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<title><![CDATA[ Obama's shift toward military action in Libya ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After two weeks of playing down the prospect of military intervention in Libya, the Obama administration is on the brink of inserting itself into a third war in a Muslim nation.
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<dc:creator>Scott Wilson and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Turmoil jars U.S. counterterrorism efforts ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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In a span of weeks, popular uprisings in the Islamic world have upended counterterrorism relationships that the United States spent much of the past decade trying to build.
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<dc:creator>Greg Miller</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks' alleged source, faces 22 new charges ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:52:01 EST</pubDate>
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The Army has brought new charges - including one that carries the death penalty - against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, a former intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks.
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<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Rumsfeld vs. Rice: What's the role of a national security adviser? ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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What's the role of the president's national security adviser?
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<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Anxiety on all sides of upcoming House hearing on radicalization of U.S. Muslims ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:55:02 EST</pubDate>
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In some ways, Zuhdi Jasser doesn't match the profile of the typical Muslim American. He's an active Republican who has supported the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is an advocate for Israel and says his faith harbors "an insidious supremacism."
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<dc:creator>Michelle Boorstein</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ FBI: Saudi student bought materials for bomb, considered Bush home as target ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:15:02 EST</pubDate>
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A 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested in Lubbock, Tex., late Wednesday was close to constructing a bomb and had researched possible targets, including the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush and the residences of three Americans who served at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, autho...
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Court confronts question of who can sue when challenging federal actions ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:03:02 EST</pubDate>
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Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed inclined to give Carol Anne Bond the chance to challenge the federal law under which she was prosecuted for trying to poison her husband's lover: a chemical weapons ban.
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<dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ House approves extending key Patriot Act provisions ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:04:01 EST</pubDate>
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The House passed a 90-day extension of key provisions of the USA Patriot Act counterterrorism surveillance law on Thursday, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature.
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<dc:creator>Felicia Sonmez</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Gates defends health-care fee increase for retirees ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:05:01 EST</pubDate>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday defended his plan to increase by $5 a month the fee retired working-age military personnel pay for family health-care coverage, after a member of Congress called it a "breach of trust."
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<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Clinton to announce new 'AfPak' envoy  ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen a new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, after months of delay and disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the job that became vacant with the December death of Richard C. Holbrooke, senior ...
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<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung </dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Comments by Panetta stoke unmet expectations ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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CIA Director Leon Panetta helped touch off an avalanche of erroneous expectations Thursday when he testified that there was a "strong likelihood" that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would step down by the end of the day.
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<dc:creator>Greg Miller</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ After Patriot Act vote fails, House Republicans make another procedural fumble ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:00:01 EST</pubDate>
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It turns out that running the United States House of Representatives is harder than it looks.
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<dc:creator>Paul Kane and Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Terrorist threat may be at most 'heightened state' since 9/11, Napolitano says ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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The terrorist threat to the United States may be at its most "heightened state" since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and al-Qaeda and its affiliates are placing increased emphasis on recruiting Americans and other Westerners to carry out attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at...
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Patriot Act extension fails in the House by seven votes ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:21:01 EST</pubDate>
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House Republicans suffered an embarrassing setback Tuesday when they fell seven votes short of extending provisions of the Patriot Act, a vote that served as the first small uprising of the party's tea-party bloc.
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<dc:creator>Paul Kane and Felicia Sonmez</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers grill Pentagon officials on defense spending cuts ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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A day after President Obama pressed Congress for spending reductions in his State of the Union address , House Republicans and Democrats challenged some of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's plans to cut $78 billion from the Pentagon budget over the next five years.
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<dc:creator>William Branigin and Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Aging and failed satellites jeopardize efforts to collect data on climate change ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:12:02 EST</pubDate>
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Shortly after it lifted off in February 2009, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Antarctica. With that, a $250 million investment became scrap metal on the ocean floor and an effort to begin using satellites to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide and trace emiss...
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<dc:creator>Emmarie Huetteman</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Lieberman will not run in 2012, adviser says ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who won reelection to the Senate in 2006 as an independent, plans to announce Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term, according to an aide.
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<dc:creator>Dan Balz and Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Cold War issues still part of U.S.-Russia discussions ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:56:01 EST</pubDate>
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"There are some Cold War issues that continue to return to the front of the agenda, and missile defenses, and how we interact on missile defenses, is, I would say, at the top of the list."
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<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Coalition of groups rallies outside White House for closure of Guantanamo Bay ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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A group of 173 human rights activists, each wearing an orange jumpsuit and a black hood and representing the remaining 173 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rallied in front of the White House on Tuesday to mark the ninth anniversary of the detention center's opening and to protest the Obama adm...
