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Adding insult to infamy

On Veterans Day, Christine Devlin stood in the cold in Westwood for the unveiling of a new memorial to local soldiers lost overseas, including her son Michael, one of the 241 servicemen killed in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983. ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hezbollah,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Royce C. Lamberth

Earmarks’ cash flow lifts firms, lobbyists, lawmakers

WASHINGTON - kSARIA Corp., a small defense company in Lawrence, has landed $3.5 million in congressional handouts in recent years and now, thanks to Representative Niki Tsongas of Lowell, the company is in line for $2.5 million more. The money is ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Niki Tsongas,  John F. Kerry,  John Noble,  John Murtha,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Survey raises doubts on ‘don’t ask’ policy

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration received more research yesterday to help make its case for allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces. A survey of troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan concluded that having gay or lesbian ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Florida,  The Pentagon,  Barack Obama,  Laura Miller,  RAND Corporation

Earmark applicant’s complaint fuels critics

WASHINGTON - They had no track record, no airplanes, no political sponsor, and they missed a deadline for requesting money. So it was hardly surprising that the founders of a nonprofit disaster relief organization were rejected this year when they ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Daniel Inouye,  Harry Reid,  Edward M. Kennedy,  John F. Kerry

Treaties Obama wants ratified

▸ US and Russian negotiators are working on a draft that would reduce each country’s arsenals to 1,500 nuclear warheads or less, and as few as 500 missiles. ▸ Democrats and Republicans in Congress have already expressed concern that the White House ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  White House

Obama may face fight on treaties

WASHINGTON - President Obama’s vision of global cooperation - symbolized by his surprise Nobel Peace Prize - is in for a crucial test in the months ahead when he begins sending a series of treaties to the US Senate, where skepticism among Republicans ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate

Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats

WASHINGTON - The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according to government officials and reports, raising ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Secret Service,  Michelle Obama,  United States Department of the Treasury,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  William McKinley

Husband and wife take stage in debate on Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - As intellectual architects of the controversial “surge’’ strategy in Iraq in 2007, military scholars Frederick and Kimberly Kagan have been frequent targets of the left, derided as “warmongers’’ and “cheerleaders’’ of the neoconservative ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  David Petraeus,  U.S. Congress,  Harvard University,  Stanley A. McChrystal

Afghan insurgency not fueled by religion

WASHINGTON - Nearly all of the insurgents battling US and NATO troops in Afghanistan are not religiously motivated Taliban and Al Qaeda warriors, but a new generation of tribal fighters vying for control of territory, mineral wealth, and smuggling ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  NATO,  Central Intelligence Agency,  RAND Corporation

Pentagon airs criticism of ‘don’t ask’

WASHINGTON - An article in the Pentagon’s top scholarly journal calls in unambiguous terms for lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces, arguing that the military is essentially forcing thousands of gay men and women to lead dishonest ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Michael Mullen

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