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			<title><![CDATA[ Fort Hood suspect's links to imam under scrutiny ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal investigators are examining possible links between Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal M. Hasan and an American-born imam who U.S. authorities say has become a supporter and leading promoter of al-Qaeda since leaving a Northern Virginia mosque, officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fort Hood suspect's links to imam under scrutiny ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal investigators are examining possible links between Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal M. Hasan and an American-born imam who U.S. authorities say has become a supporter and leading promoter of al-Qaeda since leaving a Northern Virginia mosque, officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ DHS readies plan to track foreigners flying from U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing a proposal to collect fingerprints or eye scans from all foreign travelers at U.S. airports as they leave the country, officials said, a costly screening program that airlines have opposed.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In the Loop: Join your fellow NSA fans on Facebook ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Even the super-secret National Security Agency, where you're practically strip-searched to get in, recruits on Facebook. "Welcome to the NSA Careers Page!" it says. "Please post any questions you may have and our recruiters will be happy to help."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fine Print: Cheney had his own reading of 'classified' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney gave a surprisingly honest description of how top administration officials treat classified information when he was questioned more than five years ago by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson,...
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			<dc:creator>WALTER PINCUS</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House, senators agree on media shield law ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The White House and key senators have reached a compromise on a shield law to protect journalists who refuse to reveal their sources, but they limited its application in cases involving national security and federal criminal prosecutions.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Judge considers time served in sentencing al-Qaeda aide ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In a decision that could carry implications for the masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks, a judge on Thursday sentenced an al-Qaeda sleeper agent with ties to the group's senior leaders to eight years and four months in prison.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 2 men are charged by U.S. with plotting terrorism attack ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Federal prosecutors unsealed charges Tuesday alleging that two men participated in a terrorism plot that took them from Chicago to Denmark. The case is the latest example of U.S. citizens accused of seeking to travel overseas to carry out violent extremist attacks.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Coalition seeks investigation of Homeland Security privacy office ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Privacy advocates have asked lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it has shown "an extraordinary disregard" for its duty.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Benefits changes finally in sight for federal employees ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Long-sought changes to the pay and benefits structure for current and former federal employees await President Obama's signature.
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			<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ DHS review answers criticism over border security projects ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A spokesman for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said a new review by the department's inspector general answers criticism by lawmakers that politics influenced plans to spend $680 million in stimulus funds on border security projects.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FBI says Massachusetts man sought terrorist training, plotted attacks ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=e16eb1afab7b5965c7b79cd70c21ce7a</link>
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A Massachusetts man has been arrested on a charge of conspiring to support terrorists by seeking training from Islamic extremist fighters overseas, federal authorities said Wednesday.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ WMD commission criticizes administration on bioterrorism ]]></title>
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The United States is failing to address the threat of bioterrorism, according to leaders of a bipartisan panel that warns that an attack worldwide is more likely than not by the end of 2013.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Officials Say Zazi Had Links to Bin Laden's Inner Circle ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaeda that went nearly to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Partial Patriot Act Extension Is Approved by Senate Panel ]]></title>
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would renew portions of the USA Patriot Act in an effort to address administration concerns about protecting terrorism investigations.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Counterinsurgency ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In early March, after weeks of debate across a conference table in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the participants in President Obama's strategic review of the war in Afghanistan figured that the most contentious part of their discussions was behind them. Everyone, save Vice President ...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistanis Balk at U.S. Aid Package ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration's strategy for bolstering Pakistan's civilian government was shaken Wednesday when political opposition and military leaders there sharply criticized a new U.S. assistance plan as interfering with the country's sovereignty.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung and Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ex-Staffers Winning Defense Panel Pork, Study Finds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In the coming year's military spending bill, members of a House panel continue to steer lucrative defense contracts to companies represented by their former staffers, who in turn steer generous campaign donations to those lawmakers, a new analysis has found.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Key Democrats Would Let Guantanamo Detainees Be Tried in U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Key Democratic lawmakers agreed Wednesday to allow detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be transferred to the United States for trial, removing one of several hurdles the administration must clear to meet its January deadline for closing the military prison.
