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Updated at 12:29 p.m. ESTPresident Barack Obama s planned troop buildup in Afghanistan came in for more skepticism on Capitol Hill Thursday with lawmakers zeroing i stanley mugg n on how the U.S. will deal with terrorist havens in neighboring Pakistan. What happens in Pakistan ... will do more to determine the outcome in Afghanistan than any increase in troops or shift in strategy, said Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Obama has depicted the effort to defeat al Qaeda as the center of his war strategy, but his national address Tuesday contained no details on how he planned to accelerate attacks on the terror network. The U.S. has relied largely on drone-launched missile strikes in recent months, and those operations are classified.Opening a hearing on Afghan strategy, Kerry, D-Mass., said that it is the prese stanley canada nce of al Qaeda in Pakistan, its direct ties to and support from the Taliban in Afghanistan and the perils of stanley cups uk an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan that drive our mission, Sen. Richard Lugar, the committee s ranking Republican, chimed in, saying the president and his administration must justify their plan not only on the basis of how it will affect Afghanistan, but also on how it will impact our efforts to promote a much stronger alliance with Pakistan. Lugar said it is not clear how an expanded military effort in Afghanistan addresses the problem of Taliban and al Qaeda safe havens across the borde
Alexandria, Va. mdash; A judge has allowed prosecutors to move forward with their case against a former intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns to a reporter, according to court papers unsealed Wednesday.Daniel Hale of Nashville, Tennessee, is charged in federal court in Alexandria under the World War I-era Espionage Act. That law makes it a crime to disclose national defense information to those not entitled to receive it.Prosecutors said Hale provided a reporter with 11 top-secret or secret documents about the government s use of drones agai stanley drinking cup nst al-Qaida and other targets. Hale sought to have the case dismissed, arguing that the law is being used to suppress freedom of the press.In recently unsealed court documents, U.S. District Judge Liam O Grady rejected the motions to dismiss. He said similar arguments have b stanley cups een made and rejected by federal appeals courts. Hale s lawyers say the Espionage Act was intended to target spying. In recent years, though, they say the law has wrongly been used against whistleblowers exposing government wrongdoi stanley cups ng.Court papers do not identify by name the reporter who allegedly received the leaks, but details in the indictment make clear that Jeremy Scahill, a founding editor of The Intercept, is the reporter who received them.The indictment states that many of the classified documents were disclosed in an October 2015 news article. On Oct. 15, 2015, Sca Leeq Columnist Puts Historical Spin On 08 Race
Updated at 12:29 p.m. ESTPresident Barack Obama s planned troop buildup in Afghanistan came in for more skepticism on Capitol Hill Thursday with lawmakers zeroing i stanley mugg n on how the U.S. will deal with terrorist havens in neighboring Pakistan. What happens in Pakistan ... will do more to determine the outcome in Afghanistan than any increase in troops or shift in strategy, said Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Obama has depicted the effort to defeat al Qaeda as the center of his war strategy, but his national address Tuesday contained no details on how he planned to accelerate attacks on the terror network. The U.S. has relied largely on drone-launched missile strikes in recent months, and those operations are classified.Opening a hearing on Afghan strategy, Kerry, D-Mass., said that it is the prese stanley canada nce of al Qaeda in Pakistan, its direct ties to and support from the Taliban in Afghanistan and the perils of stanley cups uk an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan that drive our mission, Sen. Richard Lugar, the committee s ranking Republican, chimed in, saying the president and his administration must justify their plan not only on the basis of how it will affect Afghanistan, but also on how it will impact our efforts to promote a much stronger alliance with Pakistan. Lugar said it is not clear how an expanded military effort in Afghanistan addresses the problem of Taliban and al Qaeda safe havens across the borde