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Drones: Say It With Figures | UPI

April 30, 2013

And Peter Bergen, a responsible and serious student of drones, quotes approvingly in The Washington Post a new book by Mark Mazzetti, who claims that the use of drone strikes "creates enemies just as it has obliterated them." Again, however, Mazzetti ...

What's the Threat From Cyber-Terrorism? | Bloomberg News

April 29, 2013

New America Foundation Research Fellow Tara Maller discusses the risk of cyber-terrorism with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line."

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Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden Movie Review | Shockya.com

April 29, 2013

The story at the core of this curiously directed and somewhat misleadingly titled documentary — an adaptation of Peter Bergen's excellent, bestselling book — is an innately fascinating one. Unfortunately, as either a primer on America's terrorist ...

Senate Hearing Blasts Obama's Refusal to Share Details of Drone Program | Business Mirror

April 27, 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 ...

Congress Begins to Weigh In On Drone Strikes Policy | PBS

April 26, 2013

Walking down a hallway of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks was reminded that President Barack Obama has seemed uneasy about the administration's highly secret U.S. drone program which ...

A Few Bad Men Slip Through the Cracks | Newcastle Herald

April 26, 2013

Philip Mudd, a former CIA and FBI counterterror analyst, cautioned that the consequence of a broad misunderstanding of what would be required for detailed action on all tip-offs to the authorities would require turning the US into a surveillance state ...

Osama's Real Hunters | Wall Street Journal

April 25, 2013

Wednesday, 8 p.m., on HBO. "Manhunt" was directed by Greg Barker and is based on Peter Bergen's 2012 book, "Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad." Fortunately for us, the film reaches back much further than 10 years, to a ...

Lone Wolves Are the New Terror Menace | Independent Online

April 25, 2013

However, counter-terrorism expert Philip Mudd, a former deputy director of national security and No 2 at the FBI, said even if US authorities had been aware of Tsarnaev's movements, little could have been done, because at that point he had not ...

Senate Subcommittee Hears Harrowing Story of Drone War in Yemen | The New American

April 25, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown Law School professor, also testified at the hearing on Tuesday. Professor Brooks accurately identified the essence of the issue. Brooks testified: The manner in which the United States has been using drone strikes raises ...

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