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13 Sep 2007, 3:57 pm
At a Defense Department briefing on February 12, 2002, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said:Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. [read post]
6 Jul 2006, 2:41 am
[JURIST] The US House Committee on Government Reform [official website] is waiting for the US Defense Department and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to comply with a subpoena [press release] seeking to compel the Pentagon to turn over several documents, including all drafts of a key report in the Abu Ghraib [JURIST news archive] abuse investigation. [read post]
25 May 2019, 10:13 am
District Court for the Northern District of California has denied in part and granted in part a motion for a preliminary injunction against the government's construction of a border wall using funds reprogrammed by the Defense Department, enjoining the secretaries of defense, treasury and homeland security from taking action to construct a wall along certain sections of the U.S. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 3:45 pm
The following are declarations from Defense Secretary James Mattis, Acting Defense Department General Counsel William Castle, former Military Commissions Convening Authority Harvey Rishikof, and legal adviser Gary Brown on Rishikof and Brown’s firing. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 1:38 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense has cleared for release one of the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees who was a legal resident in the UK before his detention, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Sandy Hodgkinson said Thursday. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 7:39 am
[JURIST] The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website] threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official biography], according to a classified Defense Department report. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 1:53 pm
to this: The Defense Department is seeking an additional $42.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the total request for 2008 to nearly $190 billion, according to prepared testimony Defense Secretary Robert M. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 8:02 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] has notified Congress that it intends to transfer six Guantanamo detainees to Uruguay, officials said Wednesday. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 1:48 am
The directive, issued October 9 by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England [official profile] but only made public this week, supersedes [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 9:07 pm
The Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 includes an odd provision: completely discretionary authority for SECDEF or the service secretaries to pay "moneys" to "a member or former member of the armed forces [who] has suffered imprisonment as a result of an injustice or error of the Department of Defense or any of its employees acting in an official capacity following conviction by a court-martial. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 6:42 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday refused to intervene [opinion, PDF] to overturn a Defense Department [official websites] decision to continue the detention of Algerian prisoner Sufyian Barhoumi [CCR backgrounder]. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 5:12 pm
A Defense Department spokesman said Stimson had made his own decision to resign and was not asked to leave by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “He believed it hampered his [...] [read post]
10 Dec 2006, 8:05 am
US Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, in a November letter [PDF text] to Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman John Warner, had proposed to [read post]
21 Mar 2015, 9:05 am
Judge Alvin Hellerstein found that the legal certification filed in 2012 by then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was... [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 6:37 pm
Trump's memo, Mattis's memo and the Defense Department study on which Mattis's memo is based are all included below. [read post]
25 Dec 2006, 12:43 pm
Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England [official profile], the civilian in control of [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 4:59 pm
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [official profile] commented that Haynes' tenure as DOD general counsel was the longest in US history. [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 11:42 am
[T]he policy on who is allowed to serve will not change until the White House sends the Defense Department a rules change and the secretary of defense issues new guidelines. [read post]
8 Apr 2005, 5:46 am
[JURIST] In a letter [text] sent to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Thursday, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, slammed the Defense Department's proposed changes to the guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants for violating protections outlined in the Geneva Conventions. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 12:54 pm
The scope of the problem remains unclear, but Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work told a ... [read post]
