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“It's disturbing,” said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a senior vice president at the international consulting firm Mantid International. “The violence is of a different character than we've seen before.” Though the ...

"Those previous attempts on Times Square and the New York subway, had they succeeded, would have been substantially more lethal than this," said Philip Mudd, a former senior CIA and FBI official and an expert in Al Qaeda operations. "Objectively I ...

"It's very hard to work this problem from a coldly analytic perspective because that's not how the people who pay our bills, Congress and the public, think about it," said Philip Mudd, a former top CIA and FBI official who is author of a new book ...

"There's no question that businesses are going to be more out there — everyone from the big guys to the little guys," said Tamar Jacoby, president and chief executive of ImmigrationWorks USA, a federation of state-based pro-immigration coalitions ...

In 2006, the last time Congress took a serious look at comprehensive immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, marched through the streets of the nation's cities. The resulting media coverage was filled with stories about real people — brown people! — whose lives would be affected by the proposed legislation.

But one legal expert who's seen the film, titled "Escape From Tomorrow," says he believes the conglomerate doesn't have a very strong leg to stand on. "I think on both copyright and trademark fronts their case would be pretty weak," Tim Wu, a law ...

“It fits their pattern,” said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. “Al Qaeda is responding to the tensions in Anbar by attacking these relatively moderate Sunni leaders.” Suspicions also settled on Sunni extremists because ...

"I don't see a contradiction between the old Harold and Harold now," said Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served as a Pentagon lawyer. "I've seen Harold in action. He was pushing for human rights, for setting legal standards. He's very ...

Some believe that the Al Qaeda affiliate was also behind the attacks in the contested regions, rather than the players in the Kurdish dispute themselves. "This is almost certainly Al Qaeda in Iraq just trying to sow chaos," said Douglas Ollivant, a ...

... ideological weapon by those on various sides of the torture debate echoes how the real-life instances of interrogation and intelligence-gathering have been wielded by various camps as well, as the author and intelligence expert Peter Bergen lays ...