John Lehmann

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The wrong way to build the F-35

I'm quite unused to defending the actions of Congress, but when it comes to contracting the production of the new F-35 fighter, the Defense committees are right and the Pentagon...

IF YOU WISH FOR PEACE ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Two Australian warships, HMAS Sydney and HMAS Ballarat, are to finish their New York visit tomorrow, having docked here to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great White...

FALLING SHORT - AMERICA IS FAILING TO MEET THE JIHADIST CHALLENGE

ARE we winning the war? The first question to ask is, what war? The Bush administration continues to muddle a national understanding of the conflict we are in by calling...

LAWYER: DO RIGHT BY DOUG

Lawyers for Martha Stewart's courtroom kiss of doom, Douglas Faneuil, will push for him to be spared punishment when he's sentenced Friday. Faneuil, 28, the key government witness at the...

STILL NOT SAFE - WHAT THE 9/11 COMMISSION HAS LEARNED SO FAR

PART of the reason we suffered such a horrific attack is that we were not prepared. We were not prepared intellectually. Those of us in the national-security field still carried...

PLANE GAMES - STARLET USED ADELPHIA'S RIGAS' JET 'LIKE TAXI'

A blond Australian actress told yesterday how accused Adelphia fraudster Timothy Rigas allowed her to use the company jet like a personal taxi, flying her to New York for intimate...

3-YEAR JAIL STAY DUE FOR HOTEL MOGUL

A Manhattan judge yesterday ordered a tax-dodging hotel magnate to check into a federal prison for almost three years - and investigators nailed his fugitive mom with fraud charges involving...

SADDAM'S U.S. 'SPY' - CONGRESS EX-STAFFER GOT 10G TO AID THUGS: FEDS

An ex-staffer to four members of Congress was busted yesterday on charges she acted as a spy for Saddam Hussein before and after the Iraq war. In the latest Iraqi...

HOW FINE ART DEALER 'FORGED' A LAVISH LIFESTYLE: COPS

A respected Manhattan art dealer masterminded a multimillion-dollar international art scam in which he bought up works by 19th century French artists, forged them and sold off the fakes through...

MARTHA'S BRO PAINED OVER HER 'AGONY'

Martha Stewart's brother said yesterday his heart was breaking as he watched the "horrible agony" the domestic diva faced as she confronted her new life as a convicted criminal. Frank...

DIVA'S NEW DAY OF SHAME - URINE TEST, PROBING QUIZ

Martha Stewart confronted the indignity of her new life as a convicted criminal yesterday - supplying urine for a drug test, answering personal questions about her finances and posing for...

FEDS SET TO POUNCE ON TURKEY HILL AND ALL ITS TRIMMINGS

Martha Stewart will be given the grim facts of life as a criminal awaiting sentencing today when she returns to lower Manhattan to meet federal probation officers. In the weeks...

EX-HUBBY SAW FALL COMING

Martha Stewart's ex-husband, Andy Stewart, feared the princess of perfection's long-held habit of telling whoppers would one day trigger her downfall, a former business partner told The Post yesterday. Norma...

MAKING PLANS TO REMODEL FREEDOM PLAN

Back at Turkey Hill, Martha Stewart yesterday surrounded herself with family as she licked her wounds from her shock courtroom mauling - and tried to plan her next move. Stewart's...

DIVA'S DEFENSE WAS OFFENSIVE - BROKER'S MOM SAYS HE REFUSED TO BE A RAT

The son of one of America's richest men pleaded with Peter Bacanovic to betray his social-circuit life of discretion and good taste to rat out Martha Stewart - but neither...

MARTHA'S HEAD ON A PLATTER ; * JURY CONVICTS HER ON 4 COUNTS * MAY SPEND 10-18 MOS. IN PEN * BUSINESS EMPIRE CRUMBLING

Martha Stewart's goose isn't just cooked - it's burned to a crisp. In a swift, decisive verdict that shocked America, a Manhattan jury yesterday branded the one-time golden girl a...

'VICTORY FOR LITTLE GUYS' ; JURORS: EGOTISTICAL MARTHA GOT WHAT SHE DESERVED

A Bronx computer technician who helped deliver the crushing verdict that will send Martha Stewart to prison hailed the decision as a "victory for the little guys." Moments after the...

BROKEN BROKER; MARTHA-JUDGE RULING SHATTERS BACANOVIC

Martha Stewart's stockbroker had his hopes for an acquittal shaken yesterday - with the judge suggesting the jury could use evidence from the domestic diva's personal assistant to convict him...

JURY'S COOKING - EYES EVIDENCE IN MARTHA CASE

The Martha Stewart jury began deciding the domestic diva's fate yesterday, asking almost immediately to analyze critical segments of testimony delivered by star witness Douglas Faneuil. Within 90 minutes of...

JURY'S COOKING - EYES FANEUIL EVIDENCE IN MARTHA CASE

The Martha Stewart jury began deciding the domestic diva's fate yesterday, asking almost immediately to analyze critical segments of testimony delivered by star witness Douglas Faneuil. Within 90 minutes of...