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The team—led by Cari Clark, a former doctoral student at the Harvard School of Public Health now at the University of Minnesota Medical School—found that husbands exposed to political violence are nearly twice as likely to be physically violent and more than twice as...
John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, is now President Barack Obama's official attack dog in an escalating war of words with Republicans. He has taken on the task of appearing in the media to systematically rebut what he says are politically motivated criticisms of...
The debate over counterterrorism tactics has seen a shift to the right over the past year. Republicans are now criticizing Obama for policies that were embraced by Bush during his last years in office, like closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, pursuing civilian trials for terrorism suspects and...
Brennan is not only citing the Bush-like policies that are being adopted by Obama; he's even turning to the Dick Cheney playbook to put opponents back on their heels. On Meet the Press on Feb. 7, Brennan used the "We briefed them" gambit, saying he had informed GOP...
In the end, it's a question of degree. Every President has to defer to the courts and Congress. The GOP is now arguing for positions that even conservative judges and members of Congress previously found unacceptable, such as denying terrorism suspects access to lawyers or civilian courts. (See the...