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Atty. Gen. Holder defends record, hints at possible successor
WASHINGON — Embattled Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply defended his work as the Obama administration’s top federal law enforcement official but also conceded Thursday that he sees a day when he will meet with the president at the White...
Tags: Justice System, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Operation Fast and Furious, U.S. Senate, Lawyers
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 26 - June 1, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Trisha's Southern Kitchen In the season...
Tags: Afghanistan, Auto Racing, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Clint Bowyer, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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A new response in the war on terror
Better late than never, President Obama has moved to establish more rigorous standards for the targeted killings of Americans and foreigners alike away from a battlefield. The need for what he called "strong oversight of all lethal action" was one theme...
Tags: Yemen, U.S. Congress, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Arabian Peninsula, Dianne Feinstein, Prisoners and Detainees, Unrest, Conflicts and War, European Parliament
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...
Tags: NATO, Murder, Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prisons
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Obama puts restrictions on drone program
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...
Tags: Murder, U.S. Navy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prisons, Military Equipment
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Obama reveals conflicted thinking on drone strikes
WASHINGTON — At times defensive, solemn, lawyerly and personal, President Obama on Thursday offered a rare glimpse of the burden that the nation's fight against terrorism has placed on the man who leads it. In a speech spanning nearly an hour, the...
Tags: Defense, U.S. Department of Justice, Strikes, Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: John O. Brennan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Raleigh, Military Equipment, FBI
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Finally, Obama breaks his silence on drones
Over the last four years, there has been a strange irony. One of the greatest speakers of our era has largely kept silent about one of the signature aspects of his presidency. Under President Obama's leadership, U.S. civilian intelligence agencies...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Murder, John O. Brennan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Department of Defense
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Republicans criticize Obama's new approach on fighting terrorism
WASHINGTON — Republicans hammered President Obama on Sunday for what they described as a retreat in the war against terrorism at a time when they said the world’s crises demand a more aggressive, vigilant posture from the United States. In a...
Tags: United States Naval Academy, Fox News Channel (tv network), ABC (tv network), U.S. Department of Justice, White House
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McManus: Rebooting the war on terror
President Obama's speech last week on the future course of America's 11-year-old war against Al Qaeda was long overdue. Never before has he offered the public such a detailed explanation of his anti-terrorism strategy. In part, that's surely because...
Tags: Yemen, U.S. Congress, John O. Brennan, White House, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Letters: Debating Guantanamo
Re "Obama's Gitmo woes," Opinion, May 5 As a fan of Doyle McManus, I was disappointed to read his claim that most of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were anti-American extremists when they were apprehended. Our own government has...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Wars and Interventions, Judaism, John McCain, Religion and Belief
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