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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration Reluctantly Moves Toward Revisiting Bush Anti-Terror Policies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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After trying for months to shake off the legacy of their predecessors and focus on their own priorities, Obama administration officials have begun to concede that they cannot leave the fight against terrorism unexhumed and are reluctantly moving to examine some of the most controversial and...
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Inspectors General Report Faults Secrecy of Surveillance Program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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"Extraordinary and inappropriate" secrecy about a warrantless eavesdropping program undermined its effectiveness as a terrorism-fighting tool, government watchdogs have concluded in the first examination of one of the most contentious episodes of the Bush administration.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ GAO Bomb Sting Finds Lapses at Buildings Guarded by Federal Protective Service ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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It cost $150 and took about four minutes for government investigators, working in a sting operation, to make small bombs from materials they carried into high-security federal buildings that house major agencies with national security or law enforcement responsibilities.
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			<dc:creator>Ed O'Keefe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Report Faults Performance Bonuses for Contractors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Federal agencies have awarded billions in bonuses to contractors regardless of whether the work was deemed satisfactory, according to a Government Accountability Office report released last week.
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			<dc:creator>Steve Vogel</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Russia Presents New Test for Obama on Overseas Trip ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama is scheduled to leave Washington tonight on a week-long trip that will help determine whether his personal popularity and fresh policy approaches can yield concrete results on difficult issues including arms control, missile defense and nuclear nonproliferation.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher and Philip P. Pan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ DHS Cybersecurity Plan Will Involve NSA, Telecoms ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. Seeks More Time to Review Report on Interrogations ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Justice Department asked a federal court yesterday for two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's interrogation program before releasing a new version of the document to the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sued to make it public.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounc...
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ ACLU Says Detainee Mohammed Jawad Was Tortured Into Confessions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday accused the Obama administration of using statements elicited through torture to justify the confinement of a detainee it represents at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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			<dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Says Key to Success in Afghanistan Is Economy, Not Military ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- National security adviser James L. Jones told U.S. military commanders here last week that the Obama administration wants to hold troop levels here flat for now, and focus instead on carrying out the previously approved strategy of increased economic development, ...
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			<dc:creator>Bob Woodward</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Homeland Security, Pentagon Clash on Military's Role at Mexico Border ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A proposal to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to counter drug trafficking has triggered a bureaucratic standoff between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security over the military's role in domestic affairs, according to officials in both departments.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House Considers Executive Order on Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior gover...
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			<dc:creator>Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. Wants Release of CIA Detainee Report Delayed ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge yesterday that the disclosure of a hotly anticipated 2004 report by the CIA inspector general on the Bush administration's interrogation program for terrorism suspects will be delayed until shortly before the July 4 holiday weekend.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration Kills Bush Program to Give Police Access to Spy Satellite Data ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that she will kill a controversial Bush administration program to expand the use of spy satellites by domestic law enforcement and other agencies.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ People on Terrorism Watch List Bought Guns Hundreds of Times, GAO Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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People named on the government's terrorism watch list have successfully purchased firearms hundreds of times since 2004, government investigators reported yesterday. In one case, a known or suspected terrorist was able to obtain an explosives license, the Government Accountability Office reported.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Spy Training Program Could Come to Universities ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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To the list of collegiate types -- nerds, jocks, Greeks -- add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping they'll be hard to spot.
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. Wants Delay in Releasing CIA Report on Detainee Treatment ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Justice Department needs a week to complete its review of a 2004 CIA inspector general's report before releasing it in redacted form to civil liberties advocates, officials said yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Panel Approves Bill Expanding Oversight of NSA ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The House intelligence committee late Thursday approved measures to strengthen oversight of the National Security Agency and the overall intelligence community, including by making the jobs of NSA director and general counsel subject to Senate confirmation.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration Plans to Replace Controversial Real ID Initiative ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama administration is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was designed to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses, Homeland Security Department and congressional officials...
