Tell Biden: Dementia In US Officials Is A National Security Threat

TUESDAY PDB – Dementia in US officials may represent national security risk. This, according to a study funded by the Pentagon.

The study, published by the RAND Corporation's National Security Research Division in April, identifies individuals with both current and former access to classified material who develop dementia as threats to national security, citing the possibility that they may unwittingly disclose government secrets.

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE WHITE HOUSE!

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here's a roundup of today's other top defense stories from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.

Not the President's Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL'S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:

POLITICS

McCarthy running out of options to stop shutdown as conservatives balk. He plans to hold a vote on a Pentagon spending bill on Wednesday, then the stopgap funding measure the next day. 

Political divide emerges on Ukraine aid package as Zelenskyy heads to Washington. The Ukrainian president's visit this week comes at a critical juncture for the Ukraine-U.S. alliance as GOP leaders in Congress diverge on how to send more aid to the country.

PENTAGON WOKE WATCH

THIS COMMIE NEEDS TO LOSE – Former Biden official at the heart of Pentagon culture wars launches House campaign. Fresh off a stint subverting the Pentagon, Gil Cisneros is making another run at Congress.

CHINA THREAT 

Another country has called Xi a ‘dictator' and China is not happy with that description. China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister correctly called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin's ambassador for a dressing down. 

China poses threat to UK way of life, says Rishi Sunak. The Prime Minister said he is “acutely aware of the particular threat to our open and democratic way of life” posed by China's Communist regime. This follows a damning report on the UK's China strategy by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.

FIX IT! – No easy answers: Biden admin juggling pathways to send Taiwan weapons, but no line skipping. “We have concluded that we're not able to change the production priorities [for Taiwan]. That would be an easy answer but unfortunately there are no easy answers,” a senior State Department official said.

RUSSIA THREAT– UKRAINE WAR

Biden to offer ‘full-throated' defense of Ukraine at United Nations General Assembly. Joe Biden will reiterate U.S. support during a high-profile speech at the UN – as U.S. presidential election ramps up.

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 573. Ukraine dismissed all six of the country's deputy defense ministers – This follows the September 6 appointment of Rustem Umerov as the new defense minister.

Why improve Ukraine's deep-strike capability? As the counteroffensive progresses, Ukraine's leaders are giving higher priority to striking Russian targets beyond the immediate battlefield.

IRAN THREAT

OUTRAGEOUS BIDEN RANSOM TO A TERRORIST REGIME – Officials say 5 prisoners sought by US in a swap with Iran left Tehran. he exchange was expected to take place after nearly $6 billion in once-frozen Iranian assets reached Qatar.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

NATO exercise planned for next year billed as largest since end of Cold War. The 2024 drill will bring together more than 40,000 troops for an exercise stretching from the Baltics to Poland and Germany.

Army turns to high-altitude balloons for more eyes in the skies. It is simulating high-altitude balloon flights in Japan this month as part of a plan to expand intelligence gathering in the Indo-Pacific region.

Australia boosts maritime surveillance with drones, aircraft upgrades. It will spend $966 million, buying more long-range drone aircraft and upgrading Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to surveil its northern approaches.

US MILITARY

Officials find debris from Marine Corps F-35 jet in South Carolina. This, following a 28-hour search after the pilot ejected and parachuted to safety.

Have you seen me? All the best ‘Missing F-35' memes. The “zombie” plane was missing, but the memes were easy to find.

That missing Marine Corps F-35 isn't the first ‘zombie' aircraft to wander off without a pilot. What goes up must come down.

US Air Force celebrates 76 years of aiming high. Happy birthday to the Air Force, which officially celebrates 76 years of flying, fighting and winning on Monday.

WHAT A COSTLY JOKE – COMMISSION TO DECOMMISION – Navy commissions LCS USS Marinette, 4 Freedom-class to decommission this year. The 13th Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Marinette (LCS-25) was just commissioned in Michigan, as the Navy has decommissioned two similar LCSs this year and is set to shed two more by the end of the month.

END of PDB

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