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21 Jun 2016, 12:41 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
Patrick Tucker of Defense One notes that Michele Flournoy, a former top-ranking official in the Pentagon under President Barack Obama and a likely contender to be Secretary of Defense in a potential Hillary Clinton administration, has called for more U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State and the Syrian regime. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 4:47 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
According to an official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the department is planning to take actions to develop these material declarations standards. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:00 pm by John Elwood
The VRA is an obscure federal law known only to Appointment Gnomes in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (I was one), angry members of Congress who swear that the executive branch is abusing the act, and the acting officials who serve tenuously under it. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 2:22 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The move is indicative of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s new “NATO playbook,” which is meant to shift NATO’s posture from “reassurance” to “deterrence. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 5:11 am by Walter Pincus
Symington and I arrived at a conference room at the State Department to be met by an entourage of department officials. [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 12:35 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
Ben Wittes connected Donald Trump’s guarantee in an interview with CBS’s John Dickerson that he would prosecute Secretary Hillary Clinton with an earlier post he wrote warning how a determined president could wield the Department of Justice as a political weapon. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 12:22 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Cody M. Poplin
  National Defense Magazine outlines Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s  “huge” new ideas to expand the Pentagon’s tech pipeline. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 11:36 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
-armed rebels in Aleppo are paying the price for bureaucratic infighting between the CIA and the Department of Defense. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 1:25 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Similarly, I would question the ethics of anyone who would agree to serve as Secretary of Defense for a man who openly promises war crimes. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 6:25 am by Jared Beck
 Hillary Clinton’s emails, during her tenure as Secretary of State, are undeniably documents related to “the national defense. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 12:32 pm by Alex R. McQuade
In other news on the Somali militant group, the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullahi Haji Daud, one of al Shabaab’s senior military commanders, was the target of an airstrike in south-central Somalia. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 10:50 am by Eugene Volokh
Yesterday, Wemple reports, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs John Kirby said: A portion of the State Department’s December 2nd, 2013 press briefing was missing from the video that we posted on our YouTube account and on our website. [read post]
31 May 2016, 7:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Secretary of Defense may determine that service for the Armed F orces by a group of civilians or contractors will be considered active service, allowing members of those groups to be considered veterans for purposes of VA benefits. [read post]
29 May 2016, 9:09 am by Susan Hennessey
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. [read post]
26 May 2016, 2:50 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Secretary Ban Ki-moon, Russia’s U.N. [read post]
24 May 2016, 4:52 pm by David Kopel
President Bill Clinton’s housing and urban development secretary, Andrew Cuomo, arranged for dozens of local housing authorities to bring their own suits. [read post]
24 May 2016, 2:11 pm by Caitlin Gilligan, Alex R. McQuade
” In addition to extending drone strikes into Baluchistan, President Obama authorized the Department of Defense to execute the strike, denying “Pakistan the fig leaf of a covert operation” conducted by the CIA. [read post]
24 May 2016, 9:00 am by Steve Vladeck
" As Judge Kavanaugh put it in Khadr, "this is a serious issue — one that Congress and the Department of Defense would be wise to address and resolve promptly, either by expressly barring the civilian judges on the U.S. [read post]