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National Guard cleans up city block before deployment
The commanding officer gathered his soldiers early Saturday morning, brought them to attention and delivered details of their mission. The young men and women saluted, snatched up their arms and occupied the perimeters of a stretch of unfriendly terrain....
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Military, Hurricane Sandy (2012), World War I (1914-1918), Army National Guard
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Ruling expected on Hasan's request to delay trial
ReutersSAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A military judge is expected to rule on Friday on whether to grant accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan more time to prepare as he represents himself in a murder trial for a 2009 Texas shooting rampage that killed 13 people....Tags: Murder, Iraq, Crime, Law and Justice, Military Justice, U.S. Army
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Accused Fort Hood gunman cannot use defending Taliban defense
ReutersFORT HOOD, Texas, June 14 (Reuters) - Accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan cannot argue at trial that he was defending the Afghan Taliban when he opened fire in a 2009 base shooting rampage that killed 13 people, a military judge ruled on Friday....Tags: Taliban, Court Preliminary, Trials, Fort Hood Shootings (2009)
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Judge rejects Hasan's 'defending Taliban' defense
ReutersFORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan cannot argue at trial that he was defending the Afghan Taliban when he opened fire in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people, a military judge ruled on Friday....Tags: Iraq, Crime, Law and Justice, Military Justice, U.S. Army, Texas College
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Master sergeant at Fort Hood is charged in prostitution probe
Austin American-StatesmanAUSTIN, Texas A noncommissioned officer in the III Corps command group at Fort Hood, Texas, has been charged as part of an ongoing prostitution investigation at the Army post that sparked congressional outrage, Fort Hood officials announced Wednesday....Tags: Sexual Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Prostitution, Military Justice
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COLUMN - The 'secrecy industrial complex'
Reuters(David Rohde is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By David Rohde NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - An odd thing is happening in the world's self-declared pinnacle of democracy. No one, except a handful of elected officials and an army of...Tags: Ron Wyden, Edward Snowden, The Carlyle Group, Pulitzer Prize Awards, ABC (tv network)
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Column: The 'secrecy industrial complex'
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - An odd thing is happening in the world's self-declared pinnacle of democracy. No one, except a handful of elected officials and an army of contractors, is allowed to know how America's surveillance leviathan works. For the last two...Tags: Ron Wyden, Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize Awards, The Carlyle Group, ABC (tv network)
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: Bernard Sanders, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Congress, ABC (tv network)
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Trial must proceed fairly
The court-martial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan on charges of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood in 2009 has been an exercise in frustration for the victims and their families, as well as for observers who believe that the only proper...Tags: Defendants, Murder, Justice System, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Police say man created an elaborate ruse about a military career
Fort Worth Star-TelegramFORT WORTH, Texas When Brig. Gen. G.B. McDowell passed away on Veterans Day 2011 near Seattle, condolences in an online guest book lifted up his son, Col. Michael Douglas McDowell. Top military officers, like now-retired Maj. Gen. J.T. Furlow, wrote that...Tags: Navy Yard, Michael Douglas, David Petraeus, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Crime, Law and Justice
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Fort Hood shooting: Can accused gunman Hasan represent himself?
FT. HOOD, TEXAS — In the more than three years since the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, military judges have had to weigh one delicate issue after another as authorities prepare to try Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan on charges of killing 13 and wounding 32...
Tags: FBI, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crime, Law and Justice, Military Justice, Islam
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Boxer, with more women in Senate, pushes military to end sexual assaults
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Sen. Barbara Boxer says she never imagined how long she'd have to keep fighting to protect women and men in uniform from sexual assault. It's been more than 20 years since the California Democrat was elected to the Senate as an outsider...Tags: Bill Clinton, Parties and Movements, Monica Lewinsky, Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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