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15 Mar 2018, 2:31 pm by Grimes Teich Anderson LLP
And while 40 workers may not sound like a significant decline, when considering that the department was already understaffed and underfunded before 2017, the loss of inspectors is compounded. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 10:12 am by William Ford
Defense Secretary James Mattis pressured lawmakers to reject a bill that would end American support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, the Journal reports. [read post]
14 Mar 2018, 2:37 pm by Allison Murphy, Scott R. Anderson
This is consistent with the position that the Department of Defense has taken in recent congressional correspondence, as one of us has previously described. [read post]
13 Mar 2018, 7:41 am by Shannon Togawa Mercer, Matthew Kahn
In this case, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross initiated the department’s investigation on April 19 and sent a notification to Defense Secretary James Mattis that same day. [read post]
13 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
-backed Syrian Defense Forces in eastern Syria. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 1:15 pm by William Ford
Defense Secretary Mattis said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that Russia has developed nuclear weapons that can circumvent any U.S. missile defense system do not change the Defense Department’s plan to counter the Kremlin, the Post reports. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by Bob Bauer
The messenger was reportedly former staff secretary Rob Porter, who advised McGahn that failure to do as requested could lead to his dismissal. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 3:00 am by William Ford
Military Departments on the state of their services, the defense strategy, and important initiatives in the fiscal year 2019 budget. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 11:57 pm by Ryan Mulvey
  We now know, thanks to FOIA: how the Drug Enforcement Administration was hamstrung from going after suspicious opiate shipments; how the Department of Justice uses parallel construction to construe illegal searches as legal; how Environmental Administrator Scott Pruitt was personally involved in scrubbing climate change data from his agency’s website; how Afghanistan and Iraq wars proceeded day by day from the Secretary of Defense’s desk; how… [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 10:38 am by Scott R. Anderson
In October 2017, the Department of Defense reportedly issued new rules of engagement allowing for broader use of airstrikes in Afghanistan, as part of the new strategy that the Trump administration issued the prior month. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 1:38 pm by Jeh Johnson
Editor's Note: This post contains the text of a speech that former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is delivering this hour at the Boston Conference on Cybersecurity. *** Given my prior experience at the Defense Department, I came to the Department of Homeland Security with a counterterrorism orientation. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 12:35 pm by Hilary Hurd
Convening Authority Turnover Presiding Judge James Pohl began the Feb. 26 session with a discussion of Defense Secretary James Mattis’s sudden dismissal of convening authority Harvey Rishikof and legal adviser Gary Brown on Feb. 5. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 11:47 am by Sean Gallagher
And it came at a time when DOD leadership—and Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 11:33 am by William Ford
The State Department noted that career staffers are capable of handling leadership responsibilities at these locations until the administration, in conjunction with the department, nominates candidates for the positions. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 10:00 am by David Kris
” By contrast, “RT’s coverage of Secretary Clinton throughout the US presidential campaign was consistently negative and focused on her leaked e-mails and accused her of corruption, [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 11:03 am by William Ford
Early last week, President Trump met with Chief of Staff John Kelly, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and national security adviser H.R. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 10:58 am by Jordan Brunner
The Defense Department is developing an expanded missile defense policy that would focus on threats from Russia and China, while also bolstering efforts against rogue states like North Korea and Iran, the Washington Post reports. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 1:06 pm by William Ford
For months, Defense Secretary James Mattis and other administration officials have argued against the trade barriers, noting that they could undermine American security and economic ties. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 7:06 am by John Elwood
The court denied the Justice Department’s petition for certiorari before judgment in Department of Homeland Security v. [read post]