Virginia Woman Policeman, Massachusetts Native, Shot Dead Responding To Domestic Violence Call

29-year-old Officer Ashley Guindon shot dead after she answered a domestic violence call at a Virginia home on Saturday - her first day on the job.

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An Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon has been charged with shooting dead a rookie police officer on her first day and his wife.
Ronald Hamilton, 32, is being held without bond accused of shooting dead 29-year-old Officer Ashley Guindon after she and two coworkers answered a domestic violence call at his home on Saturday evening.
According to an affidavit, Hamilton's wife Crystal, 29, called police begging for help at 5.30pm.
By the time Guindon arrived with her field officer Jesse Hempen, 31, and ten-year police veteran David McKeown, 33, Crystal was shot dead, the affidavit states.
Hamilton allegedly opened fire as soon as the officers arrived, fatally shooting Guindon and wounding the other two. The Hamiltons' 11-year-old son was in the house at the time but survived unscathed.
On Sunday, police chief Stephen Hudson paid tribute to Guindon's work and gave a poignant account of the passion she showed when she interviewed for the job.
Crystal Hamilton's sister also paid tribute to Guindon as she thanked the police force for their attempts to apprehend the suspect. 'Most importantly, the officer who sacrificed her life for my sister and my nephew,' she told ABC7.


Ronald Hamilton, 32, is being held without bond accused of shooting dead 29-year-old Officer Ashley Guindon after she answered a domestic violence call at his home on Saturday - her first day on the job.

The suspect is an active duty Army staff sergeant assigned to the Joint Staff Support Center at the Pentagon, according to Cindy Your, a Defense Information Systems Agency spokeswoman based at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The death of Ashley Guindon was just the latest tragedy to strike the family.
Her father, David, committed suicide the day after he returned home from Iraq in 2004, where he served with the New Hampshire Air National Guard. He was buried with full military honors on August 26 that year.
'He came home and took his own life,' said Dorothy Guindon, Ashley's grandmother.
Ashley was his only child.
Ashley was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. The family later moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, according to her grandmother.
'This is really a shock to us,' Dorothy Guindon said. 'Ashley was such a nice person.'
Officer Brandon Carpenter, at the county's adult detention center, says Hamilton is being held without bond at the jail on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer, first-degree murder, two counts of malicious assault and two counts of use of a firearm during a felony.
Hamilton is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning.
Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert told The Associated Press on Sunday morning that the gunman's wife was the victim in the domestic incident. He did not provide her name.
The shooting occurred Saturday evening at Hamilton's home in Woodbridge, where neighbors say he lived with his wife and their son.
Guindon had a degree in aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a master's degree from George Washington University in forensic science.
She served in the military from 2007 to 2013 as a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Prince William County, where Woodbridge is located, is a suburb 30 minutes outside Washington, D.C., and has a relatively low crime rate.
Guindon had been a county police officer a few years ago and had left and returned to the force, Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Saturday night.

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Pictured: The Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon, 32, charged with shooting dead Virginia police officer, 29, on her first day on the job and his wife
Ronald Hamilton, 32, is charged with capital murder of Ashley Guindon
He is a staff Army sergeant assigned to the Pentagon
Guindon was on her first day - she was responding to domestic violence call from Hamilton's wife Crystal on Saturday at 5.30pm
By the time Guindon and team arrived, Crystal, 29, was shot dead
Guindon was then shot dead too, while two male officers were shot and wounded
The Hamiltons' 11-year-old son was in the house but survived unharmed
By MIA DE GRAAF and KALHAN ROSENBLATT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 12:30 EST, 28 February 2016 | UPDATED: 06:59 EST, 29 February 2016

