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10 Jun 2020, 5:00 am by Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Jackie Speier
For example, recall the work of future Secretary of Defense Gen. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 10:11 am
Hillary Clinton went to her new office today and met with State Department employees. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 7:38 am by Howard Friedman
 He said in part:The Defense Department's current regulations regarding transgender service members are outdated and are causing uncertainty that distracts commanders from our core missions.... [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 8:21 pm by Andrew Morgan
US President Donald Trump [official website] on Friday directed [Presidential Memorandum] the Secretaries of the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) [official websites] to continue prior policies banning transgender individuals from military service. [read post]
21 Jun 2005, 1:22 pm
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan pointed to some 10 previous investigations [press release] and maintained that Defense Department and Pentagon investigations would continue as necessary with any guilty parties being held [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 1:52 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] announced Friday that two more Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees have been charged with war crimes. [read post]
1 Oct 2011, 9:48 am by Erin Bock
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Friday issued a memorandum [text, PDF] giving military chaplains permission to participate in or officiate same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive] ceremonies. [read post]
1 Nov 2006, 6:04 am
[JURIST] Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez [official profile, in Spanish] has signed an order allowing Guatemala [JURIST news archive] to extradite former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo [Wikipedia profile] so that he can face charges of embezzlement for alleged misuse of defense department funds during his presidency, Mexican officials said Tuesday. [read post]
7 Dec 2004, 5:16 pm
[JURIST] A long-awaited reported to Congress by the US Defense Department Inspector General has concluded that "leadership failures" by multiple Air Force secretaries, military chiefs of staff, legal officers and superintendents of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs resulted in a decade of sexual abuse and harassment of female cadets at the elite facilty. [read post]
20 Dec 2004, 2:48 pm
[JURIST] The Department of Defense announced Monday that according to a DOD panel a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay was wrongly classified as an enemy combatant and would be released soon. [read post]
26 Oct 2006, 7:48 am
[JURIST] The US Defense Department said Wednesday that it is considering plans to increase the number of courtrooms at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] in order to begin trying suspected terrorists, a proposal that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 1:14 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Bloomberg.com reports that the contested plan, crafted by recently-departed Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, was ‘less restrictive’ than the all-out ban first proposed by Trump. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 1:29 pm by Dan Taglioli
[JURIST] A coalition of environmental protection organizations sued the US Department of the Interior [official website], Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [official profile] and other officials on Tuesday in an effort to block offshore oil drilling by Royal Dutch Shell [corporate website] in Alaska's Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. [read post]
30 Mar 2005, 10:05 am
[JURIST] The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals [DOD backgrounder] for all Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees have been completed. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 11:26 pm by Glenn Reynolds
It’s worse than the rejection of official visits to Beijing by overly eager Defense secretaries. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 12:44 am
[JURIST] US Defense Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson apologized Wednesday for remarks [JURIST report] he made last week criticizing lawyers at top US law firms for representing Guantanamo detainees pro bono. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 12:08 am
I should have thought something like director of procurement at the Department of Defense. [read post]
13 Jul 2006, 2:10 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan [official profile] said Thursday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to detainees in US military custody [JURIST report] "strengthens the international rule of law, and is true to the U.S.'s strong tradition of respect for civil liberties. [read post]