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Government still throwing vast taxpayer sums at Blackwater

By | 06.23.10 | 8:10 am

It’s like they’re in a strip club, according to Jeff Stein:

The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an

Kerry on McChrystal flap: Stop the ‘feeding frenzy’

By | 06.22.10 | 10:31 am

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the people Gen. Stanley McChrystal dissed to Rolling Stone, issued this statement that you could read as neither supporting nor opposing McChrystal.

When General McChrystal

McChrystal apologizes for insulting Obama team

By | 06.22.10 | 10:25 am

A not-yet-released Rolling Stone magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, quotes him and anonymous aides expressing anger, disrespect and derision at various members of the Obama administration, including Vice President Biden, Amb. Richard…

With foreign policy statement, Norton stakes out position on far right

By | 06.17.10 | 11:31 am

U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton is pushing controversial positions on terrorism and the war in Afghanistan in a foreign-policy statement posted at her website. The statement will likely give conservative voters concerned with the national debt and the authority…

‘American hero’ Petraeus faints at Senate hearing

By | 06.15.10 | 10:06 am

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia fainted after ranking Republican John McCain called him one of the great American heroes. General David Petraeus is a lean, mean 57 year old but he got all…

White House to unveil ‘grand strategy’ on national security

By | 05.26.10 | 9:04 am

John Brennan has a tough rhetorical job ahead of him Wednesday morning. Speaking to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brennan, President Obama’s most influential terrorism and intelligence adviser, will attempt to reconcile the harder edges of Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan and his enthusiastic embrace of drone-enabled assassinations of terrorists with the broader approach to grand strategy that the White House will finally unveil this week. Some wonder if that reconciliation is even possible.

In debate, Romanoff seeks to highlight differences Bennet calls ‘vanishingly small’

By | 04.25.10 | 12:39 pm

COLORADO SPRINGS– The Democratic primary debate here Friday pitting U.S. Senate candidate and former state House speaker Andrew Romanoff against Sen. Michael Bennet was an odd tug of war. Romanoff argued that there were significant differences between the two candidates but Bennet argued that those differences were “vanishingly small” and suggested Romanoff was stooping to petty attacks to gain traction.

Birther Colonel Lakin posts letter to Obama

By | 04.08.10 | 5:21 pm

Terry Lakin, the Army Doctor who has refused orders to deploy to Afghanistan, has posted online the letter he wrote to Pres. Obama last week explaining his decision. Lakin, a Greeley native who now works at a clinic in…

Birther Army doctor Lakin refuses to deploy, his Greeley family supports Obama

By | 04.05.10 | 3:55 pm

Greeley Native, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and full-fledged birther Terry Lakin is refusing to deploy to Afghanistan until he sees evidence he can believe in that Pres. Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States. Lakin released a…

Polis urges support for withdrawal from Afghanistan

By | 03.10.10 | 1:43 pm

Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis has been arguing against U.S. occupation policy in Afghanistan his entire first year in office. He joined a Congressional Delegation visiting the country last spring and he demonstrated in a speech today on the…