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Moving up the CIA ladder
CIA Director John Brennan is reportedly considering promoting an official who ran an overseas "black site" where suspected terrorists were interrogated and who was involved in the decision to destroy videotapes of waterboarding. It's an outrageous idea....
Tags: Police Investigations, September 11, 2001 Attacks, John O. Brennan, Terrorism, Dianne Feinstein
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Stand with Rand?
On March 7, after nearly 13 hours, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ended his historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director. The filibuster didn't stop there though, Paul also went on to criticize President Obama's and Attorney...Tags: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey O. Graham, Rand Paul, Rob Portman
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Mail Call - March 19
“Here’s the biggest fable of the USA: Christopher Columbus discovered America. He never set foot on American soil. He found the Bahamas, and last I looked, the Bahamas wasn’t part of the U.S. So why is he getting credit? Now, 400 years...Tags: Bahamas, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Republican Party, John O. Brennan, Barack Obama
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Secrets no president should keep
In the divided world of American politics, it's not easy to find an issue on which the legal affairs correspondent for the Nation and the former chairman of the American Conservative Union agree. But we've found one: the crucial importance of transparency...
Tags: Justice System, National Government, Executive Branch, Terrorism, Rand Paul
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What Rand Paul got right
I hope I'm not too late to the fight. Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Mr. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., G.K. Chesterton, Lindsey O. Graham, Rand Paul, Elections
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Keep the drone debate alive
Arianna HuffingtonIt's become accepted wisdom that Washington has become pathologically polarized and partisan, with every new debate inevitably breaking down along party lines. That's why it was so remarkable last week when Rand Paul's old-fashioned talking filibuster...Tags: Executive Branch, John O. Brennan, National Security, Lindsey O. Graham, Ron Wyden
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Influential Democrat urges Obama to release drone opinions
WASHINGTON - President Obama should stop “bobbing and weaving” and let Congress and the public see the classified legal opinions that govern the targeted killing of terrorism suspects overseas, former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta ...
Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, John Podesta, Polls, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
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Rand Paul stood up for us all
I hope I'm not too late to the fight. Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for 13 hours was that...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., G.K. Chesterton, Lindsey O. Graham, Rand Paul, The Wall Street Journal
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U.S. Must Have Checks On Drone Killings
The Hartford CourantJohn Brennan, newly confirmed director of the CIA, assured Americans in a speech last year on targeted killing that there is "absolutely nothing casual" about the process of targeted killing, including that of American citizens. He included in this the...Tags: Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Executive Branch, John O. Brennan, NBC (tv network), Central Intelligence Agency
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Drone Lobby Makes Case For Industry's Economic Impact
The Hartford CourantConnecticut ranks sixth in a list of states to benefit if federal regulators integrate unmanned aircraft — or drones — into the country's domestic airspace system, the industry's main lobbying group said in a report released Tuesday. The...Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Federal Aviation Administration, Manufacturing and Engineering, Air Transportation Industry, Daytona Beach
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Cyber-crime tops threats to U.S., intelligence chief says
WASHINGTON - Iran has made progress toward developing nuclear weapons capability, Al Qaeda sympathizers are resurgent across North Africa and the Middle East, and the U.S. economy is vulnerable to relatively unsophisticated cyber-attacks, according to...Tags: Weaponry, Terrorism, U.S. Department of Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Mueller
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Goldberg: What Rand Paul got right
I hope I'm not too late to the fight. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Filibuster: In a March 12 column about Rand Paul, Sen. Lindsey Graham was identified as (R-Ky.). He is from South Carolina. -------------------- Last week, freshman Sen....
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, G.K. Chesterton, Rand Paul, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Senate
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