National Security

Seth Colter Walls

Feingold: Why Can't Dems Can Be Tough On Security And Civil Liberties?

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, John McCain, National Security, Iran, Fisa, Barack Obama, Filibuster, Politics News

UPDATED BELOW: Sens. Feingold and Chris Dodd have announced their intent to "oppose efforts to end debate" on the FISA bill headed to the Senate for c...

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Terrorists Are a Unique Breed

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, John McCain, Terrorists, War on Terror, National Security, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

McCain maintains terrorists have no rights. Obama states that we can hunt down the terrorists and deal with them like other criminals. As a former terrorist, let me tell you that both are wrong.

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How Gingrich/Giuliani Sabotaged Civic Debate

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Susan Rice, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, National Security, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Giuliani 9/11, Obama National Security, Habeas Corpus, Media News
Jeffrey Feldman

Withing days of the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees, Gingrich and Giuliani pushed their way into the debate, and began to argue that liberal views on Habeas Corpus would kill Americans.

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Obama's National Security Experts Meet In Washington

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Election 2008, National Security, Obama on National Security, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Madeline Albright, Tim Roemer, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allo...

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The Guantanamization of Immigrant Detention

Roberto Lovato | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Esperanza, Global Migration, Sovereignty Issues, ICE Detention, Empire, BORDER ISSUES, ICE Abuse, Immigrant Detention, National Security, Latino Politics, ICE Detention Deaths, Activism, Night of 1000 Conversations, Hope, Race, Guantanamo and Detention, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

What makes Ahmed's story noteworthy is that it reflects how many of these torturous practices are now being perpetrated against detainees held within the borders of the US.

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Obama and McCain on Immigration: Life vs. Death

Roberto Lovato | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Policy and McCain, Indigenous Rights, National Security, Latino Politics, Obama and McCain on Immigration, Elections, McCain and Obama on Immigration, Obama, Mccain, Latino Vote, Race, BORDER ISSUES, Immigration Policy and Obama, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

The most strategic and important opportunity to turn the page on the immigration debate via the elections does not orbit around the twin axes of legalization and border security.

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 3)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: General Petraeus, Politics, National Security, Navy, Military, Generals, Cold War, Politics News
Russ Wellen

We engage Military.com columnist Jeff Huber in a wide-ranging discussion that begins with his new novel, Bathtub Admirals.

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A Near-Nuclear Disaster is Still a Disaster

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Air Force Officials Fired, Robert Gates, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

Even most Democrats criticized Bill Clinton for screwing around with an intern. I'd like to believe that Republicans could muster up some disappointment over screwing up over nuclear material.

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The Unending American Quest for Security

Philip Slater | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Fear-Mongering, National Security, Politics News
Philip Slater

Americans have allowed themselves to fall hook, line, and sinker for the fear-mongering of the administration and its media -- even scrapping our Bill of Rights.

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 2)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catch 22, Navy, Military, Cold War, National Security, Military Satire, Satire, Parody, Political Satire, Politics News
Russ Wellen

You may wonder why you should read a military spoof that's set during peacetime and not Iraq or Afghanistan -- but it reveals behavior that has been festering in the military for decades.

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Who Has No Fundamental Understanding of the Surge?

Max Bergmann | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Warwire, National Security, Barack Obama, Iraq Surge, Obama Iraq, McCain Iraq, Politics News
Max Bergmann

The surge did increase violence in Iraq. 2007 (the year of the surge) was the deadliest year for American troops.

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Seth Colter Walls

Gen. Clark: McCain Is "Untested And Untried" On National Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Vice President, John McCain, National Security, Iran, Wesley Clark, Barack Obama, Obama Veepstakes, Obama Wes Clark, Clark Vp, Wes Clark Vice President, Obama-Clark, Wes Clark Vp, Obama VP, Politics News

On Tuesday, Sen. Kent Conrad revealed that Sen. Barack Obama is including "former top military leaders" among the approximately two dozen names curren...

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How Obama Can Win the White House

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Latinos, White Males, Terrorism, Abortion Rights, The Economy, George Bush, Democrats, Foreign Policy, South, Barack Obama, Blacks, National Security, Voters, Iraq War, Gop, Gays, John McCain, Environmentalists. Medicare, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Bush and the GOP's domestic fumbles are potentially Obama's biggest selling point. He must repeatedly remind voters that they should be mad about the economy.

