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<title><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16910.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></description><category domain="16910">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Jack Smith Isn&rsquo;t a Special Counsel &lsquo;by Law&rsquo;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-smith-isnt-a-special-counsel-by-law-regulations-constitution-ccca6514?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors must be duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate. He fails both tests.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the 14th Amendment Doesn't Apply To Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-trump-an-officer-of-the-united-states-constitution-14th-amendment-50b7d26#</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A careful look at the 14th Amendment's Insurrection Clause shows that it doesn't apply to him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Salute Jeff Sessions for a Job Well Done]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-can-look-back-on-a-job-well-done/2018/11/07/527e5830-e2cf-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.85ee96609078</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Serving as U.S. attorney general is the honor and the challenge of a lifetime. We are three former attorneys general who served in Republican administrations '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' from different backgrounds, with different perspectives and who took different actions while in office.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Question of Judicial Temperament]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/04/on_the_question_of_judicial_temperament_138257.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, we watched Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh vigorously defend himself against very serious charges of misconduct that he has consistently and unequivocally denied, and for which no corroboration seems to exist.
In the wake of that hearing, we began to hear murmurs,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Release the DOJ/FBI Russia Probe Records]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/408425-trump-should-insist-on-declassification-of-mueller-documents</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been 16 months this week since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller III as a special counsel to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'investigate any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to End Robert Mueller's Investigation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/20/end-robert-mueller-investigation-michael-mukasey-editorials-debates/35157745/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels have nothing to do with Russian influence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Mueller and Arthur Andersen]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/McHWUnEq7u</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did the president act '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'corruptly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'? Not from what we know'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but then neither did the accounting firm.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy Can't Function Without Secrecy]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/zNL1SQEqZe</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael B. Mukasey writes that the leakers who sank Mike Flynn weren't acting on public-spirited principle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The $400 Million: Legal But Not Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+%24400+Million%3A+Legal+but+Not+Right&amp;oq=The+%24400+Million%3A+Legal+but+Not+Right&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.143j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s money drop to Iran raises questions]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Makes the FBI's Least-Wanted List]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Clinton+Makes+the+FBI%E2%80%99s+Least-Wanted+List&amp;oq=Clinton+Makes+the+FBI%E2%80%99s+Least-Wanted+List&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.79j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Explaining why he wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t recommending prosecution, Director James Comey instead showed that charges would have been justified.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, the Judiciary and Identity Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump%2C+the+Judiciary+and+Identity+Politics&amp;oq=Trump%2C+the+Judiciary+and+Identity+Politics&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.94j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in Indiana to parents of Mexican origin and belongs to an association of lawyers of Mexican origin, is sitting on a case in the Southern District of California that charges fraud against Trump University.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Ahistorical Scolding About the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://archive.is/VpGlw</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is hitting the road and the airwaves trying to convince the nation that the Senate has a constitutional duty to consider his nominee, Merrick Garland, for the Supreme Court. On Thursday the president said at the University of Chicago that Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' refusal to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Emails: Criminal Charges Are Justified]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Clinton's+Emails%3A+A+Criminal+Charge+is+Justified</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the State Department and intelligence agencies finish picking through messages recovered from the private email server Hillary Clinton used to conduct public business as secretary of state, the contents of the periodic document dumps have become increasingly sensitive. State has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cleaning Up After the Obama Team's Iran Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://on.wsj.com/1QyTclY</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‘').';'We couldn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t have negotiated a better deal.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' That is one of the two pillars of the Obama administration'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s argument in favor of its nuclear arrangement with Iran, the other being, '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'there'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s no alternative but war.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Those two propositions appear to have won the day'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'at least with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Defies the Law and Common Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Clinton+Defies+the+Law+and+Common+Sense+WSJ&amp;oq=Clinton+Defies+the+Law+and+Common+Sense+WSJ&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.7903j0j1&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=93&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s use of a private email server to conduct public business while serving as secretary of state, followed by the deletion of information on that server and the transfer to her lawyer of a thumb drive containing heretofore unexplored data, engages several issues of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CIA Needs an Iran &quot;Team B&quot;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=The+CIA+Needs+an+Iran+'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Team+B'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('™').';'</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many of CIA Director John Brennan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gaffes over the years have raised eyebrows, but none has suggested the need for a legislative remedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'until the one he launched at Harvard last week.