White House: Turkey on board with NATO command in Libya; France not so much
President Barack Obama spoke on Monday evening with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the two agreed that NATO should have a command and control role in the Libya war, according to a...
View ArticleSpecial Briefing Skipper: NATO takes over the Libya war
Two senior administration officials held a late evening conference call with reporters Thursday night to explain how NATO agreed to take over military operations in Libya and why the U.S. and NATO...
View ArticleJoseph Isadore Lieberman honored by the German government
MUNICH - As part of the opening events Friday evening at the 2012 Munich Security Conference, the German government honored Sen. Joseph Isadore Lieberman (I-CT) with the Commander's Cross of the Order...
View ArticlePolish FM to Germany: Don’t even try to become a hegemon
MUNICH - The first panel at the 2012 Munich Security Conference examined whether Germany should assume a role as the regional, benign hegemon in Europe. But one speaker, Polish Foreign Minister...
View ArticleExclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere
The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy,...
View ArticleHere’s Why a French Reporter Asked Obama About the Death Penalty
President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took to podiums in the White House Rose Garden on Friday to threaten new, broader economic sanctions against Russia unless it backs off of its...
View ArticleHey, Germany, Stop Your Kvetching. Everybody Spies.
Revelations that a 31-year-old German intelligence service employee has allegedly been passing hundreds of classified government files to the United States for the past several years has prompted...
View ArticleMerkel to U.S. Spy: 'auf Wiedersehen!'
This story has been updated. The German government has taken the extraordinary step of ordering the top U.S. intelligence official in the embassy in Berlin to leave the country, a German government...
View ArticleGuess What, NSA? U.N. Bureaucrats Will Be Scrutinizing Your Cyber-Snooping...
The United Nations' campaign to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency's ability to conduct mass surveillance of electronic communications is just getting started. The U.N.'s human rights chief on...
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