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The news reignited a story that has been dogging Pelosi for weeks, through a surprise trip to Iraq and back, Mother's Day and the passage of the war supplemental bill. The Obama Administration this week reversed its decision to release hundreds of photos of detainees being intimidated and tortured...
While President Obama's liberal allies are decrying his decision to refuse to release hundreds of additional detainee-abuse photographs, Pentagon officials - and nearly 200,000 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq - are breathing a little easier. Their argument that the photos could endanger soldiers by potentially inflaming anti-U.S...
But perhaps it shouldn't have come as such a surprise. The new President's decision was just the latest in a series of steps he has taken that move him decidedly toward the political center on issues of national security. No longer a mere senator representing a single state...
As the photo flap - and continuing controversy over the use of waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques - has shown, treatment of detainees remains a flashpoint. Some Democrats and human-rights activists are upset over the Obama Administration's decision to endorse the Bush Administration's view that prisoners at Afghanistan...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had been hearing warnings from the combat zones ever since the April 23 announcement of the agreement. In weekly video conferences and private letters, top commanders in the region expressed grave concerns over the possible impact of...