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MILITARY DEBRIEF: Here’s everything I’ve uncovered so far about Congress’s Office of the Attending Physician (OAP), based on information provided by multiple sources with knowledge of the office’s operations spanning the past decade. In my discussions with D.C. Fire and EMS, I’ve also learned that they overwhelmingly handle emergency medical responses on Capitol Hill, not the OAP. That raises a fundamental question about whether the office’s modern-day operations have strayed from the purpose behind Congress’s original 1928 request for Navy medical personnel to provide emergency care. Today, sources describe an operation increasingly centered on concierge-style primary care for Members of Congress, while active-duty sailors assigned to the office can reportedly work weeks approaching 80 hours. Rather than staffing separate civilian shifts to cover those hours, the office relies in part on active-duty military personnel who do not receive civilian-style overtime compensation. And then there’s the legal question. After reviewing the relevant congressional resolutions, appropriations measures, and other authorities I’ve been able to identify, I have not found a statute that clearly requires the Navy to maintain these personnel at the OAP indefinitely. That raises a significant unresolved question: Could the Navy withdraw these billets and reassign its sailors? Based on the authorities I’ve reviewed so far, I believe there is a serious legal argument that it could. Whether a federal court would ultimately uphold such a decision, however, would depend on the specific legal authority asserted by the Navy and any competing authority Congress could establish.

Trump proposed an AI Force modeled off the Space Force and I'm amazed how little coverage it's gotten. Meanwhile, industry is racing to influence its creation: kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-…

Hotline ribbon cutting photo shows the hotline, @hotscots_app.

U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba cbsnews.com/news/u-s-groundw… By @JimLaPorta

It's publication day for Valley of Death. Come for the history of Steve Jobs and the CIA. Stay to learn why the Pentagon commissioned a study about whether a rogue billionaire would build and sell nukes. And find out what happens when powerful weapons move into private hands. amazon.com/Valley-Death-Tech…

Scoop: The National Security Agency is spending billions this year on testing AI models - far more than previously known Per a classified NSA estimate described by sources Compute costs for AI have exploded - including for taxpayers washingtonsun.com/technology…

.@kenklippenstein: "The #Trump administration’s response: treat opposition to AI and data centers as a counterintelligence matter. It’s not the first time the administration has played the national security card to clear the way for AI." kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-t… #UnitedStates

Feds Think AI Critics Are Foreign Agents, by @kenklippenstein open.substack.com/pub/kenkli…

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just want to point out how crazy it is the justice department put this in writing

8 Navy sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group attempted suicide during its more than 300 days at sea w/@GregJaffe nytimes.com/2026/09/23/us/po…

Got the 🚨 Drudge alert 🚨

Day Six: Senator Mitch McConnell showed up to work for approximately one hour to cast his vote before returning home.

Senator Chuck Grassley has not ruled out another run for the U.S. Senate in 2028. Grassley, who just turned 93, would be 95 years old on Election Day, and 101 if he were elected and completed another six-year term.

🚨AI data center critics are being scrutinized as foreign agents. DOJ warns: "public demonstrations designed to further the propaganda or other goals of the foreign power...may result in significant criminal sanctions" 👇 kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-t…

The anonymous “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, @oliverdarcy scoops status.news/p/white-house-pr…

Mitch McConnell Now Surrounded by Guards piped.video/shorts/DSfayy8Go… via @kenklippenstein kentifa4life