Accuracy in Media

This after news broke that Ashton Carter used personal e-mails for a couple months after taking office. Now they’ve been released to the public.

Using personal e-mails seems like an all-too-familiar habit among Obama administration officials, such as Hillary Clinton (State Department), Lisa Jackson (EPA) and now, Ash Carter (Defense Department).

Via Fox News: Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday ordered the military to open all combat jobs to women, rebuffing requests by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain front-line combat jobs. Declaring that “we are a joint force,” Carter said that while moving women into these jobs will present challenges, the military can […]

Rather telling statements by military officials: The Obama administration’s strategy for Iraq and Syria came under harsh criticism from senators on Tuesday as key defense leaders outlined the latest shift in strategy from earlier failed policies and programs. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, […]

Another Obama promise unfulfilled? His secretary of defense says it’s a possibility that Obama will not close Guantanamo Bay by the end of his last term.

Pretty much how the Islamic State has taken so much territory with fewer overall soldiers, compared to the better-armed and supposedly better-trained Iraqi soldiers.

At Stanford University, current Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that the Russians did hack into an unclassified network for the department he runs.

But, he’s more like a lame-duck appointee late into Obama’s second term. Who knows if he could make a difference in that short a time.

WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel’s replacement in Obama’s cabinet has been named, sources say. It is former deputy defense secretary Ashton B. Carter, who is currently in academia (i.e. higher education). The New York Times reported Carter was Leon Panetta’s no.2 after Panetta resigned last year. The formal announcement will take place later this week, but […]