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General: ‘My Career Was Done’ When I Criticized Flawed Warplane
Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of 2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a...
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Navy Lasers’ First Target: Enemy Drones
One of the first tasks the Navy expects to assign its forthcoming arsenal of laser guns: shooting down drones that menace its ships.
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Senate Democrat Launches New Study on ‘Housing Gitmo Detainees in the U.S.’
The idea of closing down Guantanamo Bay and transferring its detainee population to the United States was supposed to be dead. But someone forgot to tell Congress' independent research agency. At the...
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Exclusive: U.S. Rushes to Stop Syria from Expanding Chemical Weapon Stockpile
The regime of embattled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is actively working to enlarge its arsenal of chemical weapons. Assad's operatives have tried repeatedly in recent months to buy up the precursor...
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Most U.S. Drones Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones,...
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NY National Guard Suddenly Decides Hurricane Relief Trumps Mock Disaster Drill
Hundreds of soldiers from New York's National Guard are unavailable to help in the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort -- because they've been assigned to fight a fake disaster.
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Exclusive: U.S. Sees Syria Prepping Chemical Weapons for Possible Attack
Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas. International observers are now terrified that the Damascus government...
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U.S. Commandos’ New Landlord in Afghanistan: Blackwater
The elite commandos in Afghanistan just got a new base of operations. And it's owned by Blackwater, thanks to a $22 million no-bid deal.
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Exclusive: U.N.’s Drone Investigator Backs Brennan for Top CIA Job
The head of the United Nations inquiry into drone strikes and targeted killings believes the chief architect of those efforts, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, will rein them in at...
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U.S. Quietly Ends Iraqi Police Training, Its Last Major Baghdad Project
So much for training the Iraqi police. Less than two years and $700-plus million after taking over police training from the U.S. military, the State Department pulled out its last cop trainer on March 1.
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CIA’s New Tech Guru Hails From AOL (But Don’t Hold That Against Her)
A former AOL exec is poised to become the Central Intelligence Agency's technology chief. But before you make those jokes about octogenarians on dial-up, keep in mind: she's also been a Jet Propulsion...
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Exclusive: Congressman Preps Bill to End Terror War Authority
A prominent legislator thinks it's time for the broad post-9/11 law authorizing the war on terrorism to expire. And he's going to introduce a bill to repeal it.
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyber attack is ready to launch.
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