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The Morning Journal
February 12, 2018
... left, Vice President Mike Pence, second from left, and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, right, speaks to the media as he arrives at the Pentagon last ... how a man behaves with women is nobody's business, that it's irrelevant,” said Emily Martin, National Women's Law Center general counsel and viceÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
February 5, 2018
... the legal adviser for military commissions, also lost his Pentagon job. He was temporarily replaced by two lawyers from his staff. The decision had no impact on ongoing war court proceedings, said Tom Crosson, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, because Mattis designated the general counselÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 27, 2018
The Department of Defense (DoD) was once roundly regarded as a world leader in research & development (R&D), having greatly contributed to the creation of innovative technologies for civilian use (including, most famously, the internet). Over the last two decades, while the commercial sector hasÃÂ ...
Government Accountability Office
January 19, 2018
GAO reviewed the Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary's (DOD) new rule on TRICARE: reimbursement of long term care hospitals and inpatient ... GAO officials responsible for the evaluation work relating to the subject matter of the rule, please contact Shirley A. Jones, Assistant General Counsel,ÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
January 19, 2018
Two civilian, Pentagon-paid attorneys who quit the USS Cole case over an ethical conflict again defied a judge's order to appear on Friday in his court, ... Since then Baker, who runs the Military Commissions Defense Organization, assigned Spears to be the office's acting general counsel and Eliades toÃÂ ...
Department of Defense
January 19, 2018
He noted Defense officials have consulted with the Office of General Counsel and reviewed and updated the determinations of activities that may continue under these legal requirements. Updates are being made on the determinations of civilian employees who would work during a shutdown, he said.
Shadowproof (blog)
January 12, 2018
With Graham (Meryl Streep) and the Post at the center, the filmmakers tell the story of the Pentagon Papers from the perspective of a media organization that ... Former general counsel for the Times, James Goodale, was a part of a team constantly challenging the Nixon administration's war on the press.
U.S. News & World Report
January 12, 2018
Tennessee AG Lawyer Appointed to Defense Department Post. A top lawyer in the Tennessee attorney general's office has been nominated to become the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense. Jan. 12, 2018, at 3:31 a.m.. Tennessee AG Lawyer Appointed to Defense Department PostÃÂ ...
Nashville Business Journal
January 11, 2018
Paul Ney Jr., who once led Metro's Office of Economic and Community Development under Mayor Karl Dean, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to become general counsel of the Department of Defense. Most recently, Ney has served as Tennessee's chief deputy attorney general, a post he'sÃÂ ...
Dallas Business Journal
January 10, 2018
Only a short time later, Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. An American gate agent tried to have Kennedy bumped from a flight from DFW to New York in hopes of delaying the bankruptcy filing. In response, Kennedy secretly flew to New York on a competitor airline so that American's employees could notÃÂ ...
Law360
January 10, 2018
Law360, Nashville (January 10, 2018, 4:09 PM EST) -- President Donald Trump late Tuesday nominated Paul C. Ney Jr., the Tennessee attorney general's chief deputy, to serve as the top legal officer for the U.S. Department of Defense. Ney, nominated as the DOD's general counsel, has had a long career in both privateÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 10, 2018
PENTAGON'S NEXT GENERAL COUNSEL: The White House announced last night that Trump intends to nominate Paul Ney to be the DoD's general counsel. He was previously acting general counsel and principal deputy general counsel of the Navy Department, and deputy general counsel for LegalÃÂ ...
Nextgov
January 10, 2018
Brock Lyle, associate general counsel to Overstock.com, said the project will limit federal business “to retailers who can be all things to all people” unless proper steps are taken. The government will find itself with very few options if it only considers retailers that can sell “bottled water, treadmills and MRIÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
January 10, 2018
More: Pentagon to begin accepting transgender troops Jan 1. after court order. Ney has a history with the military. He has previously served as principal deputy General counsel of the Department of the Navy, and as deputy general counsel for legal counsel in the Department of Defense, according to theÃÂ ...
