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17 Sep 2010, 4:09 am
9-17-2010 Washington DC:In a reversal, the Pentagon says it will reopen hundreds of cases of alleged purchases of child pornography by Department of Defense employees that Pentagon officials previously declined to investigate, The Upshot has learned.Earlier this month, The Upshot reported exclusively that in 2007, investigators for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service obtained a list of [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 8:30 pm by Reproductive Rights
Post: Pentagon to stock health facilities with morning-after pill, by Rob Stein: The Department of Defense will begin making the... [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 3:30 pm by Cody Poplin
Department of Defense's Office of the General Counsel has released its long-awaited Law of War Manual. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
Kori Schake is a long-time Pentagon watcher; she is a former Defense Department, State Department and National Security Council official; and she leads the foreign policy and defense policy team at the American Enterprise Institute. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 5:00 am by Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Jackie Speier
We recognize the Defense Department’s concern that former Pentagon officials face a confusing patchwork of laws and regulations. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 9:02 am by Victoria Clark
Tim Kaine has released a letter he sent to the Pentagon on Oct. 2 requesting further clarification on the Department of Defense's legal understanding of collective self-defense under international law. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 12:15 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Govexec.com on April 4, 2012 released the following: “By Sara Sorcher National Journal A new watchdog report finds that the FBI and the Pentagon are quietly investigating whether military contractor Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Co. has illegal ties to Iran, despite assurances from the Defense Department that there is no indication the company’s business dealings ever violated U.S. law. [read post]
15 May 2006, 12:45 pm
[JURIST] The Pentagon Monday released the names of 759 current and former Guantanamo prisoners [PDF] pursuant to a court-approved agreement with the Associated Press, which had separately sued the Defense Department [AP report] under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose the names of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 12:02 pm by Tom Smith
The Department of Defense said on Friday that a directive concerning transition team meetings, which had been reported as a Pentagon order to halt all cooperation, was a request for a temporary delay. [read post]
20 Oct 2003, 7:37 am
Environmentalists and the Defense Department are at odds over the enforcement of environmental statutes at military training installations throughout the country. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 8:45 am
[JURIST] A Pentagon spokesperson has said that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] is authorized to override the new Department of Defense Directive [PDF text; JURIST report] released Tuesday requiring all interrogations of detainees to be conducted in a humane manner. [read post]
16 Aug 2014, 6:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
– “State and local police departments, like the one in Ferguson, Mo., get some of their military-style equipment through a free Defense Department program created in the early 1990s. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 7:13 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] will send an investigative team headed by Pentagon Inspector General Claude M. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 6:31 am by Ryan J. Farrick
In a recently-launched federal lawsuit, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco seek to have the Department of Defense “fulfill their long-standing legal obligation to report all service members disqualified from purchasing and possessing firearms The post Three Cities Suing the Pentagon After Sutherland Springs Shooting appeared first on Legal Reader. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
 According to the American Armed Forces Press Service, among the 120 guests were Defense Department officials; military officers from Iraq, Bangladesh, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and Bahrain; ambassadors from South Africa and Bahrain; and the two Muslim members of Congress. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 9:29 am by Tom Smith
Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.Behind the scenes: A top Biden official was unaware of the directive. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 1:20 pm by Matt Gluck, Hyemin Han
The Pentagon team tasked with crafting this plan examined recently conducted Defense Department studies and consulted with internal and external experts to generate recommendations. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 10:04 am by Matt Gluck
SIGAR found that during this period, the Defense Department disbursed $232 million to the Afghan government “for suspicious units and non-existent object codes, or [for salaries] that were never delivered to the bank accounts of MOD personnel. [read post]