Tag: Security

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Gov. Napolitano likely to lead Homeland Security

Friday, November 21, 2008

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An Guantanamo briefing for Obama

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

"That would be taking the catastrophe of the last seven years and enshrining it in our law." — Ben Wizner on creating a new "National Security Court" to replace Guantanamo Bay

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China and Russia

Monday, November 10, 2008

"China's economy is growing and it has a stranglehold on a lot of American assets." — David Barboza, The New York Times

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Guantanamo Movie

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Eavesdropping

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

If the NSA is listening to your phone calls and reading your emails, would you want to know about it?

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In three-day trip, U.S. envoy pressed North Korea to give up nuclear program

Friday, October 03, 2008

U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill has returned to South Korea today after three days of talks in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. He was there to try to break the deadlock in the faltering negotiations aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its atomic weapons program.

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Mexico's Felipe Calderon meets with national security team as kidnappings surge

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Guest: Duncan Kennedy, correspondent for the BBC

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Jonathan Mahler on the Hamdan Verdict

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Guest: Jonathan Mahler, author and New York Times contributing writer. Mahler wrote the book "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power."

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Pakistani scientist accused of links to al-Qaida made her home in Boston

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Guest: Abdullah Faruuq, Imam of the Mosque for the Praising of Allah. Aafia Siddiqui attended his mosque.

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Department of Justice releases anthrax case documents calling Bruce Ivins sole attacker

Thursday, August 07, 2008

The Department of Justice said yesterday that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was the sole person responsible for anthrax deaths in 2001. New documents in the investigation have been made public. View and discuss the documents in the case of Bruce Ivins, suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings.

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A verdict in the Hamdan trial

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, was found guilty of war crimes, but acquitted on conspiracy charges Wednesday.

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The documents in the case of Bruce Ivins, suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings

Thursday, August 07, 2008

The Department of Justice released 66 documents Wednesday related to the case against federal laboratory scientist Bruce Ivins. Ivins was suspected of mailing anthrax-lined letters, causing a second terrorism scare in 2001, before committing suicide last week. The FBI says Ivins acted alone; Ivins' lawyers say the case has "heaps of innuendo." As questions remain over why it took investigators 6 years to create a case against Ivins, The Takeaway is offering the documents for you to analyze and discuss with other readers.


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Teenager, then 11, tells how her parents explained the Sept. 11 attacks

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Guest: Elizabeth Harris

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Audio timeline: An anthrax scare in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks

Monday, August 04, 2008

Anthrax timeline:

Late September, 2001
First signs
Envelopes containing threatening letters and a grainy brown substance arrive in the offices of ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Post.

October 5th, 2001
A fatality
Robert Stevens, a photo editor for the Florida-based ...

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Senate to vote on comprehensive surveillance bill, an overhaul of 1978's FISA

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Guest: U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, D-Md.

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Government wiretapping overhaul includes immunity for phone companies

Friday, June 20, 2008

Guest: Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times

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Advanced nuclear weapons designs may have been sold on black market

Monday, June 16, 2008

Which groups or nations may have bought electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon? That’s the question for American and international investigators who say the plans for a small nuke were found on the computer network of rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who has been under house arrest for the past four years. The Takeaway talks with New York Times reporter David Sanger, who has been following this story for a year.

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