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 3 Saudi Detainees Transferred Home From Guantanamo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Justice Department announced yesterday that three Saudis were returned to their home country from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Gives Up on Resettling Cleared Guantanamo Detainees in U.S., Officials Say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States, administration officials said yesterday, a decision that reflects bipartisan congressional opposition to admitting such prisoners but complicates ...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Von Brunn's Writings Did Not Trigger Probe Before Holocaust Museum Shooting ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The FBI was "aware" of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect and his history of hateful writings about religious and ethnic minorities, but authorities had not opened a criminal investigation of him before Wednesday's deadly attack, officials said yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ No Bail for Couple Accused of Spying for Cuba ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A magistrate judge denied bail yesterday to a retired State Department analyst and his wife who are accused of spying for Cuba, saying that there is a "very strong" case against them and that the couple would be tempted to flee.
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Georgia Man Convicted for Videotaping Potential Terrorism Targets in D.C. Area ]]></title>
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A federal judge in Atlanta yesterday convicted Syed Haris Ahmed of conspiring to support terrorists, four years after he and a confederate traveled to the District to videotape possible targets and sent the footage to "jihadi brothers" overseas, prosecutors say.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Terror Suspect Ghailani Brought From Guantanamo Bay to U.S. for Trial ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration pressed ahead yesterday with its plans to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, flying a detainee to New York to face federal trial despite bipartisan opposition in Congress to bringing such prisoners to the United States for trial, resettlement or continued...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bipartisan WMD Panel Criticizes Obama Plan to Fund Swine Flu Vaccine ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's contingency plan to help finance production of a swine flu vaccine with funds set aside to develop defenses against biological attacks would weaken the nation's preparedness for terrorism, the leaders of a bipartisan commission on weapons of mass destruction said yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ State Dept. Retiree, Wife Accused of Spying for Cuba for Decades ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=3239976271c0a1e38422310df557b6e2</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A former State Department official with top-secret security clearance and his wife have been charged with spying for Cuba over the past three decades, passing information by shortwave radio and correspondence exchanged in local grocery stores, federal prosecutors said.
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			<dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Nominee Pulls Out as Role at CIA Is Studied ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A longtime CIA official chosen by President Obama to be the intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security withdrew from consideration yesterday after it became apparent that senators examining his nomination planned to scrutinize his role in the agency's interrogation of terrorism...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prominent Cases Of Spying for Cuba ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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June 2001 Mariano Faget, 54, an acting deputy director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, was sentenced to five years in prison. He was convicted of revealing secrets to a business partner with connections to Cuba.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers to Defend Interrogation Techniques ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=40172c91dad7d2476c93fa186722b84b</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on d...
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Says He Will Name National Cybersecurity Adviser ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama used a White House speech yesterday to try to raise national concern about threats to computer networks, drawing praise from some industry executives and lawmakers but criticism from others who said his initiatives do not go far enough.
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and Brian Krebs</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ CIA Director Panetta Announces Push to Improve Proficiency in Critical Languages ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Five years after it was faulted by the 9/11 Commission for inadequate language skills among its employees, the CIA yesterday launched an ambitious program to double the number of analysts proficient in languages deemed critical in the fight against America's enemies.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Nuclear Aims By Pakistan, India Prompt U.S. Concern ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sometime next year, at a tightly guarded site south of its capital, Pakistan will be ready to start churning out a new stream of plutonium for its nuclear arsenal, which will eventually include warheads for ballistic missiles and cruise missiles capable of being launched from ships, submarines or...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Combines Security Councils, Adds Offices for Computer and Pandemic Threats ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama announced yesterday that he will merge the staffs of the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council to speed up and unify security policymaking inside the White House.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Defense Department Joins Forces With Industry Against Cybercrime ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LINTHICUM, Md. --  At 2:42 p.m. one recent Wednesday, on the fourth floor of a squat brick office building under the flight path of jets landing at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport, a Pentagon analyst skilled in parsing malicious computer code e-mailed a threat alert to 28 of t...
