Tag: Secretary of Defense

Pentagon paid billions to defense firms that previously defrauded the government

Luke Rosiak · August 3, 2013 4:00 am

Jeffrey David Cox, American Federation of Government Employees president, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about furloughs at the Pentagon. (AP File)

Federal employees union to Pentagon: Stop all furloughs

Tim Mak · July 30, 2013 4:00 am

Beginning next week, some 680,000 Pentagon civilian employees will be furloughed for up to 11 days over the summer. (AP Photo)

Putting the Pentagon on par with pupils

James Jay Carafano · July 29, 2013 4:00 am

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How to make defense cuts without endangering America

Drew Johnson · July 26, 2013 4:00 am

For all the hand-wringing over sequestration, the dire predictions of politicians and special interest groups proved grossly overblown. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Scary sequestration predictions not coming true

Veronique de Rugy · July 25, 2013 4:00 am

Federal officials have paid millions for reconstruction work in Afghanistan to five subcontractors with ties to enemy groups. (AP File)

Reforms sought to keep U.S. funds from going to terrorist-linked contractors

Michal Conger · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel greets troops before sitting down for lunch at an undisclosed location in South East Asia, April 25, 2013. Hagel has been lunching with troops regularly in his effort to keep an eye on their morale and needs. (Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo)

Pentagon’s Chuck Hagel breaks the mold, makes time for the troops

Paul Bedard · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

$3 million for an Afghan school building that was never finished

Michal Conger · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

To meet the mandates of the so-called sequestration, 680,000 Defense Department employees will be forced to take a day of unpaid leave each week over the next 11 weeks. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Civilian furloughs irk contractors: Sequestration requires 680,000 workers to take 11 days of unpaid leave

Tim Mak · July 12, 2013 4:00 am

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will make good on his promise to cut his own paycheck in solidatirty with furloughed Defense Department employees. (AP/Susan Walsh)

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Pentagon furloughs begin; Chuck Hagel, spokesman to chip in

Tim Mak · July 8, 2013 4:00 am

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Afghan officials improperly fining U.S. contractors, harming war effort

Michal Conger · July 2, 2013 4:00 am

A protester waves a national flag on a roof in Tahrir Square during a demonstration against Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo on Monday. (AP/ Manu Brabo)

The thousand-year thaw in Egypt

Karl Spain · July 2, 2013 4:00 am