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Spencer Ackerman

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Name: Spencer Ackerman

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Al-Qaeda

The Forever War, Still Forever

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File Today, President Obama gives what has been billed as major address on the status of the War On Terror, a term the Obama administration doesn't use but that is still how we refer to the efforts the United States ... [Published TAPPED - May 23 2013]

Entities: War On Terror, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, US Department of Homeland Security

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Eric Holder

4 burning questions Obama must answer about drones and terrorism

One day before President Obama was scheduled to deliver a a major national security speech to discuss his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies, the White House for the first time acknowledged using drone strikes to kill four American citizens ... [Published The Week Magazine - May 23 2013]

Entities: Drone, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Terrorism, CIA Central Intelligence Agency

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

News Digest 05/22/13

5/22, Spencer Ackerman, Wired, 4 Questions Obama’s Big National Security Speech Should Answer 5/21, Tom Howell Jr., Washington Times, Former IRS commissioner says scrutiny was not his job as a political appointee 5/21, The Associated Press, Fox News, ... [Published People's Blog for the Constitution - May 22 2013]

Entities: Mathew J Schwartz, Tom Howell, National Clandestine Service, S. Wright

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Barack Obama

Obama’s DOJ Tracks Reporters Movements, Obtains Personal Emails; Journalists Unite Against DOJ

By Susan Duclos Journalists that took exception to the Department of Justice’s unprecedented seizure of the Associated Press phone records are even more outraged as information is revealed about the Obama administration’s other constitutional violations, ... [Published Politisite - May 20 2013]

Entities: JAMES ROSEN, Ryan Lizza, Barack Obama

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Gitmo hunger striker launches Twitter campaign

It is a tragic state of affairs when more than 100 men starve themselves, some close to death, in protest of human rights abrogations -- and Twitter is needed to gain them attention. But here we are, more than 100 days into the Guantanamo Bay hunger strike, ... [Published Salon - May 20 2013]

Entities: Shaker Aamer, Twitter, Spencer Ackerman, Guantánamo Bay, UK Government

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Cato Institute

The Implications of the Expanding U.S. Drone Program

Featuring Benjamin H. Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Spencer Ackerman, Senior Writer, WIRED Magazine; and Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government ... [Published Cato Institute - May 18 2013]

Entities: Drone, Cato Institute, Julian Sanchez, Spencer Ackerman

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Glenn Greenwald

Spencer Ackerman joins the Guardian US

The Guardian has hired Spencer Ackerman as National Security Editor, formerly a senior writer at Wired and blogger for the acclaimed defense blog, Danger Room. The announcement was made by the Guardian's US editor in chief Janine Gibson. Bringing over ... [Published InPublishing - May 10 2013]

Entities: Spencer Ackerman, National Security, Glenn Greenwald, Pilkington plc

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Spencer Ackerman Joins Guardian US

Spencer Ackerman is joining the Guardian US as its national security editor. Ackerman was most recently with Wired as a senior writer. During his time there he anchored the Danger Room blog. Ackerman tweeted that he was ?excited and honored? to be joining ... [Published Media Bistro - May 08 2013]

Entities: Spencer Ackerman, National Security

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Air Force Officer In Charge Of Sexual Assault Prevention Arrested For Assault

The Air Force officer in charge of the military branch's sexual assault prevention program was arrested for sexual assault, ARLNow reported Monday.Stars and Stripes confirmed that Lt. Col Jeffrey Krusinski, the chief of the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention ... [Published Huffington Post - May 07 2013]

Entities: Sexual Assault, Wingman, Assault, Arrests

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

ZD30 – Edited By The CIA

Gawker has the details . All of the CIA’s suggested changes make the CIA look better. Mark Boal complied with all of them. If you ponder the meaning of Maya’s decision not to join in a torture session at the outset, ponder no more. The CIA said it didn’t ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 07 2013]

Entities: CIA Central Intelligence Agency, Mark Boal, Torture, Spencer Ackerman

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 3 reports

Arming The Syrian Rebels Not Likely To Accomplish Anything

With the Obama Administration now formally reconsidering its previous opposition to the idea of arming the Syrian rebels, Spencer Ackerman warns that taking that step isn’t necessarily going to guarantee that the Assad regime is going to fall: ... [Published Outside The Beltway | OTB - May 02 2013]

Entities: Spencer Ackerman, Military/Armed Forces, Obama Administration, Dictator

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 3 reports

The Human Cost of Jihad Denial

The Human Cost of Jihad Denial http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/the-human-cost-of-jihad-denial/ May 2, 2013 By Robert Spencer Comments (6) 24 Print This Post Wednesday brought new confirmation of the increasingly ... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 02 2013]

Entities: Jihad, Spencer Ackerman, Barack Obama, Robert Spencer

Quotes

...terrorists allowed to board a commercial flight and leave the country? "The underlying problem is almost laughably absurd," says Wired's Ackerman: "once the terrorists get new identities, those identities aren't provided to the transportation security agency for inclusion on the federal no-fly list."

