Pete Yost

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National Security

Blackwater defense: Iraqi police removed evidence

Pete Yost · August 27, 2014 10:13 pm

Defense rests in Blackwater trial

Pete Yost · August 25, 2014 10:03 pm

Judge: Justice Dept must provide list of documents

Pete Yost · August 21, 2014 12:19 am

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2010, file photo, a northbound Amtrak Acela passes through Middle River, Md. The Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over nearly 20 years to obtain confidential information about train passengers, which the DEA could have lawfully obtained for free through a law enforcement network, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

National Security

DEA improperly paid $854,460 for passenger lists

Pete Yost · August 12, 2014 7:48 am

Activist magistrate overruled on search warrant

Pete Yost · August 8, 2014 5:22 pm

Justice Dept seeks appeal in health overhaul case

Pete Yost · August 1, 2014 8:48 pm

Ex-Blackwater guard says didn’t feel threatened

Pete Yost · July 31, 2014 10:19 pm

FILE - This Sept. 25, 2007 file photo shows an Iraqi traffic policeman inspecting a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. A former Blackwater security guard says he decided to tell the truth about his role in the shooting of 32 Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square because he wants to move on with his life, even though it might mean he probably will go to prison. Jeremy Ridgeway is testifying against four of his former colleagues who would face long prison terms if convicted of killing 14 Iraqis and wounding 18 others in Nisoor Square. Ridgeway is the prosecution's chief cooperating witness in the case focusing on events that happened seven years ago. He has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and attempted manslaughter. The trial has been underway for more than one month. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

National Security

Ex-Blackwater guard testifies against colleagues

Pete Yost · July 30, 2014 10:19 pm

Appeals court rejects tax challenge to Obamacare

Pete Yost · July 29, 2014 8:47 pm

This image obtained by the Associated Press, Defendants' Trial Exhibit DX2414, shows eight spent shell casings from the scene of the shootings of 14 Iraqui in Nisoor Square in Baghdad in 2007. The image has turned up at a crucial point in the trial of four Blackwater security guards. (AP Photo)

National Security

Defense: Gov’t suppressed evidence in Blackwater

Pete Yost · July 28, 2014 10:17 pm

Court issues partial win to bin Laden assistant

Pete Yost · July 14, 2014 10:18 pm

FILE - This Sept. 25, 2007 file photo shows an Iraqi traffic policeman inspecting a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. Former Blackwater security guard Matthew Murphy and now-indicted ex-colleague Paul Slough were friends, having survived the war in Iraq together, creating a bond that under different circumstances might have lasted a lifetime. But from the witness stand in the Blackwater criminal trial this week, Murphy testified that he saw Slough fire at least two grenades into a car where a woman and her son died, two of the victims in the deaths of 14 Iraqis on Sept. 16, 2007 in downtown Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

National Security

Former Blackwater guard testifies against friends

Pete Yost · July 3, 2014 4:47 pm