Author: Dan Lamothe

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Senior Pentagon officials closely involved with the administration’s Ukraine security assistance program are due to appear at two House hearings Tuesday.

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Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, spoke with congressional investigators about a “deliberate attempt” to smear the military’s general officer corps.

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Executing Trump’s plan for leaving Afghanistan could have yielded ‘catastrophic’ results, officials told lawmakers investigating the the U.S. Capitol attack.

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Yevgeny Vindman, a former White House adviser, “was the subject of unfavorable personnel actions” after raising alarm about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, the Defense Department’s inspector general determined.

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In “A Scared Oath,” former defense secretary Mark Esper details his often uneasy tenure in Trump’s Cabinet, a fraught 15 months when, according to the book, he endeavored to serve as a guardrail on the combative president’s most alarming impulses.

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Retired Maj. Gen. William Walker’s objection to the report’s findings injects fresh tension into the ongoing political turmoil stemming from the Capitol riot, in which supporters of President Donald Trump smashed their way into Congress in a violent attempt to halt certification of the electoral college count affirming his defeat to Joe Biden.

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