National Security

Drone program had largely run its course

2013-05-24 17:38:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama took pains to place the new restrictions on targeted killings he announced Thursday into the context of a broad reappraisal of the nation's anti-terrorism effort. Drones are not "a cure-all for terrorism," he said in...

Obama orders review of guidelines on investigating reporters

2013-05-23 17:20:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he was troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may "chill" investigative journalism and said he had asked Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. to review Justice Department guidelines for going after...

Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed

2013-05-22 18:53:00

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...

Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many

2013-05-19 20:41:00

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...

White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists

2013-05-15 18:46:00

WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....

Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting

2013-05-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

Immigration bill would restrict drone use in California

2013-05-14 14:21:00

WASHINGTON – Concerned that border surveillance drones might fly over much of Southern California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) successfully amended the proposed Senate immigration overhaul bill Tuesday to limit such flights to within three...

Sen. Boxer: Israel visa bill doesn't condone discrimination

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Re "Israel's free pass from Boxer," Opinion, April 28 George Bisharat grossly misleads readers when he claims that bipartisan legislation I introduced would allow Israel to "continue racially profiling Americans of Arab and Muslim heritage who travel to...

'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars

2013-05-03 08:00:00

In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...

Republicans demand changes in Senate immigration bill

2013-05-07 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — As a sweeping immigration bill moves forward in the Senate, Republicans are demanding stronger border security measures than those agreed upon during four months of bipartisan negotiation. The process of toughening the bill could...

Report warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable to terrorism

2013-05-09 20:46:00

WASHINGTON — Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that homegrown extremists could use "small-scale...

Boston bombing inquiries prompt new look at student visas

2013-05-03 16:44:00

The federal government will tighten oversight to help ensure that foreign students seeking to enter the United States have valid student visas — the latest step to increase security after the Boston Marathon bombings. The heightened scrutiny by U....

President Obama speaks on terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington last week.

2013-05-24 16:39:18

President Barack Obama meets with members of his national security team to discuss developments in the Boston bombings investigation, in the Situation Room of the White House, April 19, 2013.

2013-04-19 11:57:00

President Barack Obama meets with members of his national security team to discuss developments in the Boston bombings investigation, in the Situation Room of the White House on Friday.

2013-04-19 00:00:00