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11 Nov 2:44 am
... about how vigorously the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan would help execute a new strategy, administration officials said Tuesday. Mr. Obama is to consider four final
options in a meeting with his national security team on Wednesday, his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, told reporters. The options outline
different troop levels, other officials said, but they also assume different goals - including how much of Afghanistan the troops would seek to control - and different time frames and
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28 Nov, 2006 4:08 am
... defense secretary, Robert Gates, has submitted written testimony to Congress. Shorter version: no
speedy pullout. Robert M. Gates, President Bush's nominee to become the next secretary of
defense, said he opposes a swift pullout from ... "leaving Iraq in chaos would have dangerous consequences both in the region and globally for many years to come." Gates was a member of the Iraq Study Group. That group is said to be leaning toward recommending that the Bush administration seek stability in Iraq ...
10 Apr 4:21 pm
... recent ruling that is now being challenged in the Supreme Court, refused on Friday to hold Defense Secretary Robert M.
Gates in contempt of court for failing to bring about the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees. In a one- ... District Courts in Washington
processing ;Guantanamo detainees' challenges to their confinement. The denial of a contempt finding against Gates is the latest effect. It
meant that the detainees' options of obtaining their release are diminshing, and now appear to depend ...
13 Nov 8:10 pm
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ruled on Friday that 44 photos that reportedly show abuse of
detainees by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan cannot be released publicly. The Obama Administration notified the Supreme Court on ... U.S. military service members or U.S.
civilian employees serving outside the U.S. Using that authority on Friday, Gates issued the certificate. (The document is included as Appendix
B to the filing linked above.) Submitting it to the Court, Solicitor General Elena ...
10 Nov, 2006 2:10 pm
National Security Archive: "Bush administration nominee for Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates had a long career in government which...
4 Dec, 2006 6:45 pm
Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 9:30 AM. To consider the nomination of Robert M. Gates...
21 Nov, 2006 12:49 am
The Georgetown University Law Library has prepared a bibliography of material related to Robert M. Gates, the Secretary of Defense Nominee. In an email to me, Sara Sampson, Head of Reference, wrote we've digitized the Senate Report on Mr. Gates'...
20 Jul, 2007 11:33 am
Via Sargent, the most interesting parts of Hillary's letter to Gates: Rather than offer to brief the congressional oversight committees on this
critical issue, Under Secretary Edelman - writing on your behalf - ... directly from you. Thank you for your consideration. Full letter below. July 19, 2007 The Honorable
Robert M. Gates Secretary of Defense The United States Department of Defense The Pentagon
Suite 319 Washington, D.C. 20301 Dear Mr. Secretary: On May 22, 2007, I wrote to you to request ...
21 Nov, 2006 6:07 am
Georgetown University Law Library has prepared a resource list on Robert M. Gates, nominated
to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense.
13 Nov, 2006 9:00 am
VIA THE WASHINGTON TIMES: "Defense Secretary-designate Robert M. Gates is not expected to rein
in the aggressive global war on al Qaeda started by predecessor Donald H. Rumsfeld or reverse the transformation of the Army, but instead focus on how to win in Iraq and get American
troops home, current and former Pentagon officials..
1 Jun, 2007 1:43 am
The Washington Post reports today that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior U.S.
commander favor a protracted U.S. troop presence in Iraq. This is unwise for a number of reasons - the most obvious being that by continuing to have a presence, we'll only forster more
terrorist uprisings. I just finished reading a facinating book: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaida and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright. The book won the ...
25 Jun, 2007 2:00 pm
... shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But there is an interesting reference in the main opinion, written by Chief
Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., that suggests that it is possible, perhaps even quite likely, that students ... (made to seem even narrower by the concurring opinion of Justice
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., joined by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy) might in fact set the stage for a more expansive view of school authority in the future. Here is ...
18 May 3:43 am
... May 4, both Buffett and Gates say they are in favor of the estate tax. They make a pragmatic point similar to the one Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal made ... substitute for taxation. Thus, the argument would go, when they give $1.00 to the Gates Foundation with no corresponding tax payment, they should nevertheless be treated as if they ... deduction. By the end of the clip, he and Bill
Gates are talking about the piles of coupons they used at McDonald's in China. I'm sure they had a blast. SE
18 May 7:43 am
... 4, both Buffett and Gates say they are in favor of the estate tax. They make a pragmatic point similar to the one Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal ... since the contributed $1.00 is devoted to public purposes.*** [But] giving money to the Gates Foundation is not the same as giving money to the federal Treasury. The federal Treasury is controlled ... talking about the piles of coupons they used
at McDonald's in China. I'm sure they had a blast. SE Share/Save Related posts: Tough luck for dumb ...
14 Feb, 2008 11:00 am
... -old Naked Cowboy, whose real name is Robert Burck, was referring to his $6 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against
M&M's manufacturer Mars Inc. The ... used his likeness - cowboy boots, briefs and a cowboy hat - to design a blue M&M for an advertising video
broadcast in Times Square, territory the Naked Cowboy claims is his ... I'll still do what I do. I have billions to make. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have nothing on me." Mars declined comment to the Post. The cowboy's lawyer, Scott ...
26 May 3:13 am
... a rough environment. Purchase of Prominent Korean Beer Company - An Example. As a recent cross-border deal example, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts agreed to buy Oriental Brewery
from Anheuser-Busch InBev for $1.8bn. This will be the largest leveraged buy-out in Asia in ... for the hesitant who are still kicking themselves for missing out on Asian financial
crisis opportunities. The image is of Namdaemun gate in Seoul, Korea's National Treasure #1, photo credit to Charles Chan. Enter your Email Powered by ...
18 Sep, 2007 11:02 pm
... Summers as a mere speaker. I won't comment tonight on the relative merits of each of these cases on academic freedom grounds. (I'm sleepy and would like to get to bed early
tonight.) I did, however, want to point out that there is some ... surely must be considered as a possible (indeed much more than possible)culprit. The article, which is by Stan
Rothman, S. Robert Lichter and Neil Nevitte, is entitled "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty." It abstract reads
thusly: "This ...
12 Feb, 2007 4:55 am
... is the world of one master, one sovereign." With the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the American defense secretary, Robert M.
Gates, and a Congressional delegation sitting stone-faced, Mr. Putin warned that the power amassed by any nation ... ." Robin Shepherd of the
German Marshall Fund Blog asks "Where now for Vladimir Putin?" And Daniel Drezner writes about Gates' eloquent response to Putin: So that's how
a competent Secretary of Defense acts. The other speeches are worth checking out as well ...
24 Mar, 2007 12:07 am
... it, no." Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently advocated the closure of Guantanamo. More....
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested during his first weeks in office in January, in
conversations with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and White House ... and the inmates transferred to facilities on U.S. soil. Three senior defense officials said yesterday that
Gates was concerned that Guantanamo's notoriety would undermine the credibility of military commissions as they begin this year. The ...
11 Dec, 2007 12:28 pm
... also huge compared to other foreign policy instruments. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates
for instance calls for more money and effort to "soft power" tools, ... just any man, and not just any dog. Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates decried the vast disproportion between America's annual investment in the Pentagon ... 700 billion - and what is spent on the State
Department - about $35 billion. That's less, Gates said in a speech in Kansas, than the Defense Department spends on healthcare. The total
number ...
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