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Panetta: New Africa Command leader to be nominated
Gen. David Rodriguez, currently head of U.S. Army Forces Command, would be the third Army general to head Africa Command, which was created in 2007.
Tags: David Rodriguez , Leon Panetta , DoD ,
White House ponders a strike over Libya attack
Facing political pressure to respond forcefully to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the White House is readying strike forces and drones. First, though, it must identify a target.
Tags: DoD , State Department , President Barack Obama , Libya , Robert Grenier ,
Yemen security official at US Embassy killed in Sanaa
Yemeni security officials say a gunman has assassinated a Yemeni security official at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa.
Tags: State , Yemen , U.S. Embassy ,
State Dept. reveals new details of Benghazi attack
Senior State Department officials on Tuesday revealed for the first time certain details of last month's tragedy in the former Libyan rebel stronghold, such as the efforts of a quick reaction force that rushed onto the scene and led the evacuation in a fierce gun battle that continued into the streets.
Tags: State , Libya , Barack Obama , Chris Stevens
Govt won't bring charges over CIA interrogations
The Justice Department announced Thursday it has ended its investigation into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees without bringing criminal charges.
Tags: CIA , Justice Department , John Dunham , Eric Holder , David Patraeus , terrorist
Clinton: US hacked Yemeni al-Qaida sites
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. cyber experts hacked al-Qaida propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ads that showed the death toll of al-Qaida attacks against Yemenis.
Tags: Hillary Clinton , Cybersecurity Update , technology , Federal Drive
Lawmakers push bill on handling terrorist suspects
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state and Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado introduced legislation that would repeal provisions of the defense bill that President Barack Obama signed into law Dec. 31.
Tags: Barack Obama , DoD , Defense Authorization Act , FBI , Adam Smith , Mark Udall , counterterrorism , House Armed Services Committee
New rules on when FBI retains custody of detainees
The Obama administration outlined Tuesday when the FBI, rather than the military, could be allowed to retain custody of al-Qaida terrorism suspects who aren't U.S. citizens but are arrested by federal law enforcement officers.<
Tags: FBI , Barack Obama , DoD , National Security Council , John McCain , Lindsey Graham , Kelly Ayotte
Spec-Ops troops learn to be gumshoes
Fort Bragg's Special Warfare Center shows how the U.S. has turned hunting terror networks into half-science, half-art-form since the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Tags: Special Warefare Center , CIA , Stephen Cambone , Joint Special Operations Command , Bennet Sacolick , DoD , Green Berets , Army
