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Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Associated Press said on Monday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period in 2012, describing the acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering...Tags: FBI, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Journalism, Jay Carney, Carney (music group)
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Bringing drones out of the shadows
The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...
Tags: Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Murder
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The Guantanamo dilemma
When he ran for president, Barack Obama laid out the case against the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Elections, White House, U.S. Congress, Al-Qaeda
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...Tags: Prisons, FBI, Lindsey O. Graham, Al-Qaeda, Wars and Interventions
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: U.S. Military, Weaponry, Police Investigations, National Security, Fidel Castro
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COLUMN - Obama can close Guantanamo
Reuters(Daphne Eviatar is a Reuters columnist but her opinions are her own.) By Daphne Eviatar May 1 (Reuters) - At his news conference on Tuesday, President Barack Obama for the first time in years spoke about the controversial detention center at...Tags: Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Crime, Law and Justice, Al-Qaeda, Human Rights
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Obama renews call to close Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring it "not...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Terrorism, Health and Medical Professionals, Wars and Interventions, Politics
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Yemenis languish in Guantanamo prison with scant hope of release
Reuters* Hunger strike refocuses attention on Guantanamo inmates * Families of inmates worried * Yemen says US cites lack of stability to justify keeping inmates By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA, April 29 (Reuters) - Awdah al-Shabati has never seen her father...Tags: Jay Carney, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, U.S. Military, Saudi Arabia, Wars and Interventions
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Dems, GOP press Obama administration on drone use
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans'...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Al Franken, Al-Qaeda, John O. Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Yemen drone strike kills two suspected militants-security source
ReutersSANAA, April 21 (Reuters) - Two suspected members of al Qaeda were killed on Sunday in a U.S. drone strike on a site used for training members of the Islamist network in central Yemen's Marib province, a security official told Reuters. The official...Tags: Strikes, Career and Workplace, Al-Qaeda, Sana'a (Yemen)
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With Al Qaeda shattered, U.S. counter-terrorism's future unclear
WASHINGTON — Skilled in tracking foreign terrorists, Jarret Brachman once was a sought-after expert on Al Qaeda, advising several federal agencies and speaking regularly around the country. Now the former research director of the Combating...Tags: FBI, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, U.S. Military, Elections, Terrorism
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Targeting drones
A famous book on negotiation is called "Getting to Yes." Sometimes, though, the better achievement is arriving at "no." That's what Eric Holder and Rand Paul did the other day. It came in a letter from the attorney general to the Republican senator from...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Al-Qaeda, Weaponry
May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 4, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
May 3, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 21, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 14, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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