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May 13, 2021 Special Dispatch No. 9333 IRGC Aerospace Force And Missile Unit Commander Hajizadeh: 'All The Missile Might You See In Gaza... Was Created With Iran's Support… And This Effort Has Continued Around The Clock For Years' May 13, 2021 In the past few years, Iranian regime officials have been boasting that Iran built up the military capabilities of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that enable them to target Israel's strategic depth. Iranian officials and commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) praised the military aid extended by Iran to the P...

Fact. but we also have the potential for undue command influence leading all the way up to the commander in chief in this case. it's a very bad situation all around, and it makes it difficult for there to be a clean way of looking at this particular case. >> what message does it send to unit commanders who give these medals? >> it sounds a message that it limits the commander's discretion in a case like this. unit commanders have the discretion to award achievement medals in all of the services, and when it comes to personnel, they look at these medals as being a recognition for a job well don...

Have failed. >> senators kristin guillen brand and carl leave present radically different visions after a recent survey estimated 26,000 troops were assaulted last year. gillibrand would take away a commander's power to overturn a guilty verdict. she would give military trial lawyers the authority to decide which crimes to prosecute. >> take it from the victims who have said to us over and over again that they do not report, because they do not trust the chain of command. >> levine wants to keep commanders in control, but allow a senior officer to review cases where the commander decides not t...

of epic proportions. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm candy crowley and you're in "the situation room." all eyes on the supreme court and congress with a potentially historic day on tap tomorrow. one that could be especially bad for president obama. we're expecting the justices' long awaited ruling on health care reform. the president's flagship issue in one that impacts virtually every american. at the same time, eric holder could become the first sitting u.s. attorney general ever held in contempt of congress. the planned house votes stems from accusations the justice department is...

man, leon panetta announced a new crackdown. the main change as far as we can tell accusations will be investigated by senior officers. not just unit commanders. the pentagon says last year alone, last year, 19,000 sexual assaults in one year, most of them went unreported and unpunished. there is more to that. we spoke with several former service women, and this one story we found was typical. she was a marine, who reported an attack by a fellow marine but instead of finding help, she was drummed out by the military. doing the right thing was in 21-year-old stephanie schroeder's bloo...