Free Republic

Several individuals connected to a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to cast Donald Trump as a covert Kremlin collaborator are working in high-level jobs within the Biden administration—including at least two senior Biden appointees cited by Special Counsel John Durham in his “active (and) ongoing” criminal investigation of the scheme, according to recently filed court documents. Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s national security adviser, and Caroline Krass, a top lawyer at the Pentagon, were involved in efforts in 2016 and 2017 to advance the Clinton campaign’s false claims about Trump through the media and the federal government, documents...

3 days after my exclusive report about how Leslie Beavers, the former acting DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) and current Deputy DOD CIO failed to act when a CCP breach by Chinese foreign nationals of DOD cyber systems via the Microsoft Government Azure program was reported to her in 2024 by @prescott, DoD CIO just announced that Leslie Beavers is "stepping down" after 30 years of service. Source: linkedin.com/posts/dod-cio_… DOD Source tells me DOD gave Leslie Beavers the option to either resign, or be fired. Dereliction of duty at the expense of our national security is a fireable offense.

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer 🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s Director of Operations TOM RAKUSAN is currently working at the Department of Defense under the Trump administration as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Steve Feinberg. @PeteHegseth @SecDef In another example of a shocking VETTING FAILURE that threatens to undermine the Trump administration, Tom Rakusan, a former CIA official who worked for the CIA as John Brennan’s Director of Operations when Brennan was working with Obama, James Clapper and James Comey to fabricate the intelligence surrounding the Russia Collusion Hoax to stage a coup against...

6,479 0:55:38 0.3 mps EP134: EXPOSED: Microsoft Allowed China Access To DOD Cyber Systems Laura Loomer 82.7K followers GetLoomered Follow 289 0 Chat Comments Share Save Embed Report Go Ad-Free with Rumble Premium Enjoy content without interruptions! Streaming now 17 News Politics On Episode 134 of Loomer Unleashed, Laura will be joined by Navy whistleblower and CEO of Next Defense Tom Schiller, who exposed how a 2016 Obama-approved Microsoft contract gave the CCP backdoor access to all US government cyber systems.

Edging away from the unreliable China supply chain, the Pentagon is going in-house.The Pentagon is making a signal shift in its defense industrial policy. In a recent move, the Department of Defense (DOD) has acquired a significant stake in MP Materials, a US domestic rare earth minerals mining company. Consistent with the Trump administration’s objective to reduce or eliminate America’s dependence on China for supply chains critical to national security, this move is seen as a strategic step. It aims to establish a defense industrial policy that can provide for a surging production capability more rapidly to meet emerging threats....

The U.S. Army’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget request includes the acquisition of 233 PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors, scaling up PAC-3 MSE procurement by a factor of four to close the munitions gap in active theaters. The 233 missiles are funded through a combination of sources: 130 from base discretionary accounts and 103 from the Overseas Operations Cost (OOC) budget. An additional 96 interceptors are covered by $366 million in mandatory reconciliation authority, which is additive to the 233 previously mentioned. The combined total requested for FY2026 is $1.311 billion, consisting of $945.9 million in discretionary funding and $366...

The US Army is considering scrapping General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) management of three new 155mm artillery round production lines in Mesquite, Texas, according to a “show cause” letter obtained by Breaking Defense. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the heavy use of artillery, the Army rushed to bolster 155mm production and produce 100,000 shells per month. As part of that broader push, it opened a new government-owned facility in Texas, tapping GD-OTS to operate it and stand up three Universal Artillery Projectile Lines (UAPL) to produce the metal parts for artillery projectiles, including the shell...

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe sounds off on the Biden administration's handling of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization during a time of war ..

The spouse of an active-duty member of the Air Force stands in the gap for her husband of 11 years. Together, the family is facing an uphill battle against the Department of Defense for exercising the innate rights of all U.S citizens, rights that service members do not relinquish. Maj. Brennan Schilperoort is a C-130J transport aircraft pilot who has honorably served the nation in the Air Force for over 17 years. Maj. Schilperoort applied for a flu shot medical exemption in November 2023, previously having a severe adverse reaction to it, but the Air Force refused him consideration. Another...

