Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes’ independence watchdog

The Pentagon precocious ousted the U.S. military paper Stars and Stripes’ ombudsman, the idiosyncratic meant to show the outlet’s editorial independency and study concerns to Congress.  “Apparently the Pentagon besides doesn’t privation you to perceive from maine anymore astir threats to the editorial independency of Stars and Stripes. They fired me,” Jacqueline Smith, wrote Thursday in…