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17 Jan 2017, 1:03 pm by Quinta Jurecic , Jordan Brunner
Reuters reports that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his country viewed Trump’s dim view of NATO with “anxiety” and noted that the President-elect’s statements on the alliance contradicted those of his nominee for Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 8:30 am by J. Dana Stuster
”   Trump’s Cabinet Picks Discuss Middle East Policy in Confirmation Hearings President-elect Trump’s picks to head the State and Defense Departments testified before the U.S. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 1:33 pm by Nora Ellingsen
Mattis to serve as secretary of defense, despite the fact that he has served in the military within the past seven years. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 5:00 am by Chris Mirasola
Current Secretary of Defense Ash Carter made his own legacy speech, of a kind, this week – publishing an exit memo on the Department of Defense’s accomplishments during the Obama administration. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
.), the nominee for Attorney General; former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the nominee for Secretary of State; and retired Marine General James Mattis, the nominee for Secretary of Defense, whose confirmation would require waiving a law that forces Defense Secretaries to have been retired from military service for at least seven years. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 1:18 pm by Jane Chong
Denials can be appealed to "the DIRNSA's designee," then to to DIRNSA, the Secretary of Defense, and finally the DNI. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 8:56 am by Russell Spivak
  Though not a party to Additional Protocol I, the United States, in the 2015 Defense Department Law of War Manual, cites the Protocol’s proportionality rule in adopting the rule itself. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 5:40 am by SHG
A variation of this theme was hurled at the nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 12:45 pm by Helen Klein Murillo
In hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, defense experts Kathleen Hicks and Eliot Cohen endorsed General James Mattis’s nomination for Defense Secretary, but noted that the government should be careful not to set a precedent of recent military leaders heading the Department. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 12:35 pm by Kevin Russell and Charles Davis
While serving as attorney general, Pryor wrote a brief in defense of the Texas law banning sodomy that was later struck down in Lawrence v. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 8:30 am by Jack Goldsmith
   For example: Putin attributes the embarrassing and destabilizing protests that began in Russia after the December 2011 legislative election to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s charges of voter fraud in the election and the “signal” her State Department sent to opposition leaders in Russia. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 12:13 pm by Quinta Jurecic
This week is set to be a busy time for the transition process as Senate Republicans prepare to hold hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 9:22 am by Quinta Jurecic
Thursday, January 12th at 9:30am: The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for General James Mattis, Donald Trump's appointee for Secretary of Defense. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 3:00 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
Kantwill served as the director of the Pentagon’s Office of Legal Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel & Readiness. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 7:32 am by Quinta Jurecic
On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee convened a hearing with DNI James Clapper, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre, and NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 5:35 pm by Jon Gelman
"Outdated exposure limits do not adequately protect workers from beryllium exposure," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 5:00 am by Chris Mirasola
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, for example, asserted that, “Our entitlement to our EEZ [Exclusive Economic Zone] remains. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm by Luke Herrine
But as we have seen with defense to repayment and closed school discharges, the Department’s own implementation of its powers cannot be taken as a guide to those powers’ limits. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm by Luke Herrine
With help from attorneys, students advocating for defense of repayment discharge created their own discharge application, since the Department did not even have one. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 9:44 am by Quinta Jurecic
 Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Marcel Lettre, and Director of the National Security Agency Admiral Michael Rogers will provide testimony. [read post]