Tag: Lawmakers
Lawmakers ask Obama for religious diversity summit
Nearly 40 members of the U.S. House, among them Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday (July 17)...
Debating the Legal Basis for the War on Terror
A top Pentagon official said Thursday that the evolving war against Al Qaeda was likely to continue “at least 10 to 20 years” and...
Lawmakers divided on post-9/11 program that collected info on Americans, not...
WASHINGTON — Stinging criticism from Congress about a counterterrorism effort that improperly collected information about innocent Americans is turning up the heat on the...
Lawmakers: Pakistan taliban must be blacklisted
By MATTHEW LEE
Four senators are seeking to force the Obama administration to blacklist the Pakistani Taliban, a day after the failed Times Square bomber...