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World Net Daily Cites 2009 Piece About Panetta (Update)

June 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Two and a half years ago, I exposed Leon Panetta’s ties to a George Soros-funded, anti-CIA think tank in my article, Ties to KGB-Friendly Think Tank Should Disqualify Panetta for Central Intelligence Agency Post. Today, World Net Daily writer Aaron Klein quoted me on it in his article, Obama’s DoD nominee linked to Cold War [...]

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‘TICKING TIME BOMB’ ID’d in Fort Hood Report

February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

A TICKING TIME BOMB. Those four words appear atop a report compiled by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) on the “COUNTERTERRORISM LESSONS FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO PREVENT THE FORT HOOD ATTACK.” Wondering what conclusions Senators Lieberman and Collins reach in developing the special report as members of the U.S. Senate [...]

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Top Three Defense Stories of 2010 Revisited

December 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

During 2010, I researched, wrote and published several stories about issues impacting people on the front lines in defense of this country.  I revisit some of those stories below: MICHAEL BEHENNA 1st Lt. Michael Behenna On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1st. Lt. Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a [...]

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Congress Leads Border Patrol Down Wrong Path

December 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Less than a week after another Border Patrol agent was killed by Mexican bandits, Congress forwarded to the White House a bill that, within two years of its enactment, will result in Customs and Border Patrol heading down the same misguided path the Department of Defense took in 2007 when it comes to interrogation technology. [...]

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New Survey: Americans More Concerned Than Ever About Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Americans are more concerned than ever that the ongoing Obama administration effort to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba will allow dangerous terrorists to go free, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Eighty-four percent of likely U.S. voters are now at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free [...]

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Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives (Update)

December 7th, 2010 · 11 Comments

By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]

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Clapper Wrong Man for Nation’s Top Intel Post

May 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Yesterday, the world learned President Barack Obama had canned Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair. Soon after, news surfaced about James R. Clapper Jr., Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence, surfacing as the leading choice to replace Blair.  Sadly, my research tells me the nation is not going to be safer with Clapper as DNI, because his [...]

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