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Memo May Have Cost Two U.S. Soldiers Their Lives (Update)

January 16th, 2011 · No Comments

When I read a news report about an Iraqi soldier killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding a third during training of Iraqi security forces at a U.S. military camp 240 miles north of Baghdad, I couldn’t help but think the shootings might have been prevented if only that Iraqi soldier had been screened by U.S. [...]

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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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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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CIA Deaths, Terrorism Could Have Been Prevented

January 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments

James Chapman was as distraught as any patriotic American about seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan being killed in an explosion set off by a double-agent Dec. 31. The 67-year-old Marine Corps veteran made it clear that he hated to see our nation’s security compromised the way it was Christmas Day when a 23-year-old Nigerian man, [...]

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Oath Keepers Publishes ‘Orders We Will Not Obey’

July 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Though some might judge me a conspiracy nut for even posting this piece, I care little about what others think when I know something is right and just.  After all, a majority of Americans voted for Barack Obama, proving anything is possible. Anyway, someone visited Bob McCarty Writes today and, while here, posted a link [...]

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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat: Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a [...]

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