The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: The Rollback

July 9th, 2009 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment

Ray DuBois, the former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, argued that environmental laws had been hampering realistic training long before President George W. Bush was elected. “It was not something that emerged full flower in my mind or after Jan. 20, 2001, in the Bush administration’s mind. This had been percolating for years. This doesn’t happen overnight. Encroachment doesn’t happen overnight.” Beginning with the fiscal year 2003 defense authorization bill, DuBois pressed Congress in each year of his tenure for exemptions and amendments for the military to just such environmental  laws. Continue reading The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: The Rollback

More on Sarkis Soghanalian

February 18th, 2006 | Trento's Take | | Leave a comment

Saddam’s favorite arms dealer (and at the time the Reagan administration’s) is spending his time trying to get stronger and fighting pending extradition to Columbia.

Continue reading More on Sarkis Soghanalian

Custer Battles Case Highlights War Profiteering in Iraq

February 12th, 2006 | National Security News Service | | Leave a comment
A 60 Minutes story aired on February 12th, 2006 which examined the activities of Custer Battles, a company accused under the False Claims Act of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority of millions of dollars. 60 Minutes said that the Custer Battles case provides insight into the widespread war profiteering committed by US companies during the war in Iraq. The National Security News Service worked closely with 60 Minutes on the Custer Battles piece by providing general research assistance.

Continue reading Custer Battles Case Highlights War Profiteering in Iraq

A Deadly Shell Game

January 20th, 2006 | Trento's Take | | Leave a comment

Aiken, South Carolina – In this polite, genteel world, one does not discuss dirty laundry in public and the inelegant nuclear bomb plant located here is this community’s dirty laundry. This attitude adds to a surreal aspect to discussion of the facility here.