For over fifteen years, the issue of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been debated. President Bill Clinton claims it was a necessary step; others abhor it as a repressive and impossible policy for the LGBT members of the Armed Forces. If anyone really thinks about it, can you imagine li...

Ever since the heroic War on Terror began, the Pentagon hasn't let the media cover the arrival home of the coffins of dead US soldiers. Now maybe they'll loosen that ban...because the Pentagon hates war? The Secretary of Defense is reportedly "tilting" towards changing the rules. Opinion of the fami...

Getting lost in the Pentagon is a long and time-honored tradition. Everyone from George C. Marshall to Dwight D. Eisenhower to Dick Cheney has done it at some point....

The hell? Two days ago, Clive Stafford Smith, one of Mohamed’s lawyers, wrote a letter to President Obama in an appeal to make the documents public and to inform him of his client’s case. However, the letter was sent back, with the entire section detailing Mohamed’s torture redacted, as Smith ...

N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2009 -- Today’s terrorist suicide attacks in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and the possibility that North Korea soon will conduct another ballistic missile test topped a briefing to reporters today by a senior Defense Department official. Pentagon spo...

N ews in Balance: EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has reexamined the utility of both nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation. A use-of-force doctrine developed calling for preventive military action against so-called "rogue states" seeking to ...

Don’t tell me we can’t change. Yes we can! Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq. As Glenn Reynolds might s...

N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2009 -- The following news release was made available Monday by the Pentagon regarding comments made by Vice President Joe Biden Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation� news program: As U.S. forces become more engaged with the enemy in Afghanistan, there may wel...

New lobbying and records rules issued by President Obama yesterday appear to go beyond changes implemented by previous presidents, and could usher in an era of openness in federal government, according to ethics experts and open-government advocates....

Our friend and unindicted co-conspirator, origamijoel, said that to me recently and it sounded immensely wise. Joel is a soft-spoken man with an air of affable gravitas and he often says things that strike me as being immensely wise. It’s just his way. When we were sitting on the concrete on 2...