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June 5, 2012, 6:42 pm
By
Jeremy Herb and Carlo Munoz
The Topline: Senators from both parties were not pleased about last Friday’s New York Times story that detailed a U.S. cyberattack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday afternoon that the committee’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), had agreed to hold hearings on the Iranian leak and other recent national security disclosures. McCain and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) also called for a special counsel to investigate leaks within the Obama administration.
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Operations
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June 5, 2012, 4:17 pm
By
Carlo Munoz
Abu Yahya al-Libi was reportedly killed when U.S. drones launched the airstrike against the suspected al Qaeda hideout.
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Operations
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June 5, 2012, 10:42 am
By
Jeremy Herb
The Pentagon has announced it is replacing the general in
South Korea who said last week that U.S. special forces were on the ground
spying in North Korea, a comment he later retracted. Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley, head of the U.S. Special
Operations Command in South Korea, caused a stir last week when he said at a special-operations industry conference in Florida that
U.S. forces had been on the ground in North Korea. The Pentagon at first accused reports of his comments of being “contorted,
distorted and misreported.” But two days later, Tolley said he was quoted
accurately but that he “misspoke.”
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Operations, Asia/Pacific
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June 4, 2012, 10:05 am
By
Jeremy Herb
The United States launched its third drone strike in
three days in Pakistan on Monday morning, according to reports from the region,
further inflaming tensions with Islamabad. The drone strikes killed 15 militants in the North
Waziristan region in the deadliest U.S. strike in Pakistan this year, and the
eighth attack in the past two weeks, according to AFP.
The continued drone campaign in Pakistan will add to difficulties with Islamabad as Washington tries to reopen supply routes into
Afghanistan.
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Operations, Terrorism
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June 1, 2012, 4:16 pm
By
Carlo Munoz
Less than a year before Afghan forces will take over security operations from U.S. forces and two years before Americans leave Afghanistan for good, local troops are will not have enough weapons or equipment they need to do the job.
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Operations
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May 31, 2012, 4:29 pm
By
Pete Kasperowicz
A new Defense Department spy service was authorized in a Thursday House vote in favor of a bill authorizing U.S. intelligence operations for fiscal year 2013.
The House approved the Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 5743, in a 386-28 vote. The bill was broadly bipartisan, as it has been in the last few years, and reflects cooperation on the part of the Intelligence Committee on reaching funding priorities for the next year.
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House, Votes, Defense, Operations
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May 31, 2012, 4:11 pm
By
Jordy Yager
Rep. Conyers is pushing agencies to release information about the number of Americans who have their communications monitored under FISA.
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House, Operations
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May 31, 2012, 3:26 pm
By
Carlo Munoz
The Defense Department on Thursday confirmed that elements of al Qaeda's Iraqi faction are on the ground in Syria, but have no proof that members have infiltrated the ranks of Syrian rebel forces.
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Operations, Terrorism
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May 29, 2012, 12:02 pm
By
Carlo Munoz
U.S. military officials are denying claims troops have been carrying out covert special reconnaissance operations inside North Korea.
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Operations, Asia/Pacific
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May 27, 2012, 11:12 am
By
Carlo Munoz
"We’ve seen levels of violence going down, So, we’re on the right track," Panetta said.
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Sunday Talk Shows, Operations, Middle East/North Africa
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