Former Massachusetts Congressman; Executive Director, Council for a @livableworld and Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation @Nukes_of_Hazard
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Rep. John Tierney retweeted
Executive Director @RepTierney joins with 39 scientists, including Nobel Prize winning physicists and chemists, in urging the Senate to pass @SenMarkey’s PLANET Act and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty immediately in a letter in @ScienceMagazine. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
Rep. John Tierney retweeted
On July 17, 1945, the day after the Trinity nuclear test, nuclear physicist & Council founder Leo Szilard wrote a petition to President Truman urging him to consider the moral responsibilities of atomic use and to not use an atomic bomb against Japan before asking for surrender.
Rep. John Tierney retweeted
Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti.
These are not the actions of a democratic republic.
@DHSgov’s actions in Portland undermine its mission.
Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped.
Rep. John Tierney retweeted
The House just voted to prohibit funding for any new nuclear test. 👏👏
Thank you @RepBenMcAdams @RepDinaTitus @RepMcGovern @TulsiPress @RepHorsford @RepSusieLee & all others who supported it!
Now, we must ensure this important amendment makes it into the final bill. #FY21NDAA
Rep. John Tierney retweeted
We are mourning the loss of Bruce Blair, a world-renowned scholar on nuclear weapons. He was a passionate & unapologetic advocate for their elimination, and he improved a necessary debate about our future. Our deepest condolences to his loved ones & colleagues at @globalzero.
We are overwhelmed with sadness by the death of Global Zero’s co-founder, Bruce Blair. He was a visionary leader who dedicated his life to making the world safer and better for all people. We’ll miss him terribly.
Safe journeys, Bruce. The work continues. bit.ly/2WFDl05
Rep. John Tierney retweeted
.@abby_pokraka in her hometown paper, @capecodtimes:
"As we mark the 75th year of the nuclear age, it’s worth reflecting on Cape Cod’s nuclear history in a world still rife with nuclear dangers."
capecodtimes.com/opinion/202…
Rep. John Tierney retweeted
Wherever U.S. policy in Afghanistan is headed, I hope we will (re-)learn the lessons that robust oversight – from Congress and within the Executive -- is an essential part of a successful combat effort or contingency operation.
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You can’t send food and ammunition to a forward Army or Marine Corps outpost while funding the insurgents in order to get it there. That will sink brave warfighters into quicksand.
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The need for real-time oversight is especially true in complex, COIN threat environments like Afghanistan.
You can’t earn the trust of a local population when unregulated security contractors shoot up villages under the American aegis.
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Rep. John Tierney retweeted
Harry Truman rose to prominence leading a Wartime contracting committee because profiteering saps the war effort.
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Our small effort occurred a decade ago, but it still resonates. Oversight work can at times reduce to after-action finger-pointing.
But it is essential to the mission itself.
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TF2010 Forensic Accountant concludes TF2010 was a failure due to lack of political interest and steep learning curve.
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That was out of $106 billion in contracting dollars over those years.
For those doing the math, 18% of $106B is $19B with a “B”!
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More disturbingly, TF2010 reviewed 3,000 contracts and determined that 18% of all contract dollars were going to fund insurgency, another 20% going to government corruption and other transnational crime.
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The TF2010 Forensic Accountant acknowledges that TF2010 was started as a direct response to Warlord, Inc.
TF2010 froze $70 million from Commander Ruhullah alone.
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Here are interview notes from the senior forensic accountant for TF2010: washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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Fast forward to the bombshell @washingtonpost reporting on the Afghanistan Papers and what it revealed about Warlord, Inc. follow-up.
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In 2011, I moved into White House Counsel’s office and largely lost the thread. But I would hear occasional updates from @RepTierney and @splindsay that TF2010 was not making much headway.
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Thereafter, DOD established Task Force 2010 to investigate our findings in Warlord, Inc. Future Trump White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster led TF2010.
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