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cheney Says Current Policies Put More Americans at Risk ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Unrepentant and newly unbridled, former vice president Richard B. Cheney has embraced two missions in his political retirement: to forcefully defend the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies and to publicly condemn those who would unravel them.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama and Cheney Deliver Dueling Speeches on National Security ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama and former vice president Richard B. Cheney yesterday gave the country the national security debate it never had during last year's campaign, with the two outlining starkly divergent views of American power and the presidency in the fight against terrorism.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Some Now at Guantanamo ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unions to Use TSA Rankings to Try to Gain Collective-Bargaining Rights ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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There are two ways of looking at the Transportation Security Administration's performance in the 2009 Best Places to Work in the federal government report released this week.
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			<dc:creator>Steve Vogel and Joe Davidson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Guantanamo Inmate to Be Tried in New York Court ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:03:59 EDT</pubDate>
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The Justice Department has approved transfer of the first Guantanamo prison inmate to the United States for criminal trial in a federal court. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a 34-year-old Tanzanian charged with aiding the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, is to be tried in the Southern...
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to Give Speech After Backlash Over Recent Detainee Decisions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama will attempt today to answer critics of his dismantling of Bush-era policies on detention and interrogation, in a speech reminding Americans that strong national security and adherence to laws and national values are not mutually exclusive.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Arrests on U.S.-Mexico Border Decline 27% ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The number of arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped 27 percent this year, a decline that could put the figure at its lowest level since the early 1970s, federal officials said yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. to Check Immigration Status of People in Local Jails ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails. In four years, the measure could result in a tenfold increase in illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes a...
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Developing Nations Seek Assurances on Nuclear Arms ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, May 15 -- U.N. nuclear talks hit a roadblock Friday as Cuba, Iran and other developing nations demanded that the five original nuclear powers accept legally binding commitments to dismantle their nuclear arsenals and provide assurances they will not use such weapons against states...
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon's Gates Keeps Single-Minded Focus on Dual Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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On a rainy night in March, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to witness the military's ritual for welcoming home its war dead.
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			<dc:creator>Greg Jaffe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Former Government Worker Sabrina De Sousa Sues for Immunity in Rendition Case ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A former U.S. government employee, accused by Italy of participating in a CIA-organized kidnapping of a militant Egyptian-born cleric in Milan, has sued the State Department demanding that it invoke diplomatic immunity to quash any prosecution.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ CIA Denies Cheney's Request to Release Intelligence Documents ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:20:57 EDT</pubDate>
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The CIA has rejected a request from former vice president Richard B. Cheney to release documents that he says show that the agency's harsh interrogation methods helped thwart terrorist plots.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Former Official Philip Zelikow Testifies About Efforts to Halt Harsh Interrogation Tactics ]]></title>
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The Senate's first hearing exploring the alleged torture of detainees rapidly descended into partisan counterattacks yesterday, as Democrats sought to portray the Bush
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Defense Official Charged in Espionage Conspiracy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A Defense Department official has been charged in an espionage conspiracy with providing classified information to a Chinese government agent, including a report on Chinese military power and details about a joint U.S.-Chinese naval exercise, prosecutors announced yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Top Pelosi Aide Learned of Waterboarding in 2003 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other harsh techniques were being used in the interrogation of an alleged al-Qaeda operative, according to documents the CIA released to Congress on Thursday.
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In 'Virtual Fence,' Continuity With Border Effort by Bush ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In announcing the resumption of a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexican border yesterday, the Obama administration sent a powerful message of continuity with President George W. Bush, who included a pledge to secure the border as part of a 2006 effort to persuade Congress to overhaul the nation's...
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Democrats Assail Obama's Hit List ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's modest proposal to slice $17 billion from 121 government programs quickly ran into a buzz saw of opposition on Capitol Hill yesterday, as an array of Democratic lawmakers vowed to fight White House efforts to deprive their favorite initiatives of federal funds.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon Budget Devotes More To Afghanistan War Than to Iraq ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Afghanistan war funding surpasses the outlay for Iraq for the first time in next year's proposed Pentagon budget, demonstrating a shift in priorities that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates seeks to execute in defense spending.
