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19 Mar 2013, 11:33 am by Tom Smith
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel chose Friday afternoon to announce one of the biggest switcheroos of the Obama Presidency: The Pentagon now plans to fortify America's homeland defenses against missile attack, reversing a 2009 decision that was part of President Obama's fantasy of a world without nuclear weapons. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
Former Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is, at this hour, giving this speech at Fordham Law School in New York: Keynote address at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School:  A “Drone Court”: Some Pros and Cons by Jeh Charles Johnson[1] March 18, 2013 [preliminary extemporaneous remarks] Thank you for this invitation. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:06 am by Jack Goldsmith
”  The story notes that “legal advisers at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are now weighing whether the law can be stretched to cover what one former official called ‘associates of associates. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 7:11 am by Jeralyn
There has been a mass hunger strike going on since February at Guantanamo, mostly by detainees in Camp Six, the least restrictive unit. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 4:15 am by Benjamin Wittes
  If, as one of the Senators asked, a man was actually pointing a bazooka at the Pentagon, it does in fact follow that the President could and should kill that man before that attack occurred. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 12:46 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
Today, President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Thomas E. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 10:10 am
Back in 2004, the Pentagon released a list of the types of people it was holding at Guantánamo Bay as “enemy combatants” — a list that included people who were “involved in terrorist financing. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 12:23 pm by Jack Goldsmith
”  I assume he means “to target,” not “to kill,” for he and Senator Paul agree that the President has could lawfully use lethal force to stop the planes descending on the Pentagon on 9/11, thereby killing noncombatant American citizen passengers as collateral damage.) [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 11:49 am by Christine Nielsen
The House of Representatives has passed a continuing resolution (“CR”) to fund the remainder of the fiscal year that, while capping spending at sequester-driven amounts, allows the Pentagon greater leeway in implementing the cuts. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 9:50 am by Raffaela Wakeman
But officials said legal advisers at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are now weighing whether the law can be stretched to cover what one former official called “associates of associates. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 9:03 pm by Lyle Denniston
  But the prosecutor was then overruled by a higher Pentagon official. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 11:53 am by Ritika Singh
Carlo Munoz of the Hill tells us that the Pentagon is considering stationing more than 13,000 American troops there. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 9:09 am by Raffaela Wakeman
U.S. concerns ranging from creating jobs in the Pentagon to bringing jobs home through trade wars will only hurt global economic growth. [read post]
3 Mar 2013, 6:06 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Pentagonal sinks that go to triangular base. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 2:31 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Like the Pentagon’s recent move to rescind its 1994 combat exclusion policy that barred women from serving in ground combat. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 2:21 pm by Ritika Singh
He was sworn in today, and has to immediately turn to the $46 billion in spending cuts that will hit the Pentagon on Friday. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 11:30 pm by Rumpole
Less money in the economy just when the economy was recovering. 600,000 women and children cut off from nutritional aid by WIC. 800,000 civilian employees of the pentagon getting furloughs amounting to a 20% cut in their income. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 2:36 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The Bay of Pigs, the Pentagon Papers, warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency at home, targeted killings by the Central Intelligence Agency abroad: The contours of these and countless other government activities have emerged over the years through anonymous disclosures of confidential information to the press. [read post]