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10 Dec 2014, 11:07 am
[S]hould we assume that there are members from the Department of Defense and from the intelligence communities who could also be part of working with us on that kind of a back and forth? [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 6:57 am
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Obama Administration has proposed spending $75 million on 50,000 body cameras to be fitted upon law-enforcement officers across the United States. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:04 am
As petitioner points out, the State Department's analysis of the grave risk exception specifically forecloses consideration of the parties' financial situation upon relocation. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 8:54 am
Ellen Williams was confirmed by the United States Senate on Monday, December 8, 2014 as the Director of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) -- a novel program that funds high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 4:35 pm
“In 2013, nearly 1,700,000 files were downloaded from United States Government information systems, threatening the national security of the United States and placing the lives of United States personnel at extreme risk,” the Act states, in a presumed reference to the Snowden disclosures. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 2:09 pm
For 2013, the CPSC reported 52,500 scooter-related injuries among children.(1) Since 2008, federal law has mandated that all toys designed for children age 12 or younger and sold in the United States must first be tested by a third party for safety regardless of where the toys were manufactured. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 4:06 am
Those transfers are very difficult to negotiate internally and diplomatically, and the President has appointed strong State and Defense Department envoys to work them. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:00 pm
Provide recommendations to senior attorneys to support the development, review, and preparation of United States (US) Government-wide and IC-wide policies, procedures, guidelines, rules, and standards. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 3:33 pm
As the New York Times notes in the above-linked article, federal officials are permitted to use racial profiling in areas far beyond the border, as that term is understood by laypeople: Federal agents have jurisdiction to enforce immigration laws within 100 miles of the borders, including the coastlines, an area that includes roughly a third of the United States, and nearly two-thirds of its population. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 6:09 am
Here’s the news from the New York Times this morning: WASHINGTON– The United States transferred six detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison to Uruguay this weekend, the Defense Department announced early Sunday. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 1:54 pm
To better address the security challenges posed by the illicit wildlife trade, the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes language authorizing the Department of Defense to partner with civilian law enforcement on joint task forces to combat wildlife trafficking. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 11:04 am
The United States will have to keep additional forces in the country, as not all NATO nations will be able to meet their targets for contributing troops by January 1. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 7:35 am
(States with legal needle exchanges may train addicts to use naloxone and send them home with a dose in case of emergency, but obviously Texas is several steps away from that.)According to the CDC, "In 2012, there were 41,502 deaths due to drug poisoning (often referred to as drug-overdose deaths) in the United States, of which 16,007 involved opioid analgesics and 5,925 involved heroin. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 6:11 am
All views are his own and not necessarily those of the Department of Defense. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 1:28 pm
FBI Director Comey called heroin a big problem all across the United States. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 9:49 am
(February 2012) CANADA: Department of National Defense demanded the removal of a widely discussed leaked copy of the Canadian Land Force Counter-Insurgency Operations Manual from the site PublicIntelligence.net. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 9:08 am
The bill also blocks certain transfers of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 6:38 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a defense request for a new competency hearing. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 4:45 am
The jury didn’t buy it, and Elonis was convicted after a trial in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
When President Obama recently announced that he was taking action to permit over four million undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States for two years without fear of deportation, Republicans cried foul. [read post]