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Missile Plan Would Link Allies' Radar, Other Systems ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A breakthrough that enables the early targeting of ballistic missiles by linking radars and other sensors from different parts of the world is key to the Obama administration's new missile defense plans, according to senior administration officials.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Army Officers Criticize Rebuke of Gen. McChrystal ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Army officers gathered at a convention in Washington this week said senior White House officials should not have rebuked Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for saying publicly that a scaled-back war effort would not succeed.
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Praises U.S. Intelligence Efforts Against Al-Qaeda ]]></title>
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President Obama praised U.S. intelligence and other national security agencies Tuesday for cooperating in pursuit of al-Qaeda, saying "real progress" has been made against the group.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Defense Secretary Wants War Advice to Obama Kept Private ]]></title>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates cautioned military and civilian leaders Monday against publicly airing their advice to President Obama on Afghanistan, just days after the top U.S. general in that country criticized proposals being advocated by some in the White House.
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson and Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lawyers for Detainee Qahtani to Get Interrogation Tapes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and ordered the government to provide copies of the tapes to the man's lawyers.
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			<dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Team Says Zazi Case Illustrates Balanced Approach to Terror Threat ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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 their recent successes have proved how effectively multiple agencies can perform when they work in concert.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Somali American Terror Recruits Seen Posing Threat to U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The suspected involvement of a young Seattle man in a suicide bombing last month has refocused attention on the recruitment of Somali Americans by Islamist extremists in Somalia and the growing role of al-Qaeda, U.S. counterterrorism officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Detainees Face Severe Conditions if Moved to U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, can sit outside in the Caribbean sun and chat through a chain-link fence with the detainee in the neighboring exercise yard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Success Against al-Qaeda Cited ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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U.S. and international intelligence officials say that improved recruitment of spies inside the al-Qaeda network, along with increased use of targeted airstrikes and enhanced assistance from cooperative governments, has significantly reduced the terrorist organization's effectiveness.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Terrorism Suspect Pleads Not Guilty, Held Without Bail ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:57:01 EDT</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- A 24-year-old Afghan immigrant was ordered held without bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to planning a terrorist attack on New York City with bombs made from beauty supply chemicals.
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			<dc:creator>Robin Shulman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Defense Bill, Lauded by White House, Contains Billions in Earmarks ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=2e3216ca9b6e45ac7c791c78ecc407fc</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sen. Thad Cochran's most recent reelection campaign collected more than $10,000 from University of Southern Mississippi professors and staff members, including three who work at the school's center for research on polymers. To a defense spending bill slated to be on the Senate floor Tuesday, the ...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House Regroups on Guantanamo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind schedule and left them struggling to win the cooperation of Congress.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut and Dafna Linzer</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Terrorism Suspect Planned Peroxide Bombs, Officials Say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Evidence of one of the most significant homegrown terrorism threats in nearly two decades unfolded Thursday as investigators described an advanced-stage plot to detonate explosives made with beauty-supply chemicals on U.S. soil.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Security Council Adopts Nuclear Weapons Resolution ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:10:59 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a U.S-drafted resolution Thursday morning that affirms many of the steps President Obama plans to pursue as part of his vision for an eventual "world without nuclear weapons."
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Tightens State Secrets Standard ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:15:58 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a new policy making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state secrets when it hides details of sensitive national security strategies such as rendition and warrantless eavesdropping.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to Set Higher Bar for Keeping State Secrets ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state secrets when it hides details of sensitive national security strategies such as rendition and warrantless eavesdropping, according to two senior Just...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Terror Probe Puts U.S. Mass Transit Systems on Alert ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=0a1da77ee41bad72416db356527ddf2c</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:41:52 EDT</pubDate>
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A 24-year-old Afghan man at the center of an unfolding FBI investigation into a possible U.S. terrorism cell was ordered held without bond as authorities raced to learn more about an alleged plot using hydrogen peroxide explosives and who else might have been helping to carry it out.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. and Iran Question Each Other's Seriousness as Nuclear Talks Approach ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 -- Diplomats from the United States and Iran will cross paths this week at the U.N. General Assembly, but the gulf between the two nations is likely to be evident.
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler and Thomas Erdbrink</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure' ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=f20595eb940f95290a3a0af209223a6f</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained ...
