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18 Aug 2010, 1:23 pm by Doug
Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Pentagon has had no direct contact with WikiLeaks and is not interested in helping the group eliminate sensitive information from the documents to post them online. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 7:53 pm
Haynes, II has resigned as the chief counsel of the Department of Defense. [read post]
22 Nov 2012, 10:23 am by Jeff Foust
The Defense Department, with very little fanfare, issued a new space policy last month. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 4:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) handles more taxpayer dollars in a year than several Cabinet-level departments, but auditors have informed agency leadership that they will not be able to complete their audit for fiscal year 2018, according to a recent Agency newsletter obtained by the Project On Government Oversight. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 5:01 am by Emily Dai
Criticism of the Defense Department’s response to the Jan. 6 attack also centered on the fact that it took three hours for Pentagon officials to send backup to the USCP. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 1:08 pm
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Defense Department was in contempt of court, for failing to videotape testimony given by a Guantanamo Bay detainee by teleconference at a court hearing in June. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 5:07 am by Paras Shah
Before that, he served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East for nearly three years. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 6:29 pm by Allan Blutstein
DoD asks Congress for bigger pay raise, FOIA exemptionsBy Scott Maucione, Federal News Radio, June 12, 2017The Defense Department is sending its ideas to Congress for the next legislative cycle and they include a larger than normal bump in pay for service members as well as some changes to government transparency.* * *FOIA changesThe Pentagon is making another push to clamp down on the information it shares with the public.The legislative proposals tweak what information… [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 7:15 pm
"Longtime Pentagon Lawyer Stepping Down": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "The Defense Department's longest-serving general counsel, who has been criticized for his role in crafting Bush administration policies for detaining and trying suspected terrorists, is resigning to return to private life next month, the Pentagon said Monday. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 6:28 am
Knopf, 1990.The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam. 5 Vols. [read post]
28 May 2011, 9:22 pm by Doug Isenberg
Lockheed Martin, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon confirmed that the contractor’s information systems had come under attack. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 4:41 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Instead, the Defense Department under this administration has been doing the exact opposite. [read post]
5 Aug 2006, 5:56 am
[JURIST] Inaccurate statements [JURIST report] presented to the 9/11 Commission [official website] by senior Pentagon officials regarding the Sept. 11 attacks [JURIST news archive] were not provided intentionally, but rather were the result of poor record-keeping, according to a newly-disclosed report by the US Defense Department Office of the Inspector General [official website]. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 7:49 am by gstasiewicz
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered emails from the Department of Defense (DOD) that indicate the Pentagon worked hand-in-hand with congressional offices prior to releasing documents regarding congressional military travel under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). [read post]
Last week, the Deputy Secretary of Defense directed various Pentagon bureaucracies to conduct a perennial “thoughtful evaluation” of longstanding and well-documented racial disparities in U.S. military courts. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
On August 25, the Defense Department released its long-awaited Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan, something that human rights advocates have called on the Pentagon to do for the past 20 years. [read post]
12 Jul 2023, 5:55 am by Adam Keith
Support Remains Rhetorical While the Defense Department Opposes Tangible Assistance to the ICC Press reporting soon revealed that the Pentagon still objected to U.S. support for the ICC’s Ukraine investigation, leaving a significant gap between the statements of support coming from the State Department and White House and the prospects of material U.S. assistance for the court. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 5:00 am by Robert Chesney
The Department of Defense has regulations for everything, and detention is no exception. [read post]
15 Jan 2007, 12:54 pm by Howard Friedman
His comments “do not represent the views of the Defense Department or the thinking of its leadership,” a senior Pentagon official said. [read post]