On Jan. 3, on the orders of the President of the United States, a drone strike assassinated Iranian General Quasem Soleimani and nine others at Baghdad’s International Airport in Iraq. The attack was conducted without explicit Congressional authorization and absent even notification of Congressional leaders such as House Speaker Nancy…
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Fitbit trackers reveal sensitive military information
The U.S. military is currently redefining certain practices after an apparent security oversight involving U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and the fitness tracking device, Fitbit. In November 2017, GPS tracking company Strava published a global heat map, which details the movements of individuals wearing fitness devices from 2015 to 2017. Fitbit…
Read MoreRespect Public Servants
Before Thanksgiving, an airplane captain allowed a family to depart the plane first, telling the passengers that they had somewhere important to be. As this family departed the aircraft, they were booed and heckled without mercy. Passengers openly exclaimed that they could not believe they had paid all this money…
Read MoreTrump Doesn’t Respect or Understand the Military
On February 28, General Michael Hayden appeared on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Earlier in that month, Donald Trump advocated for reviving enhanced interrogation techniques and killing the families of terrorists. The former includes the now-frowned upon practice of waterboarding, which has been banned in the US. The latter is a war crime. Maher asked Hayden—a retired four-star…
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