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Anwar Al Awlaki

Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective

Brian Glyn Williams | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Brian Glyn Williams

While there is no such thing as an excusable killing of a civilian, these statistics, and the constant pressure to prevent further terror acts on American soil, somewhat mitigate the harm caused by the CIA's controversial drone assassination campaign.

How Did Anwar Awlaki Radicalize The Boston Bombers?

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 05.01.2013 | Religion
Azeem Ibrahim

He studied engineering, education and human resources, but somehow never got round to Islam. He did not claim to have any qualifications from an Islamic seat of learning, nor even claim to have any from a secular academic institution's course on Islam.

Sabrina Siddiqui

Obama Demanded Answers When Drone Killed American Teenager

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has never commented publicly on the targeted drone strike that accidentally killed Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-ye...

A True-life Thriller About America's Covert Wars

Erica Abeel | Posted 03.22.2013 | Entertainment
Erica Abeel

Few lawmakers have the guts to ask: What powers does our government have to kill people without due process? The larger question asked by Dirty Wars: What happens to us as Americans when we finally see what's hidden in plain sight?

Colorado Muslims Disgusted At Clements Murder Coverage

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 03.22.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. News surrounding the murder Tuesday of Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements centers ...

Ryan J. Reilly

Small ACLU Team Fights Drone Secrecy

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- The Obama administration, in the face of harsh criticism from members of Congress, has recently promised more transparency surrounding the...

Is Saudi National Involved In Shooting Death Of Colo. Prison Chief?

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 03.20.2013 | Denver

According to anonymous sources that spoke to Fox31, officials will look into the possibility that the recent denial to transfer Saudi national Homaida...

How The Government Justified Killing An American Citizen

The New York Times | Posted 05.09.2013 | World

One morning in late September 2011, a group of American drones took off from an airstrip the C.I.A. had built in the remote southern expanse of Saudi ...

Ft. Hood Shooting Suspect May Plead Guilty And Describe Attack

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 05.01.2013 | Crime

FORT HOOD, Texas — More than three years after the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, an Army psychiatrist may soon describe details of the t...

Two White House Petitions on Civil Liberties and Executive Power

John V. Santore | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics
John V. Santore

Michael Hastings described last week as a time when the "country started to show signs of outrage over the Obama administration's targeted killing pro...

Joshua Hersh

Obama Gives Annual Address In Front Of Joint Session Of Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Making an oblique reference to a highly classified counterterrorism program that swept into headlines and congressional debate last week...

Is This the New Normal? Drone Strikes, Secret Memos and an Imperial President

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.13.2013 | Politics
John W. Whitehead

When Barack Obama ascended to the presidency in 2008, there was a sense, at least among those who voted for him, that the country might change for the better.

BOTH SIDES NOW: So 'What's New?' Frum and Huffington on a 'New' GOP/Obama/Hillary

HuffPost Radio | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgCantor softens GOP rhetoric -- a start? Obama tries a permanent campaign of aggressive, progressive governance -- that succeeding? And the famous and tired Secretary of State leaves after one term to ponder a presidential bid -- worked for Jefferson, will it for Hillary?

Dodging Transparency

Abraham R. Wagner | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Abraham R. Wagner

To the extent that the Obama Administration engages in targeting U.S. citizens abroad, and believes that it has sound legal authority to do so, it does itself no good in withholding the supporting legal arguments from open scrutiny.

For Obama's Nominee to Head CIA: Questions on Use of Drone Strikes

Peter Scheer | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics
Peter Scheer

How does the administration know that its targeted killings and use of armed drones have not merely exchanged one terrorist threat for another that will be bigger, longer-lasting, and more dangerous?

The Targeted Killing Memo: What the U.S. Could Learn From Israel

Feisal G. Mohamed | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics
Feisal G. Mohamed

Though we should not forget that extrajudicial killing is inherently a violation of human rights, the Israeli approach to targeted killing at least involves some judicial review. The approach pursued by the Obama Administration has none.

Joshua Hersh

Obama Administration Hides Targeted Killings With Legal Double Talk

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In October 2011, Scott Shane, a national security reporter for The New York Times, sent an email to a branch of the Department of Justic...

NYT Discloses Location Of CIA Drone Base

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 02.06.2013 | Media

WASHINGTON -- The CIA conducts lethal drone strikes against al-Qaida militants inside Yemen from a remote base in Saudi Arabia, including the strike t...

FBI: Terror Suspects Range From Air Force Vet To High School Dropout

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 11.21.2012 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- Three Southern California men charged this week with plotting to kill Americans and bomb U.S. military bases overseas spent months prep...

'I'm Gonna Take Out A Whole Base'

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 01.20.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Three California men excited at the prospect of training in Afghanistan to become terrorists prepared, authorities say, by simulat...

Shooting Victims Sue Government

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 11.05.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- On the third anniversary of the Fort Hood rampage, 148 victims and family members sued the government Monday for compensation for the at...

Ryan Grim

Teen Killed In U.S. Drone Strike Should Have 'More Responsible Father,' Obama Campaign Official Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A 16-year-old American boy killed in an Obama administration drone strike "should have [had] a far more responsible father," Obama campa...

Andrea Stone

Drone Strikes Memo Debates Legality of Targeted Killing

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 09.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A newly surfaced Congressional Research Service analysis of the government's targeted killing of suspected terrorists, including U.S. ci...

Obama's Warfare: 'From Power To A Policy'

NPR | Posted 08.27.2012 | World

It's hard to know if 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a target or collateral damage. Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, was killed last fall at a barb...

Most Wanted Secret Doc: Justice Dept Memo Analyzing Drone Strikes Against Suspected Terrorists

Peter Scheer | Posted 10.27.2012 | Politics
Peter Scheer

The government already is required to apply to a secret court for a warrant to wiretap a suspected terrorist. If a court's okay is needed to tap a terrorist's phone, shouldn't a court's okay be required to kill him?