by Justine Jablonska | May 2, 2010 | National Security, Politics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Justine Jablonska/MEDILL WASHINGTON – In 2003 in Iraq, Matt Victoriano was serving the first of two tours as a Marine scout sniper. Robin Eckstein was driving supply convoys for the Army’s First Armored Division in and around...
by Justine Jablonska | Apr 27, 2010 | National Security, Politics
Justine Jablonska/MEDILL Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Jonathan Powers, Operation Free WASHINGTON – $93,193,772.94 and counting. That’s nearly a day’s worth of oil profits for Iran, says Operation Free, a group of U.S. military veterans and national security...
by Justine Jablonska | Apr 23, 2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON – You may think being president is like any job, just a lot bigger, says Terry Sullivan, executive director of the White House Transition Project. “It’s not even in the same universe.” And that new universe starts before a new president even gets to the...
by Justine Jablonska | Apr 23, 2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The executive branch transition from the Bush administration to that of President Barack Obama was one of the smoothest in history, experts told a Senate hearing Thursday – but its success doesn’t guarantee future smooth transitions. “Although some...
by Justine Jablonska | Apr 22, 2010 | Environment
WASHINGTON – “Avatar” star Sigourney Weaver traveled to Brazil last week with the film’s director James Cameron, co-star Joel David Moore and an environmental group that’s working to halt the building of a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon. That group – and others – say...
