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Teixeira is a great example of how the department of defense has failed to figure out how to root out extremists, the fact that he was able to get a top secret security clearance after it became known to the local police that he shouldn’t have a gun, kind of boggles the mind and it makes me wonder what other kind of problems there are with the clearance system. – Kris Goldsmith	Found on CNN 12 months ago
This was a bill that was one of many targeting the LGBTQ community in Montana. This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history and our health care, and I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills. – Zooey Zephyr	Found on CNN 12 months ago
And I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills. when I rose up and said there is blood on your hands, I was not being hyperbolic. I was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body. – Montana Republicans	Found on CNN 12 months ago
Today—when the Speaker continued to not recognize me as a duly elected official—my constituents & community protested on behalf of their democratic right to be heard. I raised my mic and stood in solidarity with them. I am devoted to those who rise in defense of democracy. – Zooey Zephyr	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Having a war reserve stockpile is crucial and meaningful for Taiwan, even if United States does not want to intervene directly with military force, those kinds of stockpiles can still be very effective for our defense. – Lee Hsi-min	Found on CNN 1 year ago
( Having a contingency stockpile) is very crucial, because it sends a signal to China that United States is determined to assist in our defense. – Admiral Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets, accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At 8 a.m…. NUG (National Unity Government) and PDF (People’s Defense Force) conducted an opening ceremony of the public administration office at Pazigyi village, we had launched the attack on them. We were informed that PDF were killed at that event under the attack. They are opposing our government. – Zaw Min Tun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The entirety of the prosecution’s case file will soon have to be turned over to the defense, prosecutors don’t want it made public because they’re focused on the proceedings and know Trump will try this in the court of public opinion way before any trial in a court. That’s where the integrity of the proceedings can get really dicey – and that’s what they’re trying to accomplish with a protective order. – Karen Friedman Agnifilo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would not want to be a defense lawyer trying to argue, ‘Well, yes, my client was told that, but he never really believed it,’. – Adav Noti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s lots of ways you can show that. But certainly one of them is if they were told by people who knew what they were talking about, that that there was no basis to take the actions, i would not want to be a defense lawyer trying to argue, ‘Well, yes, my client was told that, but he never really believed it,’. – Adav Noti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Russian Ministry of Defense did not acknowledge it, they did not talk about it in their regular coverage, and (the bloggers) suddenly went from being this small group that was covering nationalist topics and Russian conflicts worldwide to becoming the source of information in Russia. – Kateryna Stepanenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Countless lives have been destroyed; freedom and human dignity have been trampled in the most brutal way. The security of Europe has been threatened, together with our democratic values, even as we abhor the appalling scenes of destruction, we can take heart from our unity – in defense of Ukraine, of peace and freedom. – The King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re going to talk about our two democracies stepping up to meet the challenges of our time. That includes taking concrete steps to increase defense spending, driving a global race to the top on clean energy, and building prosperous and inclusive economies. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today it became known that Great Britain, through the mouth of the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of this country, announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine, but also shells with combined uranium. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was easier, though never easy, for them to grasp the pace and maintenance, they are the best of the best in what they do in air defense for Ukraine. – Shane Morgan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
After the department’s careful review of the law and the facts, I’ve determined that members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, Eritrean Defense Forces, Tigray People’s Liberation Front forces and Amhara forces committed war crimes during the conflict in northern Ethiopia. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Repealing this AUMF will in any way not hinder our national defense, in fact, the repeal is an important step in strengthening our relationship with Iraq. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can say confidently that we are sending MiGs to Ukraine, we have a dozen or so MiGs that we got in the 90s handed down from the German Democratic Republic and they are functional and play a part in the defense of our airspace. They are at the end of their operational life but are still functional. – Andrzej Duda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are essentially at our last line of defense, which is: Can the police stop a shooter from killing more people than he otherwise would have absent this kind of training? that’s going to be our standard of success. – Juliette Kayyem	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The defense ministry and coast guard administration are actively understanding the relevant progress and situation. – Chiu Tai-san	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go. – Chris Pocock	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’ve seen a lot of the potential patterns in terms of routes and the way the Russians plan their missile salvos, so they’ve got better at positioning their air defense teams. – Justin Bronk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are using hypersonic missiles. They are using new types of weapons and they are seeing how our air defense systems can cope with it. – Alexander Rodnyansky	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Teixeira is a great example of how the department of defense has failed to figure out how to root out extremists, the fact that he was able to get a top secret security clearance after it became known to the local police that he shouldn’t have a gun, kind of boggles the mind and it makes me wonder what other kind of problems there are with the clearance system.

