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15 Jan 2021, 1:47 pm by Steve Stransky
In early January, Congress overcame a presidential veto and enacted the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2021 (NDAA). [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 11:40 am by Andrew J. Grotto
Over the new year, Congress overrode President Trump’s veto to enact into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2021—an annual piece of legislation that lays out the budget, expenditures and policies of the Pentagon for the upcoming year. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 9:22 am by Keith E. Whittington
Trump’s defense team will undoubtedly argue that the Senate does not have jurisdiction over the former president, and they may even attempt to get judicial intervention if the Senate moves ahead despite that objection. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Lynn McDonough
Department of State, criticizes the United States’ binary approach to immigration. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 7:22 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The acting Defense secretary has been on the job only since the week after the election; the head of the Justice Department just since Christmas; and the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was the administrator of FEMA until midnight Tuesday morning. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 11:35 am by Josh Blackman
"  The House managers, who prosecuted the case, rejected the First Amendment defense. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 7:40 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — National Guard troops who are flooding into Washington to secure the Capitol for Inauguration Day will be armed, the Army secretary, Ryan McCarthy, has decided, Defense Department officials said Tuesday.The armed troops will be responsible for security around the Capitol building complex, the officials said.As up to 15,000 troops continued to arrive in Washington from all over the country, Defense Department officials had been weighing… [read post]
The designation by the State Department subjects Cuba to additional sanctions that penalize countries and individuals that engage in certain types of trade with Cuba, limits US foreign aid that would have gone to Cuba, and bans defense exports to Cuba. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 3:49 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Immediately reverse the Trump administration’s public charge rule End the “national emergency” imposed by the Trump administration to enable the Department of Defense to build a wall along the U.S. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 2:29 pm by Tia Sewell
Matthew Bryza, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia and former U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, will then moderate a discussion with James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey; Ana Palacio, former foreign minister of Spain; Sinan Ülgen, chairman of the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies; and Sir Peter Westmacott, former U.K. ambassador to the U.S., France and Turkey, to discuss the prospects for Biden’s policy towards Turkey. [read post]
9 Jan 2021, 9:42 am by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
-China defense-related issues: Schneider also shared an episode of ChinaTalk in which he discussed military innovation and great power competition between Washington and Beijing with Richard Danzig, who served as Secretary of the Navy under the Clinton administration: Abby Lemert and Eleanor Runde discussed the latest in U.S. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 5:13 pm by Michael Froomkin
§ 101, presently the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secre­tary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop­ment, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, and Secretary of Education. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:59 pm by Quinta Jurecic
Think of the anxiety of Nixon’s Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, who became alarmed that the depressed and inebriated president might launch an ill-conceived nuclear attack in his last days in office. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:31 pm by Scott Bomboy
Bush’s pardons of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and former CIA official Duane Clarridge in late 1992 before they were tried on Iran-contra Affair charges. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 9:46 am by Monica Williamson
Request a proposal packet from Tribal Council Secretary, Tracy Kennedy at BPTTribalCouncil@burnspaiute.onmicrosoft.com or by calling 541-573-8011. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 5:05 am by David Priess, Jack Goldsmith
”) This comes on the heels of a very strange series of events from inside the executive branch, including a statement on Wednesday afternoon by the Secretary of Defense that after consulting with Vice President Pence and top congressional leaders—but seemingly not President Trump—he was “activating D.C. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 4:55 am by Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
Greg Lambert: He’s the firm’s Chief Innovation and Client Solutions officer said that their reason for signing the pledge was so that as law firms continue to incorporate advanced technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, into the practice of law, the need for ensuring the AI does not contribute to bias is critically important to those that Sheppard Mullin and to their clients, and Shahidi hopes that the law firms and the corporate legal departments… [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 12:29 pm by Doug Cornelius
Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes and Enforcement Center. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 11:38 am by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
In response, Defense Department officials said that the troops deployed to the capital would not carry firearms or use armored helicopters or vehicles. [read post]