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Ft. Hood suspect was Army dilemma

WASHINGTON - Army superiors were warned about the radicalization of Major Nidal Malik Hasan years before he allegedly massacred 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, but did not act in part because they valued the rare diversity of having a Muslim ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  21 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  The Pentagon,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

A new response to emergency workers’ needs

John Vaughan, an MIT-trained scientist, had an epiphany one day on his way to the Massachusetts State House. “I came up from the Park Street Station and there’s a FedEx truck parked right next to a State Police car,’’ he recalled. “The FedEx truck has ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  20 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Will Harris,  FedEx,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  Motorola, Inc.

Brown may win seat on key panel

WASHINGTON - Republican Senator Scott P. Brown has a strong chance of winning a coveted seat on at least one committee with jurisdiction over national security spending, according to Senate aides, which could give him a boost as he tries to fill the ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  11 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  Scott Brown,  Edward J. Markey

Pentagon may ease ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials are expected to announce today that they will significantly relax enforcement of the ban on gays serving openly in the military, according to sources inside and outside the military who have been briefed on the plan. The ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  2 Feb 2010

Related Topics: The Pentagon,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama,  Robert Gates,  Michael Mullen

Medical isotope bill’s fate uncertain

WASHINGTON - The highly lucrative market for radioactive isotopes used in cancer scans and other medical procedures is at the center of a political struggle in Congress, where a Republican senator is blocking a measure backed by, among others, a ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  28 Jan 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee,  U.S. Congress

Delay could give Democrats options

GOP Senator-elect Scott Brown will probably not be sworn in until at least Feb. 3, according to Massachusetts election law and Senate procedures, fueling some fears that Democrats could try to immediately push through a health care overhaul with the ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  19 Jan 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Paul G. Kirk, Jr.,  Edward M. Kennedy

US cloaks case files involving civil rights

WASHINGTON - Nearly half a century after the height of the civil rights movement, hundreds of thousands of pages of government files about the volatile era remain shielded from the American public, buried in FBI field office cabinets, blocked by ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  18 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  John F. Kerry,  John F. Kennedy,  U.S. Democratic Party

Obama presses review of nuclear strategy

CHARLIE MISSILE ALERT FACILITY, Mont. - After an hourlong ride down a nearly deserted highway covered in ice and snow, the two young officers arrive for their shift at this highly secure outpost deep in the northern Rockies. Air Force Captain Chris ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  3 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  The Pentagon,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Center for Strategic and International Studies

MIT reactor could remain political liability for US

WASHINGTON - MIT’s 50-year-old nuclear reactor, one of only three US research facilities not run by the Department of Energy that still use material that could also be used to make atomic bombs, will probably not be converted to use a safer fuel for at ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  28 Dec 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Nuclear Regulatory Commission,  Barack Obama,  University of Missouri,  Harvard University

Mass. push saves costly engine plan

WASHINGTON - Massachusetts lawmakers, over the fierce objections of the White House, have succeeded in reviving a costly plan to build a jet fighter engine at General Electric’s Lynn plant in an effort to protect thousands of Bay State jobs. When ...

From BRYAN BENDER, Boston Globe,  22 Dec 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Research Service,  White House,  The Pentagon,  John F. Kerry

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