The terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, was "likely preventable" based on known security shortfalls and prior warnings that the security situation there was deteriorating, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a report released on Wednesday,
The Air Force said that 34 nuclear missile launch officers have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification in "what is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force."
The U.S. military obtained new video of the American prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl who was seized in Afghanistan in June, 2009, CNN reported. Bergdahl, a native of Wood Valley Idaho, is believed to be held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Pakistan. He has spent almost five years in captivity, and "the so-called proof-of-life video, the first of him in nearly three years, has a reference to December 14, 2013."
33-year-old Conor Guckian, who used $20,000 in cash to charter a private plane from Nashville to California, "was arrested on money laundering charges after an airport police dog smelled narcotics on $153,000 stuffed into his suitcase, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday," as reported by Reuters. Airport police were alerted to the "suspicious individual."
