Human rights groups blast Obama for signing defense bill
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Law’s provisions place tough restrictions on transfer of prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay facility.
Court backs Obama administration on secrecy of targeted killings
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The federal judge, however, pointed out a “veritable Catch-22” of security rules with the anti-terrorism program.
Danger between the lines of a contract in Afghanistan
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Security details in a plan to expand a base reveal how dangerous the country remains.
Clinton leaves hospital
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Secretary of state underwent three days of treatment for a potentially dangerous blood clot in her head.
To thwart hackers, firms salting their servers with fake data
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Digital deception tools attract hackers and keep them inside a network to be watched.
How Obama administration continues to embrace secret arrests, detentions
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U.S. continues practice of rendition despite widespread condemnation of the tactic years after Sept. 11 attacks.
Excess-profits tax on contractors during wartime is long overdue
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An ongoing U.S. kill list
The United States expects to continue adding names to kill-or-capture lists for years.
Also at stake in ‘cliff’: Up to 800,000 civilian employees’ Pentagon jobs
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Pentagon says it might furlough employees if lawmakers failed to cancel spending reductions.
Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized with a blood clot, according to her office.
Assad isolated, afraid as regime teeters
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Accounts from inside Syria depict the embattled leader as obsessed with security but defiant toward foes.
Global Response Staff: the CIA’s secret security force
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A series of scrapes has illuminated the role of one of the agency’s key elements in its defensive arsenal.
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