Pete Yost

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Judge slaps State Department over Blackwater

Pete Yost · April 9, 2014 8:16 pm

Anwar al-Awlaki had been linked to the planning and execution of several attacks targeting U.S. and Western interests, including a 2009 attempt on Christmas Day on a Detroit-bound airliner and a 2010 plot against cargo planes. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File)

Suit over deadly drone strikes is tossed by judge

Associated Press, Pete Yost · April 5, 2014 8:34 am

FILE - In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. On Friday, April 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including U.S.-born al-Qaida leader al-Awlaki. Collyer said the case raises serious constitutional issues and is not easy to answer, but that "on these facts and under this circuit's precedent," the court will grant the Obama administration's request. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT

Judge dismisses lawsuit over drone strikes

Pete Yost · April 5, 2014 1:38 am

Stephen Kim, a former State Department expert on North Korea, arrives at federal court in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, where a federal judge sentenced him to 13 months in prison for passing classified information to a journalist. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Ex-intel analyst gets prison for documents leak

Pete Yost · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

US parole commissioner: spy Pollard waives hearing

Pete Yost · April 1, 2014 3:31 pm

National Security

New details emerge in Blackwater shootings case

Pete Yost · March 28, 2014 6:52 pm

Divided federal appeals judges debate Obamacare

Pete Yost · March 25, 2014 4:27 pm

Judge says Justice Dept failed to inform him

Pete Yost · March 21, 2014 9:40 pm

FILE - This May 11, 1989 file photo shows Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh speaking to reporters outside U.S. District in Washington. Walsh, the Iran-Contra prosecutor who investigated Reagan officials, has died. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Lawrence Walsh, Iran-Contra prosecutor, has died

Pete Yost · March 20, 2014 5:02 pm

Ex-Colombian rebel pleads guilty to hostage taking

Pete Yost · March 18, 2014 7:52 pm

Holder urges congressional action on data breaches

Pete Yost · February 24, 2014 10:10 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department announced Feb. 21, 2014, it is revising its rules for obtaining records from the news media in leak investigations, promising that in most instances the government will notify news organizations beforehand of its intention to do so. The revised procedures are designed to give news organizations an opportunity to challenge any subpoenas or search warrants in federal court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Dept. revises media rules

Pete Yost · February 22, 2014 1:53 am