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Budget Eliminates New Funding for Nuclear Detection ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/07/AR2009050703518.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:00:57 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
President Obama would eliminate new funding for advanced-generation equipment to detect nuclear weapons and radiological materials at U.S. borders and ports and around New York City in his 2010 budget, homeland security officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ National Security Adviser Jones Says He's 'Outsider' in Frenetic White House ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/06/AR2009050604134.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
President Obama's national security adviser, James L. Jones, looks for rare opportunities to ride his bike from his McLean home to work at the White House. On occasion, he has pedaled back across the Potomac River for lunch. He tries to end his workday at 7 p.m.
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Halts Pilot Program in New York to Detect Biological Attacks ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/06/AR2009050603425.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
The Department of Homeland Security is dismantling a next-generation biological attack warning system in New York City subways because of technical problems, U.S. officials said.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FBI's Lapses on Terrorist Watch List Put Nation at Risk, Report Warns ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/06/AR2009050603968.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The FBI has retained almost 24,000 names on the nation's terrorist watch list without current or proper justification, while failing to include people who are subjects of terrorist investigations, according to a Justice Department report issued yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Lapses]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Skeptical Administration Keeping Karzai at Arm's Length ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050504048.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
Afghan President Hamid Karzai began talking as soon as his luncheon guests had taken their seats in his wood-paneled dining room at the presidential palace in Kabul, across a long table covered with platters of lamb and rice, baskets of flatbread, and glasses of pomegranate juice.
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			<dc:creator>Rajiv Chandrasekaran</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050301739.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject yesterday by a fourth-grader at a Washington school.
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			<dc:creator>Alec MacGillis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Options in Pakistan Limited ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050302212.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As Taliban forces edged to within 60 miles of Islamabad late last month, the Obama administration urgently asked for new intelligence assessments of whether Pakistan's government would survive. In briefings last week, senior officials said, President Obama and his National Security Council were t...
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Bush Team Strategy Becomes Obama's Swine Flu Playbook ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043003910.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration has relied on a Bush-era public health strategy aimed at coordinating its response across an array of government agencies in the week since the first reports of a swine flu outbreak emerged, officials say, as it attempts to balance safety concerns with a desire to prevent a...
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson and Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Appeals Court Rejects 'State Secrets' Claim, Revives Detainee Suit ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042803368.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated a lawsuit by five former detainees who sued a Boeing subsidiary over its alleged role in transporting them to foreign countries, where they say they suffered brutal interrogation under the CIA's "black site" prison system.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Key Posts Remain Vacant as Untested Pandemic Response Plan Implemented ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042703060.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:50:59 EDT</pubDate>
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As they confront the growing swine flu crisis, President Obama's administration is attempting to implement a never-before-tested pandemic response plan while dozens of key public health and emergency response jobs in the administration remain vacant.
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/25/AR2009042503122.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his...
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick and Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Obama's Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos' Release Was Intense ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304718.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration.
