Created a detached, carefree attitude? Felt like sleeping till noon, doing nothing? Strong desire for air travel and linking up with wealthy Hollywood types....on their turf ?
[An Nahar] A Michigan sheriff says he's trading his inmates' orange jumpsuits for black-and-white stripes, in part due to pop culture.
Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel tells The Saginaw News (http://bit.ljaily/1p7egTU ) that all-orange jumpsuits are increasingly viewed as fashionable, especially because they're seen on popular TV shows such as the Netflix smash hit "Orange Is the New Black."
Federspiel says "some people think it's cool to look like an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail ... wearing all orange jumpsuits out at the mall or in public." He says inmates sometimes work in public, and he doesn't want there to be any confusion.
The jailhouse fashions come relatively cheap. The sheriff says the jumpsuits, which last for about two to three years, cost $11.73 apiece.
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"some people think it's cool to look like an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail ... wearing all orange jumpsuits out at the mall or in public."
When you create a welfare culture that celebrates itself and anyone who disagrees gets the knee jerk response of 'racist', what do you expect? The race to the bottom.
Another of the Scouts was taking luggage from the top of a van to be searched when something startling happened.
"He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here's this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man's head," Fox explained. Words fail.
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Charles Vonderheid with the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America said Troop 11 learned a valuable lesson. “We want to make sure they follow the rules. A Scout is a good citizen. It would be a great lesson in civics for that young man and that troop,” he said.
Feckless Troop Leader Vanderheid can now issue Schutzstaffel merit badges to the entire troop. They've earned them.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two more RAB-11 members gave confessional statements yesterday in connection with the Narayanganj seven-murder case. The two members — Army personnel Abdus Samad and RAB Deputy Assistant Director Abdus Salam - confessed under section 164 of the penal code as witnesses of the incident before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Monwara Begum of Narayanganj.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... details of their statement was not disclosed to the media.
Advocate Shakhawat Hossain, president of the Narayanganj District Lawyers Association, said: "These two members were with the team which kidnapped seven people including panel mayor of Narayanganj Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker. They are witnesses to the incident. Their confessional statement is very important."
Earlier, three former RAB officers Lt Col Tareq Sayeed, Major Arif Hossain and Lt Commander SM Masud Rana confessed their involvement in the Narayanganj seven murders, claiming that other men from the force were also involved.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh premier the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. and Pak activist Malala Yousafzai have asked those, who do not believe there is a place of girls' rights in Islam, to re-read the Koran and rethink Islam's teaching about women.
The two iconic global female figures made the suggestions at the first ever Girl Summit at Walworth Academy in UK capital London yesterday.
The British government and Unicef have jointly organised the one-day summit to promote what British premier David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... said was a global movement against "preventable evils" such as child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Hasina and Malala were accompanied by Cameron and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... First Lady Chantal Compaore in the lone high-level session of the summit yesterday.
Alongside formal representation from 21 countries and more than 200 NGOs from around 30 other countries, Hasina and Cameron were the only heads of governments to take part in the summit.
Yesterday, the summit passed a charter in which 21 signatory countries and the other participants made various pledges to end FGM and child, early and forced marriages.
World Health Organisation defines Female Genital Mutilation as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons." FGM is common in the African continent.
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I could be wrong but I think next Summer will see Avengers 2 and the new Star Wars movie. I'm willing to go out on a limb and suggest that if that is right those two will do well.
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RJ, Rambler is correct. When 1-3 came out there wasn't anything like Rotten Tomatoes or the blogosphere of today. Additionally, Hollywood releases overseas first now to milk the larger market. So they'll be two weeks of internet news and overseas blog posts about how horrible it is. Star Wars will do ok, but well under expectation's.
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[An Nahar] U.S. intelligence officials were expected to present data Tuesday backing up the theory that pro-Russian rebels were responsible for the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky Thursday by what is believed to have been a surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.
"There has been a lot of evidence that's already been presented that paints a pretty compelling picture," White House front man Josh Earnest said.
"I do expect that you'll hear from intel officials later today who will have some more data to present and some more evidence to indicate -- I guess some more evidence to educate you about what we know so far about that situation."
Earnest did not go into more detail about what was to be released.
The United States has alleged that the plane was shot down by an SA-11 surface-to-air missile system from an area in eastern Ukraine controlled by the Moscow-backed separatists.
"The Ukrainian military was not operating anti-aircraft weapons in that area at that time," Earnest reiterated.
On Monday, Obama voiced outrage that the probe into the downing of the airliner was being hampered by Ukrainian rebels and demanded that Russian leader Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... force them to cooperate, saying Moscow had "direct influence over these separatists."
