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Lone Terrorists Hard To Spot: U.S. Experts | NineMSN

April 24, 2013

Even still, little could have been done because at that point he had not committed any crime, counter-terrorism expert Philip Mudd, a former deputy director of national security at the FBI said. "We've got a Constitution that says you can be a radical ...

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A Fog Of Prejudices | Socialist Worker Online

April 24, 2013

Speaking to a New York Times reporter, Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation dusted off his best "danger within" rhetoric: "I think there's often a sense of divided loyalties in these cases where Americans turn to violent jihad--are you American ...

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Drone Wars

April 24, 2013

The CIA drone program began quietly under President George W. Bush with one strike in Yemen in 2002, and then a smattering of strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and 2007 before a more sustained campaign in 2008. During his two terms in office, Bush authorized a total of 48 strikes in Pakistan.

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Senate Hearing Blasts Obama's Refusal To Share Details Of Drone Program | Sacramento Bee

April 24, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who served as a Pentagon adviser during the height of the drone strikes, questioned the legality of drone strikes away from active battlefields, saying that the targeted killing policy “is on ...

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Elite Stranglehold Of Pakistan Politics A Pox On Progress | The Australian

April 23, 2013

But how to help rid Pakistan of its inner demons and problems when most of its own elites have no will to do so will go on baffling policymakers across the globe. Anatol Lieven is a professor in the War Studies Department of King's College London and ...

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New America NYC: Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden

April 23, 2013
A decade before America even knew his name, Osama bin Laden was being tracked by a team of mostly female C.I.A. analysts known as “The Sisterhood.” This extraordinary group of women warned Washington about Al Qaeda years before the 9/11 attacks, and their tireless efforts in the years that followed led to bin Laden’s downfall. Manhunt is an HBO Documentary Film and will premiere on HBO, Wednesday, May 1st. New America Foundation held this discussion on April 22 following a pre-release screening of Manhunt, a thriller that reveals the true story of the twenty-year hunt for bin Laden.
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Boston Bombing: FBI Backlash 'Risks Turning U.S. Into Surveillance State' | The Guardian (U.K.)

April 23, 2013

Philip Mudd, a former FBI senior intelligence adviser, said there was a risk of a backlash turning the US into a "surveillance state". "During daily threat briefings, we would look at homegrowns all the time," he told the Guardian. "The question is ...

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Democrat Seeks Transparency On Drones As White House Skip | Bloomberg

April 23, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, said the U.S. will pave the way for other governments to begin using drone strikes inappropriately unless it develops a clear set of rules to guide the policy. Without ...

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When Terrorists Strike, Left Looks To The Right | Boston Herald

April 23, 2013

CNN's Peter Bergen explained that if the bombs contained conventional explosives — instead of al-Qaeda's favorite, hydrogen peroxide — the attackers “might be some other kind of right-wing extremists.” According to CNN's Tim Lister and Paul ...

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Al Qaeda, Iran ... and Canada Plot?

  • By
  • Peter Bergen,
  • New America Foundation
April 23, 2013 |
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