Via Glenn Greenwald, John McQuaid tweets: WaPo’s failure to acknowledge earlier journalism on the privatization of intelligence is all about winning prizes cc @TimothyS I can’t speak to the Post’s motivations. But there’s an unfortunate and archaic tendency in old-school media to avoid referencing the work of other reporters when possible — sometimes a piece [...]

Gregg Carlstrom provides the summary overview: Few concrete pledges, many broad aspirational goals. Why, it sounds like international summiteering! Among the goals: President Karzai said he hopes the transition to full Afghan security responsibilities can occur by 2014, a date that Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, promptly caveated (“conditions-based,” etc.). The Afghan finance [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 631-10 July 19, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Justus S. Bartelt, 27, of Polo, Ill., died July 16 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th [...]

I’ve slacked on this lately, I know. But today at Danger Room, Noah and I tried to distill the first installment of the Post’s “Top Secret America,” I arched an eyebrow at the ODNI pushback on the series, chortled at Hezbollah’s anti-Israel war museum and announced a hiatus/retooling of a feature I’m 100 percent committed [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 630-10 July 19, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Cpl. Dave M. Santos, 21, of Rota, Marianas Islands of the Pacific, died July 16 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 629-10 July 19, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died July 15 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 627-10 July 19, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Matthew W. Weikert, 29, of Jacksonville, Ill., died July 17 in Paktika province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised [...]

I highlighted this from the Post “Top Secret America” piece in a Danger Room post, but let’s re-up: When Maj. Gen. John M. Custer was the director of intelligence at U.S. Central Command, he grew angry at how little helpful information came out of the NCTC. In 2007, he visited its director at the time, [...]

Time for a good old-fashioned arms control post. Get excited! I’m about to give context before my lede! From the perspective of the U.S.-Russia New START arms control treaty, the congressional calendar looks like that Indiana Jones scene where the big stone door slowly grinds closed as our heroes race down the hallway to pass [...]

DOD Identifies Army Casualties Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:00:00 -0500 IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 625-10 July 16, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Killed were: Spc. Chase Stanley, 21, of Napa, Calif. Spc. Jesse D. Reed, 26, of Orefield, Penn. [...]