Putin, who has borne the brunt of international fury, pledged Tuesday to "do everything" to influence the separatists and ensure a full probe into the crash.
Moscow had earlier slapped down accusations that it had supplied the alleged missile system, with a senior defense official intimating that Kiev may have been responsible for its downing.
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Vlad sends the Champ and the "U.S. intelligence officials" his regards. [how you say... thanks you Amerikonski SOB's] Still no word from the "U.S. intelligence officials" regarding events at Benghazi.
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Two Ukrainian fighter jets shot down. Evidently US Intelligence is still not notifying the Ukrainian Military of AAA radar signatures. Of course the Ukrainian rebels could be flying advanced Russian fighters.....
[An Nahar] International monitors on Tuesday said body parts still lay scattered at eastern Ukraine's unsecured crash site of downed flight MH17, as Dutch experts said they were given 80 fewer corpses than promised by the rebels.
"There were human remains that had not been picked up," said Michael Bociurkiw, a front man for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observer mission after visiting the scene, amid reports of the wreckage being rearranged.
"What struck us is that we did not monitor any recovery activity in place," he said, pointing out that OSCE observers saw human remains in at least two areas at the sprawling crash site in rebel-held territory.
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Rebels Return 80 Fewer Bodies than Promised from MH17
Those would be the ones with possible missile shrapnel wounds.
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Vlad's in it up to his neck. The proof lies in the MSM and regime attempts at insulating him. Notice the total lack of any [not even fok'n one] expressions of condolences or sorrow to the Netherlands and others from the Kremlin? A typical Russian 'fok u' response by the way.
[DAWN] The Dubai International Airport authorities have issued back to back warnings to the Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) over its failure to adhere to time slot allocated to it and the practice of changing aircraft without intimation.
The airport authorities told the PIA in a letter that it was not observing the time slot. "It has failed to follow the correct procedure to update slots. This is deemed as misuse of the slots. We are adopting zero tolerance to such misuse," it said.
The authorities said the letter should be considered a second warning. "If any further violation of this nature occurs, a fine may be imposed on the PIA."
A source in the PIA said that delay in its flights often caused problems with regard to observing the time. "This issue is not only related to Dubai but also to several European airports. Jeddah airport is another place where time slot issue crops up every now and then," he said.
The national-flag carrier was facing the problem primarily because of shortage of planes, he said. "Unless the PIA gets more planes, this issue will not be solved."
Before issuing the warning on the time slot misuse, the Dubai airport authorities have warned the PIA to inform it before any change of aircraft scheduled to land there.
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The warning said "Brother, this may be the land of Inshallah, but here at the airport, we have a thing called a 'schedule', that tells us who has dibs on that runway thingie. We however noticed that your aircraft say 'Karachi Bus Tours' on the side, and are concerned that perhaps you are confused.
Here it is: Aircraft is not Jingle Truck."
Sarcasm, sort of, I'm hoping.
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This is from the most recent Falcon 9 launch. The first stage of the rocket re-enters and lands with legs on the ocean then quietly tips over. SpaceX is waiting patiently for the FAA to permit them to land on an abandoned pad at the tip of the Kennedy complex. Until then they practice on the sea.
"We will attempt our next water landing on flight 13 of Falcon 9, but with a low probability of success. Flights 14 and 15 will attempt to land on a solid surface with an improved probability of success."
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I wish SpaceX the best. They have the right stuff to make things happen in space. NASA has lost its way, with the only exception of deep space and Mars missions.
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Side by side in time. Second stage and first stage landing:
"Using HandShake, a soldier would place a specially designed helmet on a subject, whether another military member or ally, who would then be shown a series of images. Electrodes fitted within the helmet are capable of reading electromagnetic signals in the brain while also scanning for blood flow changes. While most of the images shown would be benign in nature, some would be designed to trigger a reaction in the brain of a person who poses a potential insider threat, Defense One claims."
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Civilian Personnel Office (CPO) employees are no doubt being trained on 'HandShake' as we speak. 'Big Gov't' is about to get even bigger, and even more democratic....if that is possible.
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You don't say in the article WHOSE govt. is doing this.
American govt.? Take a good look at the man with the brain reading helmet when he tries to put it on you. Reach down and get him by his nuts good and solid..... and smile.
Tell him to sing the Star Spangled Banner real soprano....as loud as he can.
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I've sat thru a lifestyle polygraph, more than once. It's no picnic. And it's sadly ineffective, as evidenced by history, going back to the Walkers or more recently, Snowden and Bradley Manning. The Aussies have dropped the use of polygraph. Hasn't hurt them.
