Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Donald Trump’s Coast Guard cutter cut prompts bipartisan protest
A Republican congressman has upped the pressure on President Trump over proposed cuts to the Coast Guard budget, asking House appropriators to restore $500 million that the White House erased for a new national security cutter, the Coast Guard's largest to protect the homeland. Published March 14, 2017
Iran counter-drone weapon, jamming device takes warfare to next level
Iran has deployed a new counter-drone weapon -- a rifle-shaped jamming device that the regime says can electronically separate a remotely piloted aircraft from its command pilot and even reprogram it to turn on its owner. Published March 12, 2017
Iranian leader, military use billions of dollars for terror ops, weapons, dissidents’ ebook says
Iran has spent up to $100 billion the last five years financing operations in Syria, says a new ebook by Iranian dissidents. Published March 8, 2017
H.R. McMaster, national security adviser, supports Donald Trump’s goal to defeat ISIS
When Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President's Trump's national security adviser, appeared at a Washington think tank last year, he asserted that the Islamic State terrorist group "can't be contained." Published March 5, 2017
Chris Coons walks back talk of Russia-Trump collusion
Sen. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, on Sunday walked back his bombshell declaration about transcripts showing Russia-Trump collusion, saying he had no proof such documents exist and apologizing for any "hyperventilating." Published March 5, 2017
Chris Coons: FBI may possess transcripts showing ‘collusion’ between Trump campaign, Russia
Sen. Christopher Coons set the liberal Twitter world ablaze Friday night when he told MSNBC that the FBI has transcripts of intercepted calls that may spell out collusion between President Trump's campaign and top Russians, maybe even President Vladimir Putin. Published March 4, 2017
Donald Trump rapped for inattention, lack of funding for Coast Guard: ‘Nonsensical’
President Trump's pledge Tuesday night in an address to Congress to rebuild the military did not include the armed services' fifth branch -- the U.S. Coast Guard. Published March 2, 2017
Noncitizens lurking on Virginia voter rolls
When Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall asked the state's 133 local governments to provide numbers on noncitizens and jury pools, Loudoun County produced some hefty figures. Published March 1, 2017
Homeland Security report undercutting Donald Trump’s travel ban drafted to be leaked to press
Trump administration officials believe that a Department of Homeland Security report that undercut the president's position on his travel ban was drafted with the express intent of leaking it to the press, a source close to the department says. Published February 26, 2017
Coast Guard icebreakers in Arctic vital to U.S. access
Russian President Vladimir Putin not only is lurking in the Middle East and Eastern Europe but also is building up military forces in the expansive Arctic as the U.S. watches. Published February 19, 2017
Nearly 2 million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote
A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll. Published February 15, 2017
Army depicted Hillary Clinton as insider threat in cyber security training
The U.S. Army depicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an insider threat in a Powerpoint presentation to soldiers on cyber security. Published February 15, 2017
Iran growing network to train foreign terrorists, dissident group says
Iran's hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime's largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington. Published February 14, 2017
Noncitizen voters feud between academics resurfaces with fraud probe
A small research group has entered the debate on voter fraud, siding with academics who estimate that large numbers of noncitizens illegally register and vote in U.S. elections. Published February 12, 2017
Obama appointees flee Pentagon, Trump left with scores of vacancies to fill
The Pentagon has been stripped of almost all of its political appointees from the Obama administration, but an uncertain Senate future awaits the candidates whom President Trump will nominate to remake the armed forces in his image. Published February 8, 2017
Navy releases road map for diverse force protected against discrimination
The Navy has issued its last major directive of the Barack Obama era with a "diversity road map" that paves the way for a multiethnic force of sailors and civilians who are protected against discrimination based on "gender identity" or "sex stereotyping." Published February 5, 2017
Kellyanne Conway correctly spoke about Bowling Green Iraqi terrorists, misspoke on ‘massacre’
When senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway misspoke and described a terrorist "massacre" in Bowling Green, Kentucky, it was a garbled reference to the fact that two Iraqi refugees who settled there turned out to be committed terrorists. Published February 5, 2017
Central Command didn’t distort reports on ISIS war, Pentagon says
A Pentagon investigation into allegations that U.S. Central Command "cooked the books" in battlefield intelligence has concluded that no senior officials falsified reports or deliberately distorted them to make war progress against the Islamic State look better than it was. Published February 1, 2017
Obama refugee vetting procedure enabled Iraqi terrorists to enter U.S.
Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab in 2012 was among the first Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. after President Obama lifted a six-month freeze on such entries as his aides tightened a shaky vetting process. Published January 31, 2017
Donald Trump’s National Security Council reorganization copies previous GOP president
President Trump's reorganization of the National Security Council principals committee, and the participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, is a duplicate of what George W. Bush did in February 2001 when he issued his NSC directive. Published January 30, 2017
