Topic: The White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a defense bill requiring the military to handle suspected militants allied with al Qaeda, acting not long after President Barack Obama removed a veto threat from the controversial legislation.The bill was ...
The White House on Friday reaffirmed its threat to veto the Pentagon budget after the Senate passed a funding bill that requires military detention for terrorism suspects and indefinite detention without trial in some cases.White House spokesman Jay Carney accused the Senate ...
A divided US Senate pressed ahead Friday with a sweeping military spending bill that has drawn a White House veto threat over new rules requiring suspected terrorists to be kept in military custody.The battle over the $662 billion Defense Authorization legislation centers ...
President Barack Obama's administration crafted a legal document in secret ahead of the assassination of US-born Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaqi, which permitted the killing of an American citizen without trial, a report said.The secret memorandum was written in 2010 to justify the ...
US officials warned of the threat of a terror strike on the United States reportedly involving bomb-laden trucks ahead of this weekend's 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks."There is specific, credible but unconfirmed threat information," the Department of Homeland Security said in ...
The White House Wednesday defended the treatment of an alleged leader of Somalia's Shebab Islamist insurgency who was interrogated for two months on a US warship, saying his detention was lawful.In the first known case of the secret detention of a terror ...
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is locking horns with White House aides over Afghan troop numbers as he nears the end of his tenure, with the debate over war strategy playing out in the media.The run-up to a decision by President Barack ...
The death of Osama bin Laden has revived a debate over the pace of a planned US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and the rationale for a war that has dragged on for nearly a decade.The raid that killed Al-Qaeda's chief in Pakistan ...
The White House on Thursday sought to sidestep controversy over the exact circumstances of the raid to kill Osama bin Laden, highlighting instead a "flawlessly" executed and dangerous mission.Officials have declined to give any further details of the raid against the Al-Qaeda ...
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Thursday called for "a full disclosure of the accurate facts" to determine the legality of the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden."I'm still for a full disclosure of the accurate facts," Pillay told reporters ...
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