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Terror Case Suspects: One Travelled to Iran, the Other Fought Deportation | CTV News

April 25, 2013

Philip Mudd, former FBI national security deputy director and director of global risk at SouthernSun Asset Management in Memphis, Tenn., told CTV News that the alleged terror plot would have carried a great deal of significance for al Qaeda. “If you ...

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Drones Cause Growing Hatred Of America | The Nation

April 25, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor who served as a Pentagon policy adviser, said the use of drones would not necessarily be problematic if the country had a clear and legally sound legal framework for targeted killings. “Every ...

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Charlie Rose Talks To Philip Mudd | Businessweek

April 25, 2013

Q&A. Charlie Rose Talks to Philip Mudd. By Charlie Rose. April 25, 2013. Facebook; Tweet; LinkedIn; Google Plus; Email. Related. As in Boston, Resilience Can Help the U.S. Defeat Terrorist Attacks Story · As in Boston, Resilience Can Help the U.S ...

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Expert: Boston Suspects Eluded 'Broken System' | WTOP

April 25, 2013

"The number of threats that we faced day to day when I was there, and I know they still face today, dwarfs what you see in the newspapers," says Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the FBI's National Security Branch. "You're dealing with dozens of ...

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Battle Lines Emerge In The Boston Blame Game | TIME

April 25, 2013

Even more robust in his defense of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence, was Philip Mudd, a former top CIA and FBI terrorist hunter, who told a Brookings conference Wednesday that those labeling the Tsarnaev case an intelligence failure have a ...

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Gunmen Overtake Town As Clashes Continue In Iraq | Los Angeles Times

April 25, 2013

“It's disturbing,” said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a senior vice president at the international consulting firm Mantid International. “The violence is of a different character than we've seen before.” Though the ...

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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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Yemen Sentences 11 Al-Qaeda Members To Prison | Al-Akhbar English

April 24, 2013

Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, which keeps a tally of US drone strikes, testified at the same hearing that in 2012 Obama authorized at least 46 drone strikes in Yemen, while former President George W. Bush launched only one there.

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'Growing Hatred Of Us': Yemeni Testifies To Senate On Drone Program Fallout | RT

April 24, 2013

The Obama administration's drone war undermines the rule of law, Rosa Brooks, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center argued in her testimony: “When a government claims for itself the unreviewable power to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, ...

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'Lone Wolves' Like Boston Bombers Almost Impossible To Track: U.S. Authorities | Hindustan Times

April 24, 2013

"Even then," said counter-terrorism expert Philip Mudd, a former deputy director of national security and No 2 at the FBI, "little could have been done because at that point he had not committed any crime." "We've got a Constitution that says you can ...

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