Abolish the CIA
A message to RootsAction members from Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program: Lies about Iraq. Cash to corrupt Afghanistan.
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New York Times, The Washington Post
Obama seeks to move US beyond war years but keep drones, outlining a narrower terror threat
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a ...
Why I Spoke Out at Obama's Foreign Policy Speech
Medea Benjamin On topics from Guantánamo to drone strikes, I couldn’t let the president act as if he were some helpless official at the mercy of ...
Q & A: Answering Readers’ Queries on Drones
The Times's national security reporting team responded to readers' questions about drones ahead of President Obama's speech on counterterrorism ...
Who Outed the CIA in Benghazi?
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast In a classified hearing, a House panel is trying to figure out how the attack transpired. Did the attackers know that ...
Pivoting From a War Footing, Obama Acts to Curtail Drones
In a widely anticipated speech, President Obama narrowed the scope of the long struggle with terrorists, while defending the drone war he has waged ...
Obama to bring US drone programme out from 'legal shadows' of the CIA
President expected to move drone policy to Pentagon in major counter-terrorism speech outlining new legal guidelines The White House was due to ...
Obama's speech: The question of drones
Did the US president answer the salient questions posed to him, and did he effectively contextualise the use of drones?
Obama’s drone speech will probably be maddening
(Credit: AP/Isaac Brekken/Lt. Col.. Leslie Pratt) Today, Barack Obama will give a speech about drones. And about other stuff, like closing ...
Droning on
BARACK OBAMA'S speech on May 23rd outlining the evolution of America’s approach to counter-terrorism was thoughtful, largely sensible and, for many, ...