Articles by Rowan Scarborough
A Pentagon agency has concluded that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl showed definite signs of being drugged by his captors for a pivotal December 2013 video that spurred the Obama administration to trade five Taliban commanders for his release.
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June 10, 2014
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The Obama administration gave the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl extraordinary insider access to the military's hunt for their son by having them take part in a series of secure video conferences with senior commanders as well as White House and State Department officials.
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June 8, 2014
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The Haqqani Network, the terrorist group that the U.S. command in Afghanistan says is its most formidable enemy — worse than the Taliban or al Qaeda — has operated for a dozen years across the border in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area with little to fear other than sporadic drone strikes.
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June 5, 2014
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The Haqqani terrorist group kept Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in relatively good health the past five years because it was always its goal to trade him, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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June 3, 2014
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His former war buddies call him a deserter, but initial statements from President Obama and his aides indicate they don't want a criminal case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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June 2, 2014
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The White House has released Taliban leaders just four months after condemning Afghan President Hamid Karzai's release of 65 Taliban fighters.
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June 2, 2014
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Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year. None of that has happened.
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June 1, 2014
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Two Republican defense leaders in Congress warn that trading terrorists for an American POW now gives al Qaeda and the Taliban a bigger incentive to capture U.S. service members.
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June 1, 2014
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Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.
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May 26, 2014
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The House Republican leadership has abolished an amendment that would have given President Obama the authority to kill the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, according to a legislative aide.
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May 25, 2014
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Sen. Richard Burr accuses the VFW of kowtowing to the Department of Veterans Afffairs.
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May 24, 2014
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It will be five years next month that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl fell into the hands of the most ruthless terrorists fighting U.S. and local troops in Afghanistan.
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May 22, 2014
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Dressed in his starched, white dress uniform, Capt. Hyman Rickover basked in a ticker-tape parade, waving from the Canyon of Heroes to New Yorkers celebrating the Navy officer's phenomenal creation.
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May 14, 2014
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A video company in Texas is developing virtual reality technology that will give terrorist hunters a 3D experience of an embassy, a hideout or a village.
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May 13, 2014
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The Pentagon is not reviewing or planning to review its policy that bans transgenders from military service, a defense official said Monday.
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May 12, 2014
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Two House Republicans are in a turf battle over how to give President Obama the authority to kill the terrorists who killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
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May 12, 2014
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A four-star Marine general laments an American public that cannot comprehend why young Marines sacrifice their lives to defend the country.
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May 7, 2014
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A front-runner for becoming the military's top spy has played a major role in shepherding and defending a battlefield intelligence network that some lawmakers and soldiers say fails too often.
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May 5, 2014
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U.S. soldiers preparing to fight in Afghanistan have encountered some of the same flaws with the Army's vaunted intelligence computer network that they endured two years ago in their efforts to identify terrorists and locate roadside bombs in the war zone.
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May 1, 2014
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A Republican House member is drafting legislation that would authorize the military and intelligence operatives to kill the terrorists who attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA base in Benghazi, Libya.
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April 30, 2014
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