In shift, Obama’s National Security Council staff step up public case for...
Exercising the White House prerogative to operate mostly in the dark, President Obama’s National Security Council staff have tended to be seldom heard and seen; but in recent weeks, that’s changed, and...
View ArticleRoundup: Chuck Hagel and his enemies
The New Yorker’s Connie Bruck examines the case of Chuck Hagel and his enemies. (& see her 2008 profile.) The real reason for Hagel antagonism? His dissent on misconduct of Bush’s war on terror....
View ArticleObama to name John Brennan for CIA, Chuck Hagel for Defense
President Obama on Monday will nominate White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan to head the CIA, and former Senator Chuck Hagel to be his Secretary of Defense. Brennan, a 25 year CIA veteran...
View ArticleYemeni’s testimony on US drones strikes chord in Washington
Last week, Farea al-Muslimi, a US educated Yemeni youth activist and writer, wrote about what it was like to have his village attacked by US drones, on his Twitter account @almuslimi and at Al-Monitor....
View ArticleObama aims to reduce US drone strikes, close Guantanamo Bay
President Obama on Thursday outlined a broad overhaul of some of the most secretive and controversial US counter-terrorism policies, from drone strokes to the US detention facility of Guantanamo Bay,...
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