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1 Jul 2011, 1:31 pm
The U.S. signed the Convention in 1998, but has never ratified the Rotterdam Convention. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 12:02 pm
The outgoing secretary of defense may well be the one senior U.S. official of the past decade to leave office with his reputation not only intact, but actually enhanced. [read post]
A salute to Robert Gates and a diatribe against the U.S. Postal Service--and why the two are linked.
30 Jun 2011, 10:53 am
Kevin Ferris wrote a lovely piece about departing defense secretary Robert Gates (here), who has served honorably in his position, putting the troops' needs first.And speaking of our troops, I was hoping to be able to send paperbacks to them via Operation Paperback, but our postal service decided to send them back to me instead. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 8:57 am
Give this to President Obama: he has a lighter touch than his Secretary of State. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 7:16 pm
Nor has the Secretary of Labor promulgated a regulation setting out such limits. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 7:59 pm
”To ensure against identity theft, one of our first lines of defense is a phone number. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 10:11 am
The government demanded the money back after Defense Secretary Dick Cheney claimed in 1991 that the companies were in default on a 1988 contract to build eight of the planes for $4.4 billion. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 7:26 am
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26 Jun 2011, 8:44 pm
Secretary, 2011 U.S. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 4:44 am
" Four Afghan and five Iraqi citizens captured and subsequently held in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively, by the United States military sued Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of the United States Department of Defense, and three high-ranking Army officers (collectively, defendants) under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 3:25 pm
("FMA"), courts should defer to the Secretary's own interpretation of her FMA powers; 2) whether the FMA authorizes the Secretary's preemption of state and local property tax laws; and 3) whether upholding the Secretary's creation and conferral of retroactive tax exemptions under the FMA is contrary to Supreme Court precedent. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 12:16 pm
McNamara, President Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense, reflected very candidly on his life in governmental and the actions taken by the United States in World War II and other conflicts. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 10:44 am
Four Afghan and five Iraqi citizens captured and subsequently held in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively, by the United States military sued Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of the United States Department of Defense, and three high-ranking Army officers (collectively, defendants) under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 1:00 pm
It does not preclude a person from raising any available statute of limitations defense in that venue. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:03 am
" Similarly, at his confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Defense, CIA Director Leon Panetta called for Washington to expand its shadow wars. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 8:06 am
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former U.S. official George P. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 1:17 am
Secretary State for Justice, seeks to assuage businesses that the parameters of the Act are not intended to prohibit reasonable client development activities: "Rest assured, -- no one wants to stop firms getting to know their clients by taking them to events like Wimbledon or the Grand Prix. [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 12:29 pm
Defense Secretary Robert Gates shares his thoughts on the U.S. and war in an interview Friday: “If we were about to be attacked or had been attacked or something happened that threatened a vital U.S. national interest, I would be the first in line to say, ‘Let’s go,’ ” Mr. [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 5:35 am
Charlie Savage writes that President Obama took the unusual step of overruling the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and the top counsel for the Defense Department in order to conclude that the U.S.'s participation in the war in Libya did not amount to "hostilities or "imminent hostilities. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 12:33 pm
Roundup is the brand name for an herbicide produced by the U.S. company Monsanto. [read post]
