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Could Iran's presidential politicking open door to nuclear deal?
Thirty years of punishing sanctions have failed to curb Iran’s rogue behavior. Perhaps, a growing chorus of diplomats and security experts suggest, it is time for the United States to change tactics. With a presidential election in the Islamic...
Tags: Science and Technology, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Nuclear Weapons, Chuck Hagel, International Atomic Energy Agency
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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: Pakistan, Afghanistan, U.S. Congress, Judges, Susan Collins
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Weekend TV Talk: Dianne Feinstein; John McCain; Richard Durbin
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 16 - 22 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America Coverage of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Situation Room With Wolf...
Tags: Susan Rice, North Korea, John McCain, Peter Orszag, Harold E Jr Ford
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Lost tapes may entangle CIA
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn reconstructing the events leading up to Sept. 11, 2001, the blue-ribbon commission investigating the terrorist attacks got a lot of help from the CIA. The agency summarized intelligence reports about interrogations of suspects and even agreed to...Tags: National Security, Police Investigations, Colleges and Universities, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Democrats demand probe into destruction of tapes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKey members of Congress on Friday called for multiple investigations into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, charging the agency may have eliminated evidence of torture, obstructed justice or engaged in an illegal coverup. The CIA's...Tags: Office Equipment and Supplies, Hospitals and Clinics, National Security, Jane Harman, Police Investigations
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Justice moves to control tapes probe
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe Justice Department on Friday moved to consolidate control over the investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that neither it nor the intelligence agency would cooperate with congressional probes into the matter. The...Tags: Government, Police Investigations, Michael Mukasey, Peter Hoekstra, Laws
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Terror interrogation tapes destroyed, CIA acknowledges
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- The CIA said Thursday that it had destroyed videotapes of its secret interrogations of terrorism suspects, taking the action at a time when the agency's harsh methods were coming under intense congressional and legal scrutiny. CIA...Tags: Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Condoleezza Rice, Republican Party, Wars and Interventions
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'State secrets' on trial
Last Monday in a San Francisco courtroom, the Obama administration faced a crucial early test -- and, in the view of many liberal supporters, failed miserably. Four alleged victims of the government's "extraordinary rendition" program -- each of whom...Tags: Pakistan, National Security, Afghanistan, Police Investigations, Heads of State
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Waterboarding is legal, White House says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances. The surprise...Tags: John McCain, Police Investigations, Civil Rights, Heads of State, Armed Forces
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Capturing Osama
Today, Center for American Progress senior fellow Brian Katulis and Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Lisa Curtis debate the effect of breaking the U.S.-Pakistan alliance. Previously, they debated U.S. foreign aid to the country, prospects for...Tags: Pakistan, National Security, Afghanistan, Religious Conflicts, Foreign Aid
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"The War Within" by Bob Woodward
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterONE OF modern warfare's founding fathers, the 19th century Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke, was of the opinion that no military plan, however well and carefully conceived, could survive its first contact with the enemy. The same might be said...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Afghanistan, John McCain, Heads of State, Death
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A not-so-secret mission
Back in 1982, Congress passed a law designed to guard against the disclosure of the names of U.S. spies. The lawmakers acted because two obscure publications, "CounterSpy" and the "Covert Action Information Bulletin," were printing the names of undercover...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, FBI, Dominican Republic, Police Investigations, Judges
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