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Facebook page comes down after threat to lawmaker
May 9th, 2013
05:30 PM ET
41 days ago

Facebook page comes down after threat to lawmaker

Washington (CNN) - A Facebook page with sexually explicit comments denigrating female Marines was taken down after a congresswoman who complained about it was threatened on that site, an aide to the lawmaker told CNN.

Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California, made public a letter she wrote to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos on Wednesday about "F'N Wook" and others like it, asking them to review them and take action.

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Filed under: Facebook
Hagel to give up furlough pay
April 2nd, 2013
03:19 PM ET
79 days ago

Hagel to give up furlough pay

(CNN) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will give up the portion of his salary that would have been cut if he had been subject to the same work furlough as thousands of department personnel under the mandatory federal budget cuts.

Hagel, who earns $199,700 annually, will write a check to the Treasury for up to 14 days of salary, according to Pentagon press secretary George Little.

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Filed under: Budget • Chuck Hagel
Pentagon: Furloughs for civilian workers if sequester happens
February 20th, 2013
10:36 AM ET
120 days ago

Pentagon: Furloughs for civilian workers if sequester happens

(CNN) – Nearly 800,000 civilian workers would be forced to take one day of leave per week without pay if automatic spending cuts go into effect as scheduled on March 1, the Defense Department told Congress on Wednesday morning.

The furloughs would start in the last week of April and last for 22 weeks, according to the Pentagon plan.

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Filed under: Pentagon
September 4th, 2012
07:03 AM ET
289 days ago

Release of SEAL book could ignite fight with the Pentagon

(CNN) - The much-anticipated memoir of a Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden hits bookshelves Tuesday to an eager audience whose pre-orders have already put the book at No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller list for two weeks.

But there is one group who may not be as eager to see the release of "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden."

The Pentagon.


Filed under: Pentagon • President Obama
Romney to get intelligence briefings
August 30th, 2012
07:44 AM ET
294 days ago

Romney to get intelligence briefings

(CNN) - The Obama administration is discussing the final details with the Mitt Romney campaign of how and when the first intelligence and national security briefings will be offered to the presidential candidate and his designated campaign officials.

Traditionally, candidates are offered such briefings by a sitting administration as soon as a nominating convention is over.

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Filed under: 2012 • Mitt Romney
FIRST ON CNN: Romney intel briefings to start after official nomination
June 1st, 2012
07:17 AM ET
384 days ago

FIRST ON CNN: Romney intel briefings to start after official nomination

Washington (CNN) – The Obama administration will stick with the election-year tradition of both Democratic and Republican White Houses in offering presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney classified intelligence briefings only after he formally secures his party's nomination at the convention this summer.

"It's a long-standing practice for presidential candidates and select advisors to be provided intelligence briefings following the party's nominating convention," Shawn Turner, the spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told CNN's Security Clearance. "During the last presidential campaign, all the candidates began receiving briefings in September following the conventions."

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Filed under: 2012 • Homeland Security • Mitt Romney
White House to have dinner honoring Iraq vets
February 6th, 2012
10:47 AM ET
500 days ago

White House to have dinner honoring Iraq vets

Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will host a dinner on February 29 honoring Iraq war veterans, the fallen and their families, the White House announced Monday.

"This dinner, an expression of the nation's gratitude for the achievements and enormous sacrifices of the brave Americans who served in the Iraq war and of the families who supported them, will include men and women in uniform from all ranks, services, states and backgrounds, representative of the many thousands of Americans who served in Iraq," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a written statement.

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Filed under: Iraq • White House
Veterans groups summoned to White House on debt ceiling impact
President Barack Obama greets members of the U.S. military at the White House in Washington, DC, May 4, 2011.
July 26th, 2011
11:24 AM ET
695 days ago

Veterans groups summoned to White House on debt ceiling impact

Washington (CNN) - Veterans advocacy groups have been called to the White House for a late afternoon meeting Tuesday to be briefed by Obama administration officials on the impact to veterans if Congress does not pass legislation raising the debt ceiling.

"We were notified late last night of the meeting," says David Autry, spokesman for Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Autry and several other veterans advocacy groups say a growing number of veterans are worried their disability check or other benefits could be cut or withheld if the debt ceiling crisis is not resolved.

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Filed under: President Obama • Veterans • White House
Fight looming over military spending cuts
July 21st, 2011
05:55 PM ET
699 days ago

Fight looming over military spending cuts

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The raging Washington debate over increasing the debt limit already is foreshadowing perhaps the next budget tussle between the administration and Capitol Hill - a looming fight over cutting military spending.

The Pentagon is the middle of studying how it can meet President Barack Obama's orders to cut $400 billion in spending over the next 12 years - a plan that has raised eyebrows with pro-military Democrat and Republican members of Congress, many of them representing districts with defense contractors or military bases.
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Filed under: Budget • Deficit • Pentagon
Perry's Rumsfeld connection
July 20th, 2011
06:15 PM ET
700 days ago

Perry's Rumsfeld connection

Washington (CNN) – Sometimes politics is conducted a bit at arms length and it appears that's exactly how former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld plans to keep it.

A source very close to Rumsfeld confirms that last week several former top Pentagon officials from Rumsfeld's tenure traveled to Austin, Texas to meet with Governor Rick Perry on national security and foreign policy issues. The source doesn't want his name used because he says Rumsfeld is not re-entering the political fray and that the arrangements were all conducted by "Perry's office" contacting "Rumsfeld's office" for ideas about whom to speak with.
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Filed under: 2012 • Donald Rumsfeld • Rick Perry
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