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New US security policy dumps Bush anti-terror doctrine

Agence France-Presse President Barack Obama on Thursday rejected George W. Bush’s doctrine that made a “war on terror” the driving force of US power, framing a pragmatic foreign policy for a world bristling with threats.
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US anti-terrorism team visits Lebanon-Syria border

(AFP) BEIRUT — A US anti-terrorism assessment team visited the main Lebanon-Syria border crossing this week, a US embassy official said on Thursday, amid allegations that Damascus was supplying its ally Hezbollah with missiles.
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George W. Bush ‘knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent’

TimesOnline George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
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Ramsey Clark chosen to head commission to investigate Bush crimes

John Allen/Veterans Today Via SOTT IndictBushNow.org reports that on April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder of Indict Bush Now, was chosen to be the chairperson of an international campaign to investigate war crimes committed by officials from the Bush administration.
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Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal

Charlie Savage and James Risen/NYT WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the National Security Agency‘s warrantless surveillance program was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
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