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    Feb 12, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  1. Senate panel approves Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Tuesday's vote broke...

    Tags: United Nations, John O. Brennan, White House, Barack Obama, Carl Levin

    2. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  2. Gates backs lawmakers' oversight of drone program

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Gates, a former defense secretary and spymaster, is backing lawmakers' proposal to form a special court to review President Barack Obama's deadly drone strikes against Americans linked to al-Qaida.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Gates, a former defense secretary and spymaster, is backing lawmakers' proposal to form a special court to review President Barack Obama's deadly drone strikes against Americans linked to al-Qaida. Gates, who led the...

    Tags: John O. Brennan, Barack Obama, Robert Gates, NBC (tv network), Pakistan

    3. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  3. Senator vows to delay Obama's nominees over Libya

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Pentagon and the CIA until the White House provided more answers about the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. installation in Benghazi, Libya.
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Pentagon and the CIA until the White House provided more answers about the Sept. 11 attack against a U....

    Tags: U.S. Cabinet, John O. Brennan, U.S. Department of Defense, White House, Central Intelligence Agency

    4. Feb 10, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  4. McManus: The other drone question

    It has been 11 years since the United States began using missile-firing drones to attack Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But only now are we beginning a full public debate on this new form of warfare, and it took the nomination of the Obama administration's drone czar, John Brennan, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to force it.
    It has been 11 years since the United States began using missile-firing drones to attack Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But only now are we beginning a full public debate on this new form of warfare, and it took the nomination of...

    Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Stanley A. McChrystal, ABC (tv network), John O. Brennan, Afghanistan

    5. Feb 10, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Obama's license to kill by drone

    If you really want Washington's chattering classes to pay attention to something, an old saying goes, leak it to the media.
    If you really want Washington's chattering classes to pay attention to something, an old saying goes, leak it to the media. Whoever leaked the Justice Department's 16-page confidential "white paper" memo on the use of armed drones to NBC News sparked...

    Tags: Murder, U.S. Congress, John O. Brennan, The Washington Post, Eric Holder

    6. Feb 10, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  6. Where the buck still stops

    Jules Witcover
    WASHINGTON -- A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to...

    Tags: Iraq, Jules Witcover, Diane Sawyer , Defense Equipment, Joe Biden

    7. Feb 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Targeted killings: What are the limits?

    Thursday's confirmation hearings for John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, offer a rare opportunity for senators to press the architect of the administration's policy of targeted killings about its legal rationale and practical application. The urgency of such an inquiry was underlined by the release this week of a troubling Justice Department document suggesting that the administration asserts the authority to assassinate suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens, even when they aren't planning an imminent attack — guidelines that could allow for a broad expansion of executive power to authorize such killings.
    Thursday's confirmation hearings for John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, offer a rare opportunity for senators to press the architect of the administration's policy of targeted killings about its legal...

    Tags: Murder, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 11, 2001 Attacks, John O. Brennan, White House

    8. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  8. Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies

    WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...

    Tags: Iraq, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, John O. Brennan, Barbara A. Mikulski, John D. Rockefeller IV

    9. Feb 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Let's lift the veil on rendition

    When John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism advisor, appears Thursday at confirmation hearings to become the CIA's next director, Americans will have a rare opportunity to learn new details about the intelligence agency's secret rendition and detention program.
    When John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism advisor, appears Thursday at confirmation hearings to become the CIA's next director, Americans will have a rare opportunity to learn new details about the intelligence agency's secret rendition and...

    Tags: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 11, 2001 Attacks, John O. Brennan, Government, Human Rights

    10. Jan 29, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  10. Senate approves Kerry as secretary of state

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry's nomination as President Barack Obama's new secretary of state sailed through the Senate on Tuesday, as his fellow senators voted overwhelmingly to confirm him to replace Hillary Clinton as the country's top diplomat.
    Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry's nomination as President Barack Obama's new secretary of state sailed through the Senate on Tuesday, as his fellow senators voted overwhelmingly to confirm him to replace Hillary Clinton as the country's top diplomat....

    Tags: The Boston Globe, Bob Corker, John Cornyn, John O. Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency

    11. Jan 31, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Hagel defends record, spars with critics in Senate hearing

    WASHINGTON -- Making his first public comments after his nomination to lead the Pentagon, former Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he stood by his record but also urged senators to look beyond controversial votes and statements he has made, which critics have seized on.
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    WASHINGTON -- Making his first public comments after his nomination to lead the Pentagon, former Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he stood by his record but also urged senators to look beyond controversial votes and statements he has made, which critics...

    Tags: Iraq, Afghanistan, Nuclear Policy, White House, John Warner

    12. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Targeted killings: they are too secret

    There are reasons to be relieved by — and concerned about — the reports that the Obama administration is preparing a "playbook" of rules for targeted killings of suspected terrorists abroad. If drone-strike assassinations — which have...

    Tags: Murder, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, September 11, 2001 Attacks, John O. Brennan, The Washington Post

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