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			<dc:creator>Bob Woodward</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Shelving of Missile Defense Reflected Military's Concerns ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Call it another revolt of the generals. More than 13 years ago, the nation's military leaders told civilian defense officials they wanted to limit spending on missile defenses and to emphasize the protection of forces deployed overseas over defense of the American homeland against a long-range mi...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Missile Decision May Smooth U.S.-Russia Arms Talks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's decision to scrap a planned missile defense system that had infuriated Russia is expected to produce one quick payback: smoother talks between the two nuclear giants on renegotiating their most important arms-reduction treaty. But U.S. and Russian officials say it is too late to...
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan and Philip P. Pan</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ How Gorbachev Slowed the Arms Race ]]></title>
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Adapted from "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy," published this week by Doubleday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ COMISAF Initial Assessment (Unclassified) -- Searchable Document ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:30:57 EDT</pubDate>
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The Department of Defense on Sunday evening released a declassified version of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's assessment of the war in Afghanistan. The Post agreed to publish this version, which includes minor deletions of material that officials said could compromise future operations, rather than...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Changes in Afghanistan, Washington May Require Shift in U.S. War Strategy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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From his headquarters in Kabul, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal sees one clear path to achieve President Obama's core goal of preventing al-Qaeda from reestablishing havens in Afghanistan: "Success," he writes in his assessment, "demands a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign."
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			<dc:creator>Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Inquiry Into CIA Practices Narrows ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Justice Department's review of detainee abuse by the CIA will focus on a very small number of cases, including at least one in which an Afghan prisoner died at a secret facility, according to two sources briefed on the matter.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson, Jerry Markon and Julie Tate</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Questions About Leaks Delay Reporter Shield Law ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A congressional push to enact a federal shield law for journalists is being held up by disagreement with the Justice Department on how to deal with cases that involve leaked national security information, congressional and media sources say.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Secretary of State Clinton Challenges Iran on Nuclear Program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged Iran on Friday to come clean on its nuclear program and ease its repression of opposition activists, saying that "the Iranian government seeks a sense of justice in the world but stands in the way of the justice it seeks."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Shifts Focus Of Missile Shield ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's decision to abandon a Bush-era plan for a missile defense system in Europe and establish a partly ship-based shield against Iranian rockets could tighten U.S. pressure on the Islamic republic and ease a simmering rift with Russia.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gates to Boost 'Enablers' to Meet Security Needs in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he has ordered the deployment of as many as 3,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to meet what the top commander there has described as pressing security needs.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration to Seek Third Continuance in Guantanamo Cases ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is planning to seek a third continuance in several cases at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including those of defendants charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to U.S. officials and a court filing by the Justice Department.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Should Simplify Terror Warning System, Panel Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A bipartisan task force recommended Tuesday that the Obama administration simplify and reset the U.S. government's iconic color-coded terrorism warning system to the lowest of three new levels, if it keeps using levels at all.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration has for the first time set out its views on the controversial USA Patriot Act, telling lawmakers this week that legal approval of government surveillance methods scheduled to expire in December should be renewed, but leaving room to tweak the law to protect Americans'...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Underground Passenger Screening Areas Open at Dulles ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Dulles International Airport opened an underground level Tuesday dedicated to passenger security screening in an effort to eliminate the long and twisting lines that have frustrated travelers for years.
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			<title><![CDATA[ N.Y. Homes Raided in Terror Probe ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Federal and city counterterrorism agents raided homes in New York City early Monday after a man under surveillance for suspected ties to al-Qaeda met with people in Queens, federal officials said.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Envoy Says Iran Has Nearly Enough Low-Enriched Uranium for a Nuclear Weapon ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Iran "is now either very near or in possession" of enough low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday, as he offered some of the toughest remarks by an Obama administration official on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler and Thomas Erdbrink</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For Obama, A Pivotal Moment in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama must decide in the coming weeks whether a greater investment of troops and resources in Afghanistan is worth the political risk if Americans do not soon perceive better results on the ground.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bush White House Sought to Soften Treaty on 'Enforced Disappearances' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so that those overseeing the CIA's secret prison system would not be criminally prosecuted under its provisions, according to former officials and hun...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Report Details 'Lewd and Deviant' Behavior by Guards at U.S. Embassy in Kabul ]]></title>
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Private security contractors who guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul have engaged in lewd behavior and hazed subordinates, demoralizing the undermanned force and posing a "significant threat" to security at a time when the Taliban is intensifying attacks in the Afghan capital, according to an investi...
