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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: George Washington, Espionage Act of 1917, Human Rights, United Nations, Heroism
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Where do our tax dollars go? Mostly to the military
Republicans say they will not cooperate on raising the debt limit in mid-February unless Democrats agree to cut spending by an equivalent amount ("Trouble ahead," Jan. 2). What these trillions of tax dollars are allocated for is instructive. The...Tags: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Military Equipment, Annapolis
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Hunting for savings in military spending
A pair of reports critical of military spending — on items as diverse as health care and dried meat — are part of the latest round of scrutiny of the Defense Department's budget as the fiscal cliff approaches. The nonpartisan Congressional...Tags: Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, Budgets and Budgeting, Tom Coburn, Rentals
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Howard County Briefs
Potluck dinner The 15th annual Human Rights Potluck Dinner, "From the Pentagon to Wall Street: Globalization and Human Rights in Latin America," will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Florence Bain Senior Center, 5470 Ruth Keeton Way in...Tags: Music, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Rights, Entertainment, Howard County
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Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AP) — The U.S. will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack, the Pentagon said Friday. Defense...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Mark Rutte, Netherlands, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Construction is complete on behemoth airship; first flight planned
A massive cargo-carrying airship has taken shape inside one of the 17-story wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin. According to aircraft maker Worldwide Aeros Corp., construction is complete on a 36,000-pound blimp-like aircraft...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Military Equipment
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Military families worried by US fiscal cliff cuts
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the White House over federal spending cuts could chip away at military health...
Tags: Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, Health Insurance Cost, Family, Martin Dempsey
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John Boehner takes Republican Party over cliff
Well, what do you know? We didn't go over the fiscal cliff, after all. In the end, the country was spared. Only the Republican Party was destroyed. Or, at least, severely damaged. Thanks to John Boehner. Commentators quickly ran out of words to describe...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, John Boehner, Democratic Party, Unemployment Benefits, Government Health Care
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Women in U.S. military fight for right to serve in combat
As a woman in the Army, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Hunt is barred from serving in the infantry. But that didn't stop commanders in Afghanistan from tapping her when they needed a female soldier to accompany men on their door-kicking missions. Hunt's job on...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions, The Washington Post, American Civil Liberties Union, Feminism
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Rights and the 'war on terror'
Congress and President Obama have been buffeted by criticism for the way they handled, or mishandled, legislation designed to prevent the economy from going over the so-called fiscal cliff. Comparatively, little attention has been paid to another recent...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Dianne Feinstein, White House, Civil Rights, U.S. Congress
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Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term...
Tags: Lobbying, Democratic Party, ABC (tv network), Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
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The Hagel question
In choosing former Sen. Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense, has President Obama made an "in your face" appointment, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) complains? Perhaps. Given criticism of Hagel by supporters of Israel and gay rights groups, his nomination...
Tags: Lobbying, Judaism, U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military
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