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Former CIA officer Jeffrey A. Sterling charged in leak probe ]]></title>
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A former CIA officer involved in spying efforts against Iran was arrested Thursday on charges of leaking classified information to a reporter, continuing the Obama administration's unprecedented crackdown on the flow of government secrets to the media.
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<dc:creator>Greg Miller</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ For Obama, a quiet vacation despite being prepared for the worst ]]></title>
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HONOLULU -  For perhaps the only time in President Obama's tenure in the White House, a vacation has gone almost exactly as planned.
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<dc:creator>Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Incoming House GOP chairmen have a long list of issues to investigate ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:49:00 EST</pubDate>
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House Republican leaders announced plans Monday for congressional investigations into a wide range of issues, from corruption in Afghanistan to Washington's regulation of private industries, using the power of their new majority to launch probes that could embarrass the Obama administration.
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<dc:creator>Philip Rucker</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ With Air Force's Gorgon Drone 'we can see everything' ]]></title>
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In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them. In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military's most valuable new tools.
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<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and Craig Whitlock</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Pilot who posted video says officials are ignoring threat to flying public ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:12:01 EST</pubDate>
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SACRAMENTO -  An airline pilot who found himself facing scrutiny after he posted a video on the Internet that blasted airport security measures said Tuesday that his critics are "naive" and ignoring a severe threat to the flying public.
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<dc:creator>Kim Minugh</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Cargo that flies over the United States doesn't get screened to federal standards ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Those planes that look like specks in the stratosphere are flying so high because they are merely passing by the United States - flying bananas to Germany, Canadians to Mexico and Europeans to Jamaica. But should that exempt such flights from the full security screening they would get if their de...
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<dc:creator>Ashley Halsey III</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Firms' lobbying push comes amid rancor on TSA use of airport full-body scanners ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The companies that build futuristic airport scanners take a more old-fashioned approach when it comes to pushing their business interests in Washington: hiring dozens of former lawmakers, congressional aides and federal employees as their lobbyists.
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<dc:creator>Dan Eggen</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ The TSA series: Agony at the Airport ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:22:01 EST</pubDate>
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The United States created the Transportation Security Administration in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to improve security for travelers.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ In era of heightened security, foreign diplomats and TSA share bumpy relationship ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:01:07 EST</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS -  Hardeep Singh Puri, India's ambassador to the United Nations, last month ran headfirst into a controversial new Transportation Security Administration inspection policy for many foreign travelers.
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<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Auditors question TSA's use of and spending on technology ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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Before there were full-body scanners, there were puffers.
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<dc:creator>Dana Hedgpeth</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Revamping of airport checkpoint system urged ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks and decades after hijackers first began to target passenger airliners, the United States has invested billions of dollars in an airport system that makes technology the last line of defense to intercept terrorists.
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<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Ashley Halsey III</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Senate agrees to open talks on new arms treaty with Russia ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:49:01 EST</pubDate>
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After months of wrangling over the future of the U.S. atomic-weapons complex, the Senate voted Wednesday to take up a new nuclear arms-reduction treaty with Russia, opening debate on a pact that President Obama regards as critical to his foreign-policy agenda.
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<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan and Felicia Sonmez</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Senate delivers potentially fatal blow to 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal efforts ]]></title>
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The Senate on Thursday dealt another punch - this one potentially fatal - to the legislative effort to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The result infuriated gay rights groups and thwarted a months-long push by President Obama and the Democratic leadership to force a vote on the...
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<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe and Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ WikiLeaks founder Assange in talks with British officials to come out of hiding ]]></title>
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LONDON -  Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks Web site, was in negotiations with British authorities late Monday to come out of hiding for what is set to be a high-profile extradition hearing to face criminal allegations in Sweden.
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<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Navy serviceman accused of trying to sell classified military documents ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:20:01 EST</pubDate>
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A Navy intelligence specialist at the Joint Special Operations Command has been accused of taking top secret documents from military networks and offering to sell them to an investigator posing as a foreign agent.
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<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque ]]></title>
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IRVINE, CALIF. -  Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys.
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<dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Government reports violations of limits on spying aimed at U.S. citizens ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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The federal government continues to violate legal limits on spying aimed at U.S. citizens under a 2008 law that overhauled surveillance of electronic communications, according to previously secret internal government documents obtained through a court battle by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton: WikiLeaks release an 'attack on international community' ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a regular meeting Monday with her Turkish counterpart, there was little sign of the crisis atmosphere that has enveloped the State Department since the huge leak of confidential diplomatic cables.
