Topic - House Committee On Armed Services

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  Panetta, Forbes trade barbs over budget cuts

  Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta engaged in a testy back-and-forth with Rep. J. Randy Forbes over cutting $487 billion from the Pentagon's budget over the next decade during a House Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday.

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  House panel seeks Mozilo's testimony

  House investigators want to interview Angelo Mozilo, the former Countrywide Financial Corp. chief executive whose VIP program gave discounted mortgages to member of Congress, other government officials and influential people who could help the company.

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  Attacks by Afghans on U.S. troops often personal

  Supposedly friendly Afghan security forces have attacked U.S. and coalition troops 45 times since May 2007, U.S. officials say, for the first time laying out details and analysis of attacks that have killed 70 and wounded 110.

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  U.S. lawmakers: Stop insider attacks by Afghan troops

  Lawmakers are telling the U.S. military to do more to screen Afghan security forces to prevent those supposedly friendly troops from killing Americans fighting alongside them.

• Attacks by Afghans on U.S. forces increase

  The U.S. military provided sweeping details Wednesday of the problem of insider attacks by Afghan security forces against U.S. and other coalition troops, prompting lawmakers to call the screening process for Afghan forces "tragically weak."

• House Republicans hope to ease automatic defense spending cuts

  Republicans on the House Armed Service Committee are stepping up their effort to shield the Defense Department from additional spending cuts ahead of the Feb. 13 release of President Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget.

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  GOP lawmaker seeks leniency for 'Urinegate' Marines

  A Republican lawmaker who served in combat in Afghanistan is urging Defense Secretary Leon Panetta not to make an example of the four Marines videotaped who were videotaped urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

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  Hunter: 'Context' in urination on corpses

  A congressman who served in Afghanistan is seeking leniency for four Marines videotaped urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, while some backers of the Marines are voicing support online.

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  Inside the Ring

  A senior House Republican is questioning the Obama administration's plan to seek an arms agreement for space based on concerns that the pact could restrict U.S. military and intelligence operations.

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  Obama's war plan pins hopes on peace

  In dumping the Pentagon's two-war strategy, President Obama is reversing a doctrine adopted by Republican and Democratic presidents, including himself.

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  GRENELL & WALSH: Obama's nuclear-reduction fantasy

  Earlier this month, James N. Miller, principal undersecretary of defense for policy, acknowledged to the House Committee on Armed Services that China is increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal, North Korea continues to pursue the development of enriched-uranium weapons, and Iran is advancing its own nuclear ambitions. Mr. Miller also admitted that despite the administration's decision to unilaterally declare the number of nuclear weapons in the American stockpile, neither China nor Russia has met the calls to increase transparency in their programs.

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  RYAN: Another burden for our war fighters

  I just returned from a trip to Afghanistan. As I saw on previous trips to Iraq, America's troops are performing an extremely tough mission with an extraordinary level of commitment and sacrifice.

• Inside the Ring

  The Obama administration is set to offer more concessions to the Russians on missile defense, the latest one a proposal to share secret technical data on the U.S. military's most effective anti-missile interceptor.

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  DECKER & TRIPLETT: Beijing's electronic Pearl Harbor

  Fast-forward more than a decade, to 2011. President Obama's choice for secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, tells the Senate Armed Services Committee at his confirmation hearing that the United States faces a possible "electronic Pearl Harbor." Mr. Panetta had been the CIA director for the previous two years - so he would have known.

• <i>The following is an excerpt from "Bowing to Beijing" (Regnery Publishing, Nov. 14, 2011):</i>

  The following is an excerpt from "Bowing to Beijing" (Regnery Publishing, Nov. 14, 2011):

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