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Ex-Justice lawyer: Some reported CIA interrogation not authorized

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the key Bush administration lawyers in the evolution of the CIA's interrogation program cast doubt on whether the Justice Department approved some of the harsh steps the agency took to get terrorist suspects to talk.

July 15, 2010

Holder: Getting death penalty for Sept. 11 suspects may be tough

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says there's a real question about whether a terrorist suspect such as self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can face the death penalty if he were to plead guilty before a military commission.

July 11, 2010

NJ men accused of trying to join Somali terrorists

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey men who talked about attacking Americans and sought to fight alongside terrorists in Somalia were arrested at a gate New York's Kennedy Airport as they were about to board a flight to leave the U.S. and join the al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists, authorities said.

June 06, 2010

Nuclear accord: Summit endorses Obama’s goal on nuclear security

In full accord on a global threat, world leaders Tuesday endorsed President Barack Obama’s call for securing all nuclear materials around the globe within four years to keep them out of the grasp of terrorists. They offered few specifics for achieving that goal, but Obama declared “the American people will be safer and the world will be more secure” as a result.

By By Robert Burns, The Associated Press , April 14, 2010

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‘The last thing I want to do is kill kids’

As our air war against terrorists accelerates — with strikes by pilotless drone planes, helicopters, et al. — unintentional civilian deaths and serious injuries mount. A Feb. 22 Wall Street Journal report from Kabul begins: “U.S. Special Operations Forces (hunting down Taliban) ordered an air strike that killed at least 27 civilians, and the soldiers may not have satisfied rules of engagement designed to avoid the killing of innocents, Afghan and coalitions officials said.”

By Nat Henthoff, First Amendment , March 10, 2010

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Political correctness (again) will kill us

It’s more than strange when a former CIA director and the head of an Islamic advocacy group arrive at the same place on profiling terrorists — or, rather, not profiling terrorists. I refer to ex-spy chief James Woolsey and executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad, whose post-Abdulmutallab (the so-called “underwear bomb-er”) statements are startlingly similar.

By Diana West, Washington Times , January 13, 2010

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Losing our way to victory

Today’s column is for all hawkish Americans currently wrestling with looming doubts about the pointlessness of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and clubbing those doubts down with the much-mentioned perils of leaving Afghanistan to “the terrorists.” In short, it’s about how to “lose” Afghanistan and win the war.

By Diana West, Washington Times , October 07, 2009

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Terror plot focus was 9/11 anniversary

An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off after drawing suspicion from police, prosecutors said Friday as they provided new details about how far along the plot was.

By By Ivan Moreno and P. Solomon Banda, The Associated Press , September 26, 2009

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Mich. residents voice opposition to Guantanamo inmates

STANDISH, Mich. (AP) — Opponents dominated a public meeting Thursday on moving terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in this small town, many accusing President Barack Obama of making Michigan a target for killer jihadists.

August 20, 2009

Mr. President, are we still torturing?

On Dec. 26, 2002, Dana Priest and Barton Gellman broke, in the Washington Post, the first undeniable story of American torturing of suspected terrorists. In a CIA secret prison at our Bagram air base detention center in Afghanistan, prisoners were being subjected to the by now all-too-familiar ways of “breaking” suspects during the Bush-Cheney “terror presidency.”

By Nat Henthoff, First Amendment , July 22, 2009

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Who will defend us from Sharia?

Dick Cheney has been decrying the national security policies of the Obama administration -closing Guantanamo Bay, ending enhanced interrogations of captured jihadists, even preparing to release some into the United States -because the former vice president says they leave this country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

By Diana West, Washington Times , May 20, 2009

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Indian forces scour hotels

Indian commandoes scoured two luxury hotels room-by-room for survivors and holed-up militants Friday and were in a tense standoff at a Jewish center, more than a day after a chain of attacks across Mumbai by suspected Muslim militants left at least 119 people dead. The well-coordinated strikes by small bands of gunmen starting Wednesday night left India’s financial center shell-shocked, but the sporadic gunfire and explosions at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels dwindled overnight, indicating the siege might be winding down.

By By Ramola Talwar Badam, The Associated Press , November 28, 2008

Court says detainees have rights, bucking Bush

In a stinging rebuke to President Bush’s anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.

By By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press , June 13, 2008