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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Ending the state of perpetual war
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24.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| President Obama’s speech on Thursday was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future. [...] As frustratingly late as it was — much of what Mr. Obama said should have been said years ago — there is no underestimating the importance of that statement. Mr. Obama and his predecessor, President George W. Bush, used the state of war that began with the authorization to invade Afghanistan and go after Al Qaeda and others who planned the Sept. 11 attacks to justify extraordinary acts like indefinite detention without charges and the targeted killing of terrorist suspects.
While there are some, particularly the more hawkish Congressional Republicans, who say this war should essentially last forever, Mr. ... |
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[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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Obama: US will Continue its Targeted Killing with Drones (Woods)
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24.5.2013 |
Informed Comment |
| Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Barack Obama has made it clear that the US will continue with its controversial targeted killing programme. In a major speech the US president also announced that he has signed into force a new – and secret – rule book for lethal action that provides ‘clear [...] |
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[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
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DealBook: 4 SAC Executives Subpoenaed in Insider Trading Inquiry
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24.5.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| DealBook: 4 SAC Executives Subpoenaed in Insider Trading Inquiry |
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[newstrust :: Trade]
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Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
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24.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Julie Pace and Lara Jakes The Associated Press
Published May 23, 2013 07:03PM MDT
Washington • President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida. In a lengthy address at the National Defense University, Obama defended his controversial drone-strikes program as a linchpin of the U.S. response to the evolving dangers. He also argued that changing threats require changes... ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Criminal Justice System]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[flenvcenter :: Unions]
[flenvcenter :: Unions]
[flenvcenter :: Criminal Justice System]
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Greenwald Responds to BRAD BLOG Commenter Charge That He 'Lied' About James Rosen Case
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24.5.2013 |
BradBlog |
| Yesterday, we ran a very short piece arguing that "Fox 'News' and Republicans Were For Prosecuting Journalists Before They Were Against It".
In it, we briefly documented the Obama DoJ's attack on journalists and journalism, as most recently highlighted by the sweeping subpoena of AP reporters' phone records and the naming ... |
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[newstrust :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Climate change]
[newstrust :: scandal]
[newstrust :: Election Activists]
[newstrust :: Green Power]
[newstrust :: Businesses]
[newstrust :: Freedom of the Press]
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Obama details drone policy in speech outlining counter-terrorism doctrine
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24.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- Front Page |
| Increased oversight designed to bring killing programme out of legal shadows as president defends use of strikes in the past
Special courts would be asked to decide on targeted assassinations of terrorism suspects under a clutch of new legal checks proposed by Barack Obama to bring an end to the notion of an "boundless war on terror".
The president, who currently has to personally sign off on targeted drone strikes outside the US, hopes the increased oversight will help bring his controversial programme of killings out of the legal shadows.
He also proposed that a smaller number of drone attacks in the future would be carried out primarily by the US military rather than the CIA, having first passed a new test to ensure that alternative options have been exhausted.
But the White House defended its decision to launch hundreds of such strikes in recent years, insisting they were more discriminating than other military options such as aerial bombing and had helped prevent terrorist ... |
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[rohithkumar123 :: Community Radio]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Pakistan]
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Document: Text of Obama speech on counterterrorism, May 23, 2013
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24.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: National News |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ------ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. |
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[newstrust :: Higher Education]
[newstrust :: case law]
[newstrust :: Trade]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[flenvcenter :: Unions]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Iraq War]
[flenvcenter :: Terrorism]
[flenvcenter :: Warfare]
[flenvcenter :: Criminal Justice System]
[sdeepak :: Religious worship]
[sdeepak :: Religious People]
[newstrust :: Third World Poverty]
[newstrust :: aid]
[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
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Text of President Barack Obama speech on fight against terrorism
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24.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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[newstrust :: Higher Education]
[newstrust :: International Law]
[flenvcenter :: Unions]
[newstrust :: Iraq War]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Trade]
[newstrust :: Third World Poverty]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
[sdeepak :: Religious People]
[sdeepak :: Religious worship]
[flenvcenter :: Terrorism]
[flenvcenter :: Warfare]
[flenvcenter :: Criminal Justice System]
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Regulator Cites Flaws in Ernst & Young Procedures - New York Times
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24.5.2013 |
sarbanes oxley - Google News |
| Regulator Cites Flaws in Ernst & Young Procedures
New York Times
Under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, which established the board, the board reviews audits by large firms every year and issues a limited public report that does not include board criticisms of the firm's quality controls. The accounting industry ...
