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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, ...

'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 ...

Clues Suggest Boston Suspects Took A Do-It-Yourself Approach | NPR

April 23, 2013

"Terrorism has become an option in a way that it wasn't before," says Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation. "So when you look at an attack like this one ... what you worry is that other people that might be ...

Book Review: 'Takedown' | Washington Times

April 23, 2013

Philip Mudd is ideally positioned to discuss these issues after a distinguished 24-year career at the CIA, where he rose to become deputy head of its Counterterrorism Center, culminating in a four-year detail in 2005 to the FBI as a deputy director of ...

Experts: Obama's Drone Strike Policy Takes U.S. Law To Breaking Point | Military Times

April 23, 2013

Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University Law Center professor, told the Senate Judiciary Constitution, civil rights and human rights subcommittee that “current practices might undermine the rule of law.” Brooks and other legal experts called for changes to ...

Drones Cause 'Growing Hatred Of America,' Bipartisan Senate Panel Told | The Washington Post

April 23, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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