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- Pentagon employee questioned contracts with FBI informant Halper & lost his clearance – attorney
A Pentagon employee claims he was stripped of his security clearance after he complained about Department of Defense contracts with Stefan Halper – the man who was later revealed to be keeping tabs on Donald Trump’s campaign.US News - Great F-35 and super nukes: Trump lauds US weapons signing $716bn military bill
In a speech before signing the $716 billion Pentagon funding bill, President Donald Trump praised the US military and the “finest” weapons anywhere in the world, but made no references to his critic after whom the bill was named.US News - US bomb pieces found at Yemen bus strike site as Pentagon says ‘we may never know’ who supplied it
A Raytheon Mark 82 general-purpose free-fall bomb was likely used by the Saudi-led coalition to strike a bus full of children in Yemen on Thursday, a local journalist claims, after bomb fragments from the scene were recovered.World News - Mattis calls space a ‘developing war zone,’ mulls creating combatant command before Space Force
US Defense Secretary James Mattis says the Pentagon agrees with President Donald Trump on viewing space as a possible battlefield and is considering setting up a combatant command until the Space Force can be created.US News - Pentagon bars troops from using fitness trackers & geolocation services
US military personnel have been banned from using fitness trackers, smartphones and other devices over fears that geolocation features might jeopardize the secrecy of American operations abroad, the Pentagon has announced.US News - Who’s in charge here? Trump bucks Pentagon, from Space Force to transgender troops
President Donald Trump often says that he is the US military’s biggest fan. On more than one occasion, though, his announcements have caught the Pentagon off-guard, from the ban on transgender troops to setting up the Space Force.US News
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