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The difference between "us" and "them"
While The American Conservative (TAC) magazine and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) might seem strange bedfellows, ideologically they are not. TAC is conservative in the old sense of the word, you know, law and order, constitutionalism and a...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Guerrilla Activity, Ronald Reagan, Pakistan
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Seapower critical to security and freedom
It was three short months ago in this column wherein you read that shortsighted dimwits in Washington were working themselves up into a lather to reduce the Department of Defense budget by cutting deeply into the expeditionary warfighting capability of...Tags: Politics, Syria, Japan, Charity, Bahrain
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Obama administration says fourth American was killed by U.S. drone
WASHINGTON – A day before President Obama is set to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that it had killed four U.S. citizens – one more than previously known – with...Tags: Barack Obama, Defense, Washington, DC, Central Intelligence Agency, Queens (New York City)
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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...
Tags: Politics, Internal Revenue Service, The New York Times, White House, Richard Nixon
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Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Justice System, Military Equipment, Laws
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Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans
A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...
Tags: Politics, Prisoners and Detainees, Barack Obama, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Dianne Feinstein
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Counter-terrorism leak compromised an informant, sources say
WASHINGTON -- The unauthorized disclosure of a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....Tags: Politics, Explosions, Barack Obama, Los Angeles Times, Justice System
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Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say
WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....
Tags: Explosions, Los Angeles Times, Justice System, White House, Pakistan
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Bringing drones out of the shadows
The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Department of State, University of Oxford, Pakistan, Murder
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The Guantanamo dilemma
When he ran for president, Barack Obama laid out the case against the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on...
Tags: Politics, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, White House
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...Tags: Politics, Strikes, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, U.S. Department of State
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, Book, The New York Times, Leon Panetta
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May 21, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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May 13, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 4, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
May 3, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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