http://www.mail.com/people/25966-john-brennan.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/25966-john-brennan.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2148562-white-house-lawyer-replacing-retiring-cia-deputy.html WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell is stepping down and being replaced by White House lawyer Avril Haines, who will be the first woman to hold the post. When President Barack Obama named a successor to former CIA Director David Petraeus in January, Morell was passed over in favor of the White House counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan.... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:41:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2148562-white-house-lawyer-replacing-retiring-cia-deputy.html 2013-06-13T07:41:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2112320-us-intelligence-embraces-debate-security-issues.html WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, veteran intelligence analyst Robert Cardillo was given the nickname "Debbie Downer." With each new tidbit of information that tracked bin Laden to a high-walled compound in northern Pakistan — phone records, satellite imaging, clues from other suspects — Cardillo cast doubt that the terror network ... Tue, 28 May 2013 01:19:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2112320-us-intelligence-embraces-debate-security-issues.html 2013-05-28T01:19:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103812-4-americans-killed-2009-us-drone-strikes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy. ... Thu, 23 May 2013 02:45:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103812-4-americans-killed-2009-us-drone-strikes.html 2013-05-23T02:45:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092712-cia-chief-unannounced-israel-visit.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel. The official says CIA chief John Brennan met Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. He did not disclose other details. The official spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the visit with... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092712-cia-chief-unannounced-israel-visit.html 2013-05-17T09:15:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091516-congress-rethinks-911-law-military-force.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. Senior Pentagon officials insisted on Thursday that the law should remain unchanged as the... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:17:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091516-congress-rethinks-911-law-military-force.html 2013-05-16T20:17:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2087348-petraeus-email-objected-to-benghazi-talking-points.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the public, according to emails released Wednesday by the White House. Under pressure in the investigation that contin... Thu, 16 May 2013 00:21:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2087348-petraeus-email-objected-to-benghazi-talking-points.html 2013-05-16T00:21:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak. The government's wide-ranging information gathering from the news cooperati... Tue, 14 May 2013 22:26:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html 2013-05-14T22:26:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the wo... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:01:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html 2013-05-14T17:01:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081158-obama-slams-gop-focus-benghazi-politics.html WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year as President Barack Obama asserted that GOP charges of a cover-up are baseless. The latest Republican focus is the independent review that slammed the State Department for inadequate security a... Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081158-obama-slams-gop-focus-benghazi-politics.html 2013-05-13T21:03:25Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2068842-woman-who-secret-prison-bypassed-top-spy.html WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top spy job. The officer, who remains undercover, was a finalist for the job and would have become the first female chief of clandestine operations. As one of the last remaining senior ... Tue, 07 May 2013 22:49:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2068842-woman-who-secret-prison-bypassed-top-spy.html 2013-05-07T22:49:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059010-us-drone-strikes-rise-yemen-anger.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology. The talk worried residents, who feared it would bring retaliation from the militants, and even the cleric's father wanted him to stop. But in the end it wasn't al-Qaida that ... Thu, 02 May 2013 18:19:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059010-us-drone-strikes-rise-yemen-anger.html 2013-05-02T18:19:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2039978-gop-report-faults-dept-libya-security.html WASHINGTON (AP) — An interim report released Tuesday by House Republicans faults the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for security deficiencies at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, prior to last September's deadly terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Senior Stat... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:17:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2039978-gop-report-faults-dept-libya-security.html 2013-04-23T23:17:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040010-dems-gop-press-obama-administration-drone-use.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans' civil liberties. "Even as President Obama commands a military with the most sophisticated weapons known to man,... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:13:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040010-dems-gop-press-obama-administration-drone-use.html 2013-04-23T23:13:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1968386-gop-senator-time-to-change-military-force-law.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Wednesday that Congress should overhaul the 2001 authorization for the use of military force to encompass the use of drones for targeted killings. Weighing in on an issue of both national security and civil liberties, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the law passed days afte... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:50:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1968386-gop-senator-time-to-change-military-force-law.html 2013-03-20T21:50:19Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1967200-website-offline-where-stolen-credit-reports-posted.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The website where hackers had published what it said were credit reports for Michelle Obama, the attorney general, CIA director, FBI director and other politicians and celebrities has been shut down by Russian Internet officials. The site has been inaccessible since late Tuesday. Whoever was behind the website published a rambling statem... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:41:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1967200-website-offline-where-stolen-credit-reports-posted.html 2013-03-20T19:41:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1957258-appeals-court-reverses-cia-drone-secrecy-ruling.