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It’s great, we have another terrorist off the face of this earth. I’m good with that, but it doesn’t absolve the administration or the State Department or the Pentagon from taking responsibility or accountability for what happened. They haven’t stepped up and said we messed this up and it won’t happen again. – Darin Hoover	Found on CNN 11 months ago
We’re working on that. There’s some changes that you can make to the process, to sort of speed that up, the Pentagon is working as fast as they can, and they’ll have more to say on adjustments they’re making. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we talk about the lack of cooperation by DoD, we’ve got emails, and we’ve got memo traffic to support everything we said about their lack of cooperation, i know one nameless, faceless bureaucrat in the Pentagon said, ‘Oh, well, somebody came over once.’ No, no, we have the paperwork. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was the one that asked the Pentagon to fund, this was not an Elon thing, we stopped interacting with the Pentagon on the existing capability. They are not paying. – Gwynne Shotwell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA. – Matt Taibbi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
As Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh said, the commanders on the ground know best when it comes to maintaining combat readiness, in this case, a Navy SEAL commander with decades of experience says kicking out his troops hurts our military worse than COVID ever could. America is now learning that the Pentagon bureaucrats are wildly out of touch with reality. – First Liberty	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Pentagon is facing a self-inflicted crisis it can’t spin its way out of, it’s impacting mission, manpower, and morale, and the current Commander in Chief is most to blame. – Darrell Issa	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I met my husband on my third tour in Iraq, he’s a career army officer. His name’s Dave. We’re a service family, right? He’s thirty years in the army as an Apache pilot. He’s still a civilian counterterrorism planner four days a week at the Pentagon. – Elissa Slotkin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The White House proclaimed the pandemicis over, but as the Pentagon just reiterated, the purge continues, as they systematically drive out of the Coast Guard [and all branches of the military] the best and the brightest, like LTJG Stone and our other plaintiffs, meanwhile, they use cookie-cutter form denial letters citing nonsensical excuses for their religiousdiscrimination. For example, they told LTJG Stone that he was not 'worldwide deployable' due to his unvaccinated status, despite the fact that he had just completedfourworldwide deployments, during which time he missed not a single day of work while no less than12%of his fully vaccinated shipmates were quarantined with COVID. – Steve Crampton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’ve been in direct contact with many service members over the last year – including many from Nebraska – who have legitimate concerns about the way the Pentagon has handled the processing and disposition of their requests for religious and medical exemptions, orders are orders,and I received every vaccine known to man when I served in uniform, but maybe it’s time to reassess this particular order. Based on the president’s recent statements on the pandemic, I’m personally not convinced we’ve struck the right balance between military risk and the Constitution.We need to consider the serious recruiting and retention problems now facing the military, and review actions taken against those who did not get the vaccine. – Don Bacon	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Gen. Cavoli will oversee some of the biggest military posture changes in Europe since World War II. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, the Pentagon has deployed or extended deployments for over 20,000 U.S. troops in Europe. The U.S. now has more than 100,000 troops based in Europe. And soon the 40,000-member NATO Ready Force will be increased to 300,000 NATO troops. US DEFENDS SENDING AIRCRAFT THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIT AS CHINA GROWS INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE. – Dwight Eisenhower	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
From my perspective, the Pentagon did not come forward with viable options in response to what the president was asking for. – Joseph Albright	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Russia is the aggressor here, and I think we have seen here at the Pentagon, we certainly see clear evidence that the Russian military is conducting war crimes. We think it's important for the investigative process to continue. We're going to contribute to that. – Spokesperson John Kirby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Pentagon has been infected with wokeism the same way so many other institutions have. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Technology-driven decision-making is an essential part of our defense modernization. Current incentives in the Pentagon lead to less innovation and more bureaucracy, even a single failed test of a new technology can have serious consequences on officers’ careers. This attitude smothers innovation and reinforces using the same old ‘proven’ technologies that don’t meet modern threats. – Mike Rogers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The State Department's 'maximum pressure' campaign has not pressured Iran toward diplomacy and a new agreement. It has pressured them toward an increase in malign activity in the region and toward the development of a nuclear weapon, said Mick Mulroy, Trump's former top Pentagon official for the Middle East and a retired CIA officer who's now an ABC News contributor. – Mick Mulroy	added by MoWali 2 years ago
What is happening now is not a surprise. It was predicted. If anything, it is happening faster than predicted, said Mick Mulroy, the Pentagon's former top Middle East policy official and an ABC News analyst. We are not seeing the worst of it. The Taliban is not only taking territory, they are killing people with the weapons we provided to Afghan security forces, said Mulroy, a former CIA officer and Marine infantryman who served in Afghanistan. – Mick Mulroy	added by MoWali 2 years ago
You have found your voice. You have stood up, you have contacted your congresspeople and they are writing and they are putting pressure on the Marine Corps, the Pentagon and we appreciate that. – Stu Scheller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We knew we were at war, the first battle of that war took place in the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. I visited the hospital that night, five different hospitals. We had lots of wounded. Some of them stayed for weeks. I realized that there was a significant amount of heroism that had taken place from the patients in the hospital, as well as from my officers and CEOs and civilians who joined me in the operation center who had been assisting people outside. – Jack Keane	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I knew it was a terrorist attack, …I was getting a report from the chief of my operations center — a two-star general — and we were talking about an airplane that had come up I-95 and had come close to Washington, D.C.,and then back to the east and went south. We err discussing what, if any, evacuation procedures there were for buildings in D.C. when the plane hit and rocked the Pentagon. – Jack Keane	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We weren't in a position to know that we were having last words because all of a sudden the phone went dead, and I suppose that was about the point at which [the plane] was actually crashing into the Pentagon. – Ted Olson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
About 30 minutes into the broadcast they reported an explosion at the Pentagon, i didn't wait around for the details. – Tim Born	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[T]he State Department is failing to give [the Pentagon] adequate information. … They don't know exactly how many [evacuees] are even there. So they can't account for someone if they don't return. – Mark Green	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

