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by Matthew Blake
4:21pm
Tue Jan 17, 2012

Many Unknowns, Police Say, For NATO/G8 Summits

Chicago Police Department leadership has pretty broad guesses about what security will be needed for the NATO and G8 summits, how many people will come in to Chicago to attend the summits, and who might be arrested for protesting the summit.

“This is a federal, White House event and we don’t have a lot of information at this time,” said Debra Kirby, the police department’s chief of international relations in response to questions posed by Ald. Ed Burke (14th) at a city council Budget and Government Operations committee hearing today. The NATO and G8 summits will be held at McCormick Place more or less simultaneously, May 19-21.

“Frankly, it leaves a lot of unknown questions at this time,” she added.

