Repeal of Dont ask, dont tell: A civil rights milestone?

Pentagon bracing for release of 400,000 secret Iraq reports
Washington — The Pentagon said Friday it was scouring through an Iraq War database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by Wikileaks of some 400,000 secret Military reports. The massive release is set to dwarf the Whistleblower website's publication of 77,000 classified US Military documents on the War in Afghanistan in July, including the names of Afghan informants and other details from raw Intelligence reports. Another 15,000 are due out soon. In order to prepare...

Pentagon gets set for WikiLeaks Iraq fallout
Founder... Julian Assange. Photo: AFP Washington: The Pentagon is scouring an Iraq War database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by Wikileaks of about 400,000 secret Military reports. The massive release is set to dwarf the Whistleblower website's publication of 77,000 classified US Military documents on the War in Afghanistan in July, including the names of Afghan informants and other details from raw Intelligence reports. Another 15,000 are due out soon. In order...

Pentagon Scrambles to Predict 'Impact' of Leaking 400,000 Iraqi War Docs
Pentagon officials say they our scouring through their own database of files related to the Iraq War trying to figure out which 400,000 documents are in possession of Wikileaks, the whistleblowing group which promises to release them some time on Monday. The release will be the biggest such release of US Military documents in history , coming just months after the organization leaked 77,000 Afghan War documents, the previous largest release. Pentagon officials say they are unsure exactly which...

U.S. Military Tallies Deaths of Iraqi Civilians and Forces
Source: Associated Press Baghdad (AP) A new United States Military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi civilians and security forces at almost 77,000 people between January 2004 and August 2008, a period that includes the bloodiest years of the War. The tally falls thousands short of one compiled by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry. The information was quietly posted on the Web site of the United States Central Command without explanation in July and was discovered this week during a...

Pentagon braces for leak on Iraq war
AFP The Pentagon said on Friday it was scouring through an Iraq War database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by Wikileaks of about 400,000 secret Military reports. The massive release is set to dwarf the Whistleblower website's publication of 77,000 classified US Military documents on the War in Afghanistan in July, including the names of Afghan informants and other details from raw Intelligence reports. Another 15,000 are due out soon. In order to prepare for Monday's...

Pentagon bracing for release of 400,000 secret Iraq reports
Washington (AFP) – The Pentagon said Friday it was scouring through an Iraq War database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by Wikileaks of some 400,000 secret Military reports. The massive release is set to dwarf the Whistleblower website's publication of 77,000 classified US Military documents on the War in Afghanistan in July, including the names of Afghan informants and other details from raw Intelligence reports. Another 15,000 are due out soon. In order to...

WikiLeaks May Release 400,000 Iraq War Documents
CBS News National Security analyst Juan Zarate says part of the fear about the potential release is the unknown: Defense officials are not sure exactly what documents Wikileaks has. In the context of Iraq, they may be concerned that information will include Military operations, prior and current sources, people who may have cooperated in the past, and information that may be revelatory about what we know about the Iraqi Government as well as other actors within Iraq, such as the Iranians. ...

Pentagon braces for WikiLeaks release of secret Iraq reports
Source: MSNBC The Pentagon is reviewing its War database to prepare for potential fallout from WikiLeak's expected release of secret documents related to the Iraq War, according to NBC News. The release could come as early as Sunday evening. "The problem is we have no idea what Wikileaks has or is going to release, so we're preparing for the worst," one senior Pentagon official told NBC News on Friday. (snip) Pentagon officials told NBC News they were scouring over 400,000 documents from Iraq...

Pentagon preps for WikiLeaks release of secret Iraq reports
The Pentagon is reviewing its War database to prepare for potential fallout from WikiLeak's expected release of secret documents related to the Iraq War, according to NBC News. The release could come as early as Sunday evening. "The problem is we have no idea what Wikileaks has or is going to release, so we're preparing for the worst," one senior Pentagon official told NBC News on Friday. Wikileaks, the Controversial online organization set up to reveal government secrets, has indicated it...

Iraq: Wikileaks video of US military killing journalists
No Pentagon response yet . Reuters has been attempting to obtain the video under Freedom of Information Act requests since the incident occurred in July, 2007, but the Pentagon blocked all requests. Reuters news editor-in-chief David Schlesinger says the video is "graphic evidence of the dangers involved in war journalism and the tragedies that can result". Wikileaks director Julian Assange said Wikileaks had to break Military encryption on the file to view it, and will not reveal how or from...

US military says 77,000 Iraqis killed over 5 years
Baghdad — In its most extensive death tally of the Iraq War, the U.S. Military says nearly 77,000 Iraqi civilians and security officials were killed from early 2004 to mid-2008 a toll that falls well below Iraqi Government figures. The Military's count, which spans the bloodiest chapter of Iraq's sectarian warfare and the U.S. Troop Surge to quell it, is short of the 85,694 figure released last year by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry that covers early 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008....

U.S. Military Tallies Deaths of Iraqi Civilians and Forces
Source: Associated Press Baghdad (AP) A new United States Military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi civilians and security forces at almost 77,000 people between January 2004 and August 2008, a period that includes the bloodiest years of the War. The tally falls thousands short of one compiled by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry. The information was quietly posted on the Web site of the United States Central Command without explanation in July and was discovered this week during a...

