Hunger Striker Launches Twitter Campaign to Close Gitmo
Detainees can't tweet from inside Guantanamo Bay. So when they want to pressure the government to close the facility, they get their lawyers to tweet for them.
View Article4 Questions Obama’s Big National Security Speech Should Answer
Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see.
View ArticleFBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bomb Suspect
An FBI interview with an Orlando man believed to have known Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took a deadly and unclear turn early this morning.
View ArticleNavy’s High-Flying Spy Drone Completes Its First Flight
This is the Navy's MQ-4C Triton, its next-generation surveillance drone. It just flew its first flight test out in California. And it wants to scan 2,000 miles of ocean at once.
View ArticleObama Swears Drone Surge Is Done
Drone strikes will remain a fixture of U.S. counterterrorism. But President Obama, in a major speech, signaled that he's going to rein in their use.
View ArticleExclusive: Congressman Preps Bill to End Terror War Authority
A prominent legislator thinks it's time for the broad post-9/11 law authorizing the war on terrorism to expire. And he's going to introduce a bill to repeal it.
View ArticleObama Just Made Himself a Prisoner of His Own Gitmo Policy
Obama wants to close Guantanamo and capture more terrorists than he kills. But unless Obama is about to get way radical, this is kind of an either/or situation.
View ArticleNew Drone Strike Undercuts Obama’s Promises on Robot War
Obama seemed to say last week that U.S. drones are out of the business of killing militants who aren't senior al-Qaida leaders. Then he killed a Pakistani Taliban leader this morning.
View ArticleArmy’s Fingerprint and Iris Databases Head for the Cloud
The next place that the Army wants to store the sheafs of biometric data it collects in warzones? The cloud.
View ArticleSenator Rand Paul Talks Tech, Civil Liberties, and Keeping the Government Out...
From email privacy to national security, Rand Paul is probably the Senate's premier civil libertarian. As he tours Silicon Valley, he talks about his causes with Wired.
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