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<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ With better sharing of data comes danger ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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The release of a huge tranche of U.S. diplomatic cables has laid bare the primary risk associated with the U.S. government's attempt to encourage better information-sharing: Someone is bound to leak.
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<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ WikiLeaks's unveiling of secret State Department cables exposes U.S. diplomacy ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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A vast treasure trove of secret State Department cables obtained by the Web site WikiLeaks has exposed the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy, as well as bluntly candid assessments by American diplomats, according to news organizations granted advance access to the more than 250,000 confidential do...
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<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ WikiLeaks cables reveal personal details on world leaders ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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The U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks offer unvarnished insights into the personal proclivities of world leaders and how American diplomats privately view them.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ WikiLeaks's release of documents shows struggle to relocate Guantanamo detainees ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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In a March 2009 meeting between John Brennan, President Obama's principal counterterrorism adviser, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Brennan carried a letter from the president expressing concern about the 99 Yemenis remaining at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The White House had hoped ...
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Wikileaks's unveiling of cables shows delicate diplomatic balance with Pakistan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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The latest document dump from WikiLeaks reveals the diplomatic high wire the United States is often walking in its relationship with countries that are considered crucial allies in fighting terrorism, such as Pakistan.
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ U.S. strips intelligence analyst of security clearance and job but won't say why ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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Eighteen months ago, John Dullahan was an intelligence analyst with a long and varied career in both the military and the classified world. Today, he is jobless and blacklisted from the federal workforce, his loyalty to the United States, he says, brought into question.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ DHS panel on chemical threats overloaded with industry representatives ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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Critics say the Chemical Sector Committee at the Department of Homeland Security is overloaded with industry representatives, who account for more than half the group's membership. No environmental or public-safety groups are represented. The members represent:
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<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Airport travel starts smoothly, with no sign of delays from scanner protests ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:06:03 EST</pubDate>
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With thousands of Thanksgiving travelers headed to airports Wednesday, National Opt-Out Day, a protest ignited by new passenger-screening techniques, appeared to fizzle.
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<dc:creator>Derek Kravitz and Kafia A. Hosh</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Airport security uproar frustrates White House advisers ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:12:01 EST</pubDate>
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For a White House often accused of being lax on national security, the uproar over invasive security techniques at airports is a head-snapping swing in the other direction.
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<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Perry Bacon, Jr.</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the new full-body security-screening machines at the country's airports, as most say they put higher priority on combating terrorism than protecting personal privacy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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<dc:creator>Jon Cohen and Ashley Halsey III</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Analysis: Verdict dims outlook for civilian trials of terrorism detainees ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:09:01 EST</pubDate>
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What was a very bad day for Ahmed Ghailani, now a convicted felon likely to spend many years in a supermax prison, was also, because of the super-charged politics surrounding Guantanamo Bay, a pretty bad day for the Obama administration.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obama pushes for Senate vote on new arms treaty with Russia ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama will press to get a Senate vote this year on a key nuclear-arms treaty with Russia, setting up a potentially bruising battle with Republicans who have indicated the ratification should be postponed.
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<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan, Walter Pincus and William Branigin</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ 'Don't ask, don't tell' splitting gay rights groups ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:29:01 EST</pubDate>
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Disagreements over how Congress should proceed on ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy are dividing gay rights groups as lawmakers are trying to determine how to proceed on the issue. The schism could rip apart a year-long effort to end the Pentagon's ban on gay men and lesbians open
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<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Computer worm may have targeted Iran's nuclear program ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:30:01 EST</pubDate>
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The Stuxnet computer worm that infiltrated industrial systems in Iran this fall may have been designed specifically to attack the country's nuclear program, potentially crippling centrifuges used to enrich uranium gas, according to new research.
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<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ An intricate plot unleashed in Mumbai, the West confronts a new threat ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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David Coleman Headley seemed like a gregarious, high-rolling American businessman when he set up shop in Mumbai in September 2006. But it was all a front. As Headley confessed in a guilty plea in U.S. federal court this year, he was in Mumbai to begin undercover reconnaissance for a sophisticated attack that would take two years to plan.
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<dc:creator>Sebastian Rotella</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ On the trail of Pakistani terror group's elusive mastermind behind the Mumbai siege ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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On a November night two years ago, a young American rabbi and his pregnant wife finished dinner at their home in the mega-city of Mumbai.
