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    May 5, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. The cost of Guantanamo

    The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted Tuesday, the current policy is legally and morally unsustainable, and continuing it damages America's standing around the world without making the country any safer. The president needs to finally make good on his 2009 pledge to close Guantanamo, repatriate low-risk detainees to prisons in their home countries and bring the rest to the U.S. for trial.
    The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted...

    Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Strikes, Human Rights, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Congress

    2. Apr 21, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. The truth about torture

    If there were any remaining doubts that what the CIA did to captured terrorist suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was torture, a report last week by an independent investigative panel should put them to rest. According to the report by the Constitution Project, an independent legal research and advocacy group in Washington, not only did the Bush administration indisputably engage in torturing prisoners to extract information, a practice banned by both U.S. and international law, but the nation's highest officials knew about the abuses and condoned them. Ultimately, that weakened rather than strengthened U.S. security and damaged our standing in the world, the panel concluded.
    If there were any remaining doubts that what the CIA did to captured terrorist suspects in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was torture, a report last week by an independent investigative panel should put them to rest. According to the report by the...

    Tags: Police Investigations, Eric Holder, U.S. Military, Lawyers, U.S. Department of Defense

    3. Mar 19, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. What did we learn from Iraq?

    Ten years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq, a decision that almost everyone now ranks as one of the worst foreign policy blunders of our time. Why "almost"? Former President George W. Bush and his top aides still maintain that the invasion was a good idea, even though the premise on which the war was based — that Saddam Hussein had acquired weapons of mass destruction — proved false, and even though the ensuing war claimed the lives of more than 4,500 Americans and an estimated 127,000 Iraqis.
    Ten years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq, a decision that almost everyone now ranks as one of the worst foreign policy blunders of our time. Why "almost"? Former President George W. Bush and his top aides still maintain that the invasion...

    Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Federal Reserve, Weaponry, Dick Cheney, Police Investigations

    4. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. The law of drones

    President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whether he would be more forthcoming than his predecessors in apprising committee members of covert U.S. military operations abroad — particularly the administration's secret drone program of targeted killings — he vigorously affirmed that to be his intention. Then, for the next 31/2 hours, he politely declined to say virtually anything else of substance on the subject.
    President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...

    Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, U.S. Military, John O. Brennan, Dianne Feinstein, Pakistan

    5. Feb 7, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Maryland's Congressional delegation, John Brennan and executive-branch drones

    As Senate Intelligence Committee members file into room 216 of the Hart office building in Washington for a CIA confirmation hearing this afternoon, they will be under a spotlight much brighter than they anticipated last week.
    As Senate Intelligence Committee members file into room 216 of the Hart office building in Washington for a CIA confirmation hearing this afternoon, they will be under a spotlight much brighter than they anticipated last week. That was before a Monday...

    Tags: NBC (tv network), Barack Obama, John Brennan, John O. Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency

    6. Dec 18, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair

    Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...

    Tags: Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Patrick Leahy, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Harry Reid, Meningitis

    7. Dec 19, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. Mikulski to lead Senate Appropriations Committee

    In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
    In an unexpected move that could have significant implications for Maryland, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will be named the first female chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Baltimore native and Maryland Democrat, who had...

    Tags: Daniel Inouye, Patrick Leahy, Harry Reid, Hurricane Sandy (2012), U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

    8. May 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 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 three years ago.
    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: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Strikes, Credit and Debt, Human Rights, Dianne Feinstein

    9. May 16, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  9. RPT-REUTERS SUMMIT-U.S. cyber bill proponents hope second time's a charm

    Reuters
    (Repeats with no change. For other news from Reuters Cybersecurity Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/Cyber13) * White House, lawmakers talking * Lawmakers more educated this time around * Cyber attacks, espionage major threat to U.S. By...

    Tags: Dianne Feinstein, White House, Computer Crime, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama

    10. May 15, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  10. Phone record seizure called 'witch hunt'

    Albuquerque Journal
    The Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records drew scathing criticism from news organizations Tuesday while reaction from lawmakers ranged from concern to outrage. "Americans and New Mexicans treasure a free and open...

    Tags: John O. Brennan, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Steve Pearce, Tom Udall, Yemen

    11. May 13, 2013 |Story| Foreign Policy

  11. Foreign Policy: The dirty secrets of the CIA's war on terror

    NEW YORK — In April 1975, Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, impaneled a special investigative committee to look into shocking accounts of CIA dirty tricks. The Church Committee ultimately published 14 reports over two years revealing a clandestine agency that was a law unto itself — plotting to assassinate heads of state (Castro, Diem, Lumumba, Trujillo), carrying out weird experiments with LSD, and suborning American journalists. As a result, President Gerald Ford issued an executive order banning the assassination of foreign leaders, the House and Senate established standing intelligence committees, and the United States set up the so-called FISA courts, which oversee request for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign agents.
    Foreign Policy
    NEW YORK — In April 1975, Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, impaneled a special investigative committee to look into shocking accounts of CIA dirty tricks. The Church Committee ultimately published 14 reports over two years revealing a clandestine...

    Tags: Dick Cheney, Patrick Leahy, Gerald Ford, John O. Brennan, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

    12. May 12, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  12. Washington Notebook: Olympia's List gives Sen. Collins $10,000 for 2014

    Portland Press Herald, Maine
    Former Sen. Olympia Snowe's political action committee, Olympia's List, made its first major contribution ahead of the 2014 elections to a familiar face: fellow Mainer Sen. Susan Collins. The two moderate Republicans served together in the Senate for 16...

    Tags: Weaponry, Missile Systems, Book, State of the Union Address, CNN (tv network)

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