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Bi-Partisan U.S. House Effort to Curtail NSA's Blanket Domestic Surveillance Narrowly Defeated
A bi-partisan amendment to the Department of Defense
Appropriations bill sponsored by Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI) and former
House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI), was defeated late today in
the U.S. House of Representatives. The measure would have brought an
abrupt halt to the NSA's warrantless blanket collection of Americans'
telephone records. It failed by a narrow margin of 205 to 217.
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Our Shared Responsibility to Protect
This article was co-authored by Madeleine Albright and Richard
Williamson. Madeleine K. Albright is a member of the PSA Advisory Board
and was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. Richard S.
Williamson served as presidential envoy to Sudan under President George
W. Bush. They recently co-chaired a working group on the Responsibility
to Protect organized by the United States Holocaust
Lessons from a Previous "Pivot to the Pacific"
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Repulse
With all of the recent discussion on Air Sea battle and how it might
affect a "pivot to the Pacific", it may be useful to examine the last
attempt at such a strategy by a great power with major interests but few
military forces in the region. That power was of course the British
Empire. These two ships represent the end of that attempt. These photos s
Freed by Snowden Revelations, Wyden Warns About U.S. Surveillance State, 'Secret Laws'
"If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional
history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we are all going
to live to regret it," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) warned during a lengthy but
powerful speech before the Center for American Progress on Tuesday.
In his remarks, Wyden, who has served on the Senate Intelligence
Committee since January 2001, left no room for anyone to doub
Reports of the Death of the Arab Spring Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Sheri Berman has penned a postscript to a recent Foreign
Affairs article of hers that had me nodding my head and then shaking it.
The dismay at what is happening in the Middle East is legitimate, but
the general analysis of its causes and implications is hogwash…This is
what political development in the real world actually looks like, and
anybody who expected smooth, quick, linear progress from ty
Top of the Morning: Violence Flares in Egypt
Top stories from DAWNS Digest
Bad Signs For Egypt
Post-coup Egypt is becoming increasingly violent. “Stones and gunfire
killed at least six people Tuesday as clashes between opponents and
supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi intensified near Cairo
University, which has become a battleground in the country’s political
unrest. Violence between the two camps, sometimes with the army and pol
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