Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to appoint a new White House official to coordinate effort to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear or biological weapons, advisers say, giving the highest priority efforts to thwarting a...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has agreed to stay on at the Pentagon well into next year, providing some continuity as the nation fights two wars and putting a Republican face on President-elect...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator John F. Kerry is widely expected to be named the new chairman of the Senate...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's signature campaign promise to withdraw US troops from Iraq in 16 months appears to be on a collision course with the nation's top military brass if comments today from the...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe staff Rand Beers, the former Bush national security aide who later served as a key adviser to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, is poised to lead President-elect Barack Obama's homeland security transition team, according to one...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON _ Two Harvard faculty members are joining President-elect Barack Obama's transition team this week, according to his transition office. John P. White, chair of the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, served as deputy...
Unsolicited Opinion (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Here's something that could restore my faith in the political process if it actually comes to pass: According to a story by Bryan Bender in the Boston Globe , the Defense Business Board, a senior advisory group appointed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, recommended huge cuts in the military budget , noting that the current level of spending on weapons is "unsustainable." Several...
seeking spirit (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Pentagon board says cuts essential Tells Obama to slash large weapons programs By Bryan Bender Globe Staff / November 10, 2008 WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department’s current budget is “not sustainable,” and he must scale back or eliminate some [...]
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- The Project for a New American Century, the nonprofit foundation that conspiracy theorists -- not to mention many Democrats -- believe hatched the US invasion of Iraq has re-emerged on the Internet, sparking...
EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Conservatives wanted to paint Barack Obama as a big spending liberal but maybe he will propose reducing DoD spending says Bryan Bender : A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's current budget is "not sustainable," and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military's most prized...
al Qaeda in Albuquerque (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Pentagon board says cuts essential Tells Obama to slash large weapons programs By Bryan Bender [Boston] Globe Staff / November 10, 2008 WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's current budget is "not sustainable," and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military's...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Tells Obama to slash large weapons programs By Bryan Bender Boston Globe Staff November 10, 2008 WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's current budget is "not sustainable," and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military's most prized weapons programs. The briefings...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- The nation's top military leaders, who unlike political appointees continue to serve the new president, are urging the incoming Obama administration to swiftly fill senior civilian posts in the Pentagon in order to...
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Aides to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who has been battling a severe form of brain cancer from his home in Massachusetts, said he plans to return to his second home in Washington this...