– Kris Goldsmith

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This was a bill that was one of many targeting the LGBTQ community in Montana. This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history and our health care, and I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills.

– Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
12 months ago

And I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills. when I rose up and said there is blood on your hands, I was not being hyperbolic. I was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body.

– Montana Republicans

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Today—when the Speaker continued to not recognize me as a duly elected official—my constituents & community protested on behalf of their democratic right to be heard. I raised my mic and stood in solidarity with them. I am devoted to those who rise in defense of democracy.

– Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Having a war reserve stockpile is crucial and meaningful for Taiwan, even if United States does not want to intervene directly with military force, those kinds of stockpiles can still be very effective for our defense.

– Lee Hsi-min

Found on CNN
1 year ago

( Having a contingency stockpile) is very crucial, because it sends a signal to China that United States is determined to assist in our defense.

– Admiral Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As Secretary of Defense, I will also not hesitate to take any additional measures necessary to safeguard our nation’s secrets, accordingly, I am directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to conduct a review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At 8 a.m…. NUG (National Unity Government) and PDF (People’s Defense Force) conducted an opening ceremony of the public administration office at Pazigyi village, we had launched the attack on them. We were informed that PDF were killed at that event under the attack. They are opposing our government.

– Zaw Min Tun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The entirety of the prosecution’s case file will soon have to be turned over to the defense, prosecutors don’t want it made public because they’re focused on the proceedings and know Trump will try this in the court of public opinion way before any trial in a court. That’s where the integrity of the proceedings can get really dicey – and that’s what they’re trying to accomplish with a protective order.

– Karen Friedman Agnifilo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would not want to be a defense lawyer trying to argue, ‘Well, yes, my client was told that, but he never really believed it,’.

– Adav Noti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s lots of ways you can show that. But certainly one of them is if they were told by people who knew what they were talking about, that that there was no basis to take the actions, i would not want to be a defense lawyer trying to argue, ‘Well, yes, my client was told that, but he never really believed it,’.

– Adav Noti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not acknowledge it, they did not talk about it in their regular coverage, and (the bloggers) suddenly went from being this small group that was covering nationalist topics and Russian conflicts worldwide to becoming the source of information in Russia.

– Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Countless lives have been destroyed; freedom and human dignity have been trampled in the most brutal way. The security of Europe has been threatened, together with our democratic values, even as we abhor the appalling scenes of destruction, we can take heart from our unity – in defense of Ukraine, of peace and freedom.

– The King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re going to talk about our two democracies stepping up to meet the challenges of our time. That includes taking concrete steps to increase defense spending, driving a global race to the top on clean energy, and building prosperous and inclusive economies.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today it became known that Great Britain, through the mouth of the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of this country, announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine, but also shells with combined uranium.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was easier, though never easy, for them to grasp the pace and maintenance, they are the best of the best in what they do in air defense for Ukraine.

– Shane Morgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After the department’s careful review of the law and the facts, I’ve determined that members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, Eritrean Defense Forces, Tigray People’s Liberation Front forces and Amhara forces committed war crimes during the conflict in northern Ethiopia.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Repealing this AUMF will in any way not hinder our national defense, in fact, the repeal is an important step in strengthening our relationship with Iraq.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can say confidently that we are sending MiGs to Ukraine, we have a dozen or so MiGs that we got in the 90s handed down from the German Democratic Republic and they are functional and play a part in the defense of our airspace. They are at the end of their operational life but are still functional.

– Andrzej Duda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are essentially at our last line of defense, which is: Can the police stop a shooter from killing more people than he otherwise would have absent this kind of training? that’s going to be our standard of success.

– Juliette Kayyem

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The defense ministry and coast guard administration are actively understanding the relevant progress and situation.

– Chiu Tai-san

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

– Chris Pocock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’ve seen a lot of the potential patterns in terms of routes and the way the Russians plan their missile salvos, so they’ve got better at positioning their air defense teams.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are using hypersonic missiles. They are using new types of weapons and they are seeing how our air defense systems can cope with it.

– Alexander Rodnyansky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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