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<dc:creator>Sebastian Rotella</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Opposition to U.S. trial likely to keep mastermind of 9/11 attacks in detention ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will probably remain in military detention without trial for the foreseeable future, according to Obama administration officials.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Package bomb could have downed plane over Canada, data show ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:27:01 EST</pubDate>
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One of the two package bombs intercepted late last month would have exploded over a largely unpopulated area of Canada if it had detonated, according to flight data and new information released Wednesday by the British police.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Julie Tate </dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Homeland Security tightens rules for air cargo ]]></title>
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The U.S. tightened security on cargo shipments flown from abroad Monday, banning "high-risk" cargo from flying on passenger planes after last month's discovery of a plot that originated in Yemen to send bombs in shipped packages.
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A review being conducted for the director of national intelligence has found at least five cases in which U.S. agencies were warned that David Coleman Headley, who became a central figure in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, was training or working with Pakistani militants.
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The two package bombs intercepted by authorities in Britain and Dubai last week appear to have been built to detonate "in flight" and to bring down the planes carrying them, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ FBI: Shooter could be a Marine ]]></title>
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The shooter who has targeted three U.S. military sites in Northern Virginia in recent weeks may be a Marine or someone with a grievance against the U.S. Marine Corps, federal officials said Friday.
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<title><![CDATA[ Most troops wouldn't oppose serving with gays, survey finds ]]></title>
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A majority of active-duty and reserve service members surveyed by the Defense Department would not object to serving and living alongside openly gay troops, according to multiple people familiar with the findings.
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<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Intelligence spending at record $80.1 billion in first disclosure of overall figure ]]></title>
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The government announced Thursday that it had spent $80.1 billion on intelligence activities over the past 12 months, disclosing for the first time not only the amount spent by civilian intelligence agencies but also by the military.
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<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Feds arrest N.Va. man in D.C. Metro bomb plot ]]></title>
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Federal law enforcement authorities arrested a Northern Virginia man Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to carry out terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn, Spencer S. Hsu and Caitlin Gibson</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Youngest Guantanamo detainee pleads guilty ]]></title>
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The youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay pleaded guilty to war crimes, including murder, on Monday, part of an agreement with prosecutors that allows the Obama administration to avoid a trial that threatened to undermine its use of military commissions.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Systemic failures led to suicide attack, CIA says ]]></title>
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The CIA was cautioned last year that a self-proclaimed al-Qaeda turncoat might be luring the agency into an ambush, a warning that came weeks before the man killed seven agency operatives in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, an internal investigation has found.
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<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Threat grows as Mexican cartels move to beef up U.S. presence ]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- When a major Mexican drug cartel opened a branch office here on the California side of the border, U.S. authorities tapped into their cellphones - then listened, watched and waited.
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<dc:creator>William Booth and Nick Miroff</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Through hours of wrenching testimony, Ft. Hood psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan shows no emotion ]]></title>
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FORT HOOD, TEX. -  Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sits in a wheelchair every day and listens while, one by one, the wounded and traumatized offer their accounts of 10 minutes of terror. Some bow their heads and weep. Some glower.
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<dc:creator>Ann Gerhart</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Mental health specialists were hit hard at Fort Hood, victims testify ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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FORT HOOD, TEX. -  The Army reservists had joined up to help their fellow soldiers deal with the mental wounds of war. There were two units of them, and they had trained together in California and now were at this massive post to do their final training before heading to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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<dc:creator>Ann E. Gerhart</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Administration expected to appeal 'don't ask' ruling ]]></title>
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The Obama administration, which is seeking repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" law, is nevertheless is expected to appeal a ruling by a California federal judge who declared the policy unconstitutional. The administration is also expected to seek a stay of the judge's injunction Tuesday ordering t
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<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler and Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Prosecutors in Guantanamo Bay suspect's terror trial won't appeal ban on witness ]]></title>
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NEW YORK -  Prosecutors said Sunday that they will not appeal a U.S. judge's refusal to let a key witness testify in the first criminal trial of a terrorism suspect from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.
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President Obama announced Friday that National Security Adviser James L. Jones will leave his post by the end of the month and be replaced by his most senior deputy, Thomas E. Donilon, in a transition that will ensure continuity as the war in Afghanistan enters a decisive phase.
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<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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Obama Administration announces record deportation numbers, especially of unauthorized immigrants who have committed crimes.
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A federal judge in New York has barred a key prosecution witness from testifying in the trial of a suspect in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa after ruling that the government learned of the man through coercive CIA interrogations at a secret prison overseas.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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Four years ago, the wall came tumbling down at the Justice Department.
