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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: Yemen, Eric Holder, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency, Military Equipment
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Lobbying, Science and Technology, Economy, Business and Finance, National Government, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Journalism, National Government, Eric Holder, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: Journalism, Eric Holder, Chuck Schumer, White House, Arlen Specter
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Immigration bill would restrict drone use in California
WASHINGTON – Concerned that border surveillance drones might fly over much of Southern California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) successfully amended the proposed Senate immigration overhaul bill Tuesday to limit such flights to within three...
Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Immigration, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Cocoa Beach
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Obama, Mexico leader to avoid hot topics, at least publicly
WASHINGTON — President Obama will seek to cement relations with Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, over the next two days with vows of neighborly kinship and future cooperation. But the true test of their ability to work together may be...
Tags: Government, Lobbying, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Immigration
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Boston bombing inquiries prompt new look at student visas
The federal government will tighten oversight to help ensure that foreign students seeking to enter the United States have valid student visas — the latest step to increase security after the Boston Marathon bombings. The heightened scrutiny by U....
Tags: Interior Policy, Government, Teaching and Learning, National Government, Janet Napolitano
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Sen. Boxer: Israel visa bill doesn't condone discrimination
Re "Israel's free pass from Boxer," Opinion, April 28 George Bisharat grossly misleads readers when he claims that bipartisan legislation I introduced would allow Israel to "continue racially profiling Americans of Arab and Muslim heritage who travel to...
Tags: Interior Policy, Israel, Barbara Boxer, Trips and Vacations, Personal Data Collection
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Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...
Tags: Pakistan, Water Pollution, Government, Barack Obama, Fidel Castro
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...
Tags: Pakistan, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama, Fidel Castro, Afghanistan
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U.S. government begins intelligence review in Boston bombing case
WASHINGTON — The CIA and departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun a high-level internal review of whether intelligence was mishandled prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, though President Obama and his top advisors said they had...
Tags: U.S. Senate, High Blood Pressure, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Police Investigations
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Intelligence report identified vulnerability before Boston bombing
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line of the race as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that extremists may use "small scale...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Michael T. McCaul, Police Investigations, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, FBI
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