Leon Panetta Headlines
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NEW COMPUTER ATTACKS TRACED TO IRAN, OFFICIALS SAY
c.2013 New York Times News Service SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking U.S. corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran. The targets have included several U.S. oil, gas and electricity companies, ...
A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute. Why were a diplomatic outpost and the visiting U.S. ambassador left so poorly protected? Should ...
Navy pilot earns degree in combat zone
Finals week was dangerous for Thomas Saenz. The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the Internet — but he persevered and earned a ...
Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control. He said this step, which also applies to the military's approximately 19,000 recruiters and must ...
Obama vows sustained effort on military sex abuse
President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation's military leaders told him they are "ashamed" of their failure to end sexual abuse in the armed services. Obama pledged to "leave no stone unturned" in the effort to halt the abuse, which he said undermines the trust the military needs to be ...
Review chairman: Clinton didn't make Benghazi call
The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering said Sunday. "They've tried to point a finger at people more senior ...
Former US official describes Libya attack
A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Neighbors: Man in custody comforted missing girl's mom, helped search for missing Ohio women CLEVELAND (AP) — In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When ...
Diplomat: US team stopped from going to Benghazi
Four members of Army special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended were told not to go, according to a former top diplomat. Gregory Hicks also argued in an interview with Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform ...
Airman who led sex assault unit charged in groping
An Air Force officer who led the branch's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit has been charged with groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, authorities said Monday. Arlington County Police said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski of Arlington faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery following an alleged ...
Military court reverses suicide attempt conviction
The U.S. military's highest court has reversed a discharged Marine's criminal conviction for slitting his wrists in a case that raised questions about whether suicidal service members should be prosecuted. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled in a 3-2 decision released late Monday that a military judge ...
Outraged lawmakers look to change military justice
Outrage over a U.S. Air Force officer's decision to overturn a jury's guilty verdict in a sexual assault case has Republicans and Democrats joining forces on ambitious legislation to change the military justice system. On both sides of Congress, lawmakers have interpreted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's recent proposal to essentially ...
Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle. Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past two years to build improved versions of the 70-ton Abrams. But ...
Crossing a 'red line'? US says Syria used poison
The White House declared Thursday that U.S. intelligence indicates Syrian President Bashar Assad has twice used deadly chemical weapons in his country's fierce civil war, a provocative action that would cross President Barack Obama's "red line" for a significant military response. But the administration said the revelation won't immediately change ...
News of potential military openings for women prompts mixed emotions
Federal officials announced Wednesday that women will now be allowed to serve in combat, and local residents have mixed emotions on the news. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta decided to end a ban on women serving on the front lines of war. "Hopefully, this will enable us to further our career, and it ...
Military leaders announce dropping officer promotion rates
As the U.S. Military look to the future, leaders said they expect officer promotion selection rates to return to pre-9/11 levels. This is a departure from the very high promotion rates over the past decade. In an unclassified email obtained by KFOX14, military leaders said army selection boards will continue ...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visits Fort Bliss
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta assures local soldiers there will be no salary cuts or benefit reductions for those currently serving. This comes just weeks after announcing major budget reductions for the Department of Defense. In his first visit ever to Fort Bliss, Panetta told soldiers nearly a half-trillion dollars ...
Fort Bliss puts substandard soldiers "on notice"
In light of recent budget cuts by the U.S. Department of Defense, Fort Bliss said officials on post, along military leaders across the nation, are raising the standards of soldiers allowed to enlist or re-enlist in the U.S. Military. "The soldiers who are not really meeting the standard are on ...
U.S. ends war in Iraq
Almost nine years later, 4,200 Americans dead and 32,000 others wounded, the United States has officially ended the war in Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and several other U.S. diplomatic, military and defense leaders participated in a highly symbolic ceremony at Bagdad's International Airport Thursday morning, where soldiers retired the ...
Veterans Day
On this Veterans Day, the military is struggling with a damaging new story about the mishandling of remains of fallen U.S. servicemembers, where officials at the Dover, Delaware facility are accused of sending some remains to local landfills. "None of us will be satisfied until we have proven to the ...
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