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«Much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace - related findings,» Sen. Reid said in a letter to William Lynn III, a deputy defense secretary at the time.

Even his defense secretary at the time, Leon Panetta, told The Atlantic earlier this year that he «didn't know it was coming.»

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And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

Defense Secretary James Mattis called the strikes a «one time shot» aimed at the Syrian government's chemical weapons infrastructure.

Although the US military, Secretary of State Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis all say unequivocally that the US does not want or train for regime - change missions in North Korea, the president and the military have to do what's best for the country at any cost.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed Americans and others are being held by Islamic militants after what he calls a «terrorist attack» occurred at a natural gas facility in Algeria.

WILLIAM PERRY, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY FROM 1994 TO 1997 AND HAS NEGOTIATED WITH NORTH KOREA: «This is a major improvement over diplomacy that consisted of shouting insults at each other.

A former top military aide to Secretary Ash Carter used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs at strip clubs in Rome and in South Korea frequented by prostitutes and engaged in «inappropriate» behavior with women, a long - awaited report by the Department of Defense Inspector General released Thursday found.

By early 2007, Skelton was working at the Pentagon as a military aide to the deputy secretary of defense while undergoing additional surgeries.

Trump was briefed by Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford at a meeting of members of his national security team, the statement said.

«We reiterated to China that they have a diplomatic responsibility to exert much greater economic and diplomatic pressure on the regime if they want to prevent further escalation in the region,» U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters at a joint news conference with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

He has told officials in the Pentagon building that at an uncertain time, he intends, as defense secretary, to provide an even - keeled, measured approach to national security issues.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has given the White House new policy guidance on transferring individuals to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and CEO, Robert Gates, Former Defense Secretary, and Dr. JD Crouch II, USO president and CEO, come together to discuss bridging the military — civilian drift at the Starbucks hosted Muster.

«On behalf of Secretary Panetta, and the Department of Defense, I offer my sincere regret for the incident at Bagram Air Base,» said Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Lavoy.

On the other side of the aisle, Dov Zakheim, former under secretary of defense and comptroller, is at Talbott's level of policymaking and government service.

When one reads Phillips's description of the crusaders» arrival at their destination 800 years ago, it's impossible not to think of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's 2003 predictions that the American forces would be greeted by Iraqis as liberators.

This year, the White House and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs announced initiatives to provide healthier menus to 1,100 dining halls at military bases.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

At the June 16th hearing, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testified before the full committee and answered members» questions, offering a staunch defense of the HHFKA.

Speaking yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offered a full - throated defense of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act «s school meal standards, the nutritional improvements which are currently at risk of being rolled back in Congress.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is touring the Niagara Air Reserve Base with Rep. Kathy Hochul at 10 am.

Such extortion — often successful in the past — has become such an oft - repeated pattern that it once prompted Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to lament at having to «buy the same horse twice.»

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

Despite an array of media reports expressing astonishment at how well Democrats — a minority in both House and Senate — fared in the budget agreement, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Trump got much of what he wanted, including more money for defense and homeland security.

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Rep. Curt Oda — a Utah legislator known for his strong stance on the 2nd Amendment Ken Sumsion — former Utah legislator, known for his budget expertise Matt Throckmorton — former Utah legislator and current Executive Director for the Utah Military Academy Chuck Williams — retired Lt. Col. in the United States Air Force, and a former Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon.

The administration then plans to have the major players — Rice, Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper - hold a closed intelligence briefing for the entire Congress on Monday at 5 p.m. ET.

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval are among a delegation of governors visiting Afghanistan at the invitation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

The day of Maloney's town hall call, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said he met with the secretary of defense about accelerating PFOS cleanup at Stewart Air National Guard Base.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

A Pentagon investigation has concluded that Defense Secretary Ash Carter's former senior military aide used his government credit card at strip clubs or gentlemen's clubs in Rome and Seoul, drank in excess and had «improper interactions» with women.

Suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has risen in defense of former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over claims made by erstwhile chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, urging the latter to stop making disparaging comments at old age and quietly retire from politics.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called together several top administration officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, to consider what to do with the detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

The trip came at the invitation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

The mass shooting at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard earlier this month prompted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to call for security reviews at all military facilities.

Elsewhere, the Department's Third Offset Strategy — a touted effort initiated under President Obama to maintain and accelerate superiority in advanced technology areas like hypersonics and human - machine collaboration — makes scant appearance in this year's budget request, even though Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, a key architect of the strategy in the prior administration, has so far stayed on at the Pentagon.

Yet Graham Allison, assistant secretary of defense in the first Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, places the odds of a nuclear strike within the next decade at 51 — 49 — slightly worse than the toss of a coin.

Such efforts could have additional benefits in helping to prevent bioterrorism, noted Andrew Weber, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs at the U.S. Department of Ddefense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs at the U.S. Department of Ddefense programs at the U.S. Department of DefenseDefense.

«If we're really going to have an impact as to a reduction in the stockpile, we have to address the whole stockpile,» Steve Henry, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said at a press conference announcing the design winner.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry (center) speaks at a press conference announcing the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists» latest «doomsday clock» estimates, as former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz (left) and California Governor Jerry Brown (right) look on.

H.E. Andan Badran, Jordan's Former Prime Minister & Former Minister of Defense, President of Petra University Hossam Badrawi, physician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development, and the founder and the honorary chairman of the Egyptian Council of Competitiveness (ENCC) Yee Cheong Lee, Chairman of Governing Board, International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South - South Cooperation under the auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC) Helene de Rode, Professor at the UCL - Mons Dr. Ghaith H. Fariz, Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States; Cluster Office for Egypt, Sudan, and Libya; and UNESCO Representative to Egypt Omar Fassi - Fehri, Permanent Secretary of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco Nazar M. Hassan, UNESCO Senior Specialist for Science and Technology for the Arab States; Director of UNESCONECTAR Network H.E. Prof. Jo Ritzen, Honorary Professor of Maastrich University Chair and Founder of Empower European Universities and Initiator of the Vibrant Europe Forum Mahmoud M. Sakr, President of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) Professor Peter Tindemans, Secretary General, EuroScience

The study was supported through the Joint Capability Technology Demonstration Program within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, as well as through a grant from The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation, Inc. to the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest Baptist.

The rest of the cast is magnificent, and also expansive: Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, the lead reporter on the story; Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield and David Cross as Howard Simons, other top scribes; Bruce Greenwood as Bob McNamara, former Defense Secretary and personal friend of Graham; Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe, Graham's right - hand man and rock; Bradley Whitford as the (overly) timid voice of caution; Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the papers; Jesse Plemons as the young lawyer brought into defend the Post; and Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, fierce competitor at the Times, and another Graham friend.

The press catch wind, though, and Ted's father Joseph (Bruce Dern) assembles a crack team of political experts, including former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Clancy Brown), at the Kennedy's Hyannis Port mansion to spin a tale that might save Ted's now - wavering political ambitions.

But before the cozy couple barely has a chance toast their engagement, the grateful groom - to - be finds himself deputized by his new partner and drawn away to participate in a sting operation ostensibly aimed at the cocaine dealer responsible for the drug overdose of the Secretary of Defense's daughter.

Notable among them is one of the film's best scenes, in which Bob McNamara (a superb Bruce Greenwood), Graham's close friend and the former Defense Secretary who commissioned the Vietnam study in the first place, explodes at her.

Penned by Chad Aldeman, a partner at Bellwether Education and former adviser to Secretary Duncan's Department of Education, it is simply titled «In Defense of Annual Testing», and it lays out what are becoming familiar efforts to shore up presumably left leaning support for keeping NCLB's annual testing requirements.

From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Bradbury headed the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advised the executive branch on a wide range of constitutional and statutory questions, and where he received the Edmund J. Randolph Award and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, among other awards.