It’s great, we have another terrorist off the face of this earth. I’m good with that, but it doesn’t absolve the administration or the State Department or the Pentagon from taking responsibility or accountability for what happened. They haven’t stepped up and said we messed this up and it won’t happen again.

– Darin Hoover

Found on CNN
11 months ago

We’re working on that. There’s some changes that you can make to the process, to sort of speed that up, the Pentagon is working as fast as they can, and they’ll have more to say on adjustments they’re making.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we talk about the lack of cooperation by DoD, we’ve got emails, and we’ve got memo traffic to support everything we said about their lack of cooperation, i know one nameless, faceless bureaucrat in the Pentagon said, ‘Oh, well, somebody came over once.’ No, no, we have the paperwork.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was the one that asked the Pentagon to fund, this was not an Elon thing, we stopped interacting with the Pentagon on the existing capability. They are not paying.

– Gwynne Shotwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.

– Matt Taibbi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh said, the commanders on the ground know best when it comes to maintaining combat readiness, in this case, a Navy SEAL commander with decades of experience says kicking out his troops hurts our military worse than COVID ever could. America is now learning that the Pentagon bureaucrats are wildly out of touch with reality.

– First Liberty

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Pentagon is facing a self-inflicted crisis it can’t spin its way out of, it’s impacting mission, manpower, and morale, and the current Commander in Chief is most to blame.

– Darrell Issa

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I met my husband on my third tour in Iraq, he’s a career army officer. His name’s Dave. We’re a service family, right? He’s thirty years in the army as an Apache pilot. He’s still a civilian counterterrorism planner four days a week at the Pentagon.

– Elissa Slotkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The White House proclaimed the pandemicis over, but as the Pentagon just reiterated, the purge continues, as they systematically drive out of the Coast Guard [and all branches of the military] the best and the brightest, like LTJG Stone and our other plaintiffs, meanwhile, they use cookie-cutter form denial letters citing nonsensical excuses for their religiousdiscrimination. For example, they told LTJG Stone that he was not 'worldwide deployable' due to his unvaccinated status, despite the fact that he had just completedfourworldwide deployments, during which time he missed not a single day of work while no less than12%of his fully vaccinated shipmates were quarantined with COVID.

