WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The growing presence of Iran
in Latin America is a threat to national security and demands greater
scrutiny and action by the United States and Venezuelan's Latin American
neighbors was the message delivered by New York Country District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau at a lunch briefing today at the Brookings Institution
organized by Global Financial Integrity and the American Interest.
Addressing an audience of academics, civil society groups, Congressional
staff, and journalists, Mr. Morgenthau discussed how the "blossoming
relationship" between Iran and Venezuela presented opportunities for Iran to
circumvent U.S. and international economic sanctions designed to prevent them
from developing long-range missile capacity and nuclear technology for
military purposes.
Mr. Morgenthau cited "scores of Memoranda of Understa... (more)
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison,
Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA),
www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org. witnessed the ground based interceptor launch
test yesterday at 3:40 p.m. PST at Vandenberg AFB at the Ronald Reagan
missile defense memorial site. Ellison is one of the top lay experts in
missile defense in the world. His comments and observations are below:
Ellison opens with : "On a perfect sunny winter afternoon in California
standing on the flat rocks of the Ronald Reagan Memorial overlooking the
mis... (more)
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) successfully fired a U.S. Army Tactical Missile
System (ATACMS) missile in a recent stockpile verification test at Fort
Bliss, TX. The missile was fired from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
(HIMARS) launcher.
The test used an ATACMS Unitary variant missile to destroy a target
approximately 175 kilometers away. The operation met all mission objectives,
which included:
Demonstrating of the missile/launcher interface and missile reliability;
Collecting performance, technical and reliability data for assessment of
production missiles; Validating... (more)
WASHINGTON, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript
of a press briefing by National Security Advisor Steve Hadley:
Via Teleconference Heiligendamm, Germany 4:58 P.M. (Local)
MR. JOHN DROE: Hi everyone. Thank you for waiting. Steve Hadley, National
Security Advisor to the President, will brief on the President's meeting with
President Putin of Russia, as well as make some comments on the G8
declaration.
Mr. Hadley.
MR. HADLEY: The President had a meeting with President Putin. It was a good
and constructive meeting. You will probably want to look at the tran... (more)
WASHINGTON, October 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of
the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org,
has analyzed the current situation with Iran and given his comments below.
Ellison is one of the top lay experts in missile defense in the world:
A momentous week of unveiling Iran's second nuclear site, which confirmed
their intention to disperse and protect non-civilian nuclear development,
coupled with their ballistic missile launches over the weekend from 90 miles
to 1,200 miles requires close examination of President Obama's... (more)