Barbara Starr
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USC senior fellow @ center for comms leadership & policy.. More than two decades on CNN national security beat. Find me on Substack @barbarastarrreports
Joined March 2010
The top U.S. military officer overseeing operations in Latin America met privately with lawmakers, days before he is due to step down prematurely amid tension with the Trump administration over its deadly counternarcotics campaign there.
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Lawmakers in the House and Senate have been scrutinizing the U.S. military’s killing of two alleged drug smugglers who survived an attack on their boat.
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New: Secretary of Defense Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 lawmakers on Tuesday afternoon, per two people with knowledge. Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey, who is
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Sadly, this is the first year at the commemoration ceremony at Pearl Harbor that no Pearl Harbor survivor has attended. We have lost so many over the past few years and as few as 12 remain living today. From one generation to the next. Remember Pearl Harbor. Remember those lost.
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"Bradley told lawmakers that the orders he received from Hegseth were to kill the individuals on the approved target list, which included everyone on the boat, then destroy the drugs and sink the boat, those sources said." They were civilians.
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Good chat on @BBCAMERICA @CarlNasman tonight on Hegseth and Venezula. Is there any plan, strategy or goals beyond killing?
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Join me on @BBCAMERICA in 6p ET to talk about what Pete Hegseth said today and more. Log on…tune in…stream away!!
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Terrific analysis on use of SOF
Some information about Special Operations Forces. My latest in @BulwarkOnline
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As congressional scrutiny of Pete Hegseth intensifies, Donald Trump is starting to tire of his scandals. Atlantic writers spoke with roughly two dozen officials about the defense secretary’s bad week: https://t.co/uqM1CFwphQ
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Delighted to join panel with the legendary Marty Baron to discuss the NYT lawsuit against Pentagon press restrictions @jrpsaki @MSNOWNews
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Great to chat with @AlexWitt @MSNOWNews at midday on the latest fire hose of news out of the Pentagon.
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I will be joining @jrpsaki at 9 25 eastern tonight to discuss the NYT lawsuit against Pentagon restrictions on free press. Tune in to @MSNOWNews
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Tonight’s moon. (Sometimes the best really is right outside your own door)
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"Using a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives."
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Himes would not say if the briefing exonerated Hegseth but he added: “The last thing I'm going to say is that the admiral confirmed that there had not been a kill them all order and that there was not an order to grant no quarter.”
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Update: The case was assigned to Judge Paul L. Friedman, a senior judge on the court and a Bill Clinton appointee.
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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A day after the Signal chat story was published, U.S. Africa Command conducted multiple airstrikes against ISIS affiliates. I FOIAed for info similar to the Yemen info that officials said was unclassified. I was told it would harm national security. https://t.co/lu9PsQrdZv
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ABC’s Martha Raddatz on Wednesday’s ‘World News Tonight’ about drug boat-gate: “And tonight, new information: According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back on to the boat after the initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in
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Two survivors of a Sept. 2 U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean were killed in follow-up attacks after they were seen still aboard the damaged vessel alongside packages of illegal narcotics, a senior commander will tell lawmakers Thursday.
wsj.com
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
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Pentagon Inspector General report on @SecWar's use of Signal during Yemen campaign has concluded that, according to a person who has read the document: - Messages transmitted were SECRET/NOFORN, and if intercepted, would have endangered US servicemembers and the mission; -
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SASC Chairman Roger Wicker to me to on his view of Hegseth. “We’re continuing to get the facts, but based on this particular allegation (Signalgate)…I think the Secretary is in a pretty good position on that.” Asked him if he had confidence in Hegseth, and he didn’t respond
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