The Department of Defense has a lot of problems — a series of wars in Iraq that never seem to fully end, a conflict in Afghanistan that just won’t end, quasi-wars in Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia with no end in sight; a proliferation of terror groups around the globe; and its numerous failed, failing, and scuttled training efforts to create local proxy armies.
And then there’s me.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Connecticut, and the Service Women’s Action Network filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Defense for failing to release records under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how three military academies maintain policies that result in an underrepresentation of women in the student population.
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From Air Force Times:
Air Force officials said Dec. 5 that the service’s policy for publicly releasing documents is applied narrowly enough not to conflict with federal law.
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From Navy Times:
(Nov 23, 2012) – The Air Force has set an information release policy that appears to violate federal law, and the National Guard may have followed suit.
The directive, which restricts how documents can be made public, runs counter to the practices of other branches of the military, as well as the Defense Department itself.
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From Project on Government Oversight:
In an ongoing effort to document the extent to which large businesses are winning federal small business contracts, the American Small Business League (ASBL) has filed another lawsuit to force the government to turn over contracting data.
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From Josh Gerstein's blog at Politico:
A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to turn over to the court three video recordings showing Guantanamo prisoners being forced out of their cells.
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From ACLU's Blog of Rights:
Today we filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to demand that the government release basic — and accurate — information about the government’s targeted killing program.
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