Executive editor of @DefenseOne. Been aboard more than 50 warships; wrote a couple of books about it. https://teapawt.net/t.co/lo3IMoIUog https://teapawt.net/t.co/avzKJJQ5I7
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Thirty-eight years ago today, an Iranian mine tore a hole in the hull of the USS Samuel B. Roberts. The blast broke the frigate's keel, flooded its engineroom, and lit fires on several decks. Only the well-trained crew saved it.
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The intelligence community – in the very documents Trump himself declassified – assessed that one of the most damaging things a foreign adversary could do would be to falsely convince the American people that their elections had been rigged.
The person who has attempted to do exactly that — over and over, for nearly six years, and most dramatically on Thursday night — is Donald Trump, who, contrary to the very evidence he himself presented, tried to tell millions of Americans that foreign powers had corrupted an election. Specifically, the one election he lost.
ABC News’ @jonkarl breaks down documents declassified by President Trump during his Thursday primetime speech.
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This action by the US government to subpoena reporters for reporting legitimate news on security concerns about Air Force 1 should alarm every American.
“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer, in a statement on Friday evening.
"The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One....In some cases, the subpoenas were delivered by federal agents who showed up at reporters’ homes...The subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the journalists testify 'in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law'...Before the Wednesday article was published, a senior official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted The Times to ask that the article be held, calling it an issue of national security, according to a person familiar with the conversation. The F.B.I. official spoke with a reporter and a senior editor in The Times’s Washington bureau; the official declined to explain the security issue when asked."
nytimes.com/2026/07/11/busin…
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NEW: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is spearheading a markup amendment to the Senate’s 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would create a “Cyber Force” as the next armed service branch.
The proposal would place it under the Army. The latest from @DefenseOne below 👇
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Unescorted access has never been an issue in any other administration including President Trump’s first term but now all of a sudden it’s a national security issue and the security of the Pentagon campus is apparently under threat.
STATEMENT:
The Court granted the Department's request for a fourteen-day administrative stay while the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals considers the Department's appeal. The Department will seek an emergency stay from the D.C. Circuit to preserve the security of the Pentagon during the pendency of the appeal.
Journalists do not have unescorted access to the building but will continue to have press credentials and access to all press briefings, press conferences, and interviews.
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“The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait…” CNN reports. As in 1987: “The assumption that the Iranians ‘wouldn’t dare’ was shattered.”
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The Roberts' mining offers many lessons. Among them: A determined adversary finds cheap ways to hurt technologically advanced forces. The mine that nearly sank a U.S. Navy warship was based on a century-old design—and is scarcely less lethal today. usni.org/press/books/no-high…
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Howdy, folks! I’m out in Colorado Springs this week for the @SpaceFoundation’s 41st Space Symposium. I’ll be covering national security, emerging tech, and so much more!
If you’re here, let’s chat! Email me at [email protected] or catch me on Signal at tomnovelly.01
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The Pentagon Press Association, in its amicus brief to the court today, notes that thousands of workers without security clearances - from baristas to bakers - walk the unclassified hallways of the Pentagon. Why single out journalists who only walk in those unclassified spaces and move them out of the building?
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President Trump just directed the entire federal government to stop using @AnthropicAI. @USGSA and @FASCommissioner immediately canceled the company's OneGov deal & removed the company from its Multiple Award Schedule and USAI dot gov.
What's next? Expect a six-month phase-out period, according to the president, and a lot of jockeying in industry to fill the AI void Anthropic's apparent ban will open up.
defenseone.com/threats/2026/… with @navybook
Last month: "Dozens of military lawyers have been temporarily assigned as federal prosecutors to support law-enforcement surges...a novel arrangement that is stretching an overworked JAG corps and drawing concern from legal experts.” defenseone.com/policy/2026/0… by @TomNovelly
Now:
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office @FOX9 (1/)
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NEW with @navybook and @DefTechPat: The US will ‘run’ Venezuela for now, Trump says after armed assault on capital.
The latest news @DefenseOne here:
defenseone.com/threats/2026/…
