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1 Nov 2016, 12:17 pm by Quinta Jurecic
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has promised that the offensive on the ISIS-held Syrian city of Raqqa will begin “within weeks,” and it now appears that the goal is to remove Raqqa as a potential refuge for ISIS fighters fleeing Mosul. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 7:30 am by Graham Webster
As shown in the chart below, the Defense Department’s annual reports show challenges to China’s baselines in fiscal years 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (the last year for which data is available). [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 11:49 am by Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes
On July 5, Comey held a press conference concerning “the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State. [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 5:36 am by Chris Mirasola
For more on the US FONOP program, see this compendium of reports from the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
Department of Defense issued an interim final rule amending the procedures for issuance of Department of Defense identification cards. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 12:09 pm by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that a new offensive against the Islamic State’s capital in Raqqa is only weeks away, NBC reports. [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 10:41 am by Stewart Baker
Then, as the junior member of the podcast crew, Katie also finds herself called on to explain when defense contractors have to disclose cyberattacks to the Department. [read post]
23 Oct 2016, 3:54 pm by Jared Beck
Yet, subsequent to the investigation’s official close, a portrait of an even more defensive Comey has emerged, alongside evidence strongly suggesting the FBI’s own complicity in the Justice Department’s unabashed endeavor to shield Clinton from prosecution. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 6:05 am by Chris Mirasola
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also seems out of step with Duterte. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 7:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
In a statement, the Defense Department characterized the U.S. action as “limited self-defense strikes” and said the United States “will respond to any further threat to our ships and commercial traffic. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 9:08 am by Quinta Jurecic
Thursday, October 20 at 4:30pm: At Johns Hopkins SAIS, Adam Szubin, Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence for the Treasury Department, will speak on Combating Terrorist Financing: Advances and Challenges Fifteen Years After 9/11. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 8:54 am by Chris Mirasola
Duterte (perhaps) makes good on (some) threats to US relationship President Duterte and Defense Secretary Lorenzana oversee military exercise (Photo: AFP) Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana put plans for joint patrols and naval exercises with the United States on hold, per President Duterte’s instructions. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 1:53 pm by Elizabeth Litten
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a cloud service provider (CSP) maintaining a client’s protected health information (PHI) is a business associate even when the CSP can’t access or view the PHI. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 10:55 am by Elena Chachko, Ashley Deeks
  Territorial State(s): Cambodia Non-state Actor: Viet Cong    Year(s): 1970 Official statements: Former State Department Legal Adviser John Stevenson’s statement to the NYC Bar Association, Legal Aspects of U.S. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 7:54 am by Charlie Dunlap
” I say “deceptively easy” narrative, because although How Everything Became War often uses Rosa’s own experiences working in the Pentagon for a little over two years—not, interestingly, as a practicing lawyer, but instead as a senior advisor to Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy—its point is not memoir as such. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 5:16 am by Chris Mirasola
Secretary Carter then flew to Hawaii and met with ASEAN defense ministers to discuss strategies for defusing incidents in the South China Sea. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 4:44 am by John DeLong, Susan Hennessey
The views expressed here are entirely our own and do not reflect those of the NSA, Department of Defense, any part of the federal government, or those of any of our current affiliations. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 5:40 pm by John Bellinger
 In 2007, when I was State Department Legal Adviser, Congressional conferees added a provision in the conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 that made extensive amendments to terrorism exception the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to reverse losses that plaintiffs’ lawyers had experienced in court. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 8:11 am by Emma Borden
U.S. officials have described the three diplomatic efforts as formally unrelated, but as Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iranian Affairs Christopher Backemeyer explained, Washington sought to capitalize on “significant diplomatic momentum that allowed us to advance U.S. interests all at the same time. [read post]