Richard Shelby from Alabama has placed a blanket hold on all nominees, including national security nominees, to use as leverage for some projects in his state.
He obviously has other obligations, including national security obligations.
The act created many of the institutions that Presidents found useful when formulating and implementing foreign policy, including the National Security Council (NSC).
The NIC is a government entity that incorporates information from a range of national security agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and several others.
The Center for Security Policy Press, founded in 2009, has published several books, including the quarterly series, National Security Policy Proceedings (now in its sixth issue).
The New York Times reported that it required 150 interagency meetings, including 30 by the National Security Council, to produce the new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and START follow-on treaty.
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Last month in London, Samsung hosted the first meeting of a new government-advisory board, made up of Samsung executives and technology-security experts from Western government agencies, including the U.S. National Security Agency.
And it will not affect national security, including benefits for veterans.
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In attendance were 65 experienced national security practitioners, including a number of former Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers and several retired senior military officers.
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Failure to approve the Senate's Cybersecurity Act of 2012 would amount to a rejection of the advice from senior national security officials, including Gen.
The Scotland Act also specifies a range of "reserved matters" on which the Scottish Parliament cannot pass legislation, including foreign policy, defence and national security.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military advisor to me and my national security team, including the Secretary of Defense.
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The report also called for changes at the FBI, including the creation of a new National Security Service that would merge the agency's counterterrorism and counterintelligence divisions.
And it won't affect national security spending, including veterans' benefits.
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President Obama has made promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls central to our foreign policy and national security strategy, including by leading by example at home.
Some observers, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser, say the U.S. should step back, arguing that as tragic as the situation is, there are many other problems of greater importance.
In August 2010, CIA Director Leon Panetta went to the White House to brief the president and a handful of his top national security advisers, including Brennan, that the CIA had a promising lead that suggested bin Laden could be living in a compound in the northern city of Abbottabad.
He understood it to be an appealing platform to the American people writ large, including of course economic, social and national security conservatives and the rest of his Republican Party.
Pat Caddell is right that the Republican failure during the campaign to frame the national security issue properly - including the horrifying prospect of a Hastings chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee - is substantially responsible for the fact that there will be an acute lack of security-minded leadership in the 110th Congress.
The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials -- including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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"The United States has substantial and growing concern about the threats to economic and national security posed by cyberintrusions, including the theft of commercial information, " department spokesman Peter Velasco said in a statement.
Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has struggled to forge a power-sharing agreement and has yet to fill key Cabinet positions, including the ministers of defense, interior and national security, while his backers have shown signs of wobbling support.
Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has struggled to forge a lasting power-sharing agreement and has yet to fill key Cabinet positions, including the ministers of defense, interior and national security, while his backers have also shown signs of wobbling support.
And he will consult further with his national security team and, of course, including General Petraeus in the days coming forward.
To this end, leaders of six preeminent national security-minded public policy institutions - including the Heritage Foundation, the Claremont Institute, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and my own Center for Security Policy - came together earlier this year to define such an agenda.
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To bring soybeans and other crops, including corn and such, for ethanol are great options for national security, but we also need fuel economy.
Investigators are considering a range of possible motives, including unlawful financial gain, theft of trade secrets and a national-security threat designed to damage the exchange.
Bruce Riedel of Brookings says part of Rice's legacy will be the role she played as national security adviser when the White House undercut Powell, including on the Middle East.
Last year, a number of other candidates, including 2011 Iowa straw poll winner Michelle Bachmann, as well as other national security and public policy figures, lent their names to the Peace Through Strength Platform, and its objective of applying that Reagan philosophy to contemporary challenges.
The heightened security was evident Thursday, including federal marshals, canine units and National Guardsmen patrolling the airport.
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