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Sam Stein

Obama's Speech By The Words: Low On Democracy, Heavy On Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's speech at West Point on Tuesday night, in which he announced the addition of U.S. 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, was more about broad...

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Cheney Silent On Obama Counterterrorism Gains

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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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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Obama's Approach To Major Terror Threat Becomes More Clear

Washington Post | Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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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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Najibullah Zazi Case Illustrates Al Qaida On Its Way Out: Analysis

Global Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

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By C.M. Sennott NEW YORK -- The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the ...

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National Security Adviser: Obama Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did

Political Punch | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president's Nati...

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Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel

David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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David Bromwich

Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.

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Time to Support the President and Close the Facility at Guantanamo Bay

Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Patrick Leahy

Guantanamo has become the symbol of the severe missteps that our country took in recent years. Only by shutting the facility down can we repair our image in the world.

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Sam Stein

Obama National Archives Speech (TRANSCRIPT, VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Watch or read about former Vice President Dick Cheney's national security speech here President Barack Obama vigorously defended his plans to close...

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Bibi: Today in Washington, Remind Our President of These Hard Truths

Heather Robinson | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

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Heather Robinson

U.S. presidents have flattered themselves into thinking that they could impose a solution in the Middle East without addressing the core problem: the failed leadership of Arab countries.

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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Happy Campers?

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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Keith Thomson

A former CIA operations officer told me that Al Qaeda members are "happy" with the new U.S. policy that essentially has opened our interrogation playbook to them.

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Sam Stein

Giuliani: Obama's Iran Message Is Terrorist Bait (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

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Rudy Giuliani charged on Wednesday that Barack Obama's recent outreach to Iran -- specifically, the videotape message he offered to the Iranian people...

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Ali al-Marri, Alleged Al-Qaida Agent, Indicted In Illinois Federal Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago

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WASHINGTON — Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out ...

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Brennan Coming Back To Coordinate Counterterrorism

New York Times | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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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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Bush Invents Terrorism Exercises To Test Obama's Readiness

USA Today | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

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What would happen if terrorists attacked the United States at the start of Barack Obama's presidency? The Bush administration doesn't want to wait to...

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America, Cowering to an Imaginary Enemy, Is Not the Country I Once Knew

Simon Jenkins | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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Simon Jenkins

Any explosion anywhere now abets the extraordinary 9/11 iconography, underpinning the politics of fear that has been the leitmotif of the Bush presidency.

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What Zawahiri's Message Says About Obama and Al Qaeda

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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Ilan Goldenberg

Al Qaeda's first message since the election demonstrates that they are genuinely concerned about an Obama presidency and views it as a strategic threat to its existence.

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I Helped Pay for That, Too, Senator McCain

Mary Lyon | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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Mary Lyon

Yes. I helped pay for that extravagant half-hour Obama commercial. I contribute as much as I can afford.

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Sam Stein

McCain's Last Ditch Effort: Tying Obama To Muslim World

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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John McCain's campaign is making what appears to be a final, full-throated effort to paint Barack Obama as a sympathizer with the Muslim world. In the...

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The Candidates' Idiotic Debate Over War On Terror

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Lionel Beehner

Is the war on terror winnable using traditional law-enforcement tools, or does it require manlier military means?

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Fear Versus Hope in the Fight Against Terror

Scott Atran | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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Scott Atran

Fear may be the oldest and strongest emotion in our species. The politics of hope plays to a less primitive emotion.

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Sam Stein

Obama Aides Won't Call For Charlie Black's Firing

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Surrogates to Barack Obama derided, on Tuesday, remarks from a top aide to the McCain campaign claiming that a terrorist attack would benefit his cand...

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FOX Brainwashes Rep. Fred Hobbs (D-TN)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

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Jonathan Kim

FOX's powers of misinformation are so powerful and insidious that they could even cause a member of Tennessee's Democratic party to believe that Obama might have ties to terrorism.

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Sam Stein

Rudy Has Little Bite As McCain's Newest Attack Dog

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

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Rudy Giuliani took to the role of McCain attack dog and terrorism expert on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, pleading for a civil discou...

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