By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
U.S. officials are monitoring rising tensions between China and Japan over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain who is accused of ramming his boat into two Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku islands north of Taiwan and south of Okinawa. Published 5:56 p.m. September 15, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Last month's drowning death of a senior Russian military intelligence official in Syria has sparked speculation among intelligence officials that the spymaster was killed as part of an effort by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to centralize Russian intelligence power and return to the era of the all-powerful KGB communist political police. Published 2:35 p.m. September 8, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
China recently conducted a space test involving two satellites that rendezvoused several hundred miles above Earth in a maneuver analysts say will likely boost Beijing's anti-satellite weapons program. Published 6:29 p.m. September 1, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The FBI is working to track down several hundred American Muslims who traveled to Yemen in recent months and received training there at the hands of the al Qaeda terrorist group, according to U.S. government officials. Published 9:33 p.m. August 25, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
A group of eight senior Republican senators on Wednesday called on the Obama administration to investigate whether national security will be compromised by the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei seeking to sell equipment to Sprint Nextel, which provides goods to the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. Published 7:31 p.m. August 18, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
One of the ongoing pastimes inside the Pentagon is to speculate on the departure date for Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Published 7:59 p.m. July 28, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The Obama administration has given in to pressure from China and will not send the aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS George Washington to the Yellow Sea for upcoming naval exercises. The move followed protests from Beijing that a warship group in that area would pose a threat to China. Published 7:41 p.m. July 21, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' July 2 memorandum to all top Pentagon and military leaders is part of multiyear effort to tighten controls on information provided to the media by limiting reporters' access by officials, both military and civilian. Published 7:26 p.m. July 14, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
John Brennan, the deputy White House national security adviser for counterterrorism, recently defended controversial statements he made in a speech that Islamic terrorism is not rooted in Islam. Published 7:59 p.m. July 7, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
U.S. intelligence agencies are on alert for retaliation by Moscow, including a mass arrest of U.S. diplomats or intelligence officers who could then be used in a swap for 10 people arrested on suspicion of roles as Russian deep-cover spies posing as Americans. Published 8:40 p.m. June 30, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The firing of Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, was preceded by a short political death watch among senior military brass. Published 7:26 p.m. June 23, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
The Obama administration is secretly working with Russia to conclude an agreement that many officials fear will limit U.S. missile defenses. Published 7:03 p.m. June 16, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, recently sent an urgent request to the Pentagon's Joint Staff to speed up deployment of four new light attack aircraft needed by special operations commandos for airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Published 8:08 p.m. June 9, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill has helped organize, and actually plays for, a unique sports club in Baghdad's Green Zone: The Baghdad Lacrosse Club. Published 9:38 p.m. June 2, 2010 - Comments
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has given in to political pressure on the issue of when Congress should vote to repeal the law banning open homosexuals in the military. Published 7:12 p.m. May 26, 2010 - Comments
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By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times
A former scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and his wife have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official and conspiring to participate in the development of an atomic weapon for Venezuela, the Justice Department said on Friday. Published 3:04 p.m. September 17, 2010
By Kara Rowland - The Washington Times
President Obama on Friday formally tapped Harvard Law Prof. Elizabeth Warren as a "special adviser" tasked with setting up a new consumer watchdog agency, sidestepping a thorny Senate confirmation battle and drawing the ire of Republicans. Published 2:30 p.m. September 17, 2010