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			<title><![CDATA[ How a Detainee Became An Asset ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called "terrorist tutorials."
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			<title><![CDATA[ Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Accused in U.S. District Court of Intent to Kill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holder's Decision To Probe CIA Hints At a New Dynamic ]]></title>
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About five weeks ago, faced with a crucial decision on how to react to brutal CIA interrogation practices, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. concluded that it would be all but impossible to follow President Obama's mandate to move forward, rather than investigate divisive episodes from the Bush...
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Intellipedia, the intelligence community's version of Wikipedia, hummed in the aftermath of the Iranian presidential election in June, with personnel at myriad government agencies updating a page dedicated to tracking the disputed results.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cheney Criticizes Widening Investigation of CIA Counterterrorism Program ]]></title>
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The Justice Department's decision Monday to expand an existing investigation of potentially illegal actions related to the CIA's counterterrorism program provoked fresh criticism from former vice president Richard B. Cheney, a strong supporter of the harsh interrogation techniques central to the...
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A House oversight panel has begun a review of Army technology contracts that were awarded under questionable circumstances and involved a government official and a contractor with close personal ties.
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A partially declassified CIA report released Monday by the Obama administration describes the early implementation of the agency's interrogation program in 2002 and 2003 as ad hoc and poorly supervised, leading to the use of "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane and undocumented" techniques.
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When an internal CIA report concluded in May 2004 that "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane, and undocumented" interrogation methods had been used on suspected al-Qaeda members, the predominant reaction within the Bush administration was not revulsion but frustration that the agency's efforts insi...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holder Hires Prosecutor to Look Into Alleged CIA Interrogation Abuses ]]></title>
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In appointing a prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses, including episodes that resulted in prisoner deaths, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday shook off warnings from President Obama to avoid becoming mired in past controversies.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holder's Pick for CIA Investigation Known as Tough, Diligent ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:49:56 EDT</pubDate>
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Justice Department leaders representing both political parties have turned to John H. Durham for most of his three-decade legal career to unravel their most vexing and sensational problems.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Approves New Team to Question Terror Suspects ]]></title>
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President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior administration officials said Sunday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ CIA Used Gun, Drill in Interrogation of Alleged Cole Mastermind ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to try to frighten a captured al-Qaeda commander into giving up information, according to a long-concealed agency report due to be made public next week, former and current U.S. officials who have read the document said Friday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Reports Revive Debate on Contractor Use ]]></title>
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The disclosure that the CIA once hired Blackwater USA for elements of an assassination program has brought back into focus the wide range of intelligence and military activities that are being contracted out to private firms.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ridge Says He Was Pressured to Elevate Threat Warning on Eve of 2004 Election ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:40:58 EDT</pubDate>
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Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, the first director of the Department of Homeland Security, says that he was pressured by other Bush administration department heads to raise the national security-threat level on the eve of the 2004 presidential election -- a move he rejected as having such...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Judge Orders Release of Yemeni Prisoner From Guantanamo ]]></title>
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A federal judge has ordered the release of a Yemeni from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the man's brief stint at an Al Qaeda training camp and two encounters with Osama Bin Laden were not enough to justify his confinement.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lawyers Showed Photos of Covert CIA Officers to Guantanamo Bay Detainees ]]></title>
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The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investig...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Disclosure of 'Targeted Killing' Program Comes at Bad Time for CIA ]]></title>
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The disclosure Wednesday of the CIA's decision five years ago to let a private security contractor help manage its sensitive effort to kill senior al-Qaeda members drew congressional criticism Thursday on the eve of key decisions by the Obama administration that current and former intelligence of...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Residents Reject Idea of Housing Guantanamo Detainees at Michigan Prison ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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STANDISH, Mich., Aug. 20 --  More than 200 people gathered here Thursday to voice their concern that the federal government could transfer detainees from a facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the local prison, conjuring up images of terrorists holding busloads of schoolchildren hostage, firing s...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sources Say CIA Hired Blackwater for Assassin Program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA, the private security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted intense scrutiny, according to two former intelligence officials familiar with the events.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change ]]></title>
