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Bergen: 9 myths about drones and Guantanamo
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 hours ago
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Air Force MQ-1 Predator UAV flies over Victorville, California, on January 7. (CNN) -- On Thursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech in Washington about his administration's counterterrorism policies, focusing on the
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9 myths about drones and Guantanamo
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 1 day ago
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Air Force MQ-1 Predator UAV flies over Victorville, California, on January 7. (CNN) -- On Thursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech in Washington about his administration's counterterrorism policies, focusing on the
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Capitol Hill hawks object stripping CIA of drones
Moscow :: Russia | 1 month ago
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The plea comes in response to the White House-backed effort to shift control of the drone program to the Pentagon, thereby addressing transparency concerns. Although no final decision has been made, a senior US official recently told NPR that the
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Drones don't just kill. Their psychological effects are creating enemies
Gaza :: Palestine | 2 months ago
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Story Video As reports of the Obama administration's policy on the use of drones to target American citizens trickle out, infuriating libertarians and flummoxing liberals, their global use continues unabated. The drone program is now one of the
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Former White House press secretary admits he was ordered to lie about existence of drones
Say'ūn :: Yemen | 3 months ago
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Up with Chris Hayes" program, "one of the first things they told me was, 'you're not even to acknowledge the drone program.'" He added that he was told, "'you're not even to discuss that it exists.'" 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain'
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Local Protest Denounces Drones
Santa Cruz :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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This is the state of affairs roughly 40 protesters described and rallied against at an anti-drone demonstration at the Town Clock tower in downtown Santa Cruz on Presidents Day. Displaying tombstones with names of civilians killed by drone strikes
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Drones: Tough talk, little scrutiny
White House :: TN :: USA | 3 months ago
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From the way senators talked about the drone program at the John Brennan hearing Thursday, you'd think Congress has been hauling in White House officials to explain the program in the light of day again and again. But Congress' public oversight of
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COLLISION COURSE:Will Drones Torpedo Obama's CIA Pick?
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
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FoxNews.com Senators from both parties may be on a collision course with the White House over its top national security nominations, because of concerns over the Obama administration's drone program. A bipartisan group of 11 senators wrote a letter
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At U.S. border, expensive drones generate lots of buzz, few results
Tucson :: AZ :: USA | 11 months ago
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An aerial drone, zooming somewhere out of sight high above the cooling scrubland, first spotted the group of nearly two dozen migrants. Snaking through the Sonoran Desert on a warm, moonless night last month, the would-be immigrants traversed the
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Drones, Obama’s new choice for killing in Pakistan
America’s secret CIA drone program is no longer a secret, thanks to President Obama’s admission earlier this week that, yes, we do kill people in foreign lands by using these unmanned aerial ghosts of death in a “focused
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