by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 19, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — When she left the military in 2005, Jodie M. Grenier went from being on a team of intelligence analysts reporting to then-Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, with a top security clearance, to waiting tables. “It was frustrating. I had a very...
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by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — To counter Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East, the U.S. must maintain a strong diplomatic and military presence in neighboring Iraq, experts from the State Department and the Pentagon said at the Near East subcommittee hearing Tuesday. Over the...
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by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 9, 2019 | National Security
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 (UPI) — Most of the people who carried out mass attacks in public spaces last year had made threatening communications, and 75 percent of those communications had aroused concern in others, the Secret Service’s National Threat...
by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 6, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s plan for a show of military might and speech at the Lincoln Memorial on July 4 is similar to military parades in countries like India and France, but actually could be viewed more as a tactic to remind Americans that the...
by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 1, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The United States should more strictly regulate sales of U.S. surveillance technology to China when it is used to spy on Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, Rep. Mike Gallagher and human rights experts warned. “Human rights are an...
