3,110 miles), and is used to transport nuclear weapons and forces,” said Michael Turner, who chairs a House Armed Services Committee panel focusing on strategic [...] Washington Times A new congressional report spells out in detail how the military would become “hollow” if Congress´ supercommittee fails to agree on deficit reductions, triggering $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts. The Army and Marine Corps would lose 200,000 troops, bringing active strength “well below” pre-Sept. 11, 2001, levels, and the armed forces would not be able to carry out its essential mission, says a 14-page analysis by the [...] Activist Post A key US lawmaker leading the fight against military spending cuts has warned that dramatic new reductions could force the United States to shift from an all-volunteer military and reinstate the draft. House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon, a Republican, told Fox News television on Monday that lawmakers “need to understand what it’s going to mean to keep an all-volunteer force.” “Do we want to [...] With Congress back in town, the full-scale defense of the Pentagon’s budget is in full swing, with Republican lawmakers – and even, way off in Texas, former defense secretary Robert Gates – warning that the military shouldn’t be forced to make cuts beyond the $400 billion in savings planned over the next 12 years. This week, Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee released a video, replete with footage [...] The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls, according to the lawmaker. House Armed Services Committee member Mike Turner (R-OH) told The Cable that U.S. Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the NATO Joint Operations Command in Naples, [...] (Reuters) – The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on a proposal to cut off funds for U.S. military hostilities in Libya, lawmakers in the Republican majority said on Wednesday. The measure, which is still being drafted, would ban funding for U.S. participation in combat missions such as drone attacks in the NATO-led air war, said Representative Howard McKeon, chairman of the [...] 1) Treasury Auctions To Take US Over Debt Ceiling On Monday “WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Treasury Department auctioned $56 billion in new debt Tuesday and Wednesday, enough to take the U.S. over its federal debt ceiling when the three- and 10-year notes settle on Monday. Treasury officials last month flagged May 16 as the day the government would hit the $14.294 trillion debt limit. The U.S. is selling $72 billion in [...] WASHINGTON (AP) – A House panel approved a defense bill early Thursday that would delay President Barack Obama’s new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the military and limit the commander in chief’s authority on slashing the nation’s nuclear arsenal. By a vote of 60-1, the House Armed Services Committee approved the broad, $553 billion defense blueprint that would provide a 1.6 percent increase in [...] |
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