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Holder investigating CIA interrogations
The Swampby Greg Miller and Josh Meyer U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Baghdad (Iraq), Prisons, Defense, Prosecution
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Obama: Afghan runoff 'important step'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 11:50 am EDT For weeks now, the White House has added a caveat to nearly every public discussion of deliberations underway about the way forward in Afghanistan: The United States must have an effective......Tags: U.S. Elections, Heads of State, National Government, Government, Corporate Crime
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Obama's Afghan dilemma: 'Difficult road'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has acknowledged that "the road ahead will be difficult'' in Afghanistan, is meeting again this morning with a war cabinet: Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense...Tags: CNN (tv network), Democratic Party, Dick Cheney, Heads of State, National Government
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George Schultz: Afghanistan strategy
The Swampby Paul Richter t's become almost the conventional wisdom in Washington that the best way to fight the Taliban is to expand Afghanistan's weak national army. Today, a prominent former diplomat said that approach may be entirely wrong. George P.......Tags: Armed Forces, Afghanistan, Ronald Reagan, Defense, Taliban
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Petreaus 'realist:' Afghanistan 'hard'
The Swampby Mark Silva Afghanistan is not Sweden, says Army Gen. David Petreaus. Nor is it Vietnam, or Somalia. It is a place, however, where an effective counter-insurgency working in hand with the building of governmental institutions can have the impact......Tags: Sweden, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Defense, Somalia
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Jack Reed: Afghanistan and health care
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. Jack Reed, Democrat from Rhode Island and a West Point graduate, was fresh from a meeting at the Pentagon this morning when he was asked about the decision that President Barack Obama faces about troop deployments......Tags: Harry Reid, Heads of State, Defense, National Government, Government
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Gates: Defense commitment for Year 2
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has committed to remaining in his post for another year, keeping him in office at least through the next critical Afghanistan strategy review in 2010. In Pentagon circles, speculation about Gates'........Tags: George W. Bush, White House, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, Heads of State
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U.S. hopes to share prison with Afghanistan
The Swampby Julian Barnes The Obama administration wants to retain the ability to hold terrorism suspects from other countries at its largest prison in Afghanistan, even after it hands control of the facility to the Afghan government next year, according to......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Afghanistan, Julian Barnes, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Petraeus to call for 'responsible' drawdown
The Swampby David Cloud The July 2011 deadline for beginning U.S troops withdrawals from Afghanistan "is the beginning of a process, not the date when the U.S. heads for the exits," Gen. David H. Petraeus said in remarks to be delivered......Tags: David Petraeus, Karl Eikenberry, Diplomacy, Politics, Stanley A. McChrystal
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Obama in Afghanistan: 'Progress made'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who made a surprise landing in Afghanistan today, delivered a message to the Afghan leader about the unfinished business of building a stronger government and battling corruption, and a message of thanks to the......Tags: Travel, Armed Forces, Corruption, Heads of State, Defense
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Obama: Healthcare reform 'first step'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, in an interview that will air Tuesday morning on the Today show, calls the healthcare reform that he has signed into law "a first step.'' "I think it is a critical first step in......Tags: Travel, Subway Transportation, Health Care Reform (2009), Television, White House
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Slain diplomat from River Forest was a girl with an adventurous mind
Before she was a young U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Afghanistan, before she and others were blown up by a bomb, before she was eulogized at Fenwick High School on Tuesday, Anne Smedinghoff was a girl. The temptation now is to see her only...
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