The Justice Department’s seizure of journalists’ phone records has made sources reluctant to talk, damaging the wire agency’s ability to report the news, said Associated Press chief Gary Pruitt.... Read more»
For a president who is reluctant to play the role of world policeman, drones look like an easy option, a simple way to show a war-weary public that he is “doing something” to defend America. They may also be the cheap option. But like the sanctions program that is supposed to force Iran to give up its presumed nuclear weapons program, some experts have grave doubts that the drone program can achieve its objective of deterring terrorist acts.... Read more»
What little we know about the evidence needed to justify a drone strike on unidentified people. While President Obama and administration officials have framed the drone program as targeting particular members of al-Qaeda, attacks against unknown militants reportedly may account for the majority of strikes.... Read more»
The focus on the targeting of American citizens overlooks many other strikes in which the U.S. doesn’t know who it’s killing. In these attacks, known as “signature strikes,” drone operators fire on people whose identities they do not know based on evidence of suspicious behavior or other “signatures.”... Read more»
The Obama administration has justified its counter-terror strategy on a law Congress passed just days after 9/11. But more than a decade later, does it fit the facts on the ground?... Read more»
The U.S. is conducting drone strikes in in at least three countries beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. Here’s a reading guide to understanding the U.S.’ shadow wars.... Read more»
The New York Times had filed the drone lawsuit against the Obama administration seeking more information about the attacks.... Read more»
America’s use of unmanned drones to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world, according to a survey.... Read more»
Human rights groups and others have expressed outrage at the method reportedly used by the Obama administration for counting civilian deaths from drone strikes.... Read more»
Drones’ surveillance power is being hyped for everything from fighting crime to monitoring hurricanes or spawning salmon. Meanwhile, concerns are cropping up about privacy, ethics and safety.... Read more»
With bodies literally piling up at the feet of his ceasefire observers, Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, left Damascus on Wednesday after his latest meeting with President Bashar al-Assad and said Syria is facing a “tipping point’... Read more»
A would-be al-Qaeda suicide bomber was in fact a Saudi Arabian intelligence operative who turned over the bomb to his agency and the CIA.... Read more»
In War on Terror news, another pair of exploding tighty whities have been captured, making the world a safer place.... Read more»
The CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaida’s Yemen affiliate to bomb a U.S.-bound airplane around the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death.... Read more»
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen have jointly won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.... Read more»
Yemen’s young people, who began holding anti-government protests outside of Sanaa University five months ago, have lost control of the cause they started.... Read more»
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