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Obama's new drone guidelines still leave critics with unanswered questions
AP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be...Tags: U.S. Congress, Human Rights, Terrorism, U.S. Department of State, Politics
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Light Must Shine On Government Secrecy
The Hartford CourantMamie Till did the unspeakable almost 60 years ago. She opened the casket at her son Emmett's funeral so the world could see how this 14-year-old was shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and then drowned in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan...Tags: Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics, Executive Branch, Gun Control
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Obama says attorney general will review guidelines in media leaks investigations
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists' records in investigations of the leak of government secrets. Obama acknowledged he is "troubled by the...Tags: Media Industry, Judges, The Associated Press, U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama
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Obama orders review of guidelines on investigating reporters
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he was troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may "chill" investigative journalism and said he had asked Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. to review Justice Department guidelines for going after...Tags: Media Industry, Politics, Barack Obama, Journalism, National Security
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Editorial: IRS stonewalling makes the case for a special prosecutor
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Congress, Politics, Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
With warnings about continued threats to US, Obama seeks to open secretive terror policies WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of...Tags: Religion and Belief, Primaries, Birth Defects, Defense Equipment, Politics
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Politics, Terrorism, Barack Obama
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Pakistan arrested American 3 years before he was killed in US drone strike
Associated PressPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. The Obama administration...Tags: U.S. Marine Corps, Nawaz Sharif, Anwar al-Awlaki, Pakistan, Crime, Law and Justice
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Will Justice Department grant request?
After IRS official Lois Lerner exercised her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House Committee on May 22, Chairman Darrell Issa said he would seek Department of Justice cooperation in granting Lerner criminal immunity in return for her...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Pompano Beach
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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...Tags: Pentagon Papers Release (2011), The New York Times, U.S. Department of State, Politics, Barack Obama
May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
|Resource Link| Orlando Sentinel
May 24, 2013
|Resource Link| Orlando Sentinel
May 23, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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May 22, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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May 24, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 22, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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