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Category: National Security
Valuable Vets
Panel highlights challenges and opportunities facing returning veterans entering the workforce
Returning veterans have an unemployment rate far greater than the civilian population due in part to the language workers use to address their bosses, confusion about military jargon, and misconceptions about the health and stability of veterans returning from combat zones.
Calls for Benghazi Select Committee Mount
Law enforcement officers call for special investigation
More than 26,000 members of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) have come out in favor of creating a Watergate-style investigatory committee that would be tasked with determining the truth behind the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Risky Religion
Concerns remain over military’s treatment of soldiers who share their faith
Conservatives remain concerned about the military’s rules regarding soldiers sharing their faith despite efforts by the Pentagon to quell the controversy.
IRS Targeted National Security Org
The IRS targeted a national security organization that criticized the Obama administration’s response to Benghazi, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Bob Woodward: “I Would Not Dismiss Benghazi”
The Unbalancing
Column: The week Obama’s luck finally vanished
Since the presidential election we have been told, repeatedly and gleefully, that the Republican Party is doomed, that demographics and history are on the side of President Barack Obama and the progressive movement, that the GOP base is unhinged, and that Tea Party radicalism threatens to upend conservative hopes not only in 2014 but also in 2016. But in the space of one week that story, true or not, has been eclipsed by another one: Washington finally has turned on Obama.
Support for Benghazi Select Committee Growing
GOP lawmakers increasingly in favor of special investigative committee
More than two-thirds of Republican House lawmakers now favor establishing a Watergate-style investigatory committee to examine the Benghazi terror attacks.
U.S. Navy Successfully Conducts Aegis BMD Flight Test
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that it had successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), intercepting a separating ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean.
Two-Faced
Russia building up missile defenses while seeking to limit U.S. defenses
Russia is engaged in a major buildup of both nuclear and conventional missile defense systems at the same time Moscow is seeking legal limits on U.S. missile defenses, according to U.S. officials.