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Effort to protect California egg law in House farm bill fails
WASHINGTON—Congress to California: Here’s bit of egg on your face. A bipartisan group of lawmakers failed to kill a provision in the farm bill that blocks California from requiring that eggs imported into the state come from hens who have...Tags: Elections, Humane Society of the United States, U.S. Congress, Steve King, Parties and Movements
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FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified Wednesday that the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program "has been a contributing factor, one dot among many dots" for tracking terrorist plots, and he admitted for...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Jeff Sessions
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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners -U.S. senator
ReutersBy Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 19 (Reuters) - U .S. Senator Dianne Feinstein urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and called the practice "out of...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Barack Obama, Justice and Rights, U.S. Senate, Religion and Belief
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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners: Senator
ReutersGUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and called the practice "out of step" with medical ethics...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Chuck Hagel, Justice and Rights, U.S. Senate, Religion and Belief
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FBI says it uses surveillance drones on U.S. soil
ReutersBy David Ingram WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The United States uses drones for surveillance in some limited law enforcement situations, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Wednesday, sparking additional debate about President Barack Obama's use of...Tags: Barack Obama, Laws, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Jimmy Lee Dykes
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NSA head, lawmakers defend surveillance programs
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying...Tags: Elections, Emergency Incidents, Brookings Institution, U.S. Senate, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
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Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Yosemite's historic 'Buffalo Soldiers' up for national recognition
WASHINGTON -- In the late 19th century and early 20th century, black troopers called the "Buffalo Soldiers" patrolled Yosemite and Sequoia national parks in California. But many visitors to the national parks are unaware of the role played by these...
Tags: Yosemite National Park, National Parks, Human Interest, Barbara Boxer
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Moves to limit contractor access to secrets meets resistance
Reuters(Reuters) - Industry executives and some corners of the U.S. intelligence community are pushing back against possible legislative moves to curb contractors' access to classified information. Following leaks by former National Security Agency contractor...Tags: U.S. Senate, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., U.S. Congress, Raytheon Company, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: Ron Wyden, Jane Harman, Laws, U.S. Congress, Saxby Chambliss
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Edward Snowden's not the first to make claims about NSA
WASHINGTON — Mathematician William Binney worked for the National Security Agency for four decades, and in the late 1990s he helped design a system to sort through the digital data the agency was sucking up in the exploding universe of bits and...Tags: U.S. Congress, Substance Abuse, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Computer Networking and Internet
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Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...Tags: George W. Bush, Verizon Communications, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Saxby Chambliss
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