ON THE FIGHT
Thomas Saenz, who graduated Friday from the University of Southern California with a master’s degree, joins a growing number of service members earning college degrees while deployed in a war zone.
POTOMAC TWO-STEP
Top Marine Corps leadership is under fire after the revelation of an Inspector General compliant, alleging the Commandant and his staff pressured officers to be heavy-handed in the discipline of lower-ranking Marines.
ON TECH, PRIVACY AND SECRECY
A former Department of Justice official rebuffed the advance of the foreign intelligence service in Russia while visiting.
Two FBI agents died during a hostage rescue training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach. The FBI Hostage Rescue Team regularly crosstrains with the special mission units rumored in news reports to be located in the Hampton Roads area.
Tommy Vietor, a former spokesman for the Obama administration, envisions a future where the ideal case of journalist-government interaction is exemplified by the incident in which the New York Times told the government what was in WikiLeaks leak.
CONTRACT WATCH
Paragon Systems out of Herndon, Va. has been awarded a 42.5 million contract to provide security services at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Ne.
