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Transition Setback
Former senior U.S. intelligence official John Brennan withdrew Tuesday from consideration for CIA director in the new Obama administration amid protests from liberal groups linking him to the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation" and secret...Tags: Barack Obama, The White House, Homes, Texas, Getaway Travel
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Obama's focus can't be only on bin Laden
Barack Obama has said there can be only one president at a time. But in this interregnum — when the White House has already given up on making foreign (or economic) policy — the words of the president-elect matter. So how he describes the...Tags: Religious Conflicts, The White House, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism
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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD
Osama bin Laden is isolated from the day-to-day operations of al-Qaida, but the terrorist organization he built is spreading its influence in Africa and the Middle East, CIA Director Michael Hayden said yesterday. Al-Qaida remains the single greatest...Tags: Landforms, AIDS, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, Diseases
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War on terror's hidden front
Tribune correspondentThe desert is a war. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cynthia Ramirez roared through it in an unmarked Land Cruiser, projecting the awesome might of the U.S. military into a wasteland little seen, much less penetrated, by outsiders. The landscape was like a slap&#...Tags: Barack Obama, Religious Conflicts, Brownsville, Texas, Defense
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Islamists' Resurgence In Somalia A Setback To U.S. Terror Fight
McClatchy NewspapersAl-Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al-Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country's internationally backed government nears collapse. The rise...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Osama bin Laden, Wars and Interventions, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism
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CIA hid errors in '01 attack
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — An internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency found that agency officials engaged in a coverup to hide CIA negligence in the downing of a private airplane over Peru in 2001 as part of a mistaken attack on an aircraft...Tags: Peter Hoekstra, Michigan, Police Investigations, Police, Laws
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Spying NSA's failures
The Shadow Factory By James Bamford Doubleday / $27.95 / 345 pages The bad news in James Bamford's fascinating new study of the National Security Agency is that Big Brother really is watching. The worse news, according to this veteran journalist, is...Tags: National Security Agency, Glen Burnie, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security, Defense
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Hollywood pressured over torture portrayals
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Ken Robinson, an Army Special Forces intelligence officer turned Hollywood producer, was working on a short-lived Pentagon drama aptly titled "E-Ring" for a network when two of the show's writers stopped by his office to discuss the...Tags: Dennis Hopper, Human Rights, Defense, Kiefer Sutherland, Central Intelligence Agency
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USS Cole charges announced
The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole -- and will seek the death penalty. Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system, said charges...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Osama bin Laden, Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorism, Abusive Behavior
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Tim Russert's peers, pols reflect
The Swampby Katie Fretland Many expressed their deep sadness today for the death of newsman Tim Russert at age 58. Colleagues remembered him as a giant of the profession who was satisfied with no less than the highest standard of journalistic......Tags: David A. Paterson, Matt Lauer, Tim Russert, Football, James E Clyburn
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Cloak and stagger
Last month's unclassified congressional briefing on Syria's clandestine nuclear reactor, which was destroyed by Israel on Sept. 6, 2007, was yet another reminder of the challenges confronting the U.S. intelligence community. Still smarting from its...Tags: The White House, NBC, Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Should KSM be tried in federal court?
The Swampby Aamer Madhani With the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay preparing to formally arraign Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other suspects charged with planning and organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, two former federal prosecutors are making the case...Tags: National Security, Defense, Human Rights, Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency
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