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29 May 2012, 8:14 am
The video conferences are run by the Pentagon, which oversees strikes in those countries, and participants do not hesitate to call out a challenge, pressing for the evidence behind accusations of ties to Al Qaeda. [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
These were agreed upon portions of Nixon’s secretly recorded conversations that related to Watergate, and Nixon’s earlier abuses of power, like ordering a break-in at the Brookings Institute to recover the so-called Pentagon Papers (a study prepared during the Johnson Administration of the origins of the Vietnam War), and the abusive efforts to prosecute (read: persecute) Daniel Ellsberg for leaking this material to the New York Times in 1971, which pre-dated Watergate. [read post]
8 May 2014, 10:50 am
The Post reports on Pentagon efforts to address concerns that virtual currencies could help terrorists and criminals evade law enforcement and launch attacks against the United States. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 7:25 am
After the conclusion of the Pentagon Papers Case (1971), in which Bickel served as the chief counsel to the New York Times (I was co-counsel), Justice Black was once heard to observe: “It’s too bad the Times couldn’t find someone who believes in the First Amendment. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 8:00 am
May 25th, 2010 The Honorable John McHugh Secretary of the Army 1400 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20310-1400 Dear Mr. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 2:56 am
And I think lobbyist salaries don’t match New York law firm salaries, while Pentagon procurement officials have far too difficult a tournament to win to get the payday of a job with Boeing. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 10:06 am
In the Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court said that there is a "heavy presumption" against the constitutional validity of a prior restraint. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm
In light of anticipated litigation, Pentagon lawyers should re-familiarize themselves with Witt v. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 7:09 am
Here is what the Financial Times reports today about the scope of U.S. involvement, based on a DOD memo that describes U.S. involvement as of mid-May: US military operations in Libya are on course to cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than the Pentagon estimated . . . . [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 2:13 pm
, Washington Post, Oct. 31, 2010 (apparently suggesting war, and its huge military expenditures, as a way out of recession, in spite of the already huge costs of Bush's two wars of choice) ; Conservatives Profess Support for Defense Budget Cuts But Still Want Weapons the Pentagon Calls Unnecessary, ThinkProgress, July 2010; Benjamin Fordham, Evolution of Republican and Democratic Positions on Cold War Military Spending (noting that the Republicans originally… [read post]
6 Mar 2010, 3:23 pm
Thomas Clementson, a spokesman for Regional Command East, told News Photographer magazine tonight that commanders in Afghanistan are "trying to strike a balance" with the new policy.The change in the embed rules about photographing KIAs comes only a few weeks after a Pentagon uproar – raised chiefly by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – after the Associated Press distributed a picture of U.S. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 3:26 pm
Andif they are theocratic rogue states that have said Israel should be wiped off the face of the map, andif we know for a fact (as we do), that the Israelis will strike first before they allow such a theocratic rogue state to build a nuclear weapon, andthat there’s probably nothing we can say to stop the Israelis from launching that sort of an, especially at present when the Israeli government is so weak (and when lots of folks in our own Pentagon — and not just the political… [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 11:34 am
Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change. [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 3:02 am
Senators on both sides of the aisle are frustrated with the Pentagon’s monthslong timeline for shipping the tanks. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 1:56 pm
And to be fair, the number of internal constituencies the President has to deal with is daunting: The Pentagon (which has plenty of smart and rights-interested people in it, along with a deeply vested institutional interest in seeing the next round of military commissions they’ve worked on for 8 years go forward with more earned respect than the last round); the intelligence community (which faces an unimaginably difficult task, which is ever burdened with building a new (intel… [read post]
14 Nov 2006, 1:41 pm
Once the habeas case is dismissed, the Justice Department filing says, the Pentagon will have a military status tribunal review his continued detention. [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 3:30 pm
http://ow.ly/2uihF # Watching The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers on Netflix, both intensely relevant and utterly archaic # I would be a happy coog! [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
The Pentagon and the State Department are also assisting the family with relocation to the United States. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 9:19 am
According to the National Journal, a senior Pentagon official has called U.S. actions toward Syria “consistent” with the Defense Department’s recently released “Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 8:03 am
The most easily accessible is this short piece in the Economist, "Robot Wars," June 7, 2007, here:But whereas UAVs and their ground-based equivalents, such as the machinegun-toting Sword robots, are usually controlled by distant human operators, the Pentagon would like to give these robots increasing amounts of autonomy, including the ability to decide when to use lethal force.To achieve this, Ronald Arkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, is developing a set of… [read post]
