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Bush 'preemptive strike' doctrine eyed
The Swampby Mark Silva Don't start, don't strike: There are more than a few policies under review at the Pentagon these days. The Pentagon is reviewing the Bush administration's doctrine of preemptive military strikes with an eye to modifying or possibly......Tags: Sports, Saddam Hussein, Government, Barack Obama, Iraq
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Head-banging: Guantanamo's 'juke-box'
The Swampby Mark Silva Waterboarding is one thing. But the Bee Gees? And Nine Inch Nails? Saturday night Head-banging taken to a new level: A coalition of rock musicians, including Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (pictured here) and Tom Morello,......Tags: Billy Bragg, National Security, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Music, Maine
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'Change:' Defense spending, hate crimes
The Swampby Mark Silva "The Pentagon is not the kind of place that can turn on a dime,'' says Defense Secretary Robert Gates, hailing the signing of a defense-spending bill that targets wasteful spending and unneeded weapons. "It will take more......Tags: Sports, Matthew Shepard, Government, Fraud, Laws
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Illinois prison: Guantanamo relief option
The Swampby Christi Parsons A near-empty prison in rural Illinois has emerged as "a leading option" to house suspected terrorists currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an Obama administration official said Friday. As they work to shutter the controversial...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Economic Policy, Politics
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Oil spill renews off-shore drilling debate
The Swampby Jim Tankersley The growing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was designated a spill of national significance and three top Cabinet officials will tour the site, the federal government said today as it stepped up efforts to deal......Tags: Emergency Incidents, Politics, Government, Barack Obama, Environmental Pollution
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WH moves ahead on IL prison purchase
The Swampby Christi Parsons The Obama administration will purchase the Thomson prison in rural western Illinois even if Congress doesn't approve the president's plan to lock up terror suspects there, a key official at the Justice Department said Monday....Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Heads of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Prisons
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White House spending freeze: Discretion
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated In an attempt to confront growing public frustration with out-of-control federal spending in the wake of a recession that has cost millions of American jobs and a special election that has cost the White House......Tags: George W. Bush, Medicare, Massachusetts, Government Health Care, Politics
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Obama's budget: What's up, what's down
The Swampby Mark Silva There's a lot of talk about a "three-year freeze'' here in Washington this week, on the heels of another winter snowstorm. But the White House readily allows that the freeze in "discretionary spending'' that it proposes for......Tags: Medicare, Defense, National Security, Government Health Care, Politics
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Don't ask, don't tell: Admiral for repeal
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes The nation's top uniformed officer said today that he supports allowing gays to serve openly the military, providing a powerful voice of support for President Obama call to lift the legal ban on their service. Launching......Tags: U.S. Army, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice and Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Carl Levin
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Pentagon shooter dead, officers recover
The SwampBy Julian E. Barnes A California man who attempted to enter the Pentagon by force and was shot by police has died from his wounds, police said this morning. The shooter, whom official identified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, walked......Tags: California, Disasters and Accidents, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California), San Benito County (California), Texas
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Bad faith and Benghazi
"Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference -- at this point, what difference does it make?" That was how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Christopher Stevens, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hillary Clinton, Benghazi
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The worst human rights violator in Cuba
For decades, American politicians have denounced human rights violations in Cuba. With good cause, they've accused the Castro brothers of rounding up political prisoners, torturing them, and detaining them for years with no charges filed and no access...
Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Prisons
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