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Same as the polygraph, your guilt or innocence lies in the interview afterwards. That's where you will be grilled mercilessly by a technician desperately trying to validate his theory about your truthfulness. If you waiver on bit from your sworn "testimony", you are an admitted liar and therefore considered to have lied repeatedly. If you steadfastly hold your ground, no tech will put his career on the line, it will be "inconclusive".
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There is actually training that can be done to fool a polygraph. Not the old tack-in-the-shoe bit, but more psychological, and martial arts or yoga body control. I know of at least one person who completely lied on a poly and it didn't raise any opposition. He/she said: it all starts with convincing yourself of what you want then truth to be, after that the training makes it easy (or words to that effect). It pretty well known in some circles that sociopaths or psychopaths can ace a polygraph.
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Or, as 1960-70's = 2014 Guam Taotamonas would say, AKA IN PART HOW THE FUTURE, US-BORN "HIDDEN IMAM/ISLAMIC MAHDI" CONVERTED TO ISLAM.
And so it begins ... ...
The Past, as they say, is Prologue.
As we speak, the US-West is directly or indirectly, but oh so PCorrectly, helping the Islamic World include Radical Islam to Nuclearize-n-Weaponize - DITTO THE ISLAMIC IMAM/MAHDI.
ADONAI, ADONAI - FORGIVE THEM, FATHER, FOR THEY KNEW WHAT THEY DID!
[BLOOMBERG] President-elect Joko Widodo said he's aiming for a growth pace Indonesia hasn't seen since before the 1990s Asian financial crisis, a shift that would bolster the clout of the world's fourth most-populous nation.
"We must address shortcomings in infrastructure, manufacturing, and then we need to invest more in strong human capital," Widodo, known as Jokowi, 53, said in an interview at his rented house in central Jakarta. "When our economy grows more than 7 percent, I am very confident" it will strengthen Indonesia's role in international forums, he said.
Southeast Asia's largest economy can achieve such a pace of expansion in two years, according to the Jakarta Governor, who still faces a potential legal challenge from opponent Prabowo Subianto to secure his election victory. While Indonesia has lured record overseas investment in recent years, supply bottlenecks and limited public transportation have held back its potential.
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[ARABNEWS] A firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Sri Lankan monk on Tuesday criticized the Dalai Lama for urging the island's Buddhists to halt violence against minority Mohammedans and rejected him as a global spiritual leader.
Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara said the Dalai Lama was ignorant of the "true situation in Sri Lanka" and accused the Nobel Peace Prize winner of being a victim of "extremist propaganda."
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader earlier this month asked Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka "to imagine an image of Buddha" before committing any crimes against Mohammedans, in a plea to halt the violence.
"We don't accept the Dalai Lama as a world leader of Buddhists," Gnanasara told news hounds.
"He is a creation of the West. For them, he is to Buddhists what the Pope is to Catholics, but not for us."
Hardline Buddhists in Sri Lanka have attacked dozens of shops, homes and mosques in violence against minority Mohammedans, whom they accuse of trying to divide the Buddhist-majority country.
The religious violence, the worst in decades, has left four people dead. It has been blamed on Gnanasara and his hardline group of monks called the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or Buddhist Force.
Rights groups have compared Sri Lanka's Gnanasara to Myanmar's hardline monk Wirathu, who has been accused of fanning religious tensions in that country.
Some 250 people have died in Myanmar since fighting broke out in the state of Rakhine in 2012.
Gnanasara said he had met Wirathu and described both of them as "peaceful monks with no blood on our hands".
He said his BBS had initially wanted to visit the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in northern India to encourage him to correct his perception of Sri Lanka's Buddhists, but later changed their mind.
Sri Lanka's mostly moderate Buddhists hold the Dali Lama in high esteem. But successive Colombo governments have denied him a visa to visit pilgrimage sites in the island, apparently due to Chinese pressure.
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"Gunga Galunga"
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Geeez - that's gonna be disruptive, cost jobs, and be disruptive! Why would they make that move to their detriment? Beretta U.S.A. Corp., located in Accokeek, Maryland, announced today that it has decided to move its manufacturing capabilities from its existing location to a new production facility that it is building in Gallatin, Tennessee. The Gallatin facility is scheduled to be opened in mid-2015. Beretta U.S.A. had previously planned to use the new Gallatin, Tennessee facility for new machinery and production of new products only.