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In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met in a secure Pentagon room for their fortnightly video conference with Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Airlines to Begin Asking Passengers for More Information ]]></title>
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U.S. airlines on Saturday will begin asking travelers to provide their birth date and sex for the first time under a new aviation security requirement, federal officials said Wednesday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Potent Roadside Bombs Slow Marines' Offensive in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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MIANPOSHTEH, Afghanistan -- In this harsh and unforgiving part of southern Afghanistan, where thousands of U.S. Marines are battling the Taliban this summer, the growing prevalence of roadside bombs means that even a small mishap can have deadly consequences.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Intelligence Report Suggests Slower Timeline for Iranian Nuclear Capability ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Despite Iran's progress since 2007 toward producing enriched uranium, the State Department's intelligence analysts continue to think that Tehran will not be able to produce weapons-grade material before 2013, according to a newly disclosed congressional document.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Plans to Use More Than Bombs and Bullets to Fight Terrorism ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of national power to defeat the enemy, John O. Brennan, President Obama's senior counterterrorism adviser, said Wednesday.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Legal, Diplomatic Issues Stall Guantanamo Detainees' Confinement Challenges ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In the 13 months since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision granting detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their confinements before federal judges, most prisoners still have not had their day in court.
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			<dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ McChrystal Preparing New Afghan War Strategy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is preparing a new strategy that calls for major changes in the way U.S. and other NATO troops there operate, a vast increase in the size of Afghan security forces and an intensified military effort to root out corruption among local government officials, acc...
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			<dc:creator>Rajiv Chandrasekaran</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Judge Orders Young Guantanamo Detainee's Release ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:14:58 EDT</pubDate>
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was accused of attacking U.S. troops with a grenade in 2002.
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			<dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Despite Obama's Objections, House Appropriators Seem Intent on Earmarks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Democratic-controlled House is poised to give the Pentagon dozens of new ships, planes, helicopters and armored vehicles that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says the military does not need to fund next year, acting in many cases in response to defense industry pressures and campaign...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fine Print: Panels Raise Concerns Over Pentagon's Strategic Communications ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Lawmakers are voicing concerns about the Pentagon's strategic communications programs, through which the military aims to win over civilians and erode support for adversaries in countries around the world.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book Review: 'By His Own Rules' by Bradley Graham ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Veteran Pentagon reporter Bradley Graham analyzes the riddle-wrapped enigma Donald Rumsfeld.
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			<dc:creator>Nathaniel Fick</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 9/11 Commission Leaders Urge More Action on Security Issues ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The leaders of the 9/11 Commission on Friday met with U.S. intelligence and homeland security chiefs and urged the Obama administration not to lose focus on counterterrorism and domestic security threats as the nation's political attention moves elsewhere.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ One of Osama Bin Laden's Sons Reported Dead After CIA Missile Strike ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A CIA missile strike early this year is thought to have killed one of Osama bin Laden's oldest sons, a 27-year-old who had followed his father's footsteps into al-Qaeda, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Thursday.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Declines U.N. Experts' Requests for Guantanamo Visits, Data on CIA Prisons ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration has declined requests from U.N. human rights investigators for information on secret prisons and for private interviews with inmates at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.N. officials said, dampening their hopes of greater U.S....
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate Votes to End Production of Controversial F-22 Fighter ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Senate voted Tuesday to kill the nation's premier fighter-jet program, embracing by a 58 to 40 margin the argument of President Obama and his top military advisers that more F-22s are not needed for the nation's defense and would be a costly drag on the Pentagon's budget in an era of small wars...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Reports on U.S. Detention and Interrogation Policy Will Be Delayed Six Months ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is delaying completion of reports examining U.S. detention and interrogation policy, officials said Monday, in a sign of the formidable issues it faces in grappling with how to handle terrorism suspects as it prepares to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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