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BREAKING: Defense Nominee Ashton Carter Met Iran’s Dictator & Was Totally Ineffective

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Obama Defense nominee Ashton Carter met Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Harvard and, by his own admission, was totally ineffective. Harvard’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, relayed the 2006 Council on Foreign Relations encounter where an admittedly dismayed Carter admitted he lost control of the situation. President Bush avoided a face-to-face confrontation with Iranian leader Mahmoud […]

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Read Defense Nominee Ashton Carter’s Anti-CIA Pieces For His College Newspaper

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Ashton Carter wrote two anti-CIA articles for his college newspaper in 1975, Gotnews.com has learned. Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense’s anti-CIA views are particularly relevant now that he may have control over the Defense Department, the nation’s largest intelligence gathering body. Writing for the Yale Daily News, Carter argued that the CIA is […]

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Ashton Carter Called For “Increased Surveillance” of Americans After a Terrorist Attack

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Defense Secretary nominee Ashton Carter co-wrote an eery 2007 article imagining what a post-nuked America would look like. He and his co-authors writing in the New York Times envisioned the federal government’s separation of powers being eroded. A council of, say, the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House and the majority leader […]

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BREAKING: #DefSec Nominee Ashton Carter Hated Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ Missile Defense Initiative

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Barack Obama’s nominee for the Defense Department, Ashton Carter, once wrote an anti-missile defense report, Gotnews.com has learned. Reagan’s missile defense system’s success was “so remote that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy” about ballistic missile defense, wrote Carter in the 1984 report. Ashton Carter is “all about […]

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