by Christophe Haubursin | Feb 4, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – An Army National Guard program that gave freelance recruiters a bonus for each recruit they referred is under investigation after the reported abuse of $29 million in taxpayer dollars, according to information disclosed at a Senate hearing Tuesday. The...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 29, 2014 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Near Baghdad, former U.S. military installations Camp Liberty and Camp Ashraf have become home to Iranian refugees, who have been increasingly subject to attack by both Iran and Iraqi forces in recent months. Members of Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK),...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 27, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Every time she applies for a job, Beth Jacobs, founder of sex slavery support group Willow Way, has to explain her prostitution convictions. They are a reminder of her teenage years in sex trafficking, and they are written into her criminal record....
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 22, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A panel of security and terrorism experts urged heightened safeguards against threats at the 2014 Sochi Olympics during a news briefing at the Center for Strategic & International Studies Tuesday. Caucasus separatist fighters in the Chechen...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 15, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – American veterans are facing a deadly new threat, according to the results of a Government Accountability Office investigation released Wednesday, but the problems aren’t coming from the battlefield — they’re coming from hospital rooms. In a hearing...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee members Tuesday raised concerns with proposals by a presidential commission that the National Security Agency no longer collect millions of phone records and other electronic information, relying instead on private...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
Close to 150 protesters from various human and constitutional rights organizations called for President Barack Obama to make good on his promise of closing Guantanamo Bay on the 12th anniversary of the prison’s opening. The reasons were varied, but the message...
