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Droning On: The Need to Establish a New Norm

02.15.2013
Let us remember that the measure of a democratic society is not how it treats its best, but its worst.
No, The Public Does Not Have A Widespread, Uncritical Embrace Of The Drone Program

No, The Public Does Not Have A Widespread, Uncritical Embrace Of The Drone Program

Jason Linkins  02.15.2013
Michael Isikoff's Feb. 4 report on the "white paper" -- a 16-page memo that laid out, in part, the legal underpinnings that guide the Obama...
Poll Reveals Who Americans DON'T Think Should Be Killed

Poll Reveals Who Americans DON'T Think Should Be Killed

Emily Swanson  02.15.2013
According to the new national survey, Americans believe that only high-level suspects who may be involved in planning attacks should be...
Administration Moves To Expand Domestic Drone Use

Administration Moves To Expand Domestic Drone Use

02.15.2013
WASHINGTON -- A future in which unmanned drones are as common in U.S. skies as helicopters and airliners has moved a step closer to reality...
Obama To Work On Drone Strike Policy With Congress

Obama To Work On Drone Strike Policy With Congress

02.14.2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says he'll work with Congress to help the public understand the circumstances under which the government...
DOJ: John Brennan Didn't Officially Disclose CIA Drones Program

DOJ: John Brennan Didn't Officially Disclose CIA Drones Program

Ryan J. Reilly  02.14.2013
WASHINGTON -- John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, didn't officially acknowledge...

No, Obama Is Not 'Worse Than Bush' on National Security

02.14.2013
Kneejerk conflation of Obama and Bush could be the most ridiculous talking point to come out of the mouths of liberals in the post-Bush...
Nancy Pelosi Ambivalent On Drones Program

Nancy Pelosi Ambivalent On Drones Program

Amanda Terkel  02.14.2013
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not sure whether the public should be told when the federal government kills...
Vote On Obama Pick Delayed Over Controversial Memos

Vote On Obama Pick Delayed Over Controversial Memos

02.13.2013
* Political sparring over Brennan becoming public * Feinstein says Brennan will be "capable CIA director" ...

Desmond Tutu Not A Big Fan Of Drones

02.13.2013
WASHINGTON -- Cape Town Archbishop Emeritis Desmond Tutu is "deeply disturbed" that a possible judicial review process of President Barack...
Obama Hasn't Disclosed Seven Other Targeted-Killing Memos

Obama Hasn't Disclosed Seven Other Targeted-Killing Memos

Ryan J. Reilly  02.13.2013
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office revealed Wednesday that the Obama administration has yet to show members of the Senate Select...

What Obama Said -- and What He Meant -- About Climate Change, War and Civil Liberties

02.13.2013
The words in President Obama's State of the Union speech were often lofty, spinning through the air with the greatest of ease and emitting...
Dem: Obama Is 'Judge, Jury And Executioner'

Dem: Obama Is 'Judge, Jury And Executioner'

Michael McAuliff  02.13.2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's oblique references in his State of the Union address to America's targeted killings and drone strikes...
Pentagon Creating New Medal For Drones

Pentagon Creating New Medal For Drones

02.13.2013
WASHINGTON — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. But the troops who launch the drone strikes and direct...