Suspected Islamist gunmen assassinate Yemeni colonel
ADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked militants, a local security official said. Full story
Column: Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
(Reuters) - Journalists gasp and growl whenever prosecutors issue lawful subpoenas ordering them to divulge their confidential sources or to turn over potential evidence, such as notes, video outtakes or other records. It's an attack on the First Amendment, It's an attack on the First Amendment, It' Full story
Insight: Syria's Nusra Front eclipsed by Iraq-based al Qaeda
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader. Full story
Exposure of double agent at heart of AP investigation
Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the U.S. government is so keen to find the source of the leak to the AP about the al Qaeda bomb plot, and the rare and valuable al Qaeda double agent whose life was put at risk by their reporting.
Video shows Islamist rebels executing 11 Syrian soldiers
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A video published on Thursday showed fighters of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Full story
Suicide attack in Afghanistan threatens peace
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen discusses the attack and the cell which claimed responsibility for it. Cohen also shares his thoughts on the recently released Benghazi emails.
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White House attempts to end Benghazi dispute with new documents
One hundred pages of emails were passed out by the White House Wednesday as the Obama administration tried to put an end to the long simmering dispute over what took place when the American compound in Benghazi was attacked. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports.
Obtaining AP phone records a ‘last resort’
Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who approved getting the AP’s phone records to track down the person that leaked classified information, said it was a last-resort effort after having conducted hundreds of interviews. NBC’s Pete Williams reports
Justice Department obtains AP phone records
An investigation into who leaked information to the AP in May 2012 about a CIA operative who helped prevent an al Qaeda plot has resulted in what the AP calls a “massive unprecedented intrusion” by the Justice Department. NBC’s Tom Costello reports.
DoJ seizes AP phone records in leak investigation dragnet
Michael Isikoff, NBC News national investigative correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Justice Department's disclosure that it has seized two months of phone records of many AP reporters, apparently in pursuit of the source of a leak about an al-Qaida bomb plot in Yemen.
What did we learn after a week of Benghazi ‘revelations?’
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells Martin Bashir that conspiracy theories in regards to Benghazi, President Obama, and the political future of Hillary Clinton have failed to stick.
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