We don’t normally talk about the weekend, but this one was a little more involved than most: The White House began its defense of Trump on Saturday (January 25). ..…

By • November 1, 2019 . . . . . Presidents Richard Nixon (National Archives), Bill Clinton (DoD) and Andrew Johnson (Official White House Portrait) . . ..…

I was consultant to Defense Department and White House in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. I took copies of Pentagon Papers with me to Minneapolis hoping to present them situation that called for dramatic challenge of the sort the defendants had done.. ..…

Amazingly enough, I learned something today which has made me more hopeful than I have been for a long time. The House defense budget authorization is different from the Senate version. ..…

These issues of due process do have institutional significance for the president, and so it falls to the White House to make serious argument for appropriate protections and to press House to recognize them. He could have argued that, in his leadership on domestic affairs, president to tender..…

That you will vote for GOP for Speaker and that will help organize House to keep GOP in House.. Feel free to contact me I am glad to brainstorm on the defense and divorce law issue with you as needed. ..…

The Jewish State has never had greater friend in White House, Israeli premier tweeted... I look forward to our meeting at the UN to advance Defense Treaty between United States and Israel... ..…

But during consideration of the 2020 Defense budget, several amendments were attached to that budget on House side one would do pretty much the same thing as Yemen War Powers Resolution and cut off logistical support to the coalition. ..…

House of Representatives passed antiwar amendments to National Defense Authorization Act, including couple limiting nuclear weapons construction, one barring violations of INF Treaty, and one that ought to put end to weapons at Seattle Seafair as byproduct of banning any more..…

House of Representatives passed antiwar amendments to National Defense Authorization Act, including couple limiting nuclear weapons construction, one barring violations of INF Treaty, and one that ought to put end to weapons at Seattle Seafair as byproduct of banning any more..…

In June, Democratic California congresswoman Barbara Lee added an amendment to the House version of the defense budget bill that would repeal the 2001 AUMF. Lee was one of the few to vote against the bill in 2001, due to concerns it was too broad. ..…

“The terminology found on too many Department of Defense forms is repugnant,” Brown, the only African American on the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement to CQ Roll Call. “While I understand the DOD has corrected offensive language being used in military..…

In June, both the outgoing acting secretary of defense and the incoming acting secretary attended White House meeting. As I have demonstrated, over 20% of agency nominations between the start of President Reagan's and the end of President Obama's administration failed to get..…

House of Representatives voted on largely party-line basis to approve Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, including one that would allow any qualified transgender person to serve in U.S military.. ..…

Litchfield Cavo LLP is a litigation defense law firm founded in 1998 on one principle — client service comes first. ... IN-HOUSE/BIOTECH/R&D . Boston, Massachusetts, United States . Fully integrated global biotech company seeks 3+ year life sciences attorney to provide counsel on..…

Litchfield Cavo LLP is a litigation defense law firm founded in 1998 on one principle — client service comes first. ... IN-HOUSE/BIOTECH/R&D . Boston, Massachusetts, United States . Fully integrated global biotech company seeks 3+ year life sciences attorney to provide counsel on..…

The new authorities were granted last year by White House and Congress to United States Cyber Command, one of the arms of the  United States Department of Defense, .. ..…

A former New Democracy minister and hard-rightist, Kammenos agreed to govern with a leftist prime minister so he could become Defense Minister. He publicly praised Tsipras from day one, but proved to be a vulgar personality in the House by the manner in which he addressed his..…

The fakery of the news stories is protected by laws embedded in National Defense Authorization Act. In earlier article I wrote, House Bill H.R 5736, the government of United States can now legally propagandize the domestic public.. ..…

we urge the Committee to require public-facing report detailing the cost of providing Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance to one staff member for every member of House.. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House Appropriations Defense..…

Establishing access to affordable healthcare as a civil right through the Affordable Care Act was the progress that we could achieve politically back in 2010 – and the ACA remains our first line of defense today. . That is why I have joined more than 120 of my Democratic House..…

The Senate voted to advance the bill 49-1 last week and the House Judiciary Committee moved it to the full House Friday on a 19-0 vote.  . One section of the policy would eliminate victim’s consent as a defense for human traffickers in cases when victims have been coerced or..…

Whereas President Trump’s ban on transgender members of the Armed Forces would affect all transgender members of the Armed Forces and force them to serve under a policy that stigmatizes and devalues their contributions to our Nation’s defense: Now, therefore, be it . Resolved, That at the..…

White House press Sarah Sanders told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday that President Donald Trump was briefed about the development by acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.. President Donald Trump boards Marine One on South Lawn of White House,..…

She has served Defense and Security Committee in the upper house of Parliament... Satybaldy is one of the leaders of Nur Otan party and deputy head of Committee for National Security, Kazakhstan's KGB successor agency... ..…

It was constructed in 1957 following Sinai War between Israel and Egypt to house disciplinary cases from Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF.. I'm 6,000 miles away Chicago, and Hilel and I have been discussing his ordeal so it makes me nervous that, this time around, I ca not reach..…

Bush homeland security adviser Fran Townsend; and Robert 'Bud' McFarlane, who was one of Ronald Reagan's national security advisers. Keane was considered by Trump for secretary of defense. . The House oversight report says whistleblowers told the committee that one of..…

Indeed, when I testified in spring 2017 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in defense of spending on diplomacy, I expected to be challenged by members of the president’s party. ..…

The Jewish State has never had a greater friend in the White House. I look forward to our meeting at the UN to advance a historic Defense Treaty between the United States and Israel,' Netanyahu said in response to Trump's tweet. . ... The Jewish State has never had a greater friend..…

Litchfield Cavo LLP is a litigation defense law firm founded in 1998 on one principle — client service comes first. ... IN-HOUSE/BIOTECH/R&D . Boston, Massachusetts, United States . Fully integrated global biotech company seeks 3+ year life sciences attorney to provide counsel on..…

Representatives for Vice President Mike Pence and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, have reached out to Mr. Webb, one of the three officials said. Separately, a senior Defense Department official confirmed that Mr. ..…

Senate's First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is Bipartisan Defense of Israeli Government From Boycotts... For that reason, it bears the designation of H.R.1 in House and S.1 in Senate.. ..…

FBI decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was crime to lie during FBI interview and they were concerned that giving the warnings might affect the rapport, FBI agent wrote, by the defense team.. Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like White House Counsel for..…

One might have doubts given that large majorities  of Democrats in both the House and Senate recently voted for a defense budget that is more than $80 billion higher than the previous one, and higher than what was requested by the Trump regime. . ..…

Counting up the votes in a midterm election turnout that hit a 50-year high in the United States, all major party candidates running for the House and Senate championed America’s military/industrial/intelligence defense complex and its ballooning budget. . Throughout the election cycle,..…

Counting up the votes in a midterm election turnout that hit a 50-year high in the United States, all major party candidates running for the House and Senate championed America’s military/industrial/intelligence defense complex and its ballooning budget. . Throughout the election cycle,..…

One veteran observer, Leon Panetta, a former White House chief of staff for Clinton and defense secretary under President Barack Obama, believes the nation's institutions are standing firm. . . 'I think ultimately the institutions that our forefathers put in place are..…

The absurdity of this must be reiterated Corbyn would not pass background check for job and two of his top aides have not passed the background checks required to work in House of Commons, meaning they have to enter as visitors. One hopes that preexisting defense and..…

Joseph Dunford Jr. testify before the House Armed Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 1, 2015 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo) US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says the United States is 'prepared to expand' the role of Special..…

Passed by House and Senate last week, National Defense Authorization Act now awaits the president's signature.  President Obama had threatened to veto the bill back May, when House passed one version of it, and again November, when Senate passed another, somewhat different version..…

After a backlash from China and pro-China sympathizers in the United States, Trump threatened to abandon the one-China policy. . The White House's new national security strategy and Pentagon's national defense policy elevated China, along with Russia, to a core national security..…

One defense heard is that CIA and White House officials relied on legal opinions by Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel purporting to find that enhanced interrogation techniques were lawful Torture Memos. ..…

Tensions between the Pentagon and the White House have been simmering for years. However, the tit-for-tat yesterday was one of the first times that DOD brass has so publicly disagreed with a White House policy. . ..…

In one case that McMahon is testing as a campaign theme, Murphy trumpeted the passage of one of his Buy American amendments in the House version of massive defense authorization bill. ..…

By two prisoners who emerged from cells, McGuinn, 42, was ambushed2006, on tier of Maryland House of Correction, jurors during the trial.. One issue the defense may raise is whether the law refers to DNA or the defendant's.. ..…

What the newly released records reveal, however, is that White House was involved in keeping the name of the secret, and that Republican senator involved in October Surprise inquiry was under intense pressure from GOP to act more aggressively Bush's defense.. in one of the strange alibi..…

He's also the chairman of House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee and one of the outspoken opponents of Iraq conflict. ..…

In an hourlong, closed-door briefing Wednesday, Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shared some of the intelligence with members of the House of Representatives. . 'The largest impression I drew from it was that we are moving fairly quickly toward conflict,' said Rep. ..…

Now in Burr Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the law of evidence, i e., the law allowed for only one exception to the persons. The Rogers, defense of White House claim to uncontrolled discretion to withhold information, said Marshall ruled in Burr case that the President..…