US TROOPS IN UKRAINE?: It started with the revelation on one of the leaked briefing slides that noted there are 14 U.S. troops in Ukraine. It soon ballooned into allegations of lying and coverup. “The Biden Admin and Pentagon have been caught lying about the war they are funding and fighting…
US TROOPS IN UKRAINE?: It started with the revelation on one of the leaked briefing slides that noted there are 14 U.S. troops in Ukraine. It soon ballooned into allegations of lying and coverup. “The Biden Admin and Pentagon have been caught lying about the war they are funding and fighting against Russia in Ukraine,” tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , a fierce critic of U.S. support for Ukraine who has introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.
“Again, none of those forces are there in any type of combat role,” he insisted. “The president has been very clear from the beginning that we will not send combat troops into Ukraine, and that was true yesterday, and it's true today.”‘WE DO NOT HAVE BOOTS ON THE GROUND.’ While the false narrative continued to circulate on Twitter, key Republican lawmakers attempted to correct the record.
HAPPENING TODAY: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin hosts British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace at the Pentagon at 4:30 p.m., ahead of Friday’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. THE BIG QUESTION: It’s the question that’s being asked by almost everyone in Washington, but when it comes from a former defense secretary and Army secretary, it carries a little more weight.
But Esper said he can think of no reason why a young guardsman, whose job was to maintain the classified computer system, should be able to access some of the nation’s most sensitive real-time intelligence. “There was no need for him to know the information that he was accessing,” said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner on CBS. “From the 9/11 Commission we learned that we needed to more widely disseminate classified information so that people had actionable intelligence that they could piece together puzzles. Clearly, we've gone too far.”
Among the revelations from the recently leaked documents is the U.S. assessment that Taiwan is not prepared to repel a Chinese invasion should it come in the next few years. “The assessments state that Taiwan officials doubt their air defenses can ‘accurately detect missile launches,’ that barely more than half of Taiwan’s aircraft are fully mission capable and that moving the jets to shelters would take at least a week,” reported the Washington Post.
“But we have to have assurances. We have to start having these conversations now with them that they would allow us to operate out of these bases to provide the deterrence, and also, in the event of an invasion, to push back communist China aggression.
Stars and Stripes: Navy Sends Destroyer Through Taiwan Strait Less Than A Week After Chinese Exercises 1 p.m. 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW — Brookings Institution discussion: “The US Congress and national security,” with Rep. Abigail Spanberger ; Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology; and Melanie Sisson, fellow at the Brookings Center for Security, Strategy and Technology https://connect.brookings.
9 a.m. 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW — Wilson Center Asia Program and the Korean Association of International Studies 2023 U.S.-ROK Policy Forum:"70 Years of the US-ROK Alliance: The Past and the Future,” with Edgard Kagan, National Security Council senior director for East Asia and Oceania https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/70-years-us-rok-alliance
10 a.m. EDT Colorado Springs, Colorado — Space Foundation annual Space Symposium through Thursday, April 20. Full agenda at https://spacesymposium.org/agenda. Register: https://web.cvent.com/event 1 p.m. — Government Executive Media Group virtual discussion:"Empowering Defense through 5G Smart Warehousing: A Dispatch from Sea Air Space," with Dan Elzie, deputy commander of Marine Force Storage Command; Joseph Damour, director of KPMG; and Michael Flaherty, director of emerging technologies at KPMG https://events.govexec.com/empowering-defense-through-5g
2:30 p.m. 192 Dirksen — Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing:"A Review of the President's FY2024 Funding Request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and for the National Science Foundation,” with testimony from Bill Nelson, NASA administrator; and Sethuraman Panchanathan, National Science Foundation director http://appropriations.senate.
3:30 2212 Rayburn — House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee hearing: “Air Force Projection Forces Aviation Programs and Capabilities Related to the President’s 2024 Budget Request,” with testimony from Andrew Hunter, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics; and Lt. Gen. Richard Moore, deputy Air Force chief of staff for plans and programs https://armedservices.house.
9 a.m. — Peterson Institute for International Economics virtual discussion:"China, Russia, and transatlantic relations,” with Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis https://www.piie.com/events/lithuanias-foreign-minister 10 a.m. 2008 Rayburn — House Appropriations Committee Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing:"FY2024 Request for the U.S. Coast Guard,” with testimony from Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan http://appropriations.house.gov
10:30 a.m. HVC-210 U.S. Capitol — House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing:"Exposing Putin's Crimes: Evidence of Russian War Crimes and Other Atrocities in Ukraine,” with testimony from Prosecutor Gen. of Ukraine Andriy Kostin http://foreignaffairs.house.gov
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