AFP – A US defense contractor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one charge of conspiring to illegally export US Defense Department weapons plans to China, in an apparent money-saving scheme, the Justice Department said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday lashed out at US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s disclosure that American forces are keeping up unilateral attacks on Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – A federal appeals court that has called for the immediate halt of the military’s ban on openly gay troops issued an order Monday requiring the U.S. government to state whether it will continue to defend the policy’s constitutionality in court. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – A federal appeals court has issued an order asking the U.S. government to state whether it will defend the constitutionality of the military’s 17-year ban on openly gay troops. Read the rest of this entry »