Tag: Rep. Buck McKeon
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Update: Secretary of Defense Resigns
NYT: OBAMA “REMOVED” HIM by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 24, 2014) — After less than two years in the position, putative Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel tendered his resignation from the Obama regime on Monday, according to USA Today and other mainstream media outlets. The resignation reportedly stemmed from “the new threat posed by the Islamic State”…
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman: Obama “Violated Laws” in Arranging for Release of U.S. Soldier Held Prisoner by Taliban for Five Years
“A STRONG INCENTIVE TO CAPTURE AMERICANS” by Sharon Rondeau (May 31, 2014) — The House Armed Services Committee has issued a statement in regard to the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for nearly five years after he was deployed to Afghanistan. Committee Chairman Buck McKeon and Senate Armed…
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The Post & Email Asks House and Senate Leaders for Fitzpatrick’s Record of Court-Martial
CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM HAVE INFECTED THE NAVY FOR AT LEAST 23 YEARS by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 12, 2013) — The following letter was sent to Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee; Rep. Buck McKeon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee; and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick’s congressman. This writer’s…
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Will Obama Refuse to Approve Death Benefits to Military Survivors?
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN HALTS STANDARD DEATH PAYOUTS by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 8, 2013) — In a press release on Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee stated that the $100,000 death benefit customarily paid to survivors of soldiers, airmen, Marines and seamen killed in service to their country was expected to be included in the measure passed…
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House Armed Services Committee Issues Statement on Classified Briefing with Military Officers on Benghazi
WHAT DID THEY SAY? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 26, 2013) — The House Armed Services Committee produced a “readout” of the classified hearing held on Wednesday with three military members with knowledge of the response or lack thereof to the terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The one-paragraph…