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court Friday reversed a lower court ruling that allowed the CIA to refuse to confirm whether it had information on the use of unmanned drones to kill suspected terrorists. A lower court federal judge had sided with the CIA and dismissed a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union seeking those records. In response ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:59:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1957258-appeals-court-reverses-cia-drone-secrecy-ruling.html 2013-03-15T19:59:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1956428-un-us-drones-violate-pakistans-sovereignty.html ISLAMABAD (AP) — The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to him that it does not consent... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:41:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1956428-un-us-drones-violate-pakistans-sovereignty.html 2013-03-15T16:41:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1948694-erratic-north-korea-poses-serious-threat.html WASHINGTON (AP) — An erratic North Korea, with its nuclear weapons and increasingly belligerent tone, poses a serious threat to the United States and East Asia nations, the director of National Intelligence warned Tuesday in the annual accounting of the threats worldwide. In his extensive overview, James R. Clapper told Congress that a less decentralized ... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:43:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1948694-erratic-north-korea-poses-serious-threat.html 2013-03-13T03:43:01Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1940274-brennan-cia-fills-3rd-key-national-security-job.html WASHINGTON (AP) — John Brennan took over Friday as director of the CIA, the finishing touch on President Barack Obama's national security team for his second term. The White House said Vice President Joe Biden swore Brennan in during a private ceremony in the Roosevelt Room, the morning after he won Senate confirmation amid a contentious debate. Republica... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:16:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1940274-brennan-cia-fills-3rd-key-national-security-job.html 2013-03-08T16:16:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1939016-paul-energizes-supporters-with-senate-filibuster.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it Rand's Stand: A nearly 13-hour stall tactic on the Senate floor that thrust a tea party hero back into the national spotlight — a real-life version of the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster on Wednesday of President Barack Obama's pick for CIA director was the latest notable move by the son... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:56:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1939016-paul-energizes-supporters-with-senate-filibuster.html 2013-03-08T02:56:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1937486-filibuster-senate-confirms-brennan-cia.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed John Brennan to be CIA director Thursday after the Obama administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and stated explicitly there are limits on the president's power to use drones against U.S. terror suspects on American soil. The vote was 63-34 and came just hours after Republican Sen. Ra... Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:40:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1937486-filibuster-senate-confirms-brennan-cia.html 2013-03-07T21:40:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1938838-white-house-discloses-limits-drone-usage.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama does not have the authority to use a drone to kill a U.S. citizen on American soil if the citizen is not engaged in combat. Obama spokesman Jay Carney says the attorney general made that assertion in a letter to GOP Sen. Rand Paul. The Kentucky senator has held up the nomination of John Brennan... Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:36:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1938838-white-house-discloses-limits-drone-usage.html 2013-03-07T18:36:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1938340-whats-filibuster.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The filibuster — used this week by Republican Sen. Rand Paul to oppose John Brennan's nomination as CIA director — is a parliamentary tactic used to block or delay legislative action. Using a filibuster, a senator can essentially hold the floor to prevent a bill from coming to a vote. Filibusters — from the Dutch word for "pirate" — were... Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:50:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1938340-whats-filibuster.html 2013-03-07T16:50:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1934868-senator-ends-long-floor-speech-blocking-cia-pick.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A tea party senator from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director. Sen. Rand Paul ended his filibuster shortly after midnight, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, also a Kentucky Republican, said he would continue to oppose Brennan's... Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:55:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1934868-senator-ends-long-floor-speech-blocking-cia-pick.html 2013-03-07T06:55:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1931984-senate-panel-votes-to-approve-obamas-cia-nominee.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to approve President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA after winning a behind-the-scenes battle with the White House over access to a series of top-secret legal opinions that justify the use of lethal drone strikes against terror suspects, including American citizens. John Brennan's insta... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:11:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1931984-senate-panel-votes-to-approve-obamas-cia-nominee.html 2013-03-06T00:11:31Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1928566-mccain-graham-warn-cia-nominee-vote.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain say they want answers from the Obama administration and are willing to oppose the administration's choice to be the new CIA director until they get them. Graham said Sunday he and McCain "are hell-bent on making sure the American people understand this debacle called Benghazi." The South Ca... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:53:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1928566-mccain-graham-warn-cia-nominee-vote.html 2013-03-04T04:53:46Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1922210-intel-committee-to-vote-week-cia-nominee.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote early next week on John Brennan's nomination to be director of the CIA, the panel's leaders said Thursday. The Democratic leader of the committee had hoped to hold the vote Thursday. But Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the committee's vice chairman, said consideration of Brennan's nomin... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:18:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1922210-intel-committee-to-vote-week-cia-nominee.html 2013-02-28T21:18:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1915710-senate-confirms-hagel-defense-secretary.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's pick the top Pentagon job just days before billions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the military. The vote was 58-41, with four Republicans joining the Democrats ... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:21:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1915710-senate-confirms-hagel-defense-secretary.html 2013-02-26T23:21:53Z