The assassination complex, the kill chain, and manhunting in the hindus. An unprecedented glimpse into obamas drone wars. Reversesresident obama course on afghanistan. Maintaining our current posture through next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghans forces as they grow stronger. Not only during this fighting season, but into the next one. Amy the longest war in American History has been indefinitely extended. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has officially reversed course and announced he assaulted the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. Speaking at the white house thursday, obama described the Afghanistan War as vital to our National Security interests and said u. S. Forces will continue to go after al qaeda. First, i decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troops in afghanistan through most of next yea
We will speak with Jeremy Scahill and reporters Ryan Devereaux and cora currier on the assassination complex, the kill chain, and manhunting in the hindus. An unprecedented glimpse into obamas drone wars. Reversesresident obama course on afghanistan. Maintaining our current posture through next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghans forces as they grow stronger. Not only during this fighting season, but into the next one. Amy the longest war in American History has been indefinitely extended. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has officially reversed course and announced he assaulted the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. Speaking at the white house thursday, obama described the Afghanistan War as vital to our National Security interests and said u. S. Forces will continue to go after al qaeda. First, i decided to
The appalling targeting of the police is going on in this country right now i hope that is not the message you want to send two brave men and women that wear the uniform to protect us. Police officers and Law Enforcement officials cant count on federal Law Enforcement officials to back them up who can they rely on . Seeing no other witnesses think you attorney general for your questions in her time today. Without objection all members have five additional days to submit additional records for the hearing. With that this hearing is adjourned. Next u. S. Senators talk about the terrorist attacks in paris. Several u. S. Senators went to to the center for disheartening to talk about the recent terrorist attacks in paris and their related security concerns at home. A year ago the gulf for the goal was to destroy iso. No one should take this as a criticism of the men and women and uniform as well as their civilian counterparts in the field doing the best they can under the strategic and oper
Today, they released details about the arsenal the attackers had with them when they died in a police shootout. That included more than 16 hundred bullets. We believe the suspects when they entered fired somewhere between 65 and 75 rounds from their rifles at the scene. We did locate the one pipe bomb that was actually three pipe bombs combined into one that had a remote control. The police chief says that the couple had more than three thousand rounds of ammunition at the apartment that Police Believe was their home. They also had 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools for making even more bombs. Authorities say farook was born in the us and had worked for San Bernardino county for five years. His wife came to the us last year with a pakistani passport and a fiancee visa. Law enforcement says it appears farook, who was muslim, may have been radicalized. The fbi is now leading the investigation, yesterdays bloodbath was an act of terrorism. You can see much more about the San Bernardino s
Newman will not get jail time for tax charges. Charges against newman and Richland County councilman kelvin washington came up after a state investigation into the use of penny sales tax money. Jack kuenzie is at the Richland County Judicial Center with the latest. Dawndy and charlesthe former City Council Member wasted no time resolving problems. A bond hearing this morningand a guilty plea this afternoon. Newman pleaded guilty to failing to file state tax returns for the years 2012 and 2013. He toto a judge he thought t d filed for those years. His admission involved back taxes totalling a little more than 98 hundred dollars which he has agreed to pay along with prosecution costs of an additional thousand dollars. These charges came about as the state department of revenue was looking into the backgrounds of people connected to the penny tax effortbut in to make it clear his issues were personal and have nothing to do with tax revenues. Hes not involved in the sales tax investigation