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Asking and Telling Sam Nunn

Steve Clemons | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Don't Ask Don't Tell, National Security, Sam Nunn, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Gay, Gay Issues, Barack Obama, Gays in the Military, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Sen. Nunn is recommending a "review" of the policy he helped fashion fifteen years ago, but he is not indicating whether his own views have changed.

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McCain's Nonproliferation Policy -- It's a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Jon Wolfsthal | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Mccain, Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Mccain Foreign Policy, National Security, CTBT, Mccain National Security, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Foreign Policy, McCain Nonproliferation, Politics News
Jon Wolfsthal

John McCain's speech on nuclear weapons today seems to adopt the narrowest of lenses in dealing with nuclear weapons, and suggests he doesn't really get the complexity of these issues.

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NY Times: Bush Appeasement Attack Directed Toward Israel As Well

Max Bergmann | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Warwire, Israel, National Security, Appeasement, John McCain, Politics News
Max Bergmann

The paper makes the very important point that when Bush's appeasement attack was directed not just against Obama, but the leadership of the Jewish state of Israel as well.

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Petraeus Hearings --- More Obama than McCain?

Max Bergmann and Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Petraeus, Politics, Warwire, Afghanistan, Iraq, National Security, David Petraeus Central Command, General Petraeus, Petraeus Iraq, Politics News
Max Bergmann and Ilan Goldenberg

As the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, you'd think John McCain would show up. But instead he is in California campaigning and fundraising.

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Progressive National Security: The What and the How

Rand Beers | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Rand Beers

Without the levers of executive power at their disposal, and a razor-thin margin in the Senate, progressives have been unable to give the public a clear understanding of what we stand for on national security.

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McCain Was in Favor of Talks with Syria, Despite Saying they Were "Sponsoring and Harboring Terrorists"

Max Bergmann | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, National Security, John McCain, John McCain Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Max Bergmann

McCain is directly contradicting himself by attacking Sen. Obama on his plan to confront Iran at the negotiating table.

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Draft Iron Man to the West Wing

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iron Man, National Security, Terrorism, Iron Man Movie, Iron Man Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

My congratulations to everyone involved in this movie -- you pulled off a more subtle treatment of hugely complex issues than what often passes for a Congressional hearing.

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The New Security

Gary Hart | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Security Threats, Nuclear Fuel, Cold War, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Gary Hart, National Security, Nuclear Power, Politics News
Gary Hart

Almost two decades after the end of the Cold War, we are long overdue for a new understanding of national security, what it means, and how to achieve it.

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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Turkey, Wmds, George W. Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Seymour Hersh, Bashar Al-Assad, Foreign Policy, National Security, Plutonium, Nuclear Facility, Uranium, Israel, Arms Control Wonk, North Korea, Wmd, Cheney Iraq WMD, Syria WMD, Iraq WMD, Sigint, Dick Cheney Iraq, Chernobyl, Dick Cheney, Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

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McCain Five Years Ago Today - Praised Rumsfeld, Bush, Conduct of War

Max Bergmann | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Foreign Policy, Politics, John McCain, Iraq, National Security, Donald Rumsfeld, Politics News
Max Bergmann

A month after the war began, McCain was not the critic he claims he was -- he was in lockstep with the strategy and tactics that Bush employed in invading Iraq.

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Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses

Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Secrecy, Transparency, Corporate Welfare, Municipal Wireless, First Amendment, National Security, Rule of Law, Oversight, Fisa, Surveillance, Watergate, Executive Power, Privacy, Domestic Spying, NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program, Bear Stearns, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.

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Bush, Calderon Plot Economic and Military Integration at NOLA Summit

Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

Read More: HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS, Immigration, New Orleans Summite, Media, Regional Integratio, Sovereignty Issues, Calderon and Free Trade, Sovereignty, Central America, Empire, Nafta, BORDER ISSUES, Plan Colombia, Of African AméRica, Free Trade and NAFTA, Three Amigos Summit, National Security, Latino Politics, U.S.-Mexico Relations, Spp, Activism, Labor, Environment, Race, Calderon and Bush, Home News
Roberto Lovato

At the center of today's "Three Amigos" Summit in New Orleans between George W. Bush and his homologues, Mexico's Felipe Calderon and Stephen Harper o...

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