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Rights groups hammer Obama for reviving military commissions (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT AFP - Human rights groups reacted with anger and disappointment Friday to President Barack Obama's revival of special military trials of terror suspects, saying the system was flawed beyond repair.

Obama Revives Tribunal System for Guantanamo Inmates (Bloomberg) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:58 PM PDT Bloomberg - May 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will keep the military tribunal system for trying some terrorism suspects held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with expanded legal protections for defendants.

Obama retains Bush-era military tribunals (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:34 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama on Friday revived Bush-era military tribunals for top Guantanamo Bay terror suspects that he once branded a "failure," but proposed new rules on evidence and detainee rights.

Gingrich, Other Republicans Denounce Pelosi Over Interrogation Issue (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:13 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich reproached Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for saying that the CIA had misled Congress about harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.

Terror surveillance requests declined in 2008 (AP) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:05 PM PDT AP - The Justice Department said Friday that the number of applications approved for eavesdropping on terrorism suspects declined in 2008, the first annual drop since the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Obama revives controversial Guantanamo tribunals (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2009 01:55 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday revived the system of military trials for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo, angering supporters who said he had broken a promise to end the controversial tribunals set up by the Bush administration.

SPIN METER: What Pelosi knew when on waterboarding (AP) Posted: 15 May 2009 01:02 PM PDT AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of misleading her at a secret 2002 briefing on the use of harsh interrogations in the war on terror. But it's not so clear who's misleading whom.

Intrigue abounds in this Mideast tale of a terror plot (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 15 May 2009 12:02 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - EL ARISH, Egypt — When Egyptian police pounded on the door before dawn and took her husband Nimr away, Sahar Zibawi had no idea that her partner was about to become a pivotal player in a convoluted political plot involving gun running to Gaza, a notorious African smuggling route once used by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, an Iranian-backed Hezbollah cell and an attempt by Egypt's aging president to reclaim his waning regional influence.

Panetta enters debate over agency truthfulness (AP) Posted: 15 May 2009 11:18 AM PDT AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency records show CIA officers briefed lawmakers truthfully in 2002 on methods of interrogating terrorism suspects, but it is up to Congress to reach its own conclusions about what happened.

Suicide bombing kills two police in Chechen capital (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 09:58 AM PDT AFP - A suicide bomber killed two policemen and a fellow attacker Friday when he blew himself up in the Chechen capital, a month after Russia ended an "anti-terror" operation in the region.

Public Backs Military Tribunals for Suspected Terrorists (Rasmussen Reports) Posted: 15 May 2009 09:53 AM PDT Rasmussen Reports - President Obama's decision to keep the military commission system in place for the trials of suspected terrorists moves him closer to public opinion on the topic.

Obama to Resume Military Tribunals for Some Detainees (Bloomberg) Posted: 15 May 2009 07:02 AM PDT Bloomberg - May 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will resume military tribunals for some terrorism suspects held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while also giving prisoners new legal rights, an administration official said.

Obama to relaunch military tribunals for terror suspects (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Top Obama ally says CIA misled her on 'torture' (AFP) Posted: 14 May 2009 11:37 PM PDT AFP - Caught up in a firestorm over US "war on terrorism" tactics, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged that the CIA had misled her in 2002 about the alleged torture of suspected extremists.

Bush anti-terrorism ghosts haunt Obama (AFP) Posted: 14 May 2009 10:25 PM PDT AFP - Former president George W. Bush warned his successor: the realities of governing would put to the test Barack Obama's commitment to break with his predecessor's counter-terrorism practices.

Obama to Resume Military Tribunals for Some Terrorist Suspects (Bloomberg) Posted: 14 May 2009 10:23 PM PDT Bloomberg - May 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will resume military tribunals for some terrorist suspects held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while also giving prisoners new legal rights, an administration official said.

Pelosi Says She Knew About Waterboarding (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 14 May 2009 05:26 PM PDT CQPolitics.com - If Nancy Pelosi hoped to use a news conference Thursday to get past the controversy over whether she was aware that the CIA was waterboarding terrorism suspects, she appears to have done just the opposite.

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