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The top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee on Sunday joined a growing chorus of Republicans who have called for John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, to resign or be fired.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, is calling for the resignation — or immediate firing — of Obama adviser John Brennan.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) also called for Brennan's head, telling FOX News Sunday that the adviser "has lost my confidence."
The White House is keeping alive the possibility of trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a military tribunal -- after initially moving to try the 9/11 terror mastermind in civilian courts in lower Manhattan.
As many as 10,000 Transportation Security Administration workers will have access to classified intelligence as a tool to keep terrorists off airplanes, a TSA official said Friday.
The TSA developed a plan in July 2008 that would give some of its workers access to secret intelligence, said Ann Davis, a TSA spokeswoman.
President Barack Obama is taking a larger role in deciding how and where the 9/11 plotters will be tried as the administration Friday appeared to sidestep questions about the use of a military commission.
(AP) — The Obama administration, after weeks of controversy over its proposal to hold a civilian terror trial in New York, gave ground Friday and revived the possibility of using a military tribunal to try professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition that the administration had mishandled the process and triggered a political backlash.
When the House returns in late February, Republicans plan to force Democrats to declare their support or opposition to President Barack Obama’s decision to prosecute some suspected terrorists in federal court.
King, the top GOP member of the House Homeland Security Committee, suggested that the president was out of touch on security issues and had deferred too much to his attorney general on decisions on how to handle and whether to criminally prosecute terror suspects.
WASHINGTON - It's not just New Yorkers who don't want terror thugs tried in their backyard.
A majority of Americans also disagree with President Obama's plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in civilian courts, a Quinnipiac University poll found.