Tag: National Security
Guest Post: Trump threatens national security by denying climate change Meanwhile,...
Udall tries to hold on to Senate seat in tight fight...
In run-up to Election Day, Gardner camp drums up national security...
Udall to Holder: ‘Don’t try to protect citizens by lying to...
In voting against Patriot Act, Udall says Americans would be ‘alarmed’...
Udall named to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
With Congress gridlocked on climate legislation, environmental groups forge ahead
Despite the Gulf oil spill, a massive pipeline break in Michigan and broad concerns about global warming, ambitious climate-change and energy legislation is likely dead for the year. That poses a conundrum, going forward, for environmentalists: How to convince lawmakers of the need for legislation to sever the country’s decades-long ties to oil and to reform energy policy more generally?
White House to unveil ‘grand strategy’ on national security
John Brennan has a tough rhetorical job ahead of him Wednesday morning. Speaking to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brennan, President Obama’s most influential terrorism and intelligence adviser, will attempt to reconcile the harder edges of Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan and his enthusiastic embrace of drone-enabled assassinations of terrorists with the broader approach to grand strategy that the White House will finally unveil this week. Some wonder if that reconciliation is even possible.
Obama nominee Kagan has embraced expanded executive authority
Gates sharply limits ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
In a major victory for opponents of the military’s ban on open homosexual service, Defense Secretary Robert Gates significantly revised how the Pentagon will implement the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, effectively making it difficult to remove a soldier, sailor, airman or marine who does not out himself or herself as gay.