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Andrew Lebovich, an analyst at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank, says "the public evidence" of collaboration "is too thin to draw that kind of conclusion." "The US and other governments seem pretty convinced, ...

... armies of Washington-watchers used to seeing every budget nuance debated on Capitol Hill, it's crucial to the mission's success, said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group. ...

3 in the leadership, Abu Laith al-Libi in 2008 and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid last year, according to a tally kept by New America Foundation, an independent research organization in Washington. Last month, a drone strike killed al-Qaida's new deputy chief, ...

Arabs believed Obama two years ago when he said he would change Washington and the world, Zogby told a roundtable at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. Now, a stunning majority - as high as 99 percent of those surveyed in ...

An analysis by the New America Foundation, an independent research organization in Washington, shows that 258 drone strikes have taken place in Pakistan since 2004, mostly in Waziristan. They've killed somewhere from 1579 to 2490 people, the foundation ...

"We really don't know what's going on here," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Is all this a public effort to satisfy powerful constituencies, she asked, while behind the ...

According to a database maintained by the New America Foundation, a policy institute, the CIA has used it since at least 2004 to launch more than 250 drone strikes against militants in Pakistan's rugged tribal area bordering Afghanistan. ...

"The tone is starting off constructively in that everyone agrees something must be done," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "I believe that there is agreement we need to raise the debt ceiling in a ...

Last year saw a record number of at least 113 strikes, according to a count maintained by the New America Foundation. Some experts and US officials say that the Pakistani army, which oversees national security policies, is angry that in addition to ...

Anyone who will talk to an Iran watcher "is someone who wants a (US) visa, who wants money, is an expatriate, or someone with an explicitly anti-Islamic Republic agenda," said Flynt Leverett, a former White House and CIA official who's now a professor ...