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12 Jan 2017, 1:59 pm by James Kraska
In the aftermath of the U.S. decision not to ratify UNCLOS in 1982, President Reagan issued a U.S. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 1:30 pm by Helen Klein Murillo
Secretary of Defense nominee General James Mattis and CIA Director nominee Representative Mike Pompeo both began their hearings this morning. [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]
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, 12:27 pm by Quinta Jurecic
The Trump transition team may keep on Bob Work, the Obama administration’s Deputy Secretary of Defense, under General James Mattis for at least three months in order to ensure continuity at the Pentagon, the Post writes. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 8:30 am by Jack Goldsmith
  Offense has too great an advantage over defense. [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]
8 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
On that score, it is at least noteworthy that James Mattis, his incoming choice for Secretary of Defense, is opposed to the torture of the Bush years.Domestically, even though Trump may share Bush’s antipathy for federal prosecutions, he will quickly be warned against transferring terrorism suspects to Guantanamo after their arrest in the United States, since the legal consequence would likely be to create a more robust constitutional regime for all Guantanamo prisoners. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 11:01 am by Quinta Jurecic
And tension is growing between the transition team and General James Mattis, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, over Mattis’s rejection of many of the transition team’s suggestions for Pentagon staffing and his push to allow anti-Trump Republicans to serve at DOD. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 9:30 pm by Luke Herrine
When it was first given the power to issue and collect student loans in 1958, the U.S. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 11:22 am by Quinta Jurecic
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michel Lettre, and NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Russian hacking and interference in the presidential election. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 11:42 am by Quinta Jurecic
Signatories include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former Acting and Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morrell, and former U.S. [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]
3 Jan 2017, 9:28 am by Quinta Jurecic
The Times takes a look at efforts by General James Mattis, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, to halt the use of torture at an Iraqi detention center run by Marines in 2003. [read post]