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Sexual misconduct at Coast Guard is a fleet-wide problem, congressional probe finds

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Coast Guard’s cultural failings around sexual misconduct are not limited to the service’s academy but extend to the entire service, a congressional probe has found. Nearly a year ago, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subpanel on investigations opened an inquiry into the Coast Guard’s mishandling of sexual assault and harassment cases at its prestigious Coast Guard Academy and the service’s failure to disclose those cases to Congress. The Coast Guard’s own investigation of sexual misconduct, dubbed Operation Fouled Anchor, concluded in 2020, but Congress didn’t learn…

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Coast Guard ‘stymies’ Senate’s investigation of sexual assault

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The Coast Guard’s failure to provide Congress with sufficient information regarding the service’s handling of sexual assault cases points to a “continuing culture of cover-up,” lawmakers said Tuesday during a highly-anticipated congressional hearing on the Coast Guard’s investigation of sexual misconduct at the service’s academy. Last year, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee requested all records related to Operation Fouled Anchor, the Coast Guard’s internal investigation of sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy. Lawmakers said the records provided to Congress are highly redacted and include a…

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Admiral Steven Poulin: Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard

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Lots of nation’s impinge on the Arctic Circle. Even more try to use it strategically, like China. That’s why, for years, the U.S. Coast Guard has been stepping up its patrols in the Arctic and why it convinced Congress to fund two new heavy ice-breaking ships. At the recent Sea Air Space conference, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin Federal Drive got an exclusive update from Coast Guard Vice Commandant, Admiral Steve Poulin. Interview transcript: Steve Poulin Dynamic changes in the Arctic, it’s a growing area of strategic competition. And if we want…

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Five Points On Greg Abbott’s Disastrous National Guard Border Deployment

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<p>When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced in March last year that he would be sending hundreds of Texas National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, he spurred a wave of posturing from Republican governors over “securing” the border. Following Texas’ lead, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent Florida <a href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/florida-game-wardens-join-red-state-pilgrimage-to-southern-border”>state law enforcement officers</a> and <a href=”https://www.flgov.com/2021/07/17/governor-desantis-visits-southern-border-to-meet-with-deployed-florida-law-enforcement/”>National Guard troops</a> to Texas. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem <a href=”https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/06/28/kristi-noem-governor-gov-south-dakota-deploy-national-guard-troops-texas-us-mexico-border/7787945002/”>sent her state’s troops</a> as well &#8212; funded by a Tennessee <a href=”https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/auto-scrap-billionaire-who-paid-to-send-national-guard-to-southern-border-sounds-off-on-why-he-did-it”>auto scrap billionaire</a>.&nbsp;</p> Talking Points Memo

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Secret Service Continues to Guard US President While its Leadership Changes – Voice of America

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Secret Service Continues to Guard US President While its Leadership Changes  Voice of America The Secret *Service* protects the president and vice president, their family members and former presidents and their wives. It also protects foreign leaders during … “us president” – Google News

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Trump Plans to Send National Guard to the Mexican Border – New York Times

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Fox News Trump Plans to Send National Guard to the Mexican BorderNew York TimesWASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday night that President Trump planned to deploy the National Guard to the southern border to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America after the …Trump would not be first president to send National Guard soldiers to US-Mexico borderFox News President Trump wants military to secure US-Mexico border until wall builtFOX 5 AtlantaTrump suggests he will send US troops to the Mexican…

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