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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer: Torture 'clearly part' of finding Bin Laden
In some of his most expansive comments since his movie touched off a Washington firestorm, the screenwriter of "Zero Dark Thirty" defended his film as depicting torture accurately and said that a pending Senate investigation brought him "a chill." "We&...Tags: Entertainment, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Stephen Colbert, Kathryn Bigelow
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Female vs. male senators
As the son of a woman, the husband of a woman and the father of daughters and granddaughters, I celebrate the record number of females who are now United States senators. However, I do see some differences in the way these and other women are treated,...
Tags: Susana Martinez, Minority Groups, Justice and Rights, Barbara Boxer, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms
(AP) — Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history. One model of...Tags: University of Chicago, Laws, Lifestyle and Leisure, Justice System, Joe Biden
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Taking aim at the gun industry
We've all heard the saw about California being hostile to industry. Here's an industry that indisputably has grounds for complaint: the gun industry. Finally, the Legislature is getting something right. According to many experts, California's firearms...
Tags: Laws, Bill Lockyer, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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The law of drones
President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...
Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Espionage and Intelligence, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CBS Corp., John O. Brennan
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Should U.S. citizens in Al Qaeda be tried for treason?
In my Sunday column, I wrote that it’s past time for the Obama administration to subject its nomination of suspected terrorists for the “kill list” -- secret death warrants, to put it bluntly -- to some form of independent review, at...
Tags: John Brennan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chuck Grassley, Robert Gates
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Jerry Brown's press secretary announces his resignation
Gil Duran, who served as press secretary for Gov. Jerry Brown since Brown returned to the governor's office in 2011, is leaving the administration to work for Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris, Duran announced Tuesday. In an email Tuesday, Duran said he would...
Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Antonio Villaraigosa, Executive Branch, Politics
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D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns
Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...Tags: DVDs, Entertainment, David O. Russell, Joe Courtney, John McCain
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McManus: The other drone question
It has been 11 years since the United States began using missile-firing drones to attack Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But only now are we beginning a full public debate on this new form of warfare, and it took the nomination of...
Tags: National Government, Yemen, NBC (tv network), Afghanistan, Justice System
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Drones on the dais
WASHINGTON -- Is the position of God subject to the confirmation process? Does the Lord Almighty require the advice and consent of the Senate? These are no longer abstract questions. John Brennan may not be divine, but he plays God often as...
Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Susan Collins, Barack Obama, Saxby Chambliss, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Targeted killings: What are the limits?
Thursday's confirmation hearings for John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, offer a rare opportunity for senators to press the architect of the administration's policy of targeted killings about its legal...
Tags: John Brennan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, John O. Brennan, Barack Obama
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Anwar al-Awlaki, Laws, Saxby Chambliss, Yemen
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