Contra GOP, Obama Is Not Rolling Back Terror War | GOP tries to frame Obama’s speech as antiwar
Contra GOP, Obama Is Not Rolling Back Terror War
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Clinton Inflates Terror Threat, Contradicting Data
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said the threat of al-Qaeda and terrorism is spreading and remains imminent, even as the data says otherwise, suggesting she inflated the threat. "The core of Al-Qaeda that carried out the 9/11 attacks may be on the path...
Government Now Allowed to Store Info on Innocent Americans
The U.S. intelligence community can now store information innocent Americans for up to five years under new Obama administration rules, expanding previous authority to hold details on individuals with no ties to terrorism. The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)...
Treasury Dept Probes Former Pennsylvania Governor’s Terror Ties
Treasury Dept Probes Former Pennsylvania Governor’s Terror Ties | Rendell insists he ‘did nothing wrong’ in backing MeK
Obama Lawyer: No Court Can Challenge Extrajudicial Execution at President’s Whim
The Obama administration’s top Pentagon lawyer on Wednesday said that courts have no business questioning executive branch decisions about whom to target for extra-judicial execution in the war on terror, even if that target is an American citizen. "Belligerents who...
Top Officials Shake Fists at Vague Threat
It's as if we've already been attacked, and the last ten years of war never happened. In response to somewhat vague warnings of a tenth-anniversary terror plot on the United States, security is up in target cities like New York and Washington, DC -- and so is official...
New York Militarizes for 9/11 Anniversary
As the clock ticks closer to the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the hysteria meter rises as well. But there are mixed signals from officials eager not to overplay what may be a nonevent. The New York Police Dept., a...
US in Mini-Quagmire in Philippines War on Terror
United States Special Operations Forces are carrying out counter-terror and counter-insurgency operations in the Philippines against an elusive group of so-called terrorists, numbering at no more than 12 individuals. The ongoing mission mirrors the wasteful and...
Detainee Acquittal No Guarantee of Freedom
Lawmakers and human rights advocates are questioning the assertion by the administration of President Barack Obama that Guantánamo terror suspects could be imprisoned indefinitely even if they are found not guilty by a U.S. court. That assertion was made at a...
Afghan Prisoners at US Airbase in Legal Limbo
Following a loss in federal court, the organization representing detainees held by the U.S. without charge at Bagram prison in Afghanistan called on the Barack Obama administration to "reverse the flawed policies of the previous Bush White House" and end the...