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith, Michael D. Shear and Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Harsh Methods Approved as Early as Summer 2002 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203141.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Condoleezza Rice, John D. Ashcroft and other top Bush administration officials approved as early as the summer of 2002 the CIA's use at secret prisons of harsh interrogation methods, including waterboarding, a technique that new Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has described as illegal torture,...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith and Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon to Create Command Focusing on Cyber Security ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042202742.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:24:02 EDT</pubDate>
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A spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates confirmed today that the Pentagon plans to reorganize itself to confront the "persistent and growing" problem of cyber attacks, creating a new command focused on protecting military computer networks and fielding new offensive cyber-warfare weapons.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Harsh Tactics Readied Before Their Approval ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042104055.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods -- and weeks before the CIA captured its first high-ranking terrorism suspect, Senate investigators have concluded.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick and Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Says Bush Officials Behind Interrogation Policy Could Be Prosecuted ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama yesterday declined to rule out legal consequences for Bush administration officials who authorized the harsh interrogation techniques applied to "high-value" terrorism suspects, saying the attorney general should determine whether they broke the law.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher and Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is finalizing plans for a new Pentagon command to coordinate the security of military computer networks and to develop new offensive cyber-weapons, sources said last night.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Cites CIA's Possible 'Mistakes' But Vows Support ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama traveled to the headquarters of the CIA yesterday to vow continued support for the agency despite weeks of revelations about the physical abuse and mental manipulation of terrorist suspects in its secret prisons.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gun-Trafficking Crackdown Hits Hurdle ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041800753.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PHOENIX -- It seemed a fortuitous alignment of justice and politics, George Iknadosian's trial beginning just as President Obama called for new attention to the flow of weapons from the United States to the drug cartels inside Mexico. The Phoenix gun dealer stood charged with selling hundreds of...
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			<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. Memos' Careful Legalese Obscured Harsh Reality ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041802166.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[
The four Justice Department memos to the CIA's top lawyer that were released last week reflect an effort by Bush administration appointees to create finely tuned justifications for harsh interrogation techniques, all under a blanket of secrecy covering the agency's prisons and the questioning.
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Approved Techniques ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041604336.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As approved in a May 10, 2005, Justice Department memo.
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Interrogation Details Emerge as Administration Releases Justice Department Memos ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041602768.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Justice Department documents released yesterday offer the fullest account to date of Bush administration interrogation tactics, including previously unacknowledged strategies of slamming a prisoner into a wall and placing an insect near a detainee terrified of bugs.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Julie Tate</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Role of Bush NSA Plan Under Review ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041604291.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Bush administration planned last year to direct the National Security Agency, which specializes in spying electronically on foreign adversaries, to take the techniques it has employed to defend military computer networks and use them to protect U.S. government civilian networks, according to...
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Lays Out Anti-Piracy Plan ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503559.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration yesterday called for expanding the international counterpiracy effort to deter Somali pirates, secure the release of hostage ships and crews, and freeze pirate assets, yet U.S. military officials said there are no immediate plans to devote more warships to the region.
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson and Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Cargo Ship Reaches Kenya ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041100566.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MOMBASA, Kenya, April 11 -- The Maersk Alabama cargo ship docked at this Kenyan port city Saturday night, its American crew appearing tired but in high spirits, with some sailors leaning over the ship's railing to wave, ask for a beer and tell how they thwarted an attack by Somali pirates in the...
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			<dc:creator>Stephanie McCrummen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/10/AR2009041003734.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Senior Obama administration officials are debating how to address a potential terrorist threat to U.S. interests from a Somali extremist group, with some in the military advocating strikes against its training camps. But many officials maintain that uncertainty about the intentions of the al-Shabab...
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			<dc:creator>Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Follows Bush Policy on Detainee Access to Courts ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/10/AR2009041003269.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration yesterday appealed a judge's decision granting three detainees at a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts, arguing partly that compliance would inhibit the future capture of Pakistani citizens for detention by U.S. forces...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gates Planning Major Changes in Defense Programs, Budget ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040304080.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is expected to announce on Monday the restructuring of several dozen major defense programs as part of the Obama administration's bid to shift military spending from preparations for large-scale war against traditional rivals to the counterinsurgency programs that...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama, Medvedev Pledge Cooperation ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040100242.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LONDON, April 1 -- President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the start of negotiations Wednesday on a new strategic arms-control treaty that would cut each nation's long-range nuclear arsenal further than previous agreements, inaugurating what both men indicated would be a more...
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unions Pressing for Bargaining Rights for TSA Employees ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040103716.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Border Patrol agents can do it. So can federal protective officers and U.S. Capitol Police. But Transportation Security Administration officers, who screen passengers at airports across the country, are not allowed to engage in collective bargaining.
