DoD 2012 Appropriations: Earmarks & More….
The House Appropriations Committee has reported the bill and text for HR 2219, the 2012 DOD appropriations bill, that handles most, but not all, of the appropriations for DOD and for DOD expenses in Afghanistan and elsewhere (Title IX). Find the bill and report, as actually reported — not the pre-mark up versions distributed by …
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Campaign for Liberty: Steele on IC and DoD
National Intelligence and National Defense By Robert David Steele Vivas Published 06/17/11 Right up front, here is the value proposition: a revolution in national security affairs can immediately deliver three things: 1. Permit the rapid (four years) reduction of the secret intelligence community budget from $80 billion to under $20 billion and permit the rapid …
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Winslow Wheeler: What Gates Did NOT Do…
What Gates Didn’t Do Robert Gates has been called the best secretary of defense in recent memory. On the other hand, he has a reputation with some as a slick career bureaucrat with a knack for avoiding blame but pocketing credit. Both are true. “Best in recent memory?” It would have been hard for Gates …
Review: The Threat on the Horizon
Loch Johnson 5.0 out of 5 stars Scholarly Reference–Does Not Add Weight to Reform, June 10, 2011 By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) – See all my reviews The author of this book, Loch Johnson, is one of two people who also served on the Church Commission-Brit Snider is the other, and he …
Review: To Save America Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine
Newt Gingrich and *many* other contributors. Hyperbole Squared, Disingenious, Mostly Theater, June 2, 2011 I happen to like Newt Gingrich, but no one has held him accountable on matters of truth for decades. When I was elected Virtual President at the Huffington Post (search for Robert David Steele), Newt was my choice for Vice President …
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Pentagon Creates New Excuse for Waging War
Pogo reigns supreme….. Pentagon Will Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War By DAVID E. SANGER and ELISABETH BUMILLER New York Times, May 31, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack from a foreign …
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