The Defense Department has cancelled its multibillion dollar Global Household Goods contract (GHC), bringing an abrupt end to a years-long effort that was intended to overhaul the management structure of the system that’s used to move service members’ belongings from one duty station to another, but whose implementation ultimately caused many more problems than it solved. In a statement Wednesday night, the Pentagon said it terminated its up-to-$17.9 billion contract with HomeSafe Alliance for cause. Sean Parnell, DoD’s chief spokesman, said the decision was due to HomeSafe’s “demonstrated inability to fulfill their obligations and deliver high quality moves to service...

The upcoming U.S. Army 250th anniversary festival is projected to cost between $25 million and $45 million, according to Heather J. Hagan, U.S. Army Public Affairs spokeswoman.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions Numerous incidents of violence and disorder have recently occurred and threaten to continue in response to the enforcement of Federal law by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions and supporting the faithful execution of Federal immigration laws. In addition, violent protests threaten the security of and significant damage to Federal immigration detention facilities and other Federal property. To the extent that...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced late Saturday night that in addition to the National Guardsmen — who were being deployed to restore order in Los Angeles — he was placing active duty U.S. Marines at nearby Camp Pendleton on high alert. Hegseth’s announcement, made via a post on X, came just hours after it was reported that President Donald Trump was invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 in order to deploy a number of National Guard troops as protesters clashed violently with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the Los Angeles area. “The violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of Harvey Milk's name from a Navy replenishment ship, and the move stirred up the inevitable controversy. It was intended to, just as the original naming of the ship was meant to be a poke in the eye of opponents of DEI. The choice to name the ship after Milk was meant to send a signal that the Navy was honoring Harvey Milk for being a gay rights icon, and the choice to remove it was meant to tell people that Trump's Navy doesn't honor people for how they deploy their...

On April 29, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was canceling Defense Department participation in actions generated by the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017. Hegseth posted on social media that it was “yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING. WPS is a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.” Journalist Walter Pincus, who spent 40 years at the Washington Post covering topics ranging from nuclear weapons to politics, wrote in a recent column that Trump...

The US military believes that this collaboration will inform future strategy decisions and operational planning. ============================================================== Artistic representation of fighter jets entering Radia Windrunner plane for transport. Radia =============================================================== Windrunner, the world’s largest plane that is currently being built in Colorado, is being eyed by the United States military for playing a very different role than what it is primarily meant for. Radia, a Colorado-based startup, is working on the Windrunner, which will be the world’s largest plane with 12 times the cargo volume of the huge Boeing 747. The company believes that it will cater to the wind energy...

The Scoop The detailed specifications of a Boeing 747 that appears to be the same plane offered by the Qatari government to President Donald Trump are available online, offering a glimpse inside the luxurious jet. The tail number of the plane, which ABC News first reported would be offered by Qatar to Trump, is visible in photographs of the aircraft during a stop at Palm Beach International Airport earlier this year. That number is a match for the Boeing serial number of a plane marketed by the company in 2020 in reporting at the time. Though the listing for...

Former senior defense official Dr. Terry Adirim, who was behind the unconstitutional military vaccine mandate, was reportedly fired from her position in February 2025 shortly after President Trump took office. Dr. Terry Adirim, a senior CIA official and former Defense Department official under Joe Biden, was fired by the Trump Administration after she caused so much harm and damage to the US military and thousands of military men and women who refused to take the COVID jab. Dr. Terry Adirim left her position on February 25 to “pursue other opportunities” outside the department, according to an internal memo sent by...

If you are wondering why the left is working so very hard to discredit and destroy SecDef Pete Hegseth, you need not look any further than the wins he’s racking up. Hegseth promised to rip the ‘woke’ out of our military and return it to the business of being a force of warfighters that strikes the fear of God — or at least the fear of Uncle Sam — into those nations that mean us harm. Earlier this week, he announced the reversal of Biden’s COVID compliance firing policy, with an active search for those ‘warriors of conscience’ as Pete...