PCAOB Airs 2010 Concerns on E&Y Quality Controls Compliance Week
all 5 news ... |
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[ragini :: Compliance]
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Obama speech: 'Perpetual war will prove self-defeating' – live updates
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24.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| President expected to sharply curtail the unmanned killing programme and discuss crisis at Guantánamo Bay prison
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[peacock :: Terror Groups]
[kjrajesh :: Media]
[newstrust :: Iraq War]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Trade]
[avyakto :: Law]
[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
[Iram :: Muslim Law]
[sdeepak :: Religious People]
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Obama endorses more oversight of drone strikes
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23.5.2013 |
AP National |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says his administration is willing to consider accepting increased oversight of lethal drone strikes outside of war zones like Afghanistan.... |
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[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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President Barack Obama's speech at National Defense University – full text
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23.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Remarks of President Barack Obama, as prepared for delivery and entitled: The Future of our Fight against Terrorism
Prepared remarks of President Barack Obama, before delivery.
It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791– standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of warfare here in the 21st century.
For over two centuries, the United States has been bound together by founding documents that defined who we are as Americans, and served as our compass through every type of change. Matters of war and peace are no different. Americans are deeply ambivalent about war, but having fought for our independence, we know that a price must be paid for freedom. From the Civil War, to our struggle against fascism, and through the long, twilight struggle of the Cold War, battlefields have changed, and technology has evolved. But our commitment to Constitutional principles has weathered ... |
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[newstrust :: aid]
[newstrust :: case law]
[newstrust :: Higher Education]
[newstrust :: International Law]
[kjrajesh :: Media]
[sandman1965 :: Realty]
[sandman1965 :: Hospitality]
[j :: india]
[newstrust :: Iraq War]
[ayyati :: Renewables]
[ayyati :: Wind]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Trade]
[newstrust :: Third World Poverty]
[sanjaybhangar :: india]
[chvartak :: Tidal]
[newstrust :: Education]
[avyakto :: Torture]
[avyakto :: Law]
[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
[Iram :: Muslim Law]
[rohithkumar123 :: Community Radio]
[sdeepak :: Religious worship]
[sdeepak :: Religious People]
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Apple to get parts from Illinois for U.S.-built Mac
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23.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Business |
| Apple to get parts from Illinois for U.S.-built Mac |
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
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23.5.2013 |
LA Times: Nation |
| Key IRS official refuses to testify |
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[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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From planes to frames
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23.5.2013 |
Washington Post: Politics |
| It’s hard sometimes to keep track of all your planes. The Army, it seems, “lost” one for a while.
Well, not actually lost, according to a May 9 Defense Department inspector general’s report, since it seems to have been used by Army brass (also known as “high priority passengers”) who needed a ride “to give speeches, or attend conferences, meetings” and such. ... |
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Taking the fifth: how Lois Lerner of the IRS followed a well-trodden path | Tom McCarthy
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23.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| The right to avoid questions from Congress has a long and contentious history. Just ask gangsters, Ken Lay … and Einstein
When IRS executive Lois Lerner asserted her right, under the fifth amendment, to avoid taking questions from the House oversight committee on Wednesday, she joined a long line of would-be witnesses to tell Congress to kiss off.
The tactic came into vogue in the early 1950s, when legislators developed a habit of dragging private citizens to Washington, accusing them of being commies and demanding they name other commies. The poor witnesses often found sweet refuge in the Bill of Rights.
Not every witness who has sought such refuge, however, has done so quite as innocently. In 1950-51, organized crime figures took the fifth to avoid testifying in the Kefauver hearings . The tactic has been used by felonious CEOs ( Enron's Ken Lay ), disgraced athletes (slugger Mark McGwire) and, yes, mid-level bureaucrats caught up in serious back-room dealing .
Legal scholars have ... |
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Under scrutiny, Va. gov's mansion a dichotomy
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22.5.2013 |
AP National |
| RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a political scandal involving two of the state's most powerful politicians has some people wondering: What goes on behind the wide double doors of the governor's house?... |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Under scrutiny, Va. gov's mansion a dichotomy
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22.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| RICHMOND, Va.—An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Illinois House panel OKs fracking measure
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22.5.2013 |
Chicago Tribune: Popular |
| Illinois House panel OKs fracking measure |
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[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
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$150M loan unraveled for Petters associates, banker testifies
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22.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Business |
| Petters associate’s admission about past led Barclays Bank executive to halt a line of credit. |
