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7 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm
Notably, within 48 hours of President Trump issuing his threat, Defense Secretary Mark Esper disavowed the domestic use of military force to quell protests, and Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who served for two years in the Trump Administration, broke his silence to decry President Trump’s threats as antithetical to American values. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 11:15 am
Dowd’s letter is a response to former Secretary of Defense James “Jim” Mattis’s open letter to the president criticizing his treatment of protesters and accusing him of turning the public against one another. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 5:30 am
” NY Times“James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. [read post]
20 May 2020, 6:16 am
Trainor previously served in the president’s administration as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, in the Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 1:04 pm
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was marginalized for providing military advice regarding Syria, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired for disagreeing with the president on issues ranging from North Korea to Russia. [read post]
26 Mar 2020, 2:49 pm
” Former Defense Secretary James Mattis said Trump has a “fifth—or sixth grader” view of world events. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 1:14 pm
Trainor previously served in the president’s administration as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, in the Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 7:00 am
Third, in an echo of the Bay of Pigs planning process, advocacy and evaluation roles were undifferentiated, as then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford briefed the Defense Department-generated plan and offered their “unreserved endorsement. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 9:32 am
" The suit cites Trump's instructions to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis to "screw Amazon" out of the contract, as recounted by Mattis' former chief speechwriter, and numerous other incidents of direct interference by Trump in the contract competition, including ordering an "independent" review of the contract by Defense Secretary Mark Esper in August of 2019. [read post]
20 Oct 2019, 7:00 am
As much as nation-building features in the news, the straightforward answer from senior U.S. officials has been the terrorist threat, as Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated in 2017 Senate hearings: “We must always remember, we are in Afghanistan to make America safer and ensure South Asia cannot be used to plot transnational attacks against the U.S. homeland or our partners and allies. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 3:19 am
For earlier thoughts on that see here: In Defense of America First: Brief Reflections on the Resignation of James Mattis as U.S. [read post]
10 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
New York Attorney General Letitia James reportedly met with officials from the U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 3:42 pm
In his December resignation letter, General James Mattis offered an end date over two months out to “allow sufficient time for a successor to be nominated and confirmed,” but President Trump demanded he leave by the end of the year. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 1:04 pm
The 2018 memorandum adopted then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s recommendations that: Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service, except under the following limited circumstances (1) if they have been stable for 36 consecutive months in their biological sex prior to accession; (2) Service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria after entering into service may be retained if they do not require a… [read post]
20 May 2019, 11:00 am
It was only after James Mattis resigned as defense secretary and Shanahan became acting secretary that President Trump declared the situation at America’s southern border a national emergency, purportedly triggering authorities that the president says allow him to shift funds allocated for other military construction projects to building a border wall. [read post]
2 May 2019, 5:00 am
Despite Defense Secretary James Mattis’s request to stay F-35-related legislative action, the fiscal 2019 NDAA and the fiscal 2019 Omnibus Authorization Act (§ 8123) both required reports from the Department of Defense and the Department of State concerning the S-400 and F-35 purchases. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 5:00 am
In March, a top U.S. diplomat, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, visited Serbia and called for Kosovo to lift its tariffs against Serbia. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 11:29 am
After President Trump’s inauguration and an initial tweet by the president that called for a return to the ban, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis coordinated a review of Carter’s changes. [read post]
10 Mar 2019, 8:08 am
Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency The cause of government transparency finally broke through to the popular zeitgeist this year. [read post]
9 Mar 2019, 9:33 am
The day after Judge Russell’s ruling, the government filed a notice with the district court in D.C. stating that Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan now “plans to release a Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) formally implementing the new policy in the near future. [read post]
