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4 Oct 2017, 11:02 am
Defense Secretary James Mattis said that upholding the Iran nuclear deal was in U.S. interests, contradicting President Trump’s criticism of the agreement, according to the New York Times. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 8:02 am
The size of the deployment has not been discussed publicly, but the proposal follows comments from Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 10:44 am
The New York Times examines how Trump’s appointment of McMaster as national security adviser creates a powerful troika of senior officers who served in Iraq in Cabinet-level positions within the Trump administration, with the others being Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 12:13 pm
The Post also takes a look at the hard line toward Iran held by Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. [read post]
7 May 2023, 6:30 am
Murdoch or George Shultz, the former secretary of state who helped end the Cold War, or James Mattis, the retired four-star Marine Corps general and former defense secretary, both of whom were Theranos board members and investors. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 12:24 pm
Keith Parrella, rejected a defense motion to dismiss the case on the grounds of unlawful influence on the part of former defense secretary James Mattis and former Defense Department Acting General Counsel William Castle. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 9:34 am
The amendment would cut through the procedural thicket to allow a relatively swift vote waiving the statutory ban on Mattis's serving as Secretary despite the fact that Mattis has yet to reach the requisite seven years of retirement from active duty. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 12:49 pm
While testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary James Mattis said that the U.S. could use one of the two new nuclear arms the military hopes to develop as a bargaining chip with Russia, the Washington Post reports. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 10:18 am
Trump previously approved Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s request to deploy nearly four thousand additional troops to the region, but Mattis delayed taking action pending consensus on a broader U.S. strategy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 10:47 am
” Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke with both NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and U.K. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 12:08 pm
This afternoon, the Pentagon released a statement from Defense Secretary James Mattis noting the readiness of the United States and its allies “to defend themselves from an attack” and urging North Korea to halt the consideration of any moves that “would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. [read post]
2 May 2018, 4:17 pm
Notably, al-Darbi’s transfer takes place on the same day that Secretary of Defense James Mattis provided the White House with recommendations for changes in U.S. detention policy, pursuant to the president’s Jan. 30 executive order. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 10:15 am
In March Trump directed [presidential memorandum] Secretary of Defense James Mattis to ban [JURIST report] transgender troops from serving in the military only if they require surgery or significant medical treatment, ending the first 2017 blanket ban. [read post]
3 Jan 2019, 12:37 pm
The president admitted he had “essentially” fired former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, says the New York Times. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 5:00 am
James Mattis as a board member for the Theranos medical technology company—a company that ultimately turned out to be built on a scam. [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 12:16 pm
The generals referenced Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s comment during his confirmation hearings that, “If you don’t fully fund the State Department, then I need to buy more ammunition. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 10:04 am
The Washington Post tells us that Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) wrote a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis calling the signing of the refugee ban order in the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes “a slap in the face” to Muslim members of the military and asking how Mattis could have stood behind such an action. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 11:37 am
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine General James Mattis as his Secretary of Defense, the Washington Post reports. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 12:58 pm
Defense Secretary James Mattis has come out strongly against torture, on both practical and moral grounds, and President Trump has stated that, while he still believes torture to be effective, he will allow Mattis to override him, “because I am giving [Mattis] that power. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 1:40 pm
Beijing cancelled an annual security meeting with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, which had been scheduled for mid-October; the move displays increasingly frosty relations between Washington and Beijing as China had previously touted this meeting as an excellent forum for the two sides to have a productive discussion, says the Times. [read post]
