Rowan Scarborough

U.S. Special Operations Command, obscure before 9/11, on front lines in war on terror

Islamic extremists jarred America 14 years ago in a coordinated attack that also rattled to attention a backwater military command that had done a lot of training in past decades but only sporadic fighting.

September 10, 2015

Iran will continue to support rogues, terrorists and criminals: House panel

A House committee said Thursday that Iran will continue to support rogues, terrorists and criminals in the Middle East region despite its new nuclear deal with the Obama administration.

September 10, 2015

Obama calls for more icebreakers despite lack of funds

President Obama's urgent call to construct a new fleet of heavy Coast Guard icebreakers to monitor the contested Arctic is belied by his recent budgets that slashed funding for even one new ship.

September 8, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s emails likely reside on multiple servers, expert says

Hillary Clinton's missing emails likely reside on one or multiple servers in different places because she communicated with a number of people using different companies to send and store information, a security expert says.

September 4, 2015

Green Berets have growing doubts of duties with skittish political leadership

They were the first troops to hit the ground in Afghanistan while al Qaeda's dirty work still smoldered back in the United States.

August 30, 2015

Army women injured twice as often as men in combat training

Female soldiers suffered double the rate of injuries compared with male colleagues in Army combat training, including jobs in field artillery and repairing the Bradley fighting vehicle.

August 26, 2015

Army stats show that women are injured twice as often as men in combat training

Female soldiers suffered double the rate of injuries compared with male colleagues in Army combat training.

August 26, 2015

Obama: No U.S. drones for ally Jordan

The Obama administration has told a congressman it cannot ship Predator or Reaper remotely piloted vehicles to Jordan because of restrictions under the Missile Technology Control Regime.

August 19, 2015

Obama protects Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus, cracks down on low-level security leakers

The Obama administration has a history of dealing harshly with those who mishandle classified information -- unless the offender resides in the White House inner circle.

August 18, 2015

State Dept. refuses to accept intel community’s assessment about Hillary’s emails

The State Department is taking the line of Hillary Clinton's that material in her personal email server was not classified at the time, and State is not accepting the intelligence inspector general's determination that some information was top secret.

August 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton emails: Intelligence community wants security clearance suspended

Security experts say that if Hillary Rodham Clinton retained her government security clearance when she left the State Department, as is normal practice, it should be suspended now that it is known her unprotected private email server contained top secret material.

August 13, 2015

Hillary Clinton emails contained signal intelligence from spy satellites

The revelation that Hillary Rodham Clinton's private emails contained sensitive information derived from spy satellites and signal intelligence undercuts her defense that she had no reason to believe she was dealing with classified information, security experts say.

August 12, 2015

Hillary Clinton emails: State Department-intelligence community turf war looms over review

As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton never had to worry about a permanent government watchdog peering over her shoulder.

August 12, 2015

Whistleblower on failed Obama rescue missions cleared of leaking classified information

A Green Beret war hero whom the Army placed under investigation after he blew the whistle on the Obama administration's hostage rescue failures did not disclose classified information when he filed a counter complaint.

August 12, 2015

Obama stonewalls SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17 helicopter crash probe, watchdog says

The Obama administration is violating a judge's order to turn over documents in the Aug. 6, 2011, shootdown of a U.S. helicopter -- call sign Extortion 17 -- that killed members of SEAL Team 6 in Afghanistan, a watchdog group is charging.

August 5, 2015

Hillary Clinton emails worry officials about security breaches

Hillary Rodham Clinton's email narrative had finally seemed to run its course as a top news story when Washington was entering the dog days of summer.

August 3, 2015

Ashton Carter orders gun policy reviews at military bases after Tennessee shootings

In his first policy response to the killings of five American troops at a Tennessee reserve center, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter released a memo Thursday that will let more service members carry guns stateside while on base or at more vulnerable satellite offices.

July 30, 2015

Climate change a ‘growing threat’ to national security, Pentagon says

A new Pentagon report says that climate change is an "urgent and growing threat to our national security" and blames it for "increased natural disasters" that will require more American troops designated to combat bad weather.

July 29, 2015

Climate change ‘urgent and growing threat’ to national security: Pentagon

A new Pentagon report says that climate change is an "urgent and growing threat to our national security" and blames it for "increased natural disasters" that will require more American troops designated to combat bad weather.

July 29, 2015

U.S. troop withdrawal let Islamic State enter Iraq, military leaders say

A number of former and current military leaders who were in power when all U.S. troops left Iraq are saying today that the complete exit left the door open for the Islamic State's land grab.

July 26, 2015