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<dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Would-be Times Square bomber gets life in prison ]]></title>
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The would-be Times Square bomber was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, bringing a quiet end to a case that dramatized what authorities say is a growing threat from domestic and global terrorists.
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Who's got the best deputy job in Washington? It would have to be deputy national security adviser Tom Donilon. Donilon had been mentioned as a possible White House chief of staff, but now that the position has gone to Pete Rouse, history gives Donilon the nod to replace departing national securit...
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<dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ With bill at Obama's desk, Congress aims to renew oversight of CIA operations ]]></title>
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Congress has moved to reassert its role as a check on the nation's most sensitive spy programs after having been marginalized for years in the management of covert intelligence operations.
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<dc:creator>Greg Miller</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obama: 'We need to make clear to people that the cancer is in Pakistan' ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The third of three articles adapted from "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward.
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<dc:creator>Bob Woodward</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ FBI whistleblower trial highlights bureau's post-9/11 transformation ]]></title>
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An FBI whistleblower trial has cast a spotlight on the bureau's difficult transition from a crime-fighting agency into a counterterrorism and intelligence force, as seen through the career of its highest-ranking Arab American agent.
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<title><![CDATA[ Biden warned Obama during Afghan war review not to get 'locked into Vietnam' ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The second of three articles adapted from "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward.
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<dc:creator>Bob Woodward</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Military thwarted president seeking choice in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The first of three articles adapted from "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward.
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<dc:creator>Bob Woodward</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Senators push for changes at agency that secures federal buildings ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:54:02 EDT</pubDate>
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A committee led by Sen. Joseph Lieberman is pushing for Senate passage of a bill aimed at improving security at federal buildings.
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<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
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<dc:creator>Steve Luxenberg</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ FBI probes were improper, Justice says ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The FBI improperly investigated some left-leaning U.S. advocacy groups after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department said Monday, citing cases in which agents put activists on terrorist watch lists even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience.
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<dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Senate poised for close vote on repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' law ]]></title>
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The Senate is planning to vote Tuesday on whether to end debate on a $725.7 billion annual defense policy bill, a measure that includes a repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" law, which bans gays from serving openly in the armed forces.
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<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ McCain and Graham lash out at Levin over defense bill ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:32:01 EDT</pubDate>
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The Senate is expected to take up the defense authorization bill next week, but top Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee are promising to oppose the legislation because of its language on gays in the military and the possible insertion of an amendment on immigration.
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<title><![CDATA[ N.Y. man helped get funds to attempted Times Square bomber, officials say ]]></title>
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A New York man unwittingly transferred thousands of dollars from the Pakistani Taliban to fund May's failed Times Square bombing, authorities said Wednesday.
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<dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Legislation would federalize private guards who protect U.S. government buildings ]]></title>
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Private security guards protecting the nation's federal buildings might one day earn a government paycheck and could face new national training and certification standards if legislation introduced Monday advances in the coming months.
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<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ U.S. wants to buy 1st printing of reservist's memoir ]]></title>
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The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing - 10,000 copies - of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources.
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<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Greg Miller</dc:creator>
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Iran is steadily stockpiling enriched uranium, even in the face of toughened international sanctions, according to a U.N. inspection report that raises new concerns about the ability to monitor parts of the Islamic nation's nuclear program that could be used to make a bomb.
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<dc:creator>Greg Miller</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Army supervisor was worried about leak suspect's mental health, attorney says ]]></title>
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The sergeant who supervised Bradley E. Manning, the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the online site WikiLeaks, was so concerned about the soldier's mental health that he disabled Manning's weapon late last year, the private's attorney said Wednesday.
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<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ U.S. charges Pakistani Taliban leader with killing Americans ]]></title>
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The U.S. government designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group Wednesday and accused its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, of involvement in a December suicide bombing that killed seven Americans at a forward CIA post in eastern Afghanistan.
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<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin</dc:creator>
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The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.
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FBI Special Agent Stephen Gaudin "reached into his pocket and handed out butterscotch candy to everyone in the truck, including the detainee."
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<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber ]]></title>
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The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
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The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web site WikiLeaks. And if that phenomenon were to become a widely held perception, the analysis said, it could damage relations with foreign allies and dampen their willingness ...
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A little-known fact, according to a once-secret CIA analysis, is that America has long been an exporter of terrorism. And if that phenomenon were to become a widely-held perception, it could damage relations with foreign allies, the agency analysis said, and dampen their willingness to cooperate ...
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Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008.
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When Rose Gottemoeller began negotiating the new nuclear treaty with Moscow, the U.S. diplomat got questions on the usual topics: missile defense, warheads, inspections.
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