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10 Jul 2018, 5:16 am by Mark Walsh
(Ashley was a personal secretary to President George W. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 3:00 am by Anne Shale
In a pointed letter directed to the Secretary of Defense, Robert M. [read post]
19 May 2010, 6:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Attorney General Cuomo has also notified Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of the Army John McHugh of the findings of his investigation. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 7:04 am by David Lat
The conflict in Libya.On these and many other critical national security legal issues, one of the most important advisers to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and President Barack Obama’s White House has been Jeh C. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:05 am by JB
In fact, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has more or less admitted that although the revelations in the cables are embarrassing, they are not life threatening and do not seriously harm national security. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 2:07 pm by Benjamin Wittes
President Bush’s own Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, wants to close it. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
It is in this atmosphere that the idea of a national security court as a solution to the problem — an idea that for a long time existed only on the margins of the debate about U.S. counterterrorism policy but is now entertained by more mainstream thinkers such as Senator Diane Feinstein and a man I respect greatly, my former client Robert Gates – has gained momentum. [read post]
7 Sep 2015, 9:31 pm by Paul R. Verkuil
A few years ago, Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, was embarrassed to say he did not know how many contractors worked for the U.S. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 1:30 pm by Benjamin Wittes
  The President, the Vice President, the National Security Adviser, the Vice President’s national security adviser, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security — are themselves all lawyers. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 10:00 am by David Kris
Similar arguments have emerged about the recent indictment of Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Three former Trump campaign aides charged by Mueller acknowledged violating FARA in their guilty pleas: Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and Michael Flynn. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 6:24 am by J. Paul Pope
 Former Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, British historian Christopher Andrew, and many others have written important books on presidents and intelligence. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 7:45 am by Elina Saxena
Following a moment of silence for and subsequent discussion of the death of Justice Scalia, Dickerson sought to address concerns expressed by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates “that the solutions being offered [in the campaign] are so simplistic and so at odds with the way the world really works," amid significant bickering between the candidates. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 4:32 am
There's no reason for any of these prisoners, several of whom were cleared under Bush, to be held for one minute longer.Last week, the Obama administration finally admitted that it might not be possible to close Guantánamo by the President's self-imposed deadline of January 22, 2010, when defense secretary Robert Gates told ABC News' "This Week" that it was "going to be tough" to meet the deadline. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 8:07 pm by Nora Ellingsen
  Unsurprisingly, President Trump’s Executive Order suspending immigrant and refugee entry to the US has set off a firestorm of high-profile reactions. [read post]
The weeks-long lag between Attorney General William Barr’s announcement of Robert Mueller’s top-line findings and the release of the Mueller report itself created space for an alternate reality in which the document released today might give rise to such a statement. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 10:26 am by Hadley Baker, Mikhaila Fogel
’” [Vol. 1, p. 49] “In debriefings with the Office, former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates said that [redacted: harm to ongoing matter] Gates recalled candidate Trump being generally frustrated that the Clinton emails had not been found. [read post]