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12 Nov 2019, 9:50 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
In her testimony, Cooper said that the Department of Defense was given no advance warning of the hold or reason why the congressionally approved aid to Ukraine was withheld. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
“While we typically provide a rigorous defense for every statute enacted by the Legislature, in this case where there exists no plausible legal defense the better and less-costly course of action is for the Department of Agriculture to work with the Legislature to modify the statute so it complies with the U.S. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 5:28 pm by Charlotte Butash, Patrick McDonnell
Later, he would advise the Ukrainian defense minister to talk to Defense Secretary Mark Esper about the issue. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 5:39 am by Josh Blackman
At the time, I struggled to understand this rationale: why would the administration handcuff DOJ's defense of the rescission? [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 9:14 am by Guest Blogger
But the “no legal authority” rationale used to force the termination decision within the Administration ended up hamstringing DoJ’s legal defense. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 6:00 am by Elaine Kamarck
So remarkably, after 40 years of trying, in 1986 Congress passed the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act, and Reagan signed it. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 11:10 am by Gordon Ahl
The Justice Department charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia, reports the Washington Post. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 5:00 am by Arindrajit Basu
Further, on his trips to New Delhi, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has regularly argued that data localization restrictions are a barrier to U.S. companies and stressed the need to eliminate such barriers. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 4:17 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone
The plaintiff also cross-moved to permanently estop the defendants from asserting a statute of limitations defense. [read post]
3 Nov 2019, 7:00 am by Jessica Brandt
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act prohibited the use of its appropriated funds for Chinese-language instruction at Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes or at universities that host them. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 9:43 am by Gordon Ahl
State Department officials reportedly notified Congress of the decision on Thursday but did not offer a reason why the aid was blocked. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 5:00 am by Marina Chafa
The keynote speaker for the event was Glenn Gaffney, the Director of in-Q-Tel Labs and former Director for Science and Technology at the CIA, supported by featured speakers Dana White, Former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; Col. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 11:01 am by Simon Gregory Jerome
The first was the 2001 NDAA, which permitted the secretary of energy to establish an Arctic Energy Department. [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 11:53 am by Gordon Ahl
Deputy Secretary of State John J. [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 6:04 am by Bob Bauer
White House press Secretary Stephannie Grisham declared that the resolution did “nothing to change the fundamental fact that House Democrats refuse to provide basic due process rights to the administration. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 12:44 pm by William Ford
” The deputy assistant secretary replied that the State Department has not yet made that determination “as a matter of law” and elaborated at the House hearing the next day that Turkey’s status as a NATO ally complicates the prospect of sanctioning it under CAATSA. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 6:00 am by David Kris
’” NSIP explains how the FBI’s concerns about possible loss of autonomy to the director of national intelligence (DNI), and interagency competition with the Department of Homeland Security, significantly improved the relationship with its parent agency, the Department of Justice, which had been significantly tense in years past. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 1:07 pm by Gordon Ahl, William Ford
The subcommittee will hear testimony from David Schenker, the assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs, and Michael Harvey, the assistant administrator for the Middle East at the U.S. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 6:09 am by Emma Broches, Julia Solomon-Strauss
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has said that, so far, “more than a hundred” Islamic State foreign fighters have escaped from prisons guarded by Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) troops after the Kurds abandoned the prisons in order to try to fend off Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s forces. [read post]
24 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
” Critics like Doug Obegi of the Natural Resources Defense Council pointed out that U.S. [read post]