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Senate Rejects Republican Effort To Undercut Obama On Terrorism

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the United States from prosecuting foreign terrorist suspects in...

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VIDEO: Underwear Bomber Doing Weapons Training In Yemen

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) WASHINGTON - A video has surfaced showing accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab training with al-Qaida in Yemen. The video, obt...

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Al Qaeda 'Lone Gunman' Approach: Small Attacks May Signal Shift In Strategy

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Ever since al-Qaida attacked the United States in 2001, U.S. authorities have worked to detect and prevent the next big terrorist s...

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No-Fly List Nearly Doubles Since Christmas Attack

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is fo...

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Senate Committee Hearing on Ethics Report Disappoints

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

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For anyone hoping the Justice Department would commit to further investigations that the White House instructed its lawyers to find legal justifications for torture, today was a disappointment.

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Abdulmutallab Intelligence Spurs Global Search For English-Speaking Terrorists

The Washington Times | Eli Lake | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. and allied counterterrorism authorities have launched a global manhunt for English-speaking terrorists trained in Yemen who are planning attacks ...

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Abdulmutallab Was Mirandized Nine Hours After Arrest

The Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day was read his Miranda rights nine hours af...

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Newt Gingrich WRONG: Says British Shoe Bomber 'Richard Reid Was An American Citizen' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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***UPDATED*** Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Tuesday, leveling harsh criticism against the Obama...

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Pete Hoekstra Refutes John Brennan's Statements About Christmas Day Bomber Case

Talking Points Memo | Jillian Rayfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) fired back today at the assertion yesterday by John Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, that four Repub...

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Jeff Sessions Warns That Following The Rule Of Law Will Result In 'Dire Consequences'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you want just one taste of the essential stupidity of the politicization of the Abdulmutallab investigation, you need only look at today's Washingt...

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Reality Lends Credit To Abdulmutallab Interrogation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to an outbreak of reported-on reality, a beloved War On Terror talking point -- that the FBI's by-the-books interrogation of Umar Farouq Abdulm...

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Abdulmutallab Gives Up Intelligence On flips on cleric

AP | MATT APUZZO and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A law enforcement official says the Nigerian suspect in the failed Christmas Day airliner attack has given up intelligence about a ...

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National Security Remains Hot Political Battleground For White House, GOP

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is aggressively pushing back against Republican criticism of its handling of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sha...

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Facts Get in the Way of Conservatives' Abdulmuttalab Scare Story

Ken Gude | Posted 05.25.2011

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The path the Obama administration chose for the interrogation of Abdulmutallab is directly responsible for his cooperating with intelligence officials and giving up fresh and actionable intelligence.

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Top Spies Terror Warning: Shades of Bush

Jeff Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Which is it now -- imminent terrorist threat, or no threat? Certain or uncertain? Only last month U.S. intelligence officials were saying the Nigeria...

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Abdulmutallab Given Miranda Warning After He Stopped Talking

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The decision to advise the accused Christmas Day attacker of his right to remain silent was made after teleconferences involving at least four governm...

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An Intelligent Way to Enhance National Security?

Human Rights First | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate, Law and Security Ever since the failed attempt to blow up a Northwest airline carrier on Christmas Day, critics ...

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Malaysia Arrests 10 In Connection With US 'Underwear Bomber' Abdulmutallab

AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 05.25.2011

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia is holding 10 terror suspects with alleged ties to a Nigerian suspected in last month's attempted bombing of a...

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Christmas Bomber Suspect Linked To Alleged U.K. Terrorists

NPR | Posted 05.25.2011

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British and U.S. intelligence authorities have linked the young Nigerian at the center of the alleged attack on Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdu...

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New Restrictions For Air Travelers After Christmas Day Bombing Attempt

AP | JOSHUA FREED and JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Extra pat-downs before boarding. No getting up for the last hour of the flight. More bomb-sniffing dogs. Airports worldwide tightened security a day a...

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Heathrow Airport Arrests: 3 In Custody After Bomb Threat In London

AFP | Sam Reeves | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON (AFP) -- Armed officers stormed a plane at Heathrow airport as it was about to depart for Dubai and arrested three men on suspicion of making a...

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Border Security Found Out About Abdulmutallab, Accused Bomber, During Flight 253

LA Times | Sebastian Rotella | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt a...

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My New Year's Resolution: No to Nicking Knickers

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011

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The continued bombardments of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Pakistan and Yemen are not giving us the peace and security we crave. In fact, the result is to the contrary.

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Changing the Conversation on Religion (Before it Kills Us All)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.17.2011

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We urgently need to make that conversation center on embracing paradox rather than seeking -- then trying to impose by force and or "reason" -- our pet certainties on others.

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) LAGOS, Nigeria - A young Nigerian man who allegedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact from his worried parents only a...

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