Tara Copp
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@WashingtonPost Pentagon correspondent. Signal: taracopp.06. Email: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined February 2014
Gift link here: Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
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Direct quote from the IG review: "The Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots." https://t.co/eJdl2FJQXT
Dan is a liar. The review is a total exoneration. He just doesn’t like the facts.
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.@SeanParnellASW, the chief Pentagon spokesman and a named defendant in the @nytimes lawsuit, issued a statement: “We are aware of the New York Times lawsuit and look forward to addressing these arguments in court.”
BREAKING: The New York Times sued the Defense Department over its new press policy, arguing the government rules violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press and the newspaper’s due process rights under the Fifth Amendment. https://t.co/sEphWKleiU
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Breaking News: The New York Times sued the Pentagon, arguing that new reporting restrictions infringed on the rights of its journalists.
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I would have gladly been in that room to ask questions in person - but the “most transparent” ever Hegseth team denied my request to attend - stating was an “orientation” limited to the new media who’d signed the restrictive new policies. Another direct attack on access and
Q: “Does the Department of War plan on pursuing any sort of legal action against the Washington Post?” DOD Spox Kingsley Wilson: “It is frankly disgusting that the Washington Post would publish something that is so insanely false…It is disgraceful that they call themselves
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“The combat decisions he has made…” Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout https://t.co/3Ppf0xuxP1 w/ @noahjrobertson
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As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.
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You should talk to @LauraLoomer unless y’all are all just going to share the same desk …
The Pentagon cubicle that used to belong to @DanLamothe is now mine. Out with the propagandists and hacks. In with the truth tellers who love America.
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Nope, that wasn’t our desk. Some basic fact checking might be in order.
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More accurate reporting: 1.) That a revision to Coast Guard harassment policy downgraded the swastika and noose to “potentially divisive” 2.) That Hegseth had not initially planned for his Quantico speech to include Trump 3.) That Hegseth’s security detail was now covering
This year, accurate @washingtonpost scoops include, but are not limited to: 1) Detailed military planning to send troops to Chicago and other cities 2) Planning to create what are now called national defense areas at the border 3) The arrangement of the high-profile Quantico
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The Pentagon press corps https://t.co/Gv5OdNSBfM
Very excited for New Media week at the Pentagon this week. I am really looking forward to being a member of the Pentagon Press Corp. I have so many questions and reports I’ve been waiting to break and follow up on! Thank you, @PeteHegseth @SecWar for this opportunity! 🇺🇸
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‘We won’t win this war without women’ - Ukraine's all-female drone unit
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An art student, an accountant, a sniper, an acrobat and a journalist: Ukraine’s all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
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Important late night development on @AlexHortonTX and @nakashimae story: @SASCGOP and @SASCDems want answers. “Late Friday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), respectively the chairman and senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous.
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Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous.
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Guard member dies after D.C. shooting as second victim fights for life
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The two National Guard members, who came from units in West Virginia, had been patrolling in D.C. since August.
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for the entirety of the Maiquetía Flight Information Region (SVZM), which covers all of Venezuela and a large section of the Southern Caribbean, stating that operators should exercise
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Between the letters sent to potential victims at Fort Hood, and the letters soon being sent at Tripler, the military is contacting ~3,000 people Dr. Blaine McGraw may have come into contact with about the ongoing investigation. And because Tripler is a joint hospital, potential
NEW: Years before he started being investigated at Fort Hood for allegedly secretly recording his patients, an Army gynecologist was at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii when an Army spouse recalls he repeatedly urged her to allow him to check her cervix. During the exam, he
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U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support. Kyiv is under "extraordinary pressure"
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The U.S. is sending “signals” that everything could be off the table if Kyiv does not quickly sign a proposal, which was drawn up by special envoy Steve Witkoff.
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Thank you, @TIME "Information has impact,” the @washingtonpost has insisted. And on Thursday, the paper showed how quickly its reporting could lead to results. At the same time, it got labeled as a purveyor of fake news because of the change it led to."
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The Armed Forces branch said it will review an upcoming policy change on swastikas and nooses after a Washington Post exposé that the Department of Homeland Security called “fake crap.”
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UPDATE2: Late this evening the Coast Guard published a new policy, dated Nov. 20, that re-establishes that it specifically sees swastikas and nooses as hate symbols - not as just “potentially divisive” and states that they are expressly prohibited. Importantly, it says the new
UPDATE: In a phone call with the @washingtonpost, the Coast Guard said it disagreed with the story and that it considers the swastika a hate symbol -- and that it would look into the new policy changes -- which remove it as a hate symbol. “We will be reviewing the language,"
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