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30 Aug 2010, 11:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Washington Post is reporting that a State Department contractor has been charged with leaking defense information to Fox News: A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a series of investigations into unauthorized government leaks to news organizations under the Obama administration. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 9:57 am
The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense recently changed its mailing address. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 11:06 pm
However, the Tigray Defense Force, a guerrilla warfare group, did not agree to the government’s ceasefire. [read post]
23 Jan 2005, 11:21 am
[JURIST] The US Defense Department Saturday finished Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings [DOD background briefing] for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 11:48 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] challenging a government policy that allows border patrol to search electronic devices without reasonable suspicion. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 2:03 pm
[JURIST] A federal judge blocked [press release] the Department of Defense [official website] Monday from enacting a merit pay system for its government employees. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 11:44 am
The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced [press release] Sunday that Shawqi Awad Balzuhair will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the government of Cape Verde, a small country off the Western coast of Africa. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 12:15 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Friday asked [memorandum, PDF] the federal courts to dismiss a case brought by the Miami Herald [media website] demanding to know how much money the government spent to build a prison facility at Guantanamo. [read post]
26 Oct 2005, 7:05 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees on a hunger strike [JURIST report] must be notified by the Defense Department before their clients may be force fed against their will, US District Judge Gladys Kessler [official profile] ruled Wednesday. [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 1:01 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website; JURIST news archive] might drop charges [case materials] of disclosing national defense secrets against former pro-Israel lobbyists Steven Rosen [Washington Post profile] and Keith Weissman, a senior official said Tuesday. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 10:04 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced Monday that it has transferred three more Guantanamo detainees [press release], one each to Afghanistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. [read post]
25 Feb 2004, 1:06 pm
Read the Defense Department press release here. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 8:15 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced Tuesday that it had transferred [press release] Guantanamo [JURIST background] detainee Abdul Shalabi. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 1:09 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced Wednesday that it will transfer two Guantanamo detainees [press release] to Algeria. [read post]
6 Apr 2006, 5:24 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] said Thursday that a review of one of the government's national security databases, the Threat and Local Observation Notice system or TALON program [Wired report], uncovered approximately 260 improper entries into the system. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 8:11 pm
In a report issued earlier today, the federal government’s Government Accountability Office concludes that the Obama administration violated a “clear and unambiguous law” when it exchanged five high-ranking Taliban leaders for captured US soldier Bowe Bergdahl without first giving Congress 30 days advance notice, as required by the 2014 National Defense Appropriations Act [HT: Josh Blackman, who has a good post on the subject here]: In our view,… [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 4:05 am
The Department of Defense yesterday adopted a revised policy on religious accommodation in the military by issuing significant amendments to Department of Defense Instruction 1300.17 on Accommodation of Religious Practices Within the Military Services. [read post]
11 Nov 2021, 8:52 am
What’s more, it’s typical in situations like this one for a pre-indictment dialogue to take place between the Justice Department and defense lawyers, and for the defense to presage some of its arguments. [read post]
19 Jul 2015, 7:00 am
The growing portfolio of programs funded through the Defense Department (see Table 2) has added to the size and dispersal of such programs, including the Section 1206 program and training and equipping the Afghanistan and Iraq militaries. [read post]
4 Jan 2013, 7:13 am
Per the Department of Defense website at www.cac.mil, there are situations in which photocopying of U.S. government identification is permitted. [read post]
