Joe Gould was the senior Pentagon reporter for Defense News, covering the intersection of national security policy, politics and the defense industry. He had previously served as Congress reporter.
The Pentagon’s assistant defense secretary for international security is leaving his U.S. Senate-confirmed post to work for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
After defending U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Monday touted the denials of the Saudi royal family in disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Lawmakers were discussing various tracks to punish Saudi Arabia over a journalist's disappearance, but there's one track Trump's rejected twice already.