Report: Some U.S. Weapons Sent to Ukraine Ended up in Iranian Hands
Some of the billions of dollars of weapons the United States has sent to Ukraine has fallen into Iranian hands, a report Friday details.
Some of the billions of dollars of weapons the United States has sent to Ukraine has fallen into Iranian hands, a report Friday details.
A top Biden official said it is not clear how many more rounds of American taxpayer aid will be needed to sustain Ukraine.
ISIS-K, the Afghanistan affiliate of the terrorist group ISIS, could generate the capability to attack the United States in as early as six months, the top Pentagon policy official told senators on Tuesday.
An email written by a U.S. diplomat and published online by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) appeared to show there was no security vetting of those allowed to board United States military aircraft and evacuate Kabul as part of the Biden administration’s hastily called non-combatant evacuation operation.
Hundreds of American citizens are still in Afghanistan, despite Biden’s pledge not to withdraw forces before they were able to leave.
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it was opening the California coast to offshore wind farms, after the Pentagon suddenly dropped objections that wind farms would interfere with military operations along the Pacific coastline.
Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote Wednesday and advanced Department of Defense undersecretary of defense policy Colin Kahl out of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Sen. Dan Sullivan blasted a Democrat colleague for suggesting as much as ten percent of the military could be white supremacists or adhere to “extremist ideology.”
A group of 18 Republican senators sent a letter requesting to halt Colin Kahl’s nomination for a top Pentagon post so the FBI can investigate whether Kahl improperly disclosed classified information after leaving a prior post in government.
Twitter can be a career derailing temptation, and Biden appointees keep biting into that dopamine apple.
Hagerty said Tuesday he has still not received answers to his questions on whether Kahl leaked classified information in 2017.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said she will vote “no” to confirm nominee Colin Kahl for the Pentagon’s top policy chief until President Joe Biden appoints Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) as “nominees to vacant positions.”
The nomination of former Obama National Security official Colin Kahl for a top position in the Biden Pentagon may have hit another snag, as Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) expressed concern that Kahl may have leaked classified information on Twitter.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Friday sounded off on Under Secretary of Defense for Policy nominee Colin Kahl and his rhetoric on social media. Kahl, whose Senate confirmation was held the day before, has since apologized for his tweets.
Colin Kahl, nominated for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, described Republicans as “the party of ethnic cleansing” on Twitter. His Senate confirmation hearing is set for Thursday.
President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he has nominated three former senior Obama administration officials for top positions at the Pentagon, prompting praise from the foreign policy establishment.
WASHINGTON — In social media remarks that got little attention, Colin Kahl, who served as Vice President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, called for “purging or marginalizing the ‘Axis of Ideologues’ in the West Wing” in order to ensure what he described as “any hope of a sane foreign policy” during the Trump administration.
Colin Kahl, who served as Vice President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, participated in the secretive and highly compartmentalized early principals’ meetings that took place at the White House to discuss the controversial early stages of the Russia investigation, according to a book.