Sentences with phrase «about the national security administration»

«Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration's surveillance program in May.»

Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Watergate scandals and, in May, disclosures about the National Security Administration's surveillance program.»

Not exact matches

Qualcomm's appeal tapped into gathering concern among some congressional Republicans and the Trump administration about U.S. national security and competitiveness with China, especially in advanced technologies — sentiment that already was fueling an effort to expand the power of CFIUS.

President Donald Trump's transition team — and, later, his nascent administration — was warned at least six times about potential conflicts of interest and compromising conversations between Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US at the time.

However, the investigation appears to be gathering momentum, after the decision of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to plead guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.

Experts were skeptical about the administration's argument that cheap Chinese steel threatened U.S. national security.

But his decision to do so while facing increasing scrutiny — the deepening FBI probe regarding his administration's contact with Russia and damning new Senate testimony from former acting attorney general Sally Yates about Trump's now - fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — instantly recalls Richard Nixon's infamous «Saturday Night Massacre» in which the 37th president purged the Justice Department during the Watergate investigation.

More broadly, the Cuba problem has raised questions within the national security community about how the Trump administration is using intelligence information to guide its foreign policy.

Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway appeared on the Today Show on Tuesday morning after the resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who is exiting the administration following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russia.

Considering the slew of negative things Donald Trump has uttered about Europe and NATO both prior to and since his election, the U.S. Administration's new National Security Strategy (NSS) and National Defense Strategy (NDS) should be welcomed by its European allies and partners.

The regulation required the Social Security Administration to disclose information about some of its beneficiaries with mental illness to the national gun background check system.

But this isn't really about national security — that just happens to be the legal argument the administration is using to establish that it has the legal authority to do this.

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

Gillibrand, D - N.Y., said the resignation of Michael Flynn as Trump's national security adviser only raises more questions that need to be answered about the extent of discussions between the new administration and Russia about easing U.S. sanctions.

The charges in part read: «That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser and Hon. Waripamowei Dudafa (now at large) whilst bring Senior Special Assistant, Domestic Affairs to the President on or about 27th November within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: the sum of N10billion being part of the funds in the account of the National Security Adviser with the CBN, the equivalent of which sum you received from the CBN in foreign currencies to wit: $ 47million and $ 5.6 million Euros committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property when you claimed to have distributed same to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primary Election delegates and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

«That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser on or about 12th December 2013 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, and in such capacities entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: N90million which was in the account of the ONSA with Diamond Bank Plc, committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property by remitting the said sum into the account of Brains and Hammers Limited for the purchase of 7 - bedroom duplex house at No. 11 Mansur Bamalli Drive (D1064), Apo 1 Abuja and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.

After serving less than a month, Michael T. Flynn, the White House national security adviser, resigned last night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top Trump administration officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Former CIA Director James Woolsey has accused the Trump administration's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, of participating in a discussion with Turkish officials about possibly subverting the U.S. extradition process to remove a Turkish cleric from the United States.

The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the ambassador, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

Not long after the original executive order went into effect, Rep. Chris Collins, a staunch Trump supporter and frequent surrogate for the administration on national TV, wrote a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security expressing concern about what measures like fingerprinting and retina scans at the border could mean for Western New York.

Six months after taking office, Buhari's administration arrested Sambo Dasuki, the former national security adviser for financial misappropriation of about $ 2 billion earmarked for military equipment amid the Boko Haram insurgency.

«It is not just about the appointment of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Service Chiefs; all members of the administration had shown dedication and capacity to fight the anti-insurgency war.

«Restoring normal operations at the National Nuclear Security Administration can take more than a week and labs and plants are likely to have lost at least three weeks of mission work, or about 6 percent of the year's productivity, due to the shutdown.»

Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, El Capitan will be NNSA's first exascale supercomputer, capable of at least a quintillion calculations per second, about 50 to 100 times greater performance than the current fastest U.S. supercomputers.

«Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) asked about the situation in a Tuesday letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, citing documents that appear to show that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) paid more than $ 24 million to the partnership of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for costs from a series of whistleblower cases.»

The structures of the state, must reflect the commitment to this understanding, that this is a matter of peace and of national security, thus there must be policies of state and administration of government that in fulfillment of the national constitution go about meeting in a timely manner, these demands for the well being of all, and the care of the planet.

Bob Woodward's latest book on the Bush administration (following Bush at War, 2002; and Plan of Attack, 2004) doesn't pick up where Plan of Attack left off but instead sweeps back to offer an overview of the Presidential life and times of George W. Bush, from the days when he first thought seriously about running for President, through the recruitment of his national security team, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and his second term as President.

Rick Perry said yesterday that the Trump administration is having «very classified» conversations about preempting state and local support for renewable energy under the pretense of national security.

In the current political climate, Robin Bell, a research professor at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and president - elect of the American Geophysical Union, said scientists need to ``... continue to articulate how science is key to what the new administration cares about: intelligent investment in infrastructure, national security, public health.

Today's executive order — coupled with the President's recently proposed large budget cuts to the EPA and Department of Energy (DOE) clean energy, smart grid and storage technology research programs - makes it clear that this Administration is not serious about protecting our health, our climate or our national security.

Specifically, CCLA presented concerns about treatment of refugees and asylum seekers and migrants; police accountability and administration of justice; threats to the absolute prohibition against torture; national security measures which unjustifiably curtail rights and seek to normalize exceptional powers; and violence against women.

The only gun measure Trump has signed so far was last February, which revoked an Obama - era regulation that required the Social Security Administration to disclose information to the national gun background check system about certain people with mental illness on a quarterly basis.