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    May 16, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say

    WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials.
    WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....

    Tags: Los Angeles Times, Crime, Law and Justice, Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI

    2. May 26, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  2. McManus: Rebooting the war on terror

    President Obama's speech last week on the future course of America's 11-year-old war against Al Qaeda was long overdue.
    President Obama's speech last week on the future course of America's 11-year-old war against Al Qaeda was long overdue. Never before has he offered the public such a detailed explanation of his anti-terrorism strategy. In part, that's surely because...

    Tags: Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Congress, Armed Conflicts, September 11, 2001 Attacks

    3. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  3. 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' civil liberties.
    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: Dick Durbin, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Military Equipment, Central Intelligence Agency

    4. May 4, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  4. 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: George W. Bush, Career and Workplace, Joe Biden, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus

    5. May 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. '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: Leon Panetta, Espionage and Intelligence, Somalia, Military Equipment, The New York Times

    6. Apr 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 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: Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisoners and Detainees, George W. Bush, U.S. Congress

    7. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Justifying assassination

    A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama administration may withhold from the public a document providing the legal rationale for the targeted killing in Yemen of Anwar Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative who was also a U.S. citizen. But even as she did so, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon eloquently expressed her concerns about the existence of a secretive government program that not only assassinates those deemed to be enemies of the United States, but does so without judicial oversight.
    A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama administration may withhold from the public a document providing the legal rationale for the targeted killing in Yemen of Anwar Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative who was also a U.S. citizen. But...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, Freedom of Information Act, The New York Times, Government

    8. Mar 10, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 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.
    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: Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Anwar al-Awlaki, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz

    9. Mar 14, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Secrets no president should keep

    In the divided world of American politics, it's not easy to find an issue on which the legal affairs correspondent for the Nation and the former chairman of the American Conservative Union agree. But we've found one: the crucial importance of transparency in government, especially when the president claims the power to kill us without charges or trial, by directing the launching of a remote-control drone.
    In the divided world of American politics, it's not easy to find an issue on which the legal affairs correspondent for the Nation and the former chairman of the American Conservative Union agree. But we've found one: the crucial importance of transparency...

    Tags: Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Rand Paul, National Government, Government

    10. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Senate approves Brennan as CIA chief

    <span class="runtimeTopic">WASHINGTON</span>&nbsp;&mdash; The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ending weeks of delay as lawmakers sought access to secret Obama administration documents about the targeted killing of militants overseas and the Sept. 11 attacks last year that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
    WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ending weeks of delay as lawmakers sought access to secret Obama administration documents about the targeted killing of militants overseas...

    Tags: Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Rand Paul, Espionage and Intelligence, Military Equipment

    11. Feb 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Ousted Yemen leader Saleh urges countrymen to forgive and forget

    One year after officially stepping down, the ousted leader of Yemen urged his country to forgive and forget, an apparent assertion of his continued political role in the fractured nation.
    One year after officially stepping down, the ousted leader of Yemen urged his country to forgive and forget, an apparent assertion of his continued political role in the fractured nation. “We call for reconciliation, shaking hands and...

    Tags: Politics, Ali Abdullah Saleh, National Government, Government, Human Interest

    12. Feb 19, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Pictures in the News | February 19, 2013

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    In Tuesday's Pictures in the News: At least four people are dead after a shooting spree stretching from Ladera Ranch into Tustin and Orange in Orange County; Yemeni soldiers and firefighters work to extinguish fire at the site of a military plane crash in...
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