@Tmgneff
Stay safe. It often is more dangerous in peacetime, as you know. You are a great reporter and an even greater person. We are blessed to have you there as our eyes and ears.
White House records from 6 January 2021 obtained by the select committee investigating the Capitol riot show a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump’s phone logs – a period of time that spans the all-important hours before, during and after the incident.
@CheriJacobus
@DeptofDefense
@PentagonPresSec
The intelligence sharing will be “more pronounced” and more clarity given to U.S. intelligence officials to be certain what is being shared is “keeping pace” with Ukrainian needs, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said.
@DeptofDefense
@PentagonPresSec
Kirby said the intelligence shared helps the Ukrainians to “defend themselves.” He said the intelligence already being provided includes some for the Dombas region, which analysts now envision as the area of the next big Russian attempted push.
@DeptofDefense
@PentagonPresSec
@CIA
It continues through today, with such precision as telling Ukrainians that Russia’s 18th Motorized Rifle Division is being transferred to the eastern borders of Ukraine. That division, formed in 2021, has three mechanized infantry regiments as well as an armored regiment.
@DeptofDefense
@PentagonPresSec
U.S. intel has been on point for the lead-up to the Russian invasion and since. For example, the first time some Russian officials discovered Russian was mulling action against Ukraine from
@CIA
director William Burns during his visit to
#Moscow
in early November.
@CheriJacobus
@RepSwalwell
just like in criminal court. you keep the investigation going even after indictment occurs, and new evidence is permitted. that is how the law work.
At 20, she parachuted into France to wreak havoc on the Nazis before D-Day.
An explosives expert and weapons instructor, she set Europe ablaze.
They questioned her, but found only "Suzanne Bonvie."
Remember Agent Blanche, Sonya d’Artois, of the Special Operations Executive.
DID NOT WANT TO OVERLOOK THIS GOOD NEWS STORY
MARINE AUDIT: Following a rigorous two-year audit pilot, and for the first time in DoD history, the
@USMC
Corps received an unmodified audit opinion -- the highest
#audit
opinion that can be achieved.
The milestone is something the
HOW ABOUT THAT: Pentagon deputy spokesperson Sabrina Singh confirms that the Pentagon overestimated the value of the ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion… and still counting. That could mean “more” money for weapons being sent to Kyiv.
2020 was the year socialism went mainstream. The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried & ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party.This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American
@TonyFratto
@MaxBoot
Max put his finger on one of MANY out of sync (to say politely) election laws in dozens of states. When I wrote about third party candidates/independent candidates I saw all these challenging provisions. Most designed to keep the status quo.
@soledadobrien
I just cannot believe this sadness, Soledad. My grandparents came from Italy; I know how they were treated. It particularly appalls me how the Florida governor is doing this, most of his ancestors settled in the Youngstown and Pittsburgh areas, where I am from.
Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, on the COVID-19 peaks:
“Thought it was going to peak out on April 24”. But now, based on the curves,“ we are seeing, (some peaks) clearly in may, we have a couple actually in June now.”
#COVID
-19
I am delighted and giddy that my poem “Out The Window” has been accepted for inclusion in the
#MarylandBards
2023 analogy. Last year they took my poem “Calling For Her” — so the beat goes on.
Publication is in the spring!
#RedSnowLtd
#OutTheWindow
#ShadesOfNoName
COSTS OF WAR, CONTINUED: The total costs of the war in Iraq and Syria are expected to exceed half a million human lives and $2.89 trillion, according to new estimates released today by the Costs of War Project. This budgetary figure includes costs to date, estimated at about
LEARNING FROM UKRAINE: The
@USArmy
is “closely watching how
#Ukraine
has used drones and other weapons and transformed them into new and effective uses in the war with
#Russia
,
#DouglasBush
, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, told
At least 62 new programs stymied because of Congress’s failure to pass the
#defense
budget,
@PentagonPresSec
Ryder told reporters.
That includes 36 military construction projects, production rates for 17 programs including weapons, equipment and munitions.
#NDAA
@DeptofDefense
The House voted 322-87 to override President Donald Trump's veto of th3 $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act, delivering a rare bipartisan rebuke in his final days in office.
The Senate is scheduled to vote to override on Tuesday.
#NDAA
@DeptofDefense
@realDonaldTrump
Here to recognize
#WorldPressFreedomDay
with the timely words of Sen. John
@SenJohnMcCain
: “If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free & many times adversarial press. Without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties
HUMANITARIAN AID: One day after the Pentagon said no air drops of aid to Gaza were planned, the White House said the U.S. military will be conducting such airdrops in the coming days as negotiations for a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas continue.
President Biden
$4.8 billon still available for
#Ukraine
in
#PresidentialDrawdownAuthority
, and $1.1 billion remaining to backfill U.S. stocks, per
@PentagonPresSec
Brig Gen. Patrick Ryder. “We may reach a point where we can’t sustain the current level of assistance to Ukraine” Ryder tells
As
#NationalPoetryMonth
draws to a close, what a delight the universe provided me in the mail today — the arrival of the latest edition of Straylight Arts Literary Magazine with one of my poems most dear to me — “It Was Always” — the title as well of the recent spoken word
I am thrilled that a poem that emerged while hiking around Lake Placid in early July -- “Avalanche of Calm” — has been accepted for publication in the new anthology “Dreamstones of Summer” by Wingless Dreamer. It will be available soon (poem number 42, page 77).
My friend and colleague
@CheriJacobus
’s trenchant piece on “media pundits” in the latest issue of Dame Magazine.
"Aren’t Media Pundits Supposed to Be Actual Experts?"
… via
@damemagazine
@EmeraldRobinson
@TomFitton
@newsmax
He is wrong (once again). Federal law (3 U.S.C. § 5) says states have at least 35 days from the election day (Tuesday) to certify their results. Before that deadline, the timing is entirely up to the states.
Happy National Poetry Month!
Fantasy writer Phillip Pullman once wrote: “Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you.”
I agree!
A good welcome home, with a chorus from the Northern Cardinal, American Robin, Tufted Titmouse, House Sparrow, Mourning Dove, and American Crow to greet the morning sky.
#TheDeck
#Coffee
#Poetry
For this TBT, it is Jimmy Carter memories. I came to DC as a Washington reporter in 1979 when President Carter was still in office and thus, he was president at the first White House press conferences I covered. A thrill and honor then (and still).
These two photos are from the
Prime Minister Benjamin
#Netanyahu
of
#Israel
fired his defense minister, Yoav
#Gallant
, less than a day after Gallant called for the government to delay its overhaul of the
#judiciary
.
The move deepened a historic domestic crisis in Israel — and was like a rocket through the