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RPT-Switching from scandals, Obama to address drones and Guantanamo
Reuters(Repeats with no change in content) By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, Central Intelligence Agency, White House
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U.S. military lawyers put more pressure on Guantanamo
ReutersMIAMI (Reuters) - Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to improve conditions for detainees, putting more pressure on the Obama administration to make good its promise to close...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Central Intelligence Agency, Career and Workplace, White House
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Reuters World News Highlights 1800 GMT May 23
ReutersTOP STORIES ----------- WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will vow on Thursday to be more open to the public about the U.S. fight against terrorism and may lay out limits for the use of lethal drones abroad while sketching a vision for closing the...Tags: Barack Obama, Western Africa, John Kerry, Washington, DC, Religious Conflicts
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Finally, Obama breaks his silence on drones
Over the last four years, there has been a strange irony. One of the greatest speakers of our era has largely kept silent about one of the signature aspects of his presidency. Under President Obama's leadership, U.S. civilian intelligence agencies...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Central Intelligence Agency
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U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate and said...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, Arabian Peninsula, Raleigh
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: Police Investigations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Conflicts, Central Intelligence Agency
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Obama to lay out rationale for drone strikes in speech
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official said. "He will discuss why the use of drone strikes is necessary, legal, and just, while addressing...Tags: Barack Obama, Washington, DC, White House
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U.S. military lawyers urge Hagel to improve Guantanamo conditions
Reuters* Biggest hunger strike in several years * Obama to reaffirm pledge to close prison * Legal and political hurdles By Jane Sutton MIAMI, May 22 (Reuters) - Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged U.S. Defense...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Central Intelligence Agency, Career and Workplace, White House
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OPINION: Saving President Obama's legacy
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.In January 2009, I took the first major road trip with the woman who became my wife -- a drive to Washington, D.C., to watch Barack Hussein Obama take the oath as the 44th American president. We wanted to be part of history. By sheer coincidence,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace
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L.A. Screenings: The Upfronts At a Glance
Variety20TH CENTURY FOX TV Robin Williams' biggest commitment to series television since the days of "Mork & Mindy" highlights a 20th TV slate that is deep, even if not necessarily brimming with international star appeal. Williams is teaming with another...Tags: Television Industry, Marg Helgenberger, Arts and Culture, CSI (tv program), Battlestar Galactica (tv program)
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Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech
ReutersATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S....Tags: Libya, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, State of the Union Address, U.S. Congress
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Florida National Guard in transition phase
Miami HeraldThe Florida National Guard troops were wearing full battle rattle inside their Humvee hunting insurgents in rural Afghanistan when suddenly, from a distance, somebody opened up with small-arms fire, wounding an American soldier. The U.S. troops fired...Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), U.S. Department of Defense, The Miami Herald, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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