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			<dc:creator>Steve Vogel</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/31/AR2009033103684.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Key lawmakers are pushing to dramatically escalate U.S. defenses against cyberattacks, crafting proposals that would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama and Medvedev to Announce Broad U.S.-Russia Agreement ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LONDON, March 31 -- In their first face-to-face meeting, President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are expected to announce agreement Wednesday on a broad statement of principles for cooperation between the two nations aimed at easing an increasingly strained relationship.
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Mary Jordan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032802066.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Finn and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S., Mexico to Intensify Fight Against Violent Drug Gangs ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032600776.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MONTERREY, Mexico, March 26 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Mexico and the United States had agreed to develop a "checklist" of tasks for both sides to intensify the fight against Mexican drug gangs engaged in a bloody turf war.
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FBI Chief Urges Renewal of Patriot Act Measures That Will Expire in December ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032501862.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire in December, calling them "exceptional" tools to help protect national security.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Approach to Protecting 'State Secrets' at Issue ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032403501.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Civil liberties advocates are accusing the Obama administration of forsaking campaign rhetoric and adopting the same expansive arguments that his predecessor used to cloak some of the most sensitive intelligence-gathering programs of the Bush White House.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. to Step Up Battle Against Drug Trafficking Along Mexican Border ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032401155.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to move more than 450 law enforcement agents and equipment to the southern U.S. border to combat Mexican drug cartel violence, but its "comprehensive response" was also notable for what it omitted.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Possible Move of Guantanamo Detainees to Alexandria for Trial Raises Worries ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402819.html?wprss=rss_nation/nationalsecurity</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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An outcry is growing in Alexandria over a prospect no one seems to like: terrorist suspects in the suburbs.
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			<dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Plans Anti-Drug Effort on Border to Aid Mexico ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama is finalizing plans to move federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border with Mexico to support Mexican President Felipe Calderón's campaign against violent drug cartels, according to U.S. security officials.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Latest CIA Scandal Puts Focus on How Agency Polices Self ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As a novice CIA case officer in the Middle East, Andrew Warren quickly learned the value of sex in recruiting spies. Colleagues say that he made an early habit of taking informants to strip clubs, and that he later began arranging out-of-town visits to brothels for his best recruits. Often Warren...
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick and R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Could Hit N. Korean Missile, Says Commander ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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There is a "high probability" that the United States could knock down a North Korean missile aimed at this country, the Pentagon's military commander for the Pacific told Congress yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Suspected Al-Qaeda Agent Gets Hearing ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Suspected al-Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri spent years isolated in a U.S. Navy brig after authorities proclaimed him an enemy combatant in the Bush administration's long-running war against terrorism.
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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Peter Finn</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pentagon Official Warns of Risk of Cyber Attacks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:31:01 EDT</pubDate>
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The head of the Pentagon's Strategic Command warned Congress today that the United States is vulnerable to cyberattacks "across the spectrum" and that more needs to be done to defend against the potential of online strikes, which could "potentially threaten not only our military networks, but als...
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			<dc:creator>Walter Pincus</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iranian Suspected of Smuggling Weapons for Tehran Jailed in U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A Tehran businessman who allegedly helped run a major weapons-smuggling ring for Iran was charged yesterday with multiple export-related crimes, two days after he was arrested in San Francisco after stepping off a flight from Europe.
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			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hardened U.S. Embassies Symbolic of Old Fears, Critics Say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, March 12 --  Across the Manhattan street from the landmark buildings of the United Nations, a new architectural symbol of American outreach to the world is rising: an impenetrable concrete tower with 30-inch-thick concrete walls and no windows on its first seven floors.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Navy Sends Destroyer to Protect Surveillance Ship After Incident in South China Sea ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The U.S. Navy has dispatched a guided-missile destroyer to the South China Sea after Chinese ships allegedly harassed an American ship operating there last weekend, a Pentagon official said yesterday.
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Somali Americans Recruited by Extremists ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their recruitment of the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber and their potential role in the disappearance of more than a dozen Somali American youths.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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