Department of Defense - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Defense Index / Organizations Transcripts Carol Browner ...All the agencies were there, the Department of Defense , everybody. And the villain, if yo... Arun Majumdar ...And my closest partnership was with the Department of Defense . That so happened—and I didn't mentio... Christy Goldfuss ...of these places, procurement for the Department of Defense , how do you require it to be focuse... Nancy Sutley ...at the environmental impacts. The Department of Defense [DOD] was saying, “Don't interfere wit... ...in a lot of places as a big fleet. The Department of Defense itself is, I think, the single bigges... Heather Zichal ...getting a small amendment on a DOD [ Department of Defense ] authorization bill. There wasn'... Jeh Johnson ...2009 to 2012 as general counsel for the Department of Defense [DOD], the period we will be mostl... ...term, or largely focused on at the Department of Defense . But legal issues regarding the law o... ...how you became general counsel for the Department of Defense and the transition. But before I d... ...team. And I was dedicated to the Defense Department . It was a group of about a dozen o... ...team's representatives. At the Defense Department we had cubicles, like the D-ring or th... ...Air Force, or general counsel of the Department of Defense , which was probably the most logica... ...included the best legal minds in the Department of Defense , in the national security apparatus o... ...Yes. When I was general counsel of the Department of Defense , I used to convene informally a grou... ...Security, being the lawyer for the Department of Defense in the first term was probably th... ...to 2012, he was general counsel for the Department of Defense , which is the period we focused on i... ...the time I was general counsel of the Department of Defense , signing off on these various specifi... ...after I became general counsel of the Department of Defense , the judge advocate general of the Ai... ...drone program between the CIA and the Department of Defense , which is something that seems, i... ...I can only talk to you about what the Department of Defense does, what the US military doe... ...point, you had planned to leave the Defense Department . You said very briefly why that wa... ...thinking about your departure from the Defense Department , did you feel that the administratio... ...at the time, but when you left the Department of Defense , were you optimistic that th... ...to be the senior legal official for the Department of Defense . Just to take up that thread abou... ...bit on at the end of those years at the Department of Defense —of course, not knowing that you'd b... ...he served as general counsel for the Department of Defense , which was covered in his first tw... ...he served as general counsel for the Department of Defense . He also served from 1998 to 2001 a... ...tends to want to go to NSA, or the Defense Department , or the intelligence community, or th... ...when I was GC [general counsel] of the Department of Defense and he was the secretary of defense'... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Science Science