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• Obama: Preference is to capture suspects, not use drone strikes
  
  
  
  
• Heckler interrupts Obama's defense speech
  
  
  
  
• Heckler repeatedly interrupts Obama speech
  President Barack Obama was repeatedly interrupted by a heckler whose taunts slowed the delivery of a major national security speech in the Washington, D.C. area.The unidentified heckler began shouting at the president toward the tail end of his highly-anticipated address, when he touched upon U.S. policy toward detainees suspected of terrorist acts.Obama was forced to pause three separate times an...
  
  
  
• Obama reframes counterterrorism policy with new rules on drones
  In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe his counterterrorism strategy saying that “America is at a crossroads.”“We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of James Madison's warning that ‘No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.’ Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of te...
  
  
  
• Obama announces reframing of terrorism policy
  In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe his counterterrorism strategy saying that “America is at a crossroads.”“We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of James Madison's warning that ‘No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.’ Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of te...
  
  
  
• Moving the drone program from the CIA to Defense Department
  
  
  
  
• Obama: Civilian drone strike deaths 'haunt us'
  
  
  
  
• Obama announces narrower drone strike strategy
  President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he is narrowing the cases in which his administration will use remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, to kill suspected al Qaida terrorists.In a speech at the National Defense University, Obama also reiterated the pledge he made last month to renew his efforts to persuade Congress to agree to close the Guantanamo detention site in Cuba where 110 terror...
  
  
  
• Reid signals delay in potential fight over Senate rules change
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Thursday that he may postpone a confrontation with Republicans over stalled nominations until after the Senate considers the bipartisan immigration bill that the Judiciary Committee OK’d Tuesday.“I am not going to do anything to interfere with the immigration bill,” he said.At issue was the so-called “nuclear option,” a possible move by Reid and the Demo...
  
  
  
• Obama’s counterterrorism policy placed in the spotlight