White House Blocks Pentagon Report on Russian Treaty Breach

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The White House is blocking the release of a Pentagon risk assessment of Russia’s violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, according to a senior House leader.
Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, disclosed the existence of the Pentagon assessment last month and said the report is needed for Congress’ efforts to address the problem in legislation.
“As we look to the near-term future, we need to consider how we’re going to respond to Russia’s INF violations,” Rogers said in an Air Force Association breakfast July 8. “Congress will not continue to tolerate the administration dithering on this issue.”
Rogers said the assessment was conducted by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, and noted that it outlines potential responses to the treaty breach.
However, Rogers noted that the assessment “seems to stay tied up in the White House.”
[. . .]
Haney said Russia has “walked away” from international norms and treaties and “that is very problematic.”
“While at the same time I get to see and witness [Russia’s] very forthright execution that is occurring with the New START treaty that they are adhering to completely, this piece on the INF treaty is very problematic and we have to continue to encourage Russia to get back into compliance with the treaty,” Haney said.
The treaty violation was first disclosed by the State Department last year and details remain shrouded in secrecy.
[. . .]
A department arms compliance report stated that the breach involved a new missile that violates the limits set by the treaty. The treaty bans holding, producing, or flight-testing ground-launched ballistic or cruise missiles with ranges of between 310 miles and 3,418 miles.
Rogers was asked what steps Congress should take if the administration continues to ignore the treaty violation.
“Well, the fact is we haven’t been doing enough so far,” he said. “It was only about a year and a half ago that the administration finally acknowledged that Russia has been violating the INF Treaty. But we know they’ve been violating it for several years.”
[. . .]
“Russia has repeatedly threatened to attack these sites and the U.S. personnel who man them, and the Committee believes we have a moral obligation to defend our personnel against any threat,” the report said.
[. . .]
Moscow’s refusal to return to compliance with the accord indicates it should be abandoned.
“Russia’s aggressive and illegal behavior and the inability of the United States to bring Russia back into compliance with the INF Treaty indicate that the treaty has outlived its utility and is no longer in the U.S. interest,” [Michaela Dodge] said.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/white-house-blocks-pentagon-report-on-russian-treaty-breach/

White House Blocks Pentagon Report on Russian Treaty Breach
House chairman urges fast U.S. response to Moscow’s INF missile breach
BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertz
August 11, 2015 5:00 am

Destroying The Nation From Within

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The Islamic enemy is completely unified in their stated objectives, yet the entire U.S. Government leadership from the President, to his National Security Advisor, to the heads of the CIA, FBI, DHS, and Military, and the Cabinet Secretaries all march in unison stating none of this has to do with Islam. From this grotesque lack of intellectual and factual honesty come strategic blunders that leave a person speechless.
The President states ISIS is “not Islamic” yet continues to support the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas, Al Qaeda forces and others in places like Syria and Libya. Secretary of State Kerry stated before Congress recently that “(ISIS is) the enemy of Islam. That’s what they are. There’s nothing in Islam that condones or suggests people should go out and rape women and sell off young girls or give them as gifts to jihadists and, you know, cut people’s heads off.” Apparently, neither has read Islamic Law which explicitly calls for these things. As a matter of fact, beheadings and crucifixion are part of the Hadud Laws which are specifically articulated in the Quran.
The President and his Chief of Staff (former Deputy National Security Advisor), FBI Director, Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Homeland Security, and others continue to look to Muslim Brotherhood leaders in America to give them their info on Islam and Sharia, as well as allowing these jihadis to write doctrine for domestic counterterrorism strategy and foreign policy – which is why our leaders are clueless. This cluelessness allows our enemies to extract the very outcome they are gunning for – complete strategic incoherence. When the FBI fails in these duties, state and local law enforcement officials are left out to dry.

http://blog.understandingthethreat.com/2014/10/15/total-strategic-incoherence/

Total Strategic Incoherence
By JG
October 15, 2014

Pentagon Adopts Global Warming As Priority Enemy

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The Pentagon released a report Monday asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster response as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises.
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the broadened approach would include considering the role that climate change might have played in contributing to the rise of terrorist entities like the Islamic State.
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CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board, concluded that climate change was becoming a catalyst of global conflict. In March, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the agency’s main public document describing the current doctrine of the United States military, drew a direct link between the effects of global warming and terrorism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/us/pentagon-says-global-warming-presents-immediate-security-threat.html?_r=0

Pentagon Says Global Warming Presents Immediate Security Threat
By CORAL DAVENPORT

OCT. 13, 2014

Submarine Admiral Commander Suspended

Posted September 28, 2013 4:16 PM ET; Last updated October 1, 2013 9:29 PM ET

FILE: Nov. 11, 2011: Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, The Navy's No. 2 commander for all U.S. nuclear war-fighting forces. Photo supplied by U.S. Navy.AP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439444/Strategic-Commands-Tim-Giardina-suspended-gambling-counterfeited-chips.html

Strategic Command No. 2 responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons suspended for 'gambling with counterfeited chips'
By James Nye
PUBLISHED: 13:17 EST, 30 September 2013 | UPDATED: 13:23 EST, 30 September 2013

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No. 2 US nuke commander suspended amid probe
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Pentgon Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

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"The Pentagon has been fighting a desperate defensive battle against foreign hackers for years. Its networks, including the SPIRNET classified-internal communications system, are exposed to 360 million attacks a year -- and the military's Global Information Grid gets attacked 3 million times every day."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/welcome_to_the_cybertrenches_UdqfTxUU3SFSYV6nQ9QXzJ

Welcome to the cybertrenches
By ARTHUR HERMAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:29 AM, April 3, 2010
Posted: 12:27 AM, April 3, 2010