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Has Obama Turned His Back on Egypt?]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/03/26/some-rare-good-news-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[CIA Interrogations Followed the Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=The+CIA+Interrogations+Followed+the+Law</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Considering that the now-abolished Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program adopted in the wake of 9/11 was intended to protect the U.S. from another deadly attack, it is stunning to hear those now criticizing the program issue the solemn reminder that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'we are a nation of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tunnels Matter More Than Rockets to Hamas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Michael+Mukasey%3A+Tunnels+Matter+More+Than+Rockets+to+Hamas</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in the current clash between Hamas and Israel, much of the drama was in the air. The Palestinian terrorist group launched hundreds of rockets at Israel, and Israel responded by knocking down rockets in the sky with its Iron Dome defense system and by bombing the rocket-launch sites...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why ISIS's Rise Should Worry America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/caliphate-threat-article-1.1863839</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Americans know well by now, a violent Muslim extremist group has overrun Tikrit, Mosul and other northern Iraqi territory liberated at great cost by U.S. and Iraqi troops and has proclaimed the founding of an Islamic state in much of northeastern Syria and large portions of Iraq.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ghastly Bergdahl Transaction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-b-mukasey-the-ghastly-transaction-that-freed-sgt-bowe-bergdahl/2014/06/04/325d9780-ec04-11e3-93d2-edd4be1f5d9e_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The seeds of what blossomed grotesquely in the Rose Garden last weekend '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a celebration of the release of five senior Taliban military leaders in exchange for a U.S. sergeant purported to be a deserter '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' were sown a long time ago: on the second and third days of President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Obfuscation on Benghazi]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579481402659166832</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's encounter between former acting CIA Director Michael Morell and the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence may have brought us a bit closer to the truth of how four Americans came to be killed at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, and how their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leaking Secrets Empowers Terrorists]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324634304578535492421480524.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Libertarian Republicans and liberal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'progressive, if you prefer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Democrats see the specter of George Orwell's "1984" in what they claim is pervasive and unlawful government spying. These same groups summoned "1984" in 2001 after passage of the Patriot Act, in 2008 after renewal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324874204578436592210910044.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If your concern about the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers is limited to assuring that they will never be in a position to repeat their grisly acts, rest easy.The elder, Tamerlan'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'apparently named for the 14th-century Muslim conqueror famous for building pyramids of his victims'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Free the Blind Sheik?]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444358804578014531735055120.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are senior Obama administration officials considering transferring to Egypt a poisonously influential Islamist cleric serving a life term in federal prison for trying to unleash a war of urban terrorism in the United States? That's the impression several officials have given over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Recusal Nonsense]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204012004577070162911944188.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No sooner had the Supreme Court agreed to hear the challenge to the constitutionality of the Obama administration's health-care overhaul than chatter began about whether either Justice Elena Kagan or Justice Clarence Thomas, or both, should be disqualified'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'"recused," in the argot of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Waterboarding Trail to Bin Laden]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576305023876506348.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden was killed by Americans, based on intelligence developed by Americans. That should bring great satisfaction to our citizens and elicit praise for our intelligence community. Seized along with bin Laden's corpse was a trove of documents and electronic devices that should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Terror Tools in Peril]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030904545.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the better part of a year, Obama administration officials, led by Michael E. Leiter,  head of the National Counterterrorism Center and the person principally  in charge of assessing terrorist threats, have been warning that this  menace now comes in a new "flavor." Al-Qaeda has found...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Importance of Gathering Human Intelligence]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The terrorism alert issued this week to Americans traveling abroad, and the events that generated it, have put in bold relief yet again dilemmas we face'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'some self-created'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in our ongoing struggle with militant Islamists.On the surface, the news certainly is not all bad. A German...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gitmo Wrong Venue for Civilian Trials]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Mukasey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were fatal flaws in the recent suggestion that Congress should designate Guantanamo Bay part of an existing federal district court or as a separate federal district court so that those accused of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks can be tried there ["Try them in federal court -- at...]]></description>
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