The closer it gets to Barack Obama's inauguration, the more talk we're hearing about closing Guantanamo Bay -- and what to do with the 250 supposed Islamic radicals who are still there. Last week, Kansas Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts said no way do they want the suspected terrorists shipped to the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. On Monday, Brownback issued a press release inviting Obama to tour the USDB."I would be honored to show him first hand why Fort Leavenw
Heads up, Missouri National Guard and Reserve members. If you like your boss (and who doesn't?), you might want to click here. The secretary of defense wants your nominees for the Freedom Award, which I'm told is "the highest recognition given by the U.S. government to employers for their outstanding support of their
employees who serve in the Nation Guard and Reserve."Family members can also submit nominations. But don't wait. The deadline for nominees is Monday, January 19. Sixty nominations h
The U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas, is one potential site to which Guantanamo Bay (Check out this week's feature story "Guantanamo's Last Days") detainees could be transferred. U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback toured the site on December 4 and declared that it wasn't secure enough to hold Guantanamo's prisoners. On January 28, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that contained eight bullet-pointed reasons why the barracks was
U.S. in the leathery driver's seat of Citibank, and a dream about an eccentric musician: Welp, here it is: Lee Greenwood's boyfriend, the United States of America, is going to control up to 36 percent of Citibank, having already handed it $45 billion as a kind of prize for being so catastrophically inept at being a bank. Do not call it "nationalization," or Jim Cramer's head will pop like a zit on your girlfriend's back. Seriously, I think she needs a dermatologist or something? On the other
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell​A story on Wired's website a week ago outlined how a Department of Defense "warning order" solicited feedback on a potential ban on the use of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook by military personnel. Such a ban seemingly would fly in the face of efforts by Lt.General William B. Caldwell, who oversees the Army's Command and General Staff College on the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, Missouri. Caldwell recently ordered every officer at
Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton has been getting flack for putting off hearings about Don't Ask, Don't Tell in his House Armed Services Committee. But Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill came out firing when the Senate Armed Services Committee took on the hot topic yesterday.
The committee heard testimony from Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said that "allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do." Defense Secretary Robert Gates also sup
