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Gates backs lawmakers' oversight of drone program
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Gates, a former defense secretary and spymaster, is backing lawmakers' proposal to form a special court to review President Barack Obama's deadly drone strikes against Americans linked to al-Qaida. Gates, who led the...
Tags: Angus King, NBC (tv network), State of the Union Address, FBI, John Brennan
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Obama's license to kill by drone
If you really want Washington's chattering classes to pay attention to something, an old saying goes, leak it to the media. Whoever leaked the Justice Department's 16-page confidential "white paper" memo on the use of armed drones to NBC News sparked...Tags: The Washington Post, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda, John Brennan
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Drones on the dais
WASHINGTON -- Is the position of God subject to the confirmation process? Does the Lord Almighty require the advice and consent of the Senate? These are no longer abstract questions. John Brennan may not be divine, but he plays God often as...
Tags: Saxby Chambliss, Murder, Dianne Feinstein, Washington, DC, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Wrong on drone hits
WASHINGTON -- If George W. Bush had told us that the "war on terror" gave him the right to execute an American citizen overseas with a missile fired from a drone aircraft, without due process or judicial review, I'd have gone ballistic. It makes no...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A license to kill Americans: no judge, no jury
Have you heard? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are up to their old tricks. It wasn't so long ago that they cited congressional authorization for the war on terror, passed by Congress one week after September 11, 2001, to justify their use of rendition,...
Tags: Executive Branch, U.S. Department of Justice, Dick Cheney, U.S. Congress, White House
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Quinn bids to end 'say-to-play' primary voting
"Let's pass a long overdue law to allow voters to participate in primary elections without having to publicly declare their party affiliation." — Gov. Pat Quinn in his State of the State address As you probably know, to participate in a...
Tags: Primaries, Al-Qaeda, Rob Morris, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Branch
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Human Rights, Saxby Chambliss, Civil Rights, Leon Panetta, John D. Rockefeller IV
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Deep breaths, drone critics
Change of SubjectChalk this up to my paranoia deficiency, but the idea that U.S. drone-fired missiles are a threat to Americans abroad is very, very low on my list of concerns. Yes, there are good questions about how our military selects and...... -
Rand Paul's filibuster worked
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got a lot of attention Wednesday for mounting an honest-to-God filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan. The nation's political class marveled at his real-life Mr. Smith act, the funny stuff his...Tags: Ron Paul, Eric Holder, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Strom Thurmond, Al-Qaeda
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Putting Benghazi in context
My initial impression of the murderous attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was probably similar to yours. A horrific incident. A security failure. Another example of radical Islamic overreaction to the most tepid of incidents — in this case,...Tags: Mitt Romney, Libya, Al-Qaeda, Jay Carney, United Nations
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Suspect in Ft. Hood Shootings Can Keep Beard For Now
Los Angeles TimesEL PASO, Texas -- The military judge supervising the trial of accused Ft. Hood shooter Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was removed from the case Monday, with the military's highest appeals court ruling that his "duel of wills" with Hasan over the defendant'...Tags: Vaccines, Trials, Courts-Martial, Murder, U.S. Military
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FBI: 4 California men charged in alleged terror plot
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four Southern California men have been charged with plotting to kill Americans and destroy U.S. targets overseas by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, federal officials said Monday. The defendants, including a...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Trials, FBI, Al-Qaeda, Services and Shopping
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