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Will Obama launch a drone attack on U.S. soil?
Who would have thought that within President Barack Obama beats the heart of a civil rights antediluvian? Could Obama, beloved of the American Civil Liberties Union, be guilty of harboring thoughts of calling down a fatal drone attack on an American...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Rand Paul, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy, Eric Holder
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Keep the drone debate alive
Arianna HuffingtonIt's become accepted wisdom that Washington has become pathologically polarized and partisan, with every new debate inevitably breaking down along party lines. That's why it was so remarkable last week when Rand Paul's old-fashioned talking filibuster...Tags: Patrick Leahy, Bernard Sanders, Stanley A. McChrystal, Iraq, Rand Paul
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Rand Paul talks the talk
WASHINGTON -- Rand Paul was right. There, I said it. The Republican senator from Kentucky, whom I've ridiculed as an archconservative kook -- because that's basically what he is -- was right to call attention to the growing use of drone aircraft in...
Tags: John Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Timothy McVeigh, Eric Holder
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On talking things out
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- A Democratic president takes a bunch of Republican senators to dinner and invites the losing GOP vice-presidential nominee to lunch. Meanwhile, a freshman Republican filibusters the Senate for 13 hours against theoretical U.S. use of...Tags: John Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency, Rand Paul, Budget Control Act of 2011, Republican Party
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McManus: The other drone question
It has been 11 years since the United States began using missile-firing drones to attack Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But only now are we beginning a full public debate on this new form of warfare, and it took the nomination of...
Tags: Stanley A. McChrystal, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Justice, Yemen, Justice System
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Obama's license to kill by drone
If you really want Washington's chattering classes to pay attention to something, an old saying goes, leak it to the media. Whoever leaked the Justice Department's 16-page confidential "white paper" memo on the use of armed drones to NBC News sparked...
Tags: John Brennan, U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda, Eric Holder
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Obama's place in history already assured
William PfaffPARIS -- The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable. Mr. Obama had been a law professor and an urban organizer. He took his foreign policy views from reading the newspapers, and he appointed as his...Tags: William Pfaff, Unrest, Conflicts and War, France, NATO, George W. Bush
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Continuing a foreign policy pivot
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's nominations of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel to be his secretary of defense and John Brennan as CIA director, coupled with Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state, underline his determination to pivot from the war...Tags: Iraq, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vietnam War (1955-1975), George W. Bush
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Stumbling on bin Laden story
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Are Drone Attacks Legal and Humane?
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelIn 2013, war is no longer combat between two groups of human beings, but instead it is computerized man-less flying machines that seach and destroy designated areas. Technology has created these computerized flying war-machines and they are designed to... -
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: Brookings Institution, U.S. Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections
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Release Report On CIA's Use Of Torture
The Hartford CourantWhen I was a child, my parents made me and my brother say grace before meals. My mother is a preacher in the United Methodist Church, and my faith is part of my daily life. We often thanked God for our country. We expressed gratitude for our government...Tags: Police Investigations, Abusive Behavior, Central Intelligence Agency, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney
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