by Elena Schneider | Mar 15, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — As Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, presented a good face to the Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announced her continued demands for a specific withdrawal timeline for combat...
by Peter Larson | Mar 9, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano faced off with lawmakers Wednesday on problems ailing the Southwest border. A heated exchange erupted between Napolitano and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee,...
by Olivia Marcus & Tal Axelrod | Mar 9, 2011 | National Security, Politics
In an era where a new friend is just a click away, the United States has embraced the Internet’s borderless reach to foster foreign relations. As social media networks break down the barriers for communication, the United States supports Internet freedom around the...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON- When it comes to Afghanistan, the number to stay focused on is 2014, experts say. Now entering its tenth year, the war in Afghanistan surpassed Vietnam last summer as the longest in U.S. history. While the Obama administration will begin withdrawing some...
by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — With upheaval spreading across the Middle East, now is the wrong time for proposed cuts to the State Department budget, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. A 16 percent hit to State Department funding in the 2011 continuing budget...
by Peter Larson | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The military descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, touting national security as grounds to stress the demand for passing long-awaited 2011 spending legislation. Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike...
by Alex Campbell | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a break Tuesday from “around-the-clock” work on the situation in Libya to defend that work’s importance on Capitol Hill. “Marathon diplomacy” has led to “quick, aggressive...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security commemorated its eighth anniversary Wednesday with a roundtable discussion featuring current Secretary Janet Napolitano and her two predecessors. Flanked by former secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff,...
by Peter Larson | Feb 23, 2011 | National Security, Politics
The joke at Gitmo used to be in order to win you have to lose. Take it from Air Force Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Davis presided over the prosecution of detainees from 2005 to 2007. He brought charges...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Feb 22, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he wouldn’t change a thing. When asked whether he’d do anything differently, the often-criticized Rumsfeld fell silent. Then he answered: “Ya know, I can’t think of anything.” The...
by Olivia Marcus & Tal Axelrod | Feb 16, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Robert Gates supported moderate cuts in the defense budget Wednesday but warned Congress that “short-sighted cuts could well lead to costlier and more tragic consequences later – indeed as they have in the past.” Gates, joined by...
by Peter Larson | Feb 15, 2011 | Health & Science, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the U.S. continues to support the protection of such basic human rights as speech and assembly, whether online or off. However, Clinton did not say if the ability to access the Internet at all was a...
