Trump’s Intelligence Pick Is a Mueller-Bashing Loyalist With a Far-Right Voting Record
Olivier Doulier/Getty Rep. John Ratcliffe, the Texas representative who President Donald Trump picked Sunday to be his next national intelligence director, has never served in the intelligence community. Nor, unlike previous directors, does he have any background in the military or as a national security expert. Instead, the three-term lawmaker has carved out a reputation as one of the most…
There Is Finally a Confirmed Secretary of Defense. What About All the Other Pentagon Vacancies?
Sha Hanting/China News Service/VCG/Getty It only took 204 days, but the Department of Defense finally has a Senate-confirmed leader again. Ninety lawmakers voted Tuesday afternoon to elevate Mark Esper permanently to the position of Secretary of Defense and put an end, at least for now, to the bizarre game of musical chairs Pentagon officials have been forced…
US Says Venezuelan Forces “Aggressively Shadowed” a Navy Aircraft Over the Caribbean Sea
Russian-made Venezuelan Su-30MKV multirole strike fighters fly over a military parade to celebrate Venezuela’s 206th anniversary of its Independence in Caracas on July 5, 2017. Federico Parra/AFP/Getty A Venezuelan fighter jet “aggressively shadowed” a US Navy plane “at an unsafe distance” on Friday according to a new Pentagon statement, sparking concerns of a military confrontation…
“This Is Outrageous”: Elizabeth Warren Unloads on Trump’s Pentagon Nominee
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper testifies in front of the Senate Armed Services panel during his confirmation hearing to lead the Pentagon.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Mark Esper, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon, during a series of heated questions at Esper’s confirmation hearing Tuesday morning. Esper was a top…
A Majority of Military Veterans Think the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Were a Mistake
American soldiers patrol near the site of a US bombing during an operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in the Achin district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on April 15, 2017. Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty It’s not just a majority of Americans who think the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were a catastrophic mistake. Military veterans now increasingly…
Disgraced Trump Fundraiser Elliott Broidy Is Reportedly Being Investigated. Read Our Story on Him.
David Karp/AP On Monday morning, the Associated Press reported that disgraced Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy is being investigated by the US attorney in Brooklyn, New York, for possibly using Broidy’s ties to Donald Trump and the GOP to score big-money business deals with foreign leaders, including officials in Angola and Romania. The AP notes that…