#national-security

#national-security

"This would be one of, if not the largest, most complicated special operations in history," said Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and retired CIA and Marine officer. "It's a major risk to the force."

"This is truly one of the most iconic landscapes in America," said Chance Wilcox, California desert program manager for the National Parks Conservation Assn., as he stood atop a rocky slope within the project footprint.

Markwayne Mullin, an undefeated MMA fighter, has been appointed Secretary of Homeland Security, bringing a tough persona to a role that demands decorum and restraint.

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to individuals on his plane after his presidency, including his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

SatVu's cameras are so precise they can show the capacity of airfields, whether a ship is being loaded and even when individual pumps on a nuclear reactor are switched on.

Cobra is the opportunity at the highest level to bring people together on matters of real, significant national importance. Obviously Cobras are usually used for military considerations, consular considerations, but I think with the Iran war, most people are very concerned now, not only what they're seeing on their screens in relation to the conflict itself, but also that question of: How is it going to affect me and my family?

Tulsi Gabbard's statement here is totally false. Her effort to lie to Congress and the public to justify an unauthorized, unconstitutional war is shameless. She could have said: The only person who is commander in chief of the Armed Forces is the president. That still would have been a dodge, but at least it would have been true.

I didn't agree with your friend, Mr. Kent, but I did—again, I agreed with him yesterday on the fact that there was no imminent threat... even in your printed testimony today on page 6, in your last paragraph on page 6, 'As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There's been no effort to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.' You omitted that paragraph from your oral opening. Was that because the president said there was an imminent threat?

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

The threat from cyberattacks are having a huge impact on people's lives and economic activities. This is quite an important threat to national security. Japan will therefore devise regulations that make it possible to enact the proactive cyber-defense actions that legislation passed last year foreshadowed.

Well, I know for a fact that he was aware of those potentials. I raised the option of regime change in Iran several times during the time I was national security advisor. I never persuaded the president to adopt that position. And one reason was that others had different views, and every time I raised it, they raised a whole long list of difficulties that are entailed by a regime change campaign and that if you're going to embark on it you better have answers to them and certainly closing the Strait of Hormuz was always one of them and so were attacks on the Gulf Arab states, particularly their oil infrastructure so he knew about it in his first term.