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"We did not publish anything until we were assured by high-ranking officials with direct knowledge of the situation, in more than one part of the government, that the national security risk was over and no one was in danger. The only deal was to hold the story until any security risk was resolved."-- Associated Press spokeswoman Erin Madigan White talking to the Washington Post about the agency agreeing to hold a story about a foiled terror plot.The Associated Press is suggesting that the reason the agency's reporters and lawyers were the targets of a sweeping records seizure by the Department of Justice is not that national security was at risk, but rather the publicity the administration was seeking.In a move familiar to reporters covering covert operations, the CIA had asked the AP to hold off on the May 2012 scoop about a foiled effort by Islamist militants in Yemen to try another underwear bomb, like the one a militant botched in 2009.The Washington Post reports today that after s...
Insight from Seth Jones, former senior adviser to US Special Operations Command
Group blamed for Benghazi attack
Key lawmakers on 'Fox News Sunday'
Yemen's al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — considered to be the terror network's most dangerous branch — is urging for holy war in a new edition of its online Engli...
A Yemeni court has sentenced 11 alleged Al Qaeda militants to up to 10 years in prison for forming armed gangs to destabilize the country and planning attacks on for...
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday he thinks the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were trained in carrying out the attacks and stated ...
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A U.S. drone airstrike on a vehicle Monday east of Yemen's capital of Sanaa killed three suspected Al Qaeda militants and wounded two others, according to security o...
Three Al Qaeda militants were killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in southern Yemen, Yemeni security officials said, the fourth such attack this week and a sign ...
The brothers suspected of planting deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon may have gotten their ideas -- and even instructions on how to make explosives from household ...
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula known as one of the most dangerous terror groups
Yemeni security officials say a U.S. drone airstrike has killed two Al Qaeda militants in a southern town. They said one was a midlevel Al Qaeda Yemeni operative w...
A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison."I believe that President Obama...
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 executi...
Justice Deparment kept tabs on journalists
The Justice Department is obligated to investigate leaks that could endanger national security, but the secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records – called...
Lawmakers from both parties sharply questioned the Justice Department over its reported effort to secretly obtain two months of phone records from Associated Press j...
Terror network reviving franchises in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia
Measuring the threat from terror group