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Setting limits on drones
It's about time. President Barack Obama's announcement today of new limits on drone strikes and his renewed call to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay were badly overdue. The United States has lost much credibility overseas with...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism, Prisons, Human Rights
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Today's Buzz: Obama's terror war: scale it back?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardPresident Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech Thursday in which he called for scaling back the use of drones to prevent civilian casualties. He also called for more steps to reduce the population of suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay...Tags: Terrorism, Elections, Politics, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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FACTBOX-Obama outlines steps toward closing Guantanamo prison
ReutersMay 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama outlined steps on Thursday aimed at the eventual closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Following are some facts about the detention operation at the U.S. Naval base in eastern Cuba: * The United...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Prisons, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Congress, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Repatriating detainees to Yemen key to closing Guantanamo
ReutersBy Susan Cornwell and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge on Thursday to lift a ban on transfers of detainees to Yemen from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, addresses one of the core obstacles to clearing...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Prisons, National Government, Labor Disputes, Government
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Guantanamo prisoners tune in for Obama's speech on their fate
ReutersBy Jane Sutton MIAMI, May 23 (Reuters) - Among those tuning in to President Barack Obama's national security speech on Thursday were some prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, who rely on television broadcasts and newspapers for hints about...Tags: Prisons, Television Industry, State of the Union Address, Strikes, U.S. Marine Corps
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Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - The woman who interrupted President Barack Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday is well-known around Washington as a perennial protester on national security issues. Medea Benjamin, a founder of anti-war...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Congress
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Obama puts restrictions on drone program
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...
Tags: Murder, U.S. Department of Defense, Civil Rights, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Congress
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Obama reveals conflicted thinking on drone strikes
WASHINGTON — At times defensive, solemn, lawyerly and personal, President Obama on Thursday offered a rare glimpse of the burden that the nation's fight against terrorism has placed on the man who leads it. In a speech spanning nearly an hour, the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Google+, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Central Intelligence Agency
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Obama sets limits on drone use, steps for closing Guantanamo
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a new U.S. policy on Thursday that limits the use of armed drones to times when Americans face an "imminent" threat, administration officials said. Obama's policy will make clear that the...Tags: Barack Obama, Washington, DC
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RPT-Switching from scandals, Obama to address drones and Guantanamo
Reuters(Repeats with no change in content) By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Government, Elections, Civil Rights, U.S. Congress
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, National Security, Elections, U.S. Department of Justice
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U.S. military lawyers put more pressure on Guantanamo
ReutersMIAMI (Reuters) - Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to improve conditions for detainees, putting more pressure on the Obama administration to make good its promise to close...Tags: Prisons, The Wall Street Journal, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Congress, Anwar al-Awlaki
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