An interesting day in DC... It started off with Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, telling CNN on its “State of the Union” program that he's certain Iran has enough nuclear material to make a bomb..which just by coincidence concurs with a recent UN report: Iran probably already has enough material necessary to make a nuclear weapon, US Joint Chiefs of S...

There is a lot of truth in this RUMINT. This was the final list that was sent to the White House. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff = General Dempsey Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff = General Schwartz Chief of Naval Operations = Admiral Greenert Army Chief of Staff = General Odierno Something important has happened. A few of the reporters already know about it, all of it, and it is ...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff criticizes air strikes: The United States cannot succeed in Afghanistan if the American military keeps killing Afghan civilians, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Monday. In remarks to scholars, national security experts and the media at the Brookings Institution, Admiral Mullen said that

An interesting question was asked of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen by a young airman..twice: In a town hall on the campus of the University of West Virginia, a young airman asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen to respond to a “rumor.” If Israel decided to attack Iran, the speculation went, those jet would need to fly through Iraqi airspa...

As of today, both the President of the United States and the Chairman of the Republican National Committee are black. The governors of Massachusetts and New York are black. The governor of Louisiana is Indian. In the last decade and a half the Secretary of state (twice) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were black. The

There is a Navy related issue circulating the political blogosphere in regards to Joe Sestak and how he was somehow offered the position of Secretary of the Navy instead of Ray Mabus last year. Uhm, no chance in hell - the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff fired Joe from the Navy when Mike Mullen was CNO - Joe never had a prayer on Sunday of being SECNAV. But if we are going to enterta...

At a New York Times blog John Nagl weighs in on Afghanistan. In 2007, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, was very blunt before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He admitted, “In Iraq, we do what we must.” Of America’s other war, he said, “In Afghanistan, we do what we can.” Doing

Mark Egan.clerk to the committee, has sent an assurance that the emails to the Joint Human Rights Commission were in fact read, at least by the secretariat. Thanks to the correspondent who passed this on: Thank you for your email to Andrew Dismore MP, Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Mr Dismore has asked me to reply. The Committee staff received over 500 emails relating to Craig Murra...

The NUT says it visits barracks only when invited Army Chiefs have decided to oppose educational recruitment activities in camps if they employ "misleading propaganda". Young people must be given a true picture of Educational life, not a "marketised version", the Joint Chiefs of Staff heard. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) denies actively recruiting in barracks but says it does visit to raise...

Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they had no more tactics left in their arsenal following BP’s latest failure to plug the leak. “And the fact is the best technology in the world, with respect to that, exists