Obama Counterterrorism

Data Mining You

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.03.2012

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Tom Engelhardt

In these last years, while so many Americans were foreclosed upon or had their homes go "underwater" and the construction industry went to hell, the intelligence housing bubble just continued to grow.

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The Contradictions Of Obama's Outreach To American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 02.18.2012

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Sahar Aziz

If the government is serious about partnering with Muslim communities, it must stop behaving like an adversary. For starters, community outreach programs should not be exploited.

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Michael McAuliff

White House Abandons Veto Threat Of Indefinite Detention Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat to veto a defense bill that sets in stone the commander in chief's authority to indefi...

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Obama Picks New Counterterrorism Chief

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 08.31.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's choice for his next counterterrorism chief is Matthew Olsen, a former prosecutor with extensive experience...

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Andrea Stone

White House Official Unveils New Counterterrorism Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top adviser on homeland security unveiled a new national strategy for counterterrorism Tuesday, formalizing act...

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Let's Not Help Amateur Terrorists

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Steven Friedman

As with any profession, there is a wide range of talent, skills, and experience in the terrorist world ranging from incompetent amateurs to extremely ...

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Cheney Silent On Obama Counterterrorism Gains

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama visited the National Counterterrorism Center outside Washington and declared that "because of our efforts" al Qaeda...

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President Grown-Up

Steve Benen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Benen

Obama has scored the kind of counter-terrorism victories that, if they'd come a couple of years ago, would have led the White House to release photos of Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol chest-bumping each other on the South Lawn.

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Obama's Approach To Major Terror Threat Becomes More Clear

Washington Post | Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama will make his first visit to the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean on Tuesday morning, telling intelligence officials that th...

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Aviation Security: Lucky Again

Malcolm Nance | Posted 05.25.2011

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Malcolm Nance

Most airports and airlines are still struggling to educate security staff about the 2001 shoe bomb and box cutters. They are not looking for the next generation bomb.

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A Changing Threat: Al-Qaeda Eight Years Later

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Henne

Al Qaeda's greatest weapon is not its bombs but its voice, and the threat it will hijack discourse in the Muslim world, which requires a concerted US outreach campaign to counteract.

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Recklessness Cloaked in Righteousness

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Henne

Obama's policies are the best chance for ensuring that the United States of America remains the greatest country in the world.

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Ali al-Marri and the Entropy of the War on Terror

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Henne

Entropy is one of the several laws ruling the universe. Disorder increases, and energy dissipates; certainty disappears under the inevitable pressure of time. So it is in the United States' "war on terror."

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Brennan Coming Back To Coordinate Counterterrorism

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to scrap the way President Bush oversaw domestic security in the White House and name a former Central Intel...

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