by Spencer Ackerman | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
Updated 1:10 p.m., January 23 The commander of the Afghanistan war didn’t have sex with or engage in any otherwise inappropriate behavior with a Tampa socialite, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general. This is how the bizarre downfall of ex-CIA...
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 15, 2012 | Monitor
Remember how President Obama said all that stuff about “responsibly ending” the Afghanistan war in 2014? The general he’s picked to run that war said the exact opposite to a Senate panel on Thursday.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 15, 2012 | Monitor
Jill Kelley looks out the window of her home in Tampa, Fla. Photo: AP/Chris O’Meara The FBI agent responsible for the downfall of two of the military’s most respected generals helped stop a terrorist from bombing Los Angeles International Airport and shot...
by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman | Nov 13, 2012 | Monitor
To hear the Pentagon tell it, there’s nothing to the scandal that derailed the commander of the Afghanistan war: no security risk; no affair; and there may not have been more than a couple emails.
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 27, 2012 | Monitor
Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, looks out at Helmand Province, Aug. 25. Photo: Flickr/ISAF The U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan ended last week. Conditions in Afghanistan are mostly...