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John Yoo, Bush torture memos writer, draws protesters at Calif. appearance

John Yoo didn't set out to become the face of torture. But that's what happened after the former attorney in the George W. Bush administration wrote memos justifying the expansion…Click to Continue »

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TSA full body scanners, hand-slide searches raise privacy concerns

Uttered at a San Diego airport checkpoint last weekend, the words already are Internet legend: "If you touch my junk, I'm going to have you arrested." Traveler John Tyner's video-recorded…Click to...

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TSA procedures rule, even at airports with private security

In the uproar over security pat-downs at airports, some advocate that airports opt out of the Transportation Security Administration. But even at airports with private security contractors, federal...

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Napolitano: DREAM Act would help immigration enforcement

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano lobbied for the DREAM Act Thursday saying immigration enforcement will be improved if Congress approves the bill that would legalize hundreds...

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Lawyer for accused Hezbollah cell leader says 155-year sentence unfair

Mohamad Hammoud has spent 10 years behind bars for conspiring to aid Middle Eastern terrorists. The 37-year-old suspected leader of a Hezbollah cell in Charlotte, N.C., has 145 years left…Click to...

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Obama calls airline security breach 'totally unacceptable'

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday blamed "systemic failure" in the nation's national security and anti-terror system for allowing a Nigerian man to board a Detroit-bound airliner with...

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Obama: Intelligence community mishandled air bomber clues

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday blamed "systemic failure" in the nation's national security and anti-terror system for allowing a Nigerian man to board a Detroit-bound airliner with...

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Obama: Feds knew more about terror suspect, but didn't act

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence officials had had more warnings about the alleged Christmas airplane attacker, including reports that al Qaida was working with him and...

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Suspect in airplane bombing attempt indicted, faces life in prison

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the suspect in the foiled Christmas Day airline bombing on six criminal counts that could bring a life sentence if he's convicted.Click to Continue »

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Lethal car chase leads cops to big pot garden

Investigators found more than 100 marijuana plants Wednesday at a remote mid-Sierra ranch where a pot robbery prompted a wild car chase over the weekend that resulted in the death…Click to Continue »

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Obama takes responsibility, won't order firings in bomb plot

President Barack Obama Thursday declined to fire anyone for the lapses that allowed a suspected terrorist carrying explosives to board a plane for Detroit on Christmas Day, and said for…Click to...

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Terrorism center head faces hot seat over bombing attempt

He's a Columbia University graduate and a former president of the Harvard Law Review, and he's now on the hot seat for intelligence failures that fueled the Christmas Day plot…Click to Continue »

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Poll: Most Americans would trim liberties to be safer

After a recent attempted terrorist attack set off a debate about full-body X-rays at airports, a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll finds that Americans lean more toward giving up some of their…Click to...

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Al Qaida threat growing in Yemen, Congress hears

Al Qaida is growing stronger in Yemen, fueled by anger toward the Yemeni government, anti-American sentiment and the return of Yemenis who fought the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan,Click to...

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Watchdog: Telecoms let FBI read Americans' phone records

For years, FBI agents and employees of telecom companies treated Americans' telephone records so cavalierly that one senior FBI counter-terrorism official said getting access to them was as easy...

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Obama folds on TSA nominee as Southers pulls out

President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration abruptly withdrew his name Wednesday as Democratic and Republican senators exchanged charges of politicizing the key...

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Forces at Guantanamo readied to assist Haiti quake victims

A dirt lot behind the war court the Bush administration built for terrorism suspects has become a landing zone as the U.S. government readies to turn a base that has…Click to Continue »

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Moving 9-11 trial could have wide repercussions for Obama

President Barack Obama's willingness to consider moving the trial of self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of New York reflects the trouble that Obama's facing in Congress, not...

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Pakistan Islamist tied to CIA bombing believed dead

Hakimullah Mehsud was Pakistan's most wanted man and a top target for the U.S — especially after he appeared in a video with the Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven…Click to Continue »

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Raucous Tea Party protests faded as outcome became clear

Thousands of disparate protesters from all walks of life descended on the U.S. Capitol Sunday for one last push on health care. It brought a day of contrasting bombast and…Click to Continue »

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