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Pentagon push-back: Guantanamo Bay
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes Pushing back against growing congressional opposition to moving detainees to the United States, a top Pentagon official said today that closing the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would require prisoners to be moved to...Tags: Wars and Interventions, National Government, Politics, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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White House, Cheney: Sarcasm in the air
The Swampby Mark Silva Sarcasm was making the rounds of Washington today. Vice President Dick Cheney, whose address on national security was delayed somewhat by the delivery of President Barack Obama's own address on national security before it -- the president......Tags: Wars and Interventions, National Government, Politics, Parliament, Terrorism
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Presidential helicopters: Wasting waste
The Swampby Mark Silva Which is worse? Spending $13 billion on a new fleet of 28 presidential helicopters? Or spending $555 million for early termination of a contract on which the Pentagon already has spent $3.2 billion, having already taken delivery......Tags: National Government, Kirsten Gillibrand, Aerospace Manufacturing, Connecticut, New York
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Obama's Republican Army sec'y: McHugh
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama today nominated a longtime Republican congressman from New York state, Rep. John McHugh, to serve as secretary of the Army. McHugh, 60, is a ninth-term member of the U.S. House from rural upstate New......Tags: Politics, Getty Images Inc., St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation, New York, George W. Bush
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Clinton's elbow: 'Conspiracy theories'
The Swampby Mark Silva For all those conspiracy theorists out there, the broken elbow that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered in a fall in the basement of the State Department en route to her car, en route to the White......Tags: Diplomacy, Pakistan, Bill Clinton, National Government, Politics
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Twitter, text or talk? -- Pentagon brass
The Swampby Mark Silva Don't go looking for Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Facebook or Twitter. "Absolutely not,'' the secretary says to the question about whether he takes part in any of this new-fangled social networking. "Actually, I do,'' says Adm.......Tags: Facebook, Defense, Twitter, Inc.
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Gates: U.S. ready to defend Hawaii
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes Reacting to reports that North Korea may be preparing to test-fire a missile toward Hawaii, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that he had concerns about such a launch and had ordered additional missile defense......Tags: Missile Systems, Hawaii, Alaska, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Don't ask, don't tell: Iraq vet's repeal duty
The Swampby Josh Drobnyk The congressional effort to reverse the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the military has landed on the desk of Rep. Patrick Murphy, an Iraq war veteran and Bronze Star winner who......Tags: Bill Clinton, Laws, Wars and Interventions, Gays and Lesbians, International Military Interventions
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Obama: Two wars, one promise
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has pledged to bring the troops home from Iraq while the American deployment in Afghanistan grows, faced the Veterans of Foreign Wars today in Phoenix. The U.S. has placed more than 60,000 troops......Tags: Pakistan, Wars and Interventions, Economic Policy, Local Government, Politics
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Obama's Republican appointees:
The Swampby Mark Silva For all the howling - Okay, there hasn't been that much howling, rather more ranting from the likes of television's Glenn Beck - about all the leftists filling up posts in the Obama White House, there really......Tags: Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Employment, Federal Reserve, National Government
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Obama's Ramadan dinner: Big crowd
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 9:40 pm EDT President Barack Obama's White House seder was a small affair for family and friends. Tonight's Ramadan dinner was a big one: Cabinet members -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Attorney General......Tags: Pakistan, Georgetown University, Passover, Politics, Passover Seder
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Obama on 9/11: A new bullhorn
The Swampby Mark Silva Eight years after the terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. still is at war - indeed an escalating war on foreign shores -- against "the people who knocked down......Tags: Pakistan, Civil Unrest, Cuba, Laws, Wars and Interventions
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