– Steve Crampton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’ve been in direct contact with many service members over the last year – including many from Nebraska – who have legitimate concerns about the way the Pentagon has handled the processing and disposition of their requests for religious and medical exemptions, orders are orders,and I received every vaccine known to man when I served in uniform, but maybe it’s time to reassess this particular order. Based on the president’s recent statements on the pandemic, I’m personally not convinced we’ve struck the right balance between military risk and the Constitution.We need to consider the serious recruiting and retention problems now facing the military, and review actions taken against those who did not get the vaccine.

– Don Bacon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Gen. Cavoli will oversee some of the biggest military posture changes in Europe since World War II. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, the Pentagon has deployed or extended deployments for over 20,000 U.S. troops in Europe. The U.S. now has more than 100,000 troops based in Europe. And soon the 40,000-member NATO Ready Force will be increased to 300,000 NATO troops. US DEFENDS SENDING AIRCRAFT THROUGH TAIWAN STRAIT AS CHINA GROWS INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE.

– Dwight Eisenhower

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

From my perspective, the Pentagon did not come forward with viable options in response to what the president was asking for.

– Joseph Albright

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Russia is the aggressor here, and I think we have seen here at the Pentagon, we certainly see clear evidence that the Russian military is conducting war crimes. We think it's important for the investigative process to continue. We're going to contribute to that.

– Spokesperson John Kirby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Pentagon has been infected with wokeism the same way so many other institutions have.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Technology-driven decision-making is an essential part of our defense modernization. Current incentives in the Pentagon lead to less innovation and more bureaucracy, even a single failed test of a new technology can have serious consequences on officers’ careers. This attitude smothers innovation and reinforces using the same old ‘proven’ technologies that don’t meet modern threats.

– Mike Rogers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The State Department's 'maximum pressure' campaign has not pressured Iran toward diplomacy and a new agreement. It has pressured them toward an increase in malign activity in the region and toward the development of a nuclear weapon, said Mick Mulroy, Trump's former top Pentagon official for the Middle East and a retired CIA officer who's now an ABC News contributor.

– Mick Mulroy

added by MoWali
2 years ago

What is happening now is not a surprise. It was predicted. If anything, it is happening faster than predicted, said Mick Mulroy, the Pentagon's former top Middle East policy official and an ABC News analyst. We are not seeing the worst of it. The Taliban is not only taking territory, they are killing people with the weapons we provided to Afghan security forces, said Mulroy, a former CIA officer and Marine infantryman who served in Afghanistan.

– Mick Mulroy

added by MoWali
2 years ago

You have found your voice. You have stood up, you have contacted your congresspeople and they are writing and they are putting pressure on the Marine Corps, the Pentagon and we appreciate that.

– Stu Scheller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We knew we were at war, the first battle of that war took place in the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. I visited the hospital that night, five different hospitals. We had lots of wounded. Some of them stayed for weeks. I realized that there was a significant amount of heroism that had taken place from the patients in the hospital, as well as from my officers and CEOs and civilians who joined me in the operation center who had been assisting people outside.

– Jack Keane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I knew it was a terrorist attack, …I was getting a report from the chief of my operations center — a two-star general — and we were talking about an airplane that had come up I-95 and had come close to Washington, D.C.,and then back to the east and went south. We err discussing what, if any, evacuation procedures there were for buildings in D.C. when the plane hit and rocked the Pentagon.

– Jack Keane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We weren't in a position to know that we were having last words because all of a sudden the phone went dead, and I suppose that was about the point at which [the plane] was actually crashing into the Pentagon.

– Ted Olson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

About 30 minutes into the broadcast they reported an explosion at the Pentagon, i didn't wait around for the details.

– Tim Born

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[T]he State Department is failing to give [the Pentagon] adequate information. … They don't know exactly how many [evacuees] are even there. So they can't account for someone if they don't return.

– Mark Green

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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