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DOCUMENTS: White House releases trove of Benghazi emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the...
Tags: Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Al-Qaeda, Police Investigations
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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: George W. Bush, U.S. Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Sleep Deprivation, Police Investigations
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Dems, GOP press Obama administration on drone use
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans'...
Tags: Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda, Military Equipment, U.S. Congress
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Rand Paul gets filibuster relief from Pat Toomey
Call Washington BureauJust after 11:30 p.m., a few hours after dining on steak as President Obama's dinner guest, Pat Toomey walked onto the Senate floor to give his Republican colleague a 15-minute respite from a filibuster that was approaching the 12-hour mark. The...Tags: Eric Holder, Patrick J. Toomey, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, U.S. Senate
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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: Eric Holder, Anwar al-Awlaki, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Justice and Rights
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U.S. Must Have Checks On Drone Killings
The Hartford CourantJohn Brennan, newly confirmed director of the CIA, assured Americans in a speech last year on targeted killing that there is "absolutely nothing casual" about the process of targeted killing, including that of American citizens. He included in this the...Tags: Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Al-Qaeda, Nobel Prize Awards
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Mail Call - March 19
“Here’s the biggest fable of the USA: Christopher Columbus discovered America. He never set foot on American soil. He found the Bahamas, and last I looked, the Bahamas wasn’t part of the U.S. So why is he getting credit? Now, 400 years...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Dentistry and Dental Health, John Brennan, Bahamas
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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: Ron Wyden, Iraq, Stanley A. McChrystal, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama
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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: Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, National Government, Timothy McVeigh, Bank Robbery
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Rand Paul's filibuster worked
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got a lot of attention Wednesday for mounting an honest-to-God filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan. The nation's political class marveled at his real-life Mr. Smith act, the funny stuff his...
Tags: Eric Holder, Anwar al-Awlaki, Central Intelligence Agency, Laws, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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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: Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, Jules Witcover, White House, Libertarian Party
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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...
May 15, 2013
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Mar 12, 2013
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Mar 18, 2013
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Mar 13, 2013
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Mar 11, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 10, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Feb 15, 2013
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