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Pentagon train station shut for suspicious package
Dec 15th
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EXCLUSIVE: Army Reservist Sues Pentagon, Says Restricting Book Was Anti-Free … – Fox News
An Army Reserve officer is suing the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies, claiming that they violated his free speech rights by blocking the distribution …
Pentagon ignores gloomy war view – The Australian
The contradiction has set the US intelligence community on a collision course with the Pentagon, which was working overtime yesterday to discredit the NIE …
Women Veterans Sue Pentagon For Information on Military Rape – Courthouse News Service
The Service Women ask the Pentagon to "improve the sexual assault reporting procedures and sexual assault training within the military," and to "prosecute …
Countries less cooperative on info sharing after cable leaks: Pentagon – Indian Express
Pentagon has knowledge about its adversaries using the information being released through the cables against US interest. Unauthorised release of secret US …
Pentagon: Pentagon locked down after ‘possible shots fired’
Oct 19th
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Pentagon to WikiLeaks: Return War Docs- Pentagon Urges Website to Do ‘Right Thing’
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Pentagon: Suspect, Police Hurt in Pentagon Shootout
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Pentagon On Lockdown: Metro Shooting Prompts Pentagon Lockdown
The Pentagon is on lockdown after a shooting at a nearby D.C. Metro station, according to BreakingTweets, a Twitter account maintained by MSNBC. More details to come. 9:55 PM ET — Suspect named. John Patrick Bedell, 36, is the alleged gunman in today’s shooting, according to officials who spoke to the AP: Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as John Patrick Bedell, 36. They also said they were investigating whether a second person was somehow involved. No further information was available. 9:26 PM ET — “This has never happened in our history.” Watch as Pentagon Protection Force Chief Richard Keevil holds press conference: 9:21 PM ET — Pentagon releases statement. The Pentagon has released a statement about the incident: A shooting incident has occurred at the Pentagon Metro Entrance this evening at approximately 6:40 p.m.
Pentagon alert after suspected gunshots heard
Police officers at the Pentagon reported hearing five suspected gunshots at a nearby parking lot early Tuesday, NBC News reported..
Pentagon reworks disclosure rule for ’senior mentors’
Jul 19th
PENTAGON–S GROWING ROBOT CAPABILITY TRANSFORMING WARFARE By Sherwood Ross Read More
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‘The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers’ – Los Angeles Times
In the early 1970s, the name Daniel Ellsberg became synonymous with the Pentagon Papers, a hugely controversial document about US involvement in the Vietnam …
EADS chief ‘enormously frustrated’ over WTO delays – BusinessWeek
However, he said that when it comes to the air force tanker contract, the Pentagon is being fair. "Im extremely impressed by the way the Pentagon is working …
Pentagon survey on Â’don’t ask, don’t tell’ denounced – Washington Post
I am embarrassed by the grotesque anti-gay bias of the Pentagon survey about "don't ask, don't tell." This will only stoke bigotry. …
Pentagon: Gay Soldier Survey Won’t Lead to Segregation – CBS News
The Pentagon today strongly pushed back against an allegation from a prominent political blogger that the military could segregate gay and straight …
Pentagon shooter John Bedell’s parents warned cops
Mar 6th
In 2001, before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that the Pentagon couldn’t account for 2.3 trillion dollars. But it gets worse. Much worse. Read More
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Pentagon OKs social media access | Digital Media – CNET News
With new policy, the Defense Department acknowledges the impracticality of an either/or decision between network security and information sharing via the Web.
Social Media Today | Pentagon Uses Twitter to Announce New Social Media Policy
Breaking with tradition, the Pentagon used Twitter to announce major changes in its social media policy rather than by issuing a traditional press release. You can read the NY Times coverage here. ….
Pentagon Loosens Reins Over Facebook, Twitter, Web 2.0 Apps – Web Services Web 20 and SOA from eWeek
The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army released contrasting policies for social network site use. The DOD clearly is trying to strike a balance between national security and acceptable social…
New Pentagon Policy Lets Troops Overshare Like the Rest of Us – Pentagon – Gizmodo
What’s really interesting is that the expanding internet and the increased openness of what is occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan from th perspective of the troops flies in the face of what philosophers like Baudrillard (in The Gulf War Did Not Take Place) said would happen in conflicts as technology increased. Rather than becoming increasingly hyperreal and subjective to the whimsy of the…
Two Pentagon Police Officers Shot; Gunman Killed – Pentagon
Mar 5th
John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Officials said they’d found no immediate connection to terrorism but had not ruled it out. Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Read More
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Pentagon OKs social media access | Digital Media – CNET News
With new policy, the Defense Department acknowledges the impracticality of an either/or decision between network security and information sharing via the Web.
Social Media Today | Pentagon Uses Twitter to Announce New Social Media Policy
Breaking with tradition, the Pentagon used Twitter to announce major changes in its social media policy rather than by issuing a traditional press release. You can read the NY Times coverage here. ….
Pentagon Loosens Reins Over Facebook, Twitter, Web 2.0 Apps – Web Services Web 20 and SOA from eWeek
The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army released contrasting policies for social network site use. The DOD clearly is trying to strike a balance between national security and acceptable social…
Pentagon Discloses Hundreds of Reports of Possibly Illegal Intelligence Activities | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Department of Defense has released more than 800 heavily-redacted pages of intelligence oversight reports, detailing activities that its Inspector General has “reason to believe are unlawful.” The reports are the latest in an ongoing document release by more than a half-dozen intelligence agencies in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by EFF in July 2009.The…
