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2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
In the other set of talons, he swapped the olive branch for a wad of cash and replaced the United States’ Latin motto with a Spanish insult. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 10:26 am
Around the same time, candidate Trump announced that he hoped Russia would recover emails described as missing from a private server used by Clinton when she was Secretary of State (he later said that he was speaking sarcastically). [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 8:43 pm
To establish a criminal conspiracy, a prosecutor must show, among other elements, that two or more persons agreed to either violate a federal criminal law or defraud the United States. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 10:00 am
Similar arguments have emerged about the recent indictment of Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 12:01 am
[The Espionage Act of June, 1917, made it a crime to “convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies when the United States is at war, to cause or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or to willfully obstruct the… [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 8:07 pm
Green card holders live in the United States as our neighbors and serve in our Armed Forces. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 12:05 pm
And in the Post, Condoleeza Rice and Robert Gates have an op-ed arguing that the United States should counter the Kremlin through a realpolitik program of deconfliction, no-fly zones, and “robust support for Kurdish forces, Sunni tribes, and what’s left of the Iraqi special forces. [read post]
7 Sep 2015, 9:31 pm
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]
6 Apr 2014, 9:30 am
That case named President Obama, then-Defense Secretary Robert M. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:30 am
My goal here is to set out what I believe are the pros and cons, based on my prior personal experience as the senior legal official of the Department of Defense, a federal prosecutor, and as a career litigator. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 1:30 pm
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]
A salute to Robert Gates and a diatribe against the U.S. Postal Service--and why the two are linked.
30 Jun 2011, 10:53 am
I'm starting to wonder why we still have a United States Postal Service, when it's staffed by too many people with too little initiative. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:05 am
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]
17 Mar 2011, 6:52 pm
The bill imposes such tough requirements on transfers of the last Guantánamo captives that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he might not be able to approve any release. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 6:05 pm
Gates, the Secretary of the United States Department of Defense (collectively “the Navy”). [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 8:00 am
As the NY Times reports, Defense Secretary Robert M. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 8:00 am
As the NY Times reports, Defense Secretary Robert M. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 11:27 am
Despite the failure of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark last December to produce any binding greenhouse gas emission (“GHG”) reduction laws, nations will continue working toward a global climate treaty. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 4:32 am
He also stated: I'm not going to continue to tolerate indefinite delay on the part of the United States government. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 1:33 pm
Within hours after a group of Guantanamo Bay detainees asked the Supreme Court to overturn a recent federal appeals court ruling against the prisoners’ rights (see this post), the Justice Department made a new use of that ruling — this time, to try to head off a contempt-of-court claim against Defense Secretary Robert M. [read post]
