Tom Cotton

October 29, 2009 — Scott Johnson

Tom Cotton: Why we need more troops — now

Tom Cotton is a Harvard Law School graduate who served as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge and worked at two Washington law firms before joining the Army to become an infantry officer leading troops in combat. Tom was on active duty from 2005 to 2009, serving tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Since he completed his active duty earlier this year I’ve been asking Tom if he »
February 6, 2008 — Paul Mirengoff

Catching up with Tom Cotton

Readers may recall the strange controversy that broke out in mid-2006 about then Lt. Tom Cotton. At that time, Tom was in charge of a unit that patrolled in Baghdad. He wrote a letter to the New York Times (which we printed) chastising it for disclosing the U.S. government’s highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program. He stated: You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the »