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Subpoena of AP records revives media shield bill

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:07:34 -0400

WASHINGTON - The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators - and the White House is endorsing the idea.

NY judge to bin Laden kin: Lawyer might be trouble

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:59:17 -0400

NEW YORK - A judge warned Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Wednesday that a lawyer he hired to represent him on charges he conspired to kill Americans could end up in prison himself.

GOP, Dems challenge Holder over subpoenas to AP

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:37:57 -0400

WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records.

Holder defends subpoenas for AP telephone records

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:29:02 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement.

Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoena

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:26 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak.

Ambrose: It's raining cats, dogs and scandals

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:23:42 -0400

By JAY AMBROSE - Please, please, there's no reason to impeach President Barack Obama and it is overreach to say we're getting Watergate all over again. But the scandals are indeed piling up on each other, or, to use another metaphor, it's not just raining. It's pouring. And the message to the nation is to take cover.

Pakistan's next premier an Islamist comeback kid

Mon, 13 May 2013 03:32:53 -0400

ISLAMABAD - The man set to become Pakistan's next prime minister after historic elections over the weekend could be called the Islamist comeback kid.

Murdock: Benghazi is biggest coverup since Watergate

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:21:18 -0400

NEW YORK - By DEROY MURDOCK

Hard-line Islamists to make gains in Pakistan vote

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:23:34 -0400

MARDAN, Pakistan - The imposing, black-bearded politician in a striking white turban takes the stage at a campaign rally in northwest Pakistan as a song about Islamic holy war blares over loudspeakers. Before a chanting crowd, he praises the Afghan Taliban and blasts Pakistan's government for not protecting Osama bin Laden from U.S. commandos.

Henry: Even a terrorist deserves a burial

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:49:11 -0400

By REG HENRY - One of the unremarked stories of the American experience in recent years is the rise of idiocy to epidemic proportions. Everywhere one looks, idiots are at work, and not all of them in Congress.

Candidates: Don't bury marathon suspect in Mass.

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:33:17 -0400

BOSTON - The candidates vying in a special election campaign for a U.S. Senate agreed Monday that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev should not be buried in the state.

Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing in WikiLeaks case

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:35:55 -0400

FORT MEADE, Maryland - Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website.

Man tied to hacking group Anonymous back in court

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:59:04 -0400

DALLAS - A Dallas man who once acted as a de facto spokesman for the hacking group Anonymous has new attorneys who say the case against him raises questions about free speech and Internet freedom.

Pakistan-US alliance takes hits on campaign trail

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:53:48 -0400

ISLAMABAD - On the campaign trail in Pakistan, candidates boast about their readiness to stand up to Washington and often tout their anti-American credentials. One party leader even claims he would shoot down U.S. drones if he comes to power.

Basu: Conspiracy theories about the Boston bombings

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:24:41 -0400

As you might expect, the parents of the brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings say their sons were innocent and framed by the U.S. government. - As you might not expect, a Florida communications professor is saying the same thing. So are a host of U.S. websites, which depict the bombings as one big government conspiracy and offer distorted evidence to prove it.

France: jihadist convert arrested in Mali

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:00:50 -0400

PARIS - French troops in Mali have arrested a French citizen who converted to Islam, took on the jihadist cause and threatened his native country in a video last fall, the military spokesman said Tuesday.

Canadian ex-Gitmo detainee to appeal convictions

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:52:36 -0400

TORONTO - A Canadian man who spent 10 years at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay plans to appeal his U.S. terrorism convictions, his lawyer said Sunday.

Murdock: U.S.-Mexican border welcomes terrorists

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:37:34 -0400

NEW YORK - By DEROY MURDOCK

GOP Sen. hopeful Sullivan cites work as prosecutor

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:19:10 -0400

BOSTON - Republican Michael Sullivan was born one of seven children to a Boston Irish family, leaving college to take a job on the factory floor of a local razor company.

NY judge sentences bin Laden secretary to life

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:48:14 -0400

NEW YORK - A former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden got a strong rebuke from a judge on Tuesday as he was sentenced to life in prison for a second time after claiming the Sept. 11 attacks and Superstorm Sandy were "God's punishment" for injustice by the United States against him and others.

Complex history between Iran and al-Qaida

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:25:45 -0400

Canadian authorities claim al-Qaida operatives in Iran directed a failed plot to attack a passenger train. Iran denies it has any links to the two suspects. What falls in between is Iran's complicated history with the terror group that has included outright hostility, alliances of convenience and even overtures by Tehran to assist Washington after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with Twitter

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:41:34 -0400

Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign by the terror network seeks to tap into social grievances and champion mainstream causes such as unemployment, all in bid to reverse decline and win new followers.

Iran denies link with Canada terror plot suspects

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:38:18 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Tuesday denied any links with an alleged terrorist plot that Canadian authorities claim was directed by al-Qaida operatives in Iran and sought to derail a passenger train.

Prosecutors move quickly to build Marathon case

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:14:45 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has a range of legal options in the Boston Marathon bombings, and they could include seeking the death penalty against the 19-year-old suspect in the case.