How suspected terrorists gamed the U.S. witness protection program [Published The Week Magazine - May 17 2013]

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News Genius: News Genius Quotes of the Week, 05... [Published Huffington Post - May 24 2013]
Obama Just Made Himself a Prisoner of His Own G... [Published Wired News - May 24 2013]
Removing authority for 'The Global US War Of Te... [Published St George West - May 24 2013]
The Forever War, Still Forever [Published TAPPED - May 23 2013]
4 burning questions Obama must answer about dro... [Published The Week Magazine - May 23 2013]
Holder: We've Droned 4 Americans, 3 By Accident... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 23 2013]
News Digest 05/22/13 [Published People's Blog for the Constitution - May 22 2013]
The Pentagon Admits: The "War On Terror" Will N... [Published Zero Hedge - May 22 2013]
The Pentagon Admits: The "War On Terror" Will N... [Published Zero Hedge - May 22 2013]
Glenn Greenwald: Permanent 'War On Terror' [Published ZNet - May 21 2013]
Gitmo hunger striker launches Twitter campaign [Published Salon - May 20 2013]
Muslims And The War On Terror – OpEd [Published Eurasia Review - May 20 2013]
Obama’s DOJ Tracks Reporters Movements, Obtains... [Published Politisite - May 20 2013]
Obama's DOJ Tracks Reporters Movements, Obtains... [Published Wake up America - May 20 2013]
"Moderate" Palestinian Authority cracks down on... [Published Jihad Watch - May 19 2013]
The Implications of the Expanding U.S. Drone Pr... [Published Cato Institute - May 18 2013]
Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' i... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]
How suspected terrorists gamed the U.S. witness... [Published The Week Magazine - May 17 2013]
Watch a Drone Take Off From an Aircraft Carrier... [Published Mashable - May 15 2013]
Historic Drone Launch Will Change War [Published ITechPost - May 15 2013]
Rebel leader responds to Del Ponte’s sarin gas ... [Published NOW News - May 15 2013]
Inside The Navy's Historic Embrace Of At-Sea Co... [Published Fast Company - May 14 2013]
How To Figure Out How Much You Should Pay For A... [Published Jalopnik - May 13 2013]
How Many Americans Has Obama Killed? [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 13 2013]
How Many Americans Has Obama Killed? [Published Frontpagemag.com - May 13 2013]
A flock, a gaggle of tweeters? [Published CSC Center for Strategic Communication - May 13 2013]
America’s Militarism Underwrites Global Arms an... [Published Dawat Independent Media Center - May 12 2013]
From CJR to AOL, Wired to Guardian, and beyond ... [Published Muck Rack - May 11 2013]
Spencer Ackerman joins the Guardian US [Published InPublishing - May 10 2013]
5 New Media Outlets for Global Affairs and Fore... [Published US News & World Report - May 09 2013]

Blogs

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Removing authority for 'The Global US War Of Te... [Published St George West - May 24 2013] Madison Ruppert: According to a report, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is preparing legislation that would end the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and in doing so would remove much of the authority for the war on terror and all ...
The Forever War, Still Forever [Published TAPPED - May 23 2013] AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File Today, President Obama gives what has been billed as major address on the status of the War On Terror, a term the Obama administration doesn't use but that is still how we refer to the efforts the United States ...
Holder: We've Droned 4 Americans, 3 By Accident... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 23 2013] In an extraordinary admission, Attorney General Eric Holder has told Congress that U.S. drone strikes since 2009 have killed four Americans — three of whom were “not specifically targeted.” For all the effort that the Obama administration has gone to ...
News Digest 05/22/13 [Published People's Blog for the Constitution - May 22 2013] 5/22, Spencer Ackerman, Wired, 4 Questions Obama’s Big National Security Speech Should Answer 5/21, Tom Howell Jr., Washington Times, Former IRS commissioner says scrutiny was not his job as a political appointee 5/21, The Associated Press, Fox News, ...
The Pentagon Admits: The "War On Terror" Will N... [Published Zero Hedge - May 22 2013] Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog ,It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end ...

Audio/Video

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Blackwater Renamed 'Academi,' Still No 'Integrity' [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Dec 08 2012]
Danger Room Video Ops: The Navy's New Robot Pla... [Published Wired Videos - Apr 03 2012]