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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...... -
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: U.S. Department of Justice, Yemen, Central Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama
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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: White House, Government, U.S. Department of Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Government
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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: Leon Panetta, Richard Burr, Laws, Wars and Interventions, John Brennan
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This weekend: Cowboys vs. Redskins; ‘Call the Midwife’; ‘Back to the Beginning’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelFootball will be the most-watched programming during the final weekend of 2012. But there are offerings for fans of British drama, biblical history, Harry Potter and love stories. The highlights: 1. The weekend's biggest program is likely to be NBC's ... -
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: Psychiatrists, U.S. Army, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Health, Court Preliminary
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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: Services and Shopping, Mexico, Court Preliminary, Emergency Incidents, U.S. Air Force
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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: Political Fundraising, Mitt Romney, Elections, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Fox News Channel (tv network)
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San Diego Man Linked to Federal Reserve Bomb Plotter
WPIXNEW YORK -- Terror suspect Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ashan Nafis remains behind bars accused of plotting to bomb the Federal Reserve Branch in Manhattan. But in a new development, the FBI has arrested and searched the San Diego apartment of 36-year-old...Tags: Police Arrests, Federal Reserve, CNN (tv network), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Los Angeles Times
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The secret wars
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and the other leaders of Congress' intelligence committees this week issued a strong, bi-partisan statement of condemnation for recent leaks of classified information about America's clandestine operations abroad, including...Tags: Elections, Tehran (Iran), Armed Conflicts, Pakistan, Weaponry
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Al-Qaida attacks Yemeni forces hours after U.S. drone strike kills USS Cole suspect
Associated PressAl-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Bombings, U.S. Department of State, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula
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Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid that killed Osama bin Laden
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil. But the terrorist network dreams still of payback,...
Tags: Haqqani Network, Elections, Ayman al-Zawahri, Somalia, John Brennan
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