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Media Collaborate on Drones; 9/11 Trial Infiltrated by CIA; Alliance to Curb Obama War Powers
Drone Attack: Media & 13-Year-Old Yemeni Boy Burned To Death. On January 26, the New York Times claimed that “a CIA drone strike in Yemen. . . . killed three suspected Qaeda fighters on Monday.” How did they know the identity of the dead? As usual, it was in part because “American officials said.”
9/11 Trial Stopped: Court Interpreter Worked At CIA Black Site. The 9/11 trial judge abruptly recessed the first hearing in the case since August on Monday after some of the alleged Sept. 11 plotters said they recognized a war court linguist as a former secret CIA prison worker.
Will Left-Right Alliance Stop Obama’s Grab For War Powers? Senior Democrats have vowed to fight Barack Obama’s new plan for what they call a “carte blanche” expansion of military authority, claiming that proposals presented to Congress on Wednesday do almost nothing to constrain the White House’s ability wage war without approval.
