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Where Is That Pentagon Report On China’s Military?

Posted by Bookyards on July 27th, 2010

People’s Liberation Army soldiers atop tanks in a Beijing parade. Reuters

Pentagon Under Fire Over China Report — Wall Street Journal

A group of Republican senators are suggesting that the Pentagon is withholding its annual report on China’s military build-up out of concerns of fueling hostility between the countries.

The senators – John Cornyn of Texas, John McCain of Arizona, James Risch of Idaho, Pat Roberts of Kansas, and James Inhofe of Oklahoma – sent a strongly worded letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates Friday, nearly five months after the annual report was due.

President Obama’s Guantanamo Policy Under Fire

Posted by Bookyards on December 29th, 2009

Camp Delta area at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Photo AFP

Stop Guantanamo Transfers To Yemen: Senators — AFP

WASHINGTON — Three senior US senators on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to stop transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen until Sanaa can guarantee that they will not return to the battlefield.

Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman — the first two Republicans and the third a political independent — said that such transfers are “highly unwise and ill-considered.”

Close to half of the 198 “war on terror” detainees still at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — which Obama has vowed to close — are from Yemen.

F-35 Cost Overruns And Delays Starting To Concern US Senators

Posted by Bookyards on December 18th, 2009

F-35 Lightning II

F-35 ‘Deeply Concerns’ US Senators On Cost And Schedule — Flight Global

Two US senators – Carl Levin and John McCain – have expressed deep concern about the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme’s “growing costs and apparent delays”, as the Department of Defense works to restore confidence in the development project.

The joint statement by the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Armed Services Committee, came after a closed hearing about results from the Joint Estimating Team (JET).

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