Police swarmed to the Pentagon Tuesday after gunshots rang out in the early morning. Several bullets struck the massive building in Northern Virginia, causing minor damage. No one was hurt and no suspects were immediately apprehended. But police shut some of the road and pedestrian entrances when a civilian said he thought he heard shots [...]
On the morning after a federal judge banned the military from enforcing its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against gays and lesbians, the Pentagon is hunkered down defensively behind its thick limestone walls, trying to figure out what to do next. It has left spokeswoman Cynthia Smith the guidance to say that “nothing has changed” [...]
In a visit to the Pentagon Saturday to commemorate the attack that killed 184 people there nine years ago today, President Obama said Americans have held true to their ideals in the face of attempts by terrorists to “divide and demoralize us,” USA Today reports. He said the day of remembrance and reflection would be, [...]
Congress, the Pentagon and the White House all may intercede in the coming weeks or months to formally end the U.S. military’s controversial “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gay and lesbian service members. But it won’t be without a little pushing from the judiciary as well. A federal trial judge in California guaranteed the [...]
Don’t burn ‘em, buy ‘em. The Defense Department wants to purchase the entire first printing of a book by a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who describes a number of planned secret operations in the Afghanistan war. Ten thousand copies of the book “Operation Dark Heart,” by an Army reservist, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, are [...]
President Barack Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by attending a memorial service at the Pentagon, the White House said Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden will attend services Saturday at the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City, administration spokesman Robert Gibbs said in his [...]
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