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• UMBC Receives $83,208 BRAC Higher Education Grant in cybersecurity

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 491
  UMBC release December 15, 2009 UMBC Receives $83,208 BRAC Higher Education Grant Cybersecurity Program Will Help Develop BRAC Workforce CONTACTS: Deborah Shapiro, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 410-455-1509 dshapiro@umbc.edu Michael Raia, Office of the Lt. Governor 410-260-3888 mraia@gov.state.md.us ...
  17 hours ago

• Congress Holding Up Cyber Command

  
  Tales Of Two Cities — Authority: 440
  According to this story by Ellen Nakashima in The Washington Post today, the new cyber command that is expected to be located at Fort Meade “has been slowed by congressional questions about its mission and possible privacy concerns.” “Although officials stress that the cyber command, as it is known, is an ...
  2 days ago

• Obama threatens base closing, Senator Ben Nelson, Breaking News, Nelson rejects abortion component, Senators letter, Carl Levin, John McCain, Michael Goldfarb report, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, BRAC closure, US Strategic Command, Signed DeMint, Ens

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 573
  Breaking news: (Just announced) Ben Nelson rejects abortion component of Senate Health Care Bill. ***  More breaking news 1:00 PM ET, see below *** From Michael Goldfarb of The Weekly Standard, 11:01 PM, December 16, 2009. “20 GOP Senators Call for Investigation of Offutt Threat”  “Twenty Republican ...
  2 weeks ago

• Glenn Beck: Did WH threaten Sen Nelson with base closing? (video)

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 148
  December 16, 2009I don’t know who Sen Nelson (D-NE) is or why he was opposing the healthcare bill, but it appears it has to do with the Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of federal funds to pay for abortion. According to CNN, his amendment pushing stronger abortion restrictions was passed by the House but [...]
  2 weeks ago

• White House threatening Sen. Nelson with military base closures

  
  Losantiville — Authority: 116
  The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process is supposed to save the Department of Defense money by closing older or under-utilized facilities. The BRAC is supposed to be an objective look but often turns into a very political process. As politics overcomes other considerations, closures rarely accomplish the ...
  2 weeks ago

• 20 senators demand probe of health-care vote threat

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 147
  Did the President really threaten to shut down Offutt AFB...headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command if Senator Nelson didnt vote "yes" on health care???
  2 weeks ago

• Extortion, threats, and corruption in the White House

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 450
  Offutt Airforce Base is being threatened with the BRAC list (closure) if Ben Nelson (D-NE) doesnt fall in line. Michael Goldfarb, the Weekly Standard . Thats thousands of jobs--a lot more than the piddling few Illinois will get with transferring prisoners from Gitmo. Im still trying to find this story somewhere other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nice Base Ya Got There

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 646
  Be a shame if anything happened to it. Patrick already weighed in on the story of how the White House is using the threat of closing a military base to twist the arm of Senator Ben Nelson on the health care bill, but there are a few more layers to this onion which need to be peeled away. First of all, bare ...
  2 weeks ago

• What I did not buy [dot] org

  
  theCLog — Authority: 497
  No, really. It’s an actual Web site. Check it out: http://www.whatididnotbuy.org/ . Seriously, all of that crap you’re buying just so you’ll have something to hand out — do your friends, family and coworkers actually need or want it? If the answer is no, donate to charity in their name instead. A new Web ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bigger Than the Pentagon

  
  Tales Of Two Cities — Authority: 440
  According to this story by Joshua Stewart in the Hometown Annapolis , the BRAC related growth at Fort Meade “will turn the sprawling west county Army installation into one of the largest workplaces in the nation, making it well more than double the size of the Pentagon.” It has been a little over two years ...
  3 weeks ago

• March Decision for Cyber Command

  
  Tales Of Two Cities — Authority: 440
  My colleague Bill Harrison attended the BWI Partnership meeting on Tuesday where Senator Barbara Mikulski and Senator Ben Cardin were the featured speakers. During her presentation , Senator Mikulski mentioned that a final decision as to location of the new US Cyber Command won’t be made until March. I ...
  3 weeks ago

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