by Medha Imam | Feb 2, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a 6 percent increase in the State Department budget — to $50.3 billion — as a way to combat increasing security threats around the world through diplomacy. The administration wants $7 billion to respond...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – A specially appointed congressional watchdog agency has found U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Afghanistan are failing and costing millions of dollars. Meanwhile, a range of experts say the standards used to judge the projects are...
by Daniel Hersh | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The United States’ technological advantage over its enemies is slowly diminishing, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work. He wants to change that. Work presented Wednesday the details of the proposed Third Offset Strategy that was conceived...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – Military chiefs on Wednesday warned automatic spending cuts could result in scaled-back services and difficulties in meeting the increasingly volatile security environment. Representatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Corps...
by Haley Hinkle | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall expressed concern Wednesday about the U.S. military’s technological capacity to respond to foreign threats. Kendall spoke before the House Armed Services Committee along with Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay of the...
by Paige Leskin | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — In its first meeting of 2015, the House special committee investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, once again Tuesday became an exercise in fingerpointing, with Republicans saying the White House is evading and Democrats...
by Tal Axelrod | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said Tuesday President Barack Obama failed to maintain a firm line in Iranian nuclear negotiations, claiming that the U.S. conceded too much without getting anything in return. “Negotiations…appear to be...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON — Lawmakers trying to limit the spread of terrorist propaganda on social media say they are frustrated by tech companies’ opposition to expanded security measures. “There needs to be an effort to work cooperatively with these...
by Astrid Goh | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON — The only way European governments can stop Islamist radicalization that creates terrorists like those responsible for the recent Paris attacks is to get help from Muslim religious leaders, a group of foreign policy experts said Tuesday. Four...
by Astrid Goh | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON–European governments must integrate Muslims more into their community to curb the rise of homegrown terrorists like those responsible for the recent Paris attacks in which 20 people died, experts said Tuesday at a talk hosted by the International...
by Daniel Hersh | Jan 27, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The PreCheck line at your airport might be more crowded in the near future. In September, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it wanted to expand the number of ‘trusted travelers’ in its Private Sector Vetting Initiative, asking industry...
by William Hicks | Jan 26, 2015 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — 2014 was the year of White House fence jumpers. Now in 2015, trespassing in the White House has become mechanized, much to the chagrin of the Secret Service. Early Monday morning a small unmanned drone, a two-foot quadcopter, was found on the...