Pentagon Scrambles to Predict 'Impact' of Leaking 400,000 Iraqi War Docs
Pentagon officials say they our scouring through their own database of files related to the Iraq War trying to figure out which 400,000 documents are in possession of Wikileaks, the whistleblowing group which promises to release them some time on Monday. The release will be the biggest such release of US Military documents in history , coming just months after the organization leaked 77,000 Afghan War documents, the previous largest release. Pentagon officials say they are unsure exactly which...

Pentagon warns gay troops to stay silent for now
Fri Oct 15, 4:52 pm ET Washington – The Defense Department on Friday warned gay Troops that if they disclose their Sexual Orientation now, they could still get in trouble. In a new memo, the Pentagon's top personnel chief cited a "legally uncertain environment" facing service members during a court battle over the 1993 law known as "don't ask, don't tell." The Obama Administration is appealing a ruling by a Federal Judge in California on Tuesday that struck down the...

Pentagon warns gay troops to stay silent for now
Source: AP Pentagon warns gay Troops to stay silent for now By ANNE FLAHERTY Washington The Defense Department is warning gay Troops that speaking up could still get them in trouble. A new Pentagon memo says there is a "legally uncertain environment" while the Obama Administration appeals a court ruling striking down the "don't ask, don't tell" law. The law banned gays from serving openly in the Military. The Defense Department has said it will comply with the court order while the case...

Pentagon warns gay troops to stay silent for now
In a new memo, the Pentagon's top personnel chief cited a "legally uncertain environment" facing service members during a court battle over the 1993 law known as "don't ask, don't tell." The Obama Administration is appealing a ruling by a Federal Judge in California on Tuesday that struck down the law, which bans Openly Gay service members. The Defense Department has said it will comply with the court order for now freezing any discharge proceedings and technically ending its decades-long...

Pentagon warns gay troops to stay silent for now
Washington — The Defense Department is warning gay Troops that speaking up could still get them in trouble. A new Pentagon memo says there is a "legally uncertain environment" while the Obama Administration appeals a court ruling striking down the "don't ask, don't tell" law. The law banned gays from serving openly in the Military. The Defense Department has said it will comply with the court order while the case winds its way through the legal system. But in a memo released Friday, the...

Occupation and Withdrawal
Pape is not arguing that U.S. Troops provoke Suicide Terrorist campaigns wherever they land, but that Suicide Terrorist campaigns cannot be explained without the presence of Foreign (not simply American) Military forces operating on territory the Terrorists prize. ~ Greg Scoblete , responding to Kori Schake That’s right. Schake is in such a hurry to Attack Pape’s “offshore balancing” recommendations that she misrepresents Pape’s core argument about Suicide...

Two Tin Foil Hat Conspiracy Theories about War: America Wants Control of the World and AA Batteries
Whether its Salon , LewRockwell.com, or the phony has-beenwrestler Jesse Ventura, Anti-War left-wingers insist America invented every War in existence, because America seeks World dominance and battery power. These leftists are 9/11 Truthers, Birthers, and anti-Semites. They are adored by White supremacists , and include every Radical fringe element hiding in their mothers basement. Here are examples of Extremism by two leftists: Glenn Greenwald and Jesse Ventura. 1. War...

Annie's awakenings
Weiss asked annie, who often posts here, how she came to the Israel/Palestine issue: well, my i/p connection came about strickly because of my introduction to the Internet. in 2003, i was heading off to Thailand/india/Europe w/ my son and wanted a cheap way to contact people back home and heard email addresses were free so i got one thru msn.com which we already had because my son was on the Internet. then i took a little class at the neighborhood Community Center in ballard (Seattle) which...

WikiLeaks Set to Release 400,000 Secret Iraq War Docs
Wikileaks is believed to be preparing to release around 400,000 classified Pentagon documents on the Iraq War this week, the Associated Foreign Press reported Friday.

Pentagon on WikiLeaks Alert
As rumors swirl that a massive Iraq War document dump is imminent, the Defense Department Wikileaks Task Force shifts into high gear. Philip Shenon reports.

Finally, US Army makes progress for women in uniform
The US Army is testing its first-ever combat uniform expressly designed to fit the female figure, a move seen as an overdue effort to make 160,000 US women Soldiers more comfortable. Don't expect a camouflage haute couture revolution for America's Military women; the changes will be visibly slight, although they are important, said the first person to try on the women's army combat uniform, or ACU. "The unisex uniform was a little bit baggy," Major Sequana Robinson told AFP, undoubtedly summing...

US military's Iraq death toll lags behind other counts
Baghdad: An official US Military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi Civilians and security forces at almost 77,000 between January 2004 and August 2008 - the darkest chapter of Iraq's sectarian warfare and the US Troop Surge to quell it. The little-noticed body count is the most extensive data on Iraqi War Casualties ever released by the American Military. But the tally falls short of the estimated 85,694 Deaths of Civilians and security officials between January 2004 to October 31, 2008, as...

US military's Iraq death toll lags behind other counts
Baghdad: An official US Military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi Civilians and security forces at almost 77,000 between January 2004 and August 2008 - the darkest chapter of Iraq's sectarian warfare and the US Troop Surge to quell it. The little-noticed body count is the most extensive data on Iraqi War Casualties ever released by the American Military. But the tally falls short of the estimated 85,694 Deaths of Civilians and security officials between January 2004 to October 31, 2008, as...