"During the legislative session in Maryland that resulted in passage of the Firearm Safety Act of 2013, the version of the statute that passed the Maryland Senate would have prohibited Beretta U.S.A. from being able to manufacture, store or even import into the State products that we sell to customers throughout the United States and around the world. While we were able in the Maryland House of Delegates to reverse some of those obstructive provisions, the possibility that such restrictions might be reinstated in the future leaves us very worried about the wisdom of maintaining a firearm manufacturing factory in the State," stated Jeff Cooper, General Manager for Beretta U.S.A. Corp. Oh. That
"While we had originally planned to use the Tennessee facility for new equipment and for production of new product lines only, we have decided that it is more prudent from the point of view of our future welfare to move the Maryland production lines in their entirety to the new Tennessee facility," Cooper added.
The transition of production from Beretta U.S.A.'s Maryland facility to the Tennessee facility will not occur until 2015 and will be managed so as not to disrupt deliveries to Beretta customers. Beretta U.S.A.'s production of the U.S. Armed Forces M9 9mm pistol will continue at the Accokeek, Maryland facility until all current orders from the U.S. Armed Forces have been filled.
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Little wonder the Army is now seeking a replacement for the M9.
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The gun manufacturers ought to refuse to sell any weapons to any state, county or city police department or sheriff or state patrol, of states that pass these laws
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You mean an exit tax? You forgot minorities, women, and GLAD.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002928392
Also, the Hasta La Vista Tax, CA, proposed 2008
The Exit Tax if you will is a Queen's Gambit of sorts for communism; controlling the route of trade as a form of authoritarianism. Ayn Rand explores moves 4+ in story form in Atlas Shrugs.
Could you imagine a government intervention on sports teams trading players? Imagine if as a rookie the first system you sign with is the org you retire from. No free agents, no player mobility or if you do you have to give up all your earnings?
Or simply, to quote a movie:
"And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"
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Somewhere recently, I saw a map of firearms manufacturers in the U.S. Most have moved to the South or other gun friendly states thus creating jobs. And yes we do make good whiskey in Tennessee; legal as well as illegal.
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Why not? They've long ago decided that the laws don't apply to them, the laws are for the peons.
Back to your assigned tasks.
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Do they really need to contract this out?
Seems like one summer intern with a ball peen hammer would blast through 3,200 hard drives and chuck them into a dumpster before lunch.
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Standards require a magnetic wipe and then physical hard drive destruction, either by punching/drilling through the drive or outright destruction. Also recording of all drive serial numbers.
I'd rather have them contract it out. We've already seen how 'competent' the IRS has been on this.
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When the company I work for has a hard drive destroyed it is physically shreadded (by a company which does that sort of thing) into sawdust-sized pieces. Optionally they will send you a video.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army's troubled intelligence system has suffered another setback.
A July 15th memorandum obtained by The Associated Press says officials have pulled the $4 billion Distributed Common Ground System from a major Army testing exercise in October and November because of software glitches and "overall network operational readiness issues."
DCGS-A, (Dee-Sigs-Ay) as the system is known, is network of crash-prone software, sensors and databases that was supposed to allow troops to process and integrate intelligence from a variety of sources, from electronic intercepts to overhead imagery to spy reports.
A series of independent government reports have raised questions about the system. The Army says it is working to fix the problems. An Army spokesman did not have an immediate comment on the memo. A great many more questions have been raised by soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan, as well as a few brave leaders at DIA and NSA.
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I'll guaran-damn-tee you that some in DIA are speaking up. Problem is, as usual, none of the uniformed people dare speak out because that is a career limiting move with Obama's political martinets running roughshod, placing politics over military needs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] A Michigan sheriff says he's trading his inmates' orange jumpsuits for black-and-white stripes, in part due to pop culture.
Another of the Scouts was taking luggage from the top of a van to be searched when something startling happened.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
David Cameron
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] The Dubai International Airport authorities have issued back to back warnings to the Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) over its failure to adhere to time slot allocated to it and the practice of changing aircraft without intimation.
"Using HandShake, a soldier would place a specially designed helmet on a subject, whether another military member or ally, who would then be shown a series of images. Electrodes fitted within the helmet are capable of reading electromagnetic signals in the brain while also scanning for blood flow changes. While most of the images shown would be benign in nature, some would be designed to trigger a reaction in the brain of a person who poses a potential insider threat, Defense One claims."
Beretta U.S.A. Corp., located in Accokeek, Maryland, announced today that it has decided to move its manufacturing capabilities from its existing location to a new production facility that it is building in Gallatin, Tennessee. The Gallatin facility is scheduled to be opened in mid-2015. Beretta U.S.A. had previously planned to use the new Gallatin, Tennessee facility for new machinery and production of new products only.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army's troubled intelligence system has suffered another setback.
