Rowan Scarborough

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

Ashton Carter: Obama failed to anticipate Iran’s role in Yemeni rebellion

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says the Obama administration failed to anticipate that Iranian-backed Houthis rebels could, or would, oust the Yemeni government which had been a strong U.S. counter-terrorism ally.

July 23, 2015

Navy admirals lack strategy training and experience, scholars warn

Maritime scholars say in a report that the U.S. Navy is not doing enough deep thinking.

July 22, 2015

Green Beret tells of shooting Taliban in CIA job interview, loses Silver Star for it

A Green Beret who was awarded the Silver Star, then saw it stripped away because he killed a Taliban bombmaker, is telling why he did it, as conveyed in a CIA job interview he conducted nearly four years ago.

July 19, 2015

Transgender service members to require host of new policies, congressional report says

Opening the U.S. military to transgender service members will require a number of new policies on berthing, sex-designated uniforms, I.D. card processing and physical fitness testing, which include different standards for men and women, says a new report to Congress.

July 16, 2015

Iran deal seen as economic lifeline for struggling nation

The nuclear agreement announced on Tuesday promises to be an economic boon to Iran, allowing the Islamic state to gain broad access into the United States' and Europe's financial and trade markets.

July 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton classified emails require government to seize server, Judicial Watch says

The president of a conservative watchdog group says now that it is known that classified information was contained in Hillary Rodham Clinton's private stash of State Department emails, it is time for the government to seize her personal server and related storage disks to determine whether security was breached during her tenure as secretary of state.

July 5, 2015

Admission of Hillary Clinton’s classified emails opens door for feds to seize her servers

The State Department on Wednesday conceded that two dozen of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails did contain classified information, a fact that could trigger a U.S. policy that authorizes the government to take control of her private server and sanitize the contents.

July 1, 2015

Afghani forces inadequate to fight Taliban: Pentagon

Afghanistan defense forces suffered a whopping 59 percent increase in battlefield casualties the past six months compared with 2014, mostly by the national police force, which remains ill-equipped to counter Taliban offenses and/or to hold recaptured territory, says a new Pentagon report.

June 30, 2015