Rowan Scarborough

Navy releases road map for diverse force protected against discrimination

The Navy has issued its last major directive of the Barack Obama era with a "diversity road map" that paves the way for a multiethnic force of sailors and civilians who are protected against discrimination based on "gender identity" or "sex stereotyping."

February 5, 2017

Kellyanne Conway correctly spoke about Bowling Green Iraqi terrorists, misspoke on ‘massacre’

When senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway misspoke and described a terrorist "massacre" in Bowling Green, Kentucky, it was a garbled reference to the fact that two Iraqi refugees who settled there turned out to be committed terrorists.

February 5, 2017

Central Command didn’t distort reports on ISIS war, Pentagon says

A Pentagon investigation into allegations that U.S. Central Command "cooked the books" in battlefield intelligence has concluded that no senior officials falsified reports or deliberately distorted them to make war progress against the Islamic State look better than it was.

February 1, 2017

Obama refugee vetting procedure enabled Iraqi terrorists to enter U.S.

Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab in 2012 was among the first Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. after President Obama lifted a six-month freeze on such entries as his aides tightened a shaky vetting process.

January 31, 2017

Donald Trump’s National Security Council reorganization copies previous GOP president

President Trump's reorganization of the National Security Council principals committee, and the participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, is a duplicate of what George W. Bush did in February 2001 when he issued his NSC directive.

January 30, 2017

Voter fraud debate as divided as America is politically

President Trump's vow to investigate illegal voting in America has placed the spotlight on a handful of conservative groups that have fought voter fraud in the shadows of more prominent issues such as Obamacare and terrorism.

January 29, 2017

ISIS finds success infiltrating terrorists into refugee flows to West

The Islamic State has planned to infect refugee flows to the West with mass killers, and it has had some violent successes.

January 29, 2017

Nation’s ‘voting rolls are a mess,’ say longtime fraud watchdogs

President Trump's vow to investigate illegal voting in America has placed the spotlight on a handful of conservative groups that have fought voter fraud in the shadows of more prominent issues such as Obamacare and terrorism.

January 29, 2017

Hillary Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, bolsters Trump argument, study finds

Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.

January 26, 2017

ISIS drone dropping precision bombs alarms U.S. military

In a new threat to the West, the Islamic State on Tuesday debuted on social media a commercially available drone dropping small bombs with pinpoint accuracy onto Iraqi targets in and around Mosul.

January 24, 2017

ISIS finds easy recruits in prisons of Indonesia

The Islamic State is seeking a foothold in the prisons of Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Muslim population and significant poverty.

January 22, 2017

Army picks Sig Sauer for new handgun before John Mattis takes charge at Pentagon

It has taken the Army an agonizing decade to write the requirements, evaluate the candidates and pick a successor to the 30-year-old Beretta M9 pistol.

January 22, 2017

Donald Trump urged to get tough on Iranian rights

A group of Republicans, Democrats and retired military officers has asked President-elect Donald Trump to abandon President's Obama's soft approach to Iran's "brutal repression" and take a stand that puts the U.S. "on the right side of history."

January 17, 2017

Michael Flynn, James Mattis dim Donald Trump’s hopes for strong Russia ties

National Security Adviser-designate Michael T. Flynn has offered notably different views on Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, as the retired three-star Army general prepares to become Donald Trump's closest White House adviser on Friday.

January 15, 2017

The explosive ‘dossier’ on Donald Trump, and how it emerged, reads like a Cold War spy novel

The story reads like a John le Carre Cold War novel, complete with Moscow's bad guys, Great Britain's MI6 spy agency and Washington's FBI counter-intelligence.

January 13, 2017

Navy sailor invokes Hillary Clinton defense in bid for clemency over classified photos

A former Navy submariner sent to prison for photographing his ship's classified engine compartments has filed a presidential clemency request, arguing that President-elect Donald Trump should realize the sailor was a "scapegoat" amid the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material.

January 10, 2017

ISIS using Telegram app to broadcast terror instructions, propaganda

The Islamic State's terrorist army in recent weeks has used channels on a popular messaging app to show gruesome killings and to instruct followers on how to attack the U.S. with chemical weapons, despite the app's assertion that it blocks such extremists.

January 8, 2017

Democrats bash CIA over torture but not Russia hacks

It was less than two years ago that Democrats were bashing the CIA enhanced interrogation of terrorism suspects and accusing the agency of providing false information.

January 5, 2017

Terror groups abandoning complex plots, concentrate on attacks by digital-savvy loners

A confidential government report says terrorist groups such as the Islamic State have all but abandoned trying to put together huge plots such as the Sept. 11 attacks and warns counterterrorism agencies of a "new landscape" where lone killers strike and massacre quickly thanks to the digital age.

January 4, 2017

Donald Trump blasts Boeing, Lockheed Martin for overpriced weapons

Military reformers in the nation's capital may have found a soul mate in a billionaire real estate magnate who takes a keen interest in what things cost, including big weapons systems.

January 3, 2017