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Justice’s Seizure of AP’s Phone Records Threatens Press Freedom
May 22, 2013 -
DATA Act 2.0: Fewer Bells, but Brighter Future
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Memo Leaked to Retaliate Against Fast and Furious Whistleblower
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DOE Contracting Woes Continue
May 20, 2013 -
Camp Lejeune Finally Cleaning Up Its Act
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White House Brings Back Bill to Shield Journalists
May 16, 2013 -
DOE Error Causes Contracting Redo
May 16, 2013 -
USASpending.gov: NOT Your One-Stop Shop for Following Taxpayer Dollars
May 15, 2013 -
AP Case Throws More Doubt on Obama’s Whistleblower Policies
May 15, 2013
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April 17, 2013
Pentagon Budget Ignores Sequestration, Relies on Old Ideas
President Obama’s budget request for the Department of Defense ignores the reality of the sequestration cuts and suggests old ideas to save money, according to an analysis by Winslow Wheeler.
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Topics: National Security
March 6, 2013
The Air Force's F-35A: Not Ready for Combat, Not Even Ready for Combat Training
A new report, titled "F-35A Joint Strike Fighter: Readiness for Training Operational Utility Evaluation," reveals yet more disappointments on the status and performance of the F-35 fighter jet.
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Topics: National Security
February 15, 2013
A Stampede of Hysterics
The Pentagon seems ready to implement the cuts mandated by law in the most destructive, negative way possible, which has the convenient effect -- for them -- of pushing Congress and the White House to cough up more money.
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Topics: National Security
January 23, 2013
Powering the Pacific ''Pivot'' with Leon and Chuck
Greg Jaffe’s Washington Post article last August offers a good explanation for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s hysteria about defense budget cuts, and a useful criterion to assess Panetta’s nominated replacement, former Senator Chuck Hagel.
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Topics: National Security
December 17, 2012
Is the Fleet Steaming Forward ... Or Backward?
In part 3 of his series on the U.S. Navy, Winslow Wheeler looks at the prevailing wisdom that America’s smaller fleet is more capable than the U.S. Navy of yore because of higher capability per individual ship. It is a dangerous assumption.
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Topics: National Security
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