Inside Defense
January 9, 2018
Ney most recently served as chief deputy attorney general in the Tennessee Attorney General's Office. He has also worked as acting general counsel of the Navy, as principal deputy general counsel of the Navy and as deputy general counsel for legal counsel in the Pentagon, according to the White House.
Above the Law
December 26, 2017
And so is James Goodale, the former general counsel of the New York Times who directed the Pentagon Papers litigation. ... Post gets the lion's share of the glory in the movie, it was the Times that did the vast majority of the hard work and took on far more risk in publishing the Pentagon Papers. The TimesÃÂ ...
Just Security
December 9, 2017
Jonathan Lee Former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security (2015-2017), Former Director for Human Rights and National Security Issues on the National Security Council Staff, Formerly Served at the Department of Defense in the Office of General Counsel, Formerly Served at the Office of the DeputyÃÂ ...
Government Accountability Office
December 8, 2017
Immersion Consulting, LLC, of Annapolis, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to NetImpact Strategies, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, under solicitation No. 1186423, issued by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Human ResourcesÃÂ ...
CDR News Magazine
November 29, 2017
Christopher Fonzone worked as deputy assistant and deputy counsel to the President Barack Obama and was also an attorney-adviser at the Department of Justice (DoJ)and a special counsel at the Department of Defense (DoD). In his roles at the DoJ and the DoD, Fonzone advised on a variety of national ...
FederalNewsRadio.com
November 29, 2017
The letters all note the DIA general counsel's office was consulted to make sure the denials were made in “coordination with other responses across the Department of Defense.” Flynn, who was forced to resign from his White House post in February, faces a number of possible legal troubles. The special ...
Law.com
November 29, 2017
In 2010, Fonzone joined the U.S. Department of Defense as special counsel in the Office of the General Counsel, where he advised then-general counsel Jeh Johnson, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security chief who for the fourth time in three decades re-joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton ...
WVIK
November 22, 2017
... vacant position at the Labor Department oversees veterans training programs, and the list goes on, from the general counsel at the Pentagon ...
Miami Herald
November 22, 2017
The senior Pentagon official in charge of the war court has upheld a judge's ... at the Pentagon's General Counsel office; the Department of Defense's ... the DoD Standards of Conduct Office, and the DoD General Counsel's ...
FederalNewsRadio.com
November 17, 2017
Continuous evaluation will play a major role in DoD's plan to ... in the Pentagon's plan to process periodic reinvestigations more efficiently and quickly. ... “Every agency has a general counsel who has a different opinion on ...
Breaking Defense
November 16, 2017
CAPITOL HILL: President Trump's nominee for the Pentagon's top policy job appears to be in jeopardy after a bipartisan savaging by Senators John .... “The answer to your question is that, on those things that involve a particular matter, I will work with the general counsel's office to avoid involvement in any ...
Stars and Stripes
November 16, 2017
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel took a Pentagon nominee to task ... the panel approved James E. McPherson to be Army general counsel, ...
Los Alamos Daily Post
November 15, 2017
During the hearing, Heinrich secured a commitment from Army General Counsel nominee James McPherson to undertake an analysis of the Army ... Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness nominee Anthony Kurta confirmed that the Department of Defense needs to beÃÂ ...
FederalNewsRadio.com
November 14, 2017
Now, as the backlog, once again reaches new extremes, Congress is taking a page out of its own history book and is sending the security clearance process back to the Pentagon. Lawmakers included a provision in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that would give DoD complete ownership overÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
November 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — A slate of Pentagon nominees faced off with a ... for top military leadership positions, including Army general counsel. ... “There are skills that population has that the Department of Defense needs,” he said.
Inside Defense
November 14, 2017
Senior Pentagon officials are scheduled to appear at several events and ... for personnel and readiness, general counsel of the Army and judge ...
The Hill
November 14, 2017
... and as associate deputy general counsel for Guantanamo Issues from 2004-05 at the Department of Defense. He is presently a prosecutor in ...
WIRED
November 11, 2017
In the last 18 months, though, a new Department of Defense project called ... To follow up on the success of Hack the Pentagon, DoD launched another .... and work with their general counsel to do a bug bounty," Rice says.
Newsweek
November 6, 2017
... Law at New York University School of Law. He served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-16).
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 30, 2017
SitRep: Senate Moving on Trump's Pentagon Nominees ... Empty seats at DoD. ... On the docket for full Senate votes this week are Charles “Cully” Stimson, for Navy general counsel; Owen West, for assistant secretary of ...
The Hill
October 25, 2017
Officials from the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation and ... resulted in recommendations to consolidate rules into a single DOD level rule, ... James Owens, acting general counsel for the Department of ...
Eyes on the Ties
October 18, 2017
The ties of Trump's top three Pentagon appointees to the four biggest U.S. .... John Rood nominated Undersecretary for Policy DOD- change is coming ... Chad Wolf and Lora Ries were appointed as Department of Defense advisors at the ... was Associate General Counsel at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
Inside Defense
October 17, 2017
Mattis names new DOD industrial base chief, others ... new officials to senior leadership roles at the Pentagon, including one to helm the office for ... for appointment as the deputy general counsel for legal counsel for DOD.
The White House (blog)
October 13, 2017
While with the Department of Defense, he served as Acting Deputy ... James E. McPherson of Virginia to be General Counsel, Department of ...
OneNewsNow
October 10, 2017
Recently the Pentagon "severed all ties" to the SPLC after previously relying ... The Justice Department confirmed that the Department of Defense has ... reports Dale Wilcox, the IRLI's executive director and general counsel.
Caffeinated Thoughts
October 5, 2017
(Liberty Counsel) The Pentagon has now officially disassociated from the ... for the Department of Defense (DOD)'s training on extremism. ... In addition, the Disciplinary Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. ...
Law360
October 2, 2017
... roles in the U.S. Department of Defense for the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army, ... s F-35 jet fighter program, to serve as general counsel for the Air Force ... want any more DOD nominees from the top five defense corporations. ... far the largest contractor for both the Pentagon and the U.S. government.
Government Accountability Office
December 31, 1999
HC1028-15-R-0030, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for global information technology (IT) services. ... Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
Government Accountability Office
December 31, 1999
GAO reviewed the Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ... GAO officials responsible for the evaluation work relating to the subject matter of the rule, please contact Shirley A. Jones, Assistant General Counsel,ÃÂ ...
Inside Defense
December 31, 1999
Pentagon policy chief nominee heads to Capitol Hill ... James McPherson, picked to be Army general counsel, and Gregory Maggs, nominated ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Previously, she was a senior reporter covering the Pentagon for Foreign ... to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-16).
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
After serving as general counsel at the Pentagon and the Deputy Attorney General in Bill Clinton's administration, Gorelick cashed in, serving ...
Just Security
December 31, 1999
... he served as Principal Deputy General Counsel, Department of Defense. ... as the Acting General Counsel of DoD for two extended periods, ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
On November 1, Facebook's general counsel Colin Stretch will testify .... to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense (2015-16).
Washington Examiner
October 2, 2017
MORE AID TO PUERTO RICO: Over the weekend the Pentagon ... Jeffrey Buchanan, the Department of Defense's chief military liaison with FEMA, told PBS. .... Nomination of John M. Mitnick to be general counsel for theÃÂ ...
Salon
October 2, 2017
At many locations, the Pentagon has relied on contractors like U.S. Technology to ..... of the worst sort,” said Arlington, who now serves as general counsel for the SIGAR, .... “The DoD is not accountable and it hasn't been. .... paying a Department of Defense official $20,000 a year to tailor contracts at RobinsÃÂ ...
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