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7 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm
President Trump opposed the act in part because it required the Pentagon to rename military bases and installations named after Confederate leaders. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 4:54 am
A former Pentagon official said the sale of F-15 and F-16 fighter jets were being discussed. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 9:07 am
Department of Justice did not justify a publication prior restraint of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Perhaps 2020 Pentagon guidelines emphasizing the use of ex gratia payments as a counterinsurgency tool—as a way to maintain friendly relationships—is something the military views as unnecessary when there are no or few boots on the ground.Given these shortcomings, in the final post, Jennifer Robbennolt and I will outline what we believe a robust amends policy would look like. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 4:00 am
Last year, under pressure from politicians citing spiraling expenses, the Pentagon backed out of a $6.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martin and AgustaWestland to provide 28 new, state-of-the-art birds. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 9:09 am
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]
11 Dec 2013, 12:43 pm
Dog sniffing car after 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon Dogs are great, and no one is going to challenge that dogs have the ability to hear and to smell things that human beings cannot. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 7:54 pm
She repeatedly pressed Garre on whether there was any other authority for keeping the Uighurs at Guantanamo once the Pentagon decided they were no longer “enemy combatants. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 3:30 am
” In his famous farewell address to the nation in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of what he called the “military-industrial complex”: an excessively close nexus between the Pentagon, defense contractors, and elected officials that could lead to unnecessary expansion of the armed forces, superfluous military spending, and a breakdown of checks and balances within the policy making process. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 6:33 am
“The Pentagon’s statistics indicate 84 to 86 percent of ongoing kill-or-capture operations involved no use of violence,” Govern said, maintaining that “elected legislators” must be trusted to perform their role as “oversight” and the military to “ensure a detailed planning process” precedes every operation.When asked whether the targeted killings of Osama Bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki were legal and ethical under the principles of… [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 6:52 pm
Gonzales Knew About FBI Lawbreaking Surveillance Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means ACLU Sues for Patriot Act Documents from CIA and Pentagon FBI Denies Data Mining Grocery Records [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 12:56 am
It was in March of 2003 that the Department of Justice told the Pentagon that the President could, as Commander-in-Chief, disregard those statutory constraints (as well as those imposed by the Torture Act and the Convention Against Torture). [read post]
12 May 2015, 9:36 am
The Post’s Walter Pincus examines discussions about the Pentagon’s budget currently taking place before Congress, and notes that “the United States has been preparing for war or been at war for at least two generations. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 6:17 am
Doing away with the “combat and non-combat” distinction may only lead to another definitional hurdle; what are the “gender-neutral standards” for combat stressed by Pentagon officials following the announcement. [read post]
12 Mar 2006, 3:28 pm
Taheri-azar informed the judge he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah," and it was apparently the will of Allah that he get behind the wheel of Allah.Meanwhile, a new Washington Post/ABC poll finds that, in the words of the Post, "nearly half of Americans -- 46 percent -- have a negative view of Islam, seven percentage points higher than in the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, when Muslims… [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 9:16 am
And Justice Breyer was skeptical that it made any real difference that the U.S. soldiers holding the detainees operated as part of a multinational force, given that it was clear that they took their commands from the Pentagon and the President. [read post]
27 Mar 2010, 12:55 pm
Which states that Pentagon contractors may not receive federal funds if they seek to enforce arbitration of sexual assault or harassment claims against them. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 12:11 pm
As of Friday afternoon, the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy is nominally still in effect, but an existing order by the Ninth Circuit bars the Pentagon and field commanders from discharging, punishing or investigating any member of the military for allegedly violating the policy. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 7:57 am
Even with this modest reduction in Pentagon spending, Obama's budget proposal still leaves an extreme imbalance between military and non-military spending. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 6:31 pm
(He was cleared for release by the Pentagon more than three years ago; he is now in his eighth year as a detainee.) [read post]
