Pentagon: it is up to the White House to announce the candidate for the post of defense minister

Refused Admiral John Kirby, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense, "Pentagon", on Tuesday, to comment on the news about the nomination of a new defense minister, replacing Chuck Hagel, who resigned recently.

Kirby said, in a press statement at the Pentagon, the US president is the only one who can announcement of this decision, pointing out that it is up to the president and the White House to determine the date of this decision and the announcement of the candidate for the job name.

The news has been conflicting earlier about the intention to nominate US President, Barack Obama, Vice former Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, to the Crown as Minister of Defense, where he told Senator Jim Aenhovy, a senior member of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, that President Obama has chosen to Ashton for his nomination for the post of Secretary of Defense, while the White House refused to comment, saying that Carter is a leading candidate for the job.

It is worth mentioning that Carter left the Ministry of Defence in December last year after serving as deputy defense minister during the reign of former Minister Leon Panetta and the minister resigned Hagel.

Person arrested near White House

Police announced the US secret, arrest a person near the White House, yesterday, after the payment of suspicious behavior to search his car and found the gun and ammunition.

A spokeswoman for the secret police, Nicole Minor, he was arrested on "Er.jy. Kafim", aged 41 years, and after that approached a confidential police personnel, and told him that someone from Iowa, told him to go home White.

American spokeswoman explained, that Kafim not waving any threat, but that his behavior suspicious prompting police to search his car, where they found a gun and ammunition.

Attention was charged with possession of firearms without a license, in addition to other charges will be announced.

It is noteworthy that several attempts occurred in the past few months, to penetrate imposed on the White House security procedures, and jumped AL in addition to attempt to penetrate one of the rooms inside the White House.

Hundreds arrested in front of the White House

For more than a week hundreds have gathered outside the White House to protest the Keystone pipeline. The planned pipeline will cost approximately $13 billion according to the TransCanada.com. Some critics claim Canada is trying to jump into the oil export business and others say that this will reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Brant Olson, communications manager for Rainforest Action Network, tells us what could happen if this pipeline is built and at what cost.