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Jeff Stein: The system is broken. Waiting 4 years on a #FOIA at #TSA http://t.co/m24dMZec via @POLITICO @natseccnslrs

Waiting 4 years on a FOIA at TSA

Here's the latest evidence of how the federal government's Freedom of Information system remains broken despite President Barack Obama's pledge to run the most transparent administration in history: ProPublica just received a Transportation Security Admini stration complaint database the non-profit investigative journalism outlet requested...

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Jeff Stein: State Dept. inches toward taking #Iraq-based #Iran exile group #MEK off terrorist list. http://t.co/iygOY5ux via @WSJ

Iran Exile Group Nears U.S. Rebirth

The Obama administration is moving to remove an Iranian opposition group from the State Department's terrorism list, say officials briefed on the talks, in an action that could further poison Washington's relations with Tehran at a time of renewed diplomat ic efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program.

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Joe Cirincione: RT @earlywarningpf: Cartwright, Hagel, Burt and Pickering call for Steep Nuclear Reductions - http://t.co/4eiGEFdy

Cartwright, Hagel, Burt and Pickering call for Steep Nuclear Reductions

900 warheads total -A panel of former U.S. officials, including STRATCOM commander Gen. James Cartwright, Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, and ambassadors Richard Burt and Thomas Pickering, is calling for steep reductions to the U.S. arsenal.

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Joe Cirincione: @plough_shares board member Sen. Chuck Hagel on panel recommending deep cuts in bloated nuclear arsenal. http://t.co/Fk3O17D0

NPR.org » Panel Calls For Steep Cuts In US Nukes

WASHINGTON (AP) â An influential panel is calling for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons and an elimination of all nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.In a report for the advocacy group Global Zero, retired Gen. James Cartwright and others argue that the U.S. needs no more than 900 total nuclear weapons for its security in a post-Cold War world

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Joe Cirincione: Fmr Joint Chief Chair Gen Cartwright to call for steep #nuclear cuts. @GlobalZero press conference tomorrow http://t.co/XZHz4KaP

Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. (Ret.) James E. Cartwright to Issue Report Calling for Steep Cuts to U.S. Nuclear Arsenal | Global Zero

Sign the Global Zero Declaration!

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Joe Cirincione: RT @earlywarningpf: The Case Against CMRR - http://t.co/NDNIGoBi

The Case Against CMRR

CMRR unneeded and unaffordable -The proposed Los Alamos plutonium facility (CMRR) was cut by appropriators and the administration because the nuclear labs could meet its essential missions with existing facilities and the country could not afford its $6 bi llion price tag. Nevertheless, administration critics in the House are up in arms, attempting to add money for CMRR into the House defense authorization bill

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Joe Cirincione: RT @CNSWolfsthal: The House Armed Services Committee wants to waste your money. http://t.co/gS5iav0S. @RepMikeTurner #nuclear

Inflexible Response | WMD Junction

An Ohio congressman ignores his own Republican colleagues—and military leaders—and attempts to micromanage the US nuclear arsenal.

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Joe Cirincione: RT @nukes_of_hazard: "Why Spend Money on an Unneeded Facility?" http://t.co/nDAIqMVJ. CMRR unaffordable and unnecessary since cheaper al ...

Young: Why Spend Money on an Unneeded Facility?

One might think a nuclear maelstrom is brewing in Congress given some of the rhetoric, but the reality is closer to the proverbial tempest in a teapot.

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Joe Cirincione: Groups call on White House to update outdated #nuclear policy. @armscontrolnow http://t.co/pkEq2DBk

Groups Call On White House To Update Outdated Nuclear Policy | Arms Control Association

(WASHINGTON, D.C.)—Representatives of various groups advocating nuclear arms reductions, presented a petition with over 50,000 signatures to the White House. Theappeal--circulated between February and April--urges President Obama to reduce the role and num ber of nuclear weapons as he makes a once-in-a-decade decision on Presidential nuclear weapons policy “guidance

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Joe Cirincione: "Reagan would be stunned at the party today." Fmr GOP senator and @plough_shares board member Chuck Hagel http://t.co/lneSXn7b

Hagel: Reagan wouldn't identify with today's GOP

The Republican Party has drifted so far to the right andbecome so partisan in recent years that PresidentRonald Reaganwouldn't even want to be a part of it, formerNebraska GOP senatorChuck HageltoldThe Cable.