by Graydon Gordian | Jun 2, 2010 | National Security
Current Position: State Department’s coordinator for threat reduction programs (since July 2009) Boss: Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs Why She Matters As threat-reduction programs guru, Jenkins is...
by Graydon Gordian | May 26, 2010 | National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Today 181 detainees remain housed at the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, despite the Obama administration’s initial pledge to close the facility by this past January. The administration plans to move some detainees to the Thomson...
by Graydon Gordian | May 18, 2010 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Amid all the attention surrounding the military trials in Guantanamo Bay, Bruce MacDonald fills an obscure but pivotal role. The retired Navy vice admiral serves as the convening authority for the military commissions, a position that some attorneys are...
by Graydon Gordian | May 13, 2010 | Topics
On the afternoon of Thursday, May 6, the Toronto Star, Canwest News Service, The Globe and Mail and The Miami Herald all received a letter from Marine Col. David Lapan, director of press operations for the Department of Defense. “I am writing to inform you that...
by Graydon Gordian | Apr 29, 2010 | National Security, Topics
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Accused war criminal Omar Khadr Thursday initially refused to attend the second day of his pretrial hearing, the first substantial military commission hearing of the Obama administration, but eventually attended despite what his lawyers called...
