A group of retired US Generals and Admirals, led by former CENTCOM commander General Joseph Hoar, met with Vice President-elect Joe Biden and other senior members of the incoming administration's transition team today, presenting a laundry list of changes they'd like...
President-elect Barack Obama has added to growing discomfort about the seriousness with which he is approaching his pledge to close the detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay by selecting Eric Holder to be the attorney general for his incoming administration. Though in...
Current and future Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said today that he supports President-elect Barack Obama's Iraq policy, saying he is now "less concerned" about Obama's campaign promise to have troops out of Iraq within 16 months. Gates spent most of the past two...
When President-elect Barack Obama announces his national security team next week, the most obvious break ushered in will be from his promise for dramatic foreign policy change. For while Senator Obama ran his campaign around a mantra of change, his team will consist...
President-elect Barack Obama is set to announce his national-security team early next week, and reports from officials suggest that none of the appointees will do anything to stem the growing disquiet among antiwar activists about the hawkish composition of Obama's...
Amid several bellicose comments about the possibility of an impending Israeli strike against Iran Israeli Defense Ministry officials say they have been contacted by US officials who have asked them to refrain from launching any attacks against Iran until after...
A Saturday phone call between President-elect Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai has yielded, according to President Karzai, a firm commitment to make Afghanistan and the "region" a top priority in the incoming Obama Administration. The "region" appears to...
Though President-elect Barack Obama's office said it has yet to receive official confirmation, confidants of Senator Hillary Clinton report that she has decided to give up her Senate seat and will accept the offer to assume the role of Secretary of State when Obama...
After eight years of President Bush expanding the power of the executive branch to unparalleled levels, President-elect Barack Obama will take office in January with enormous discretion on policy. The Obama campaign's mantra of change really hit home with a lot of...
As President-elect Barack Obama's national security team begins to take shape, there is increasing disquiet among antiwar activists that his appointees and rumored appointees have thus-far, without exception, favored the Iraq invasion and held hawkish foreign policy...
