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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Butter, Religion and Belief, John Brennan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Golf
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Senate approves Brennan as CIA chief
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: Benghazi, John Brennan, Police Investigations, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Gridlock, Tehran-style
With the United States locked in confrontation with Iran, was it good or bad for diplomacy that "Argo," a movie about U.S. spies getting the best of the Iranians, won this year's Academy Award for best picture? Depends on whom you ask. To Iran's...Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Movies, Media Industry, Iran's Nuclear Program, Government
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The law of drones
President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, John O. Brennan, Crime, Law and Justice, CBS Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
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Two women who brought down a traitor
Jeanne Vertefeuille and Sandra Grimes could be George Smiley's people. They were recruited on their college campuses by the Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War. Jeanne wanted travel and adventure. Sandy didn't know much about...
Tags: Politics, United States Naval Academy, Police Investigations, Annapolis, FBI
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Homeland Season 2, Episode 11 recap
With one episode remaining in the second season of “Homeland,” several plotlines reached their conclusions, while others blew wide open. Episode 11 killed off two of the series’ most obviously troublesome characters: Abu Nazir and the...
Tags: Morena Baccarin, Politics, Police Investigations, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency
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Afghan intelligence chief wounded in attack
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency was wounded Thursday afternoon in an attack at a spy agency guest house in the capital, government officials said. Asadullah Khalid, director of the National Directorate of...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Injuries and Wounds, Government, National Government, Suicide
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Better spies, not more
The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert "collectors" — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with this...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Police Investigations, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Iran's Nuclear Program, Julia Child
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'Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars' recap: Who's 'Bad'?
Welcome to the “Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars” semi-finals, ballroom fans! This was the last chance for stars and their pros to dance to the finals before the double elimination on Tuesday night, so we got outlandish costumes. Saw what...
Tags: Super Bowl, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Caves and Caverns, Dancing With the Stars (tv program)
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'Homeland' Season 2, Episode 9 recap
Who is Dar Adal? Just as Abu Nazir has begun shift from specter to physical character, "Homeland" has brought in a new, mysterious overlord to lurk in the shadows. This time it's in the form of a powerful intelligence official revealed to be secretly...
Tags: Politics, Police Investigations, Homeland (tv program), Central Intelligence Agency
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Jessica Chastain gets her character in 'Zero Dark Thirty'
As the overstressed beating heart of "Zero Dark Thirty," a CIA analyst named Maya who relentlessly chases after the hated phantom that was Osama bin Laden, Jessica Chastain is at times steely, at times shattered, potty-mouthed but somehow girlish,...
Tags: Movies, Police Investigations, Leon Panetta, Jennifer Ehle, Osama bin Laden
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Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term...
Tags: Democratic Party, John Cornyn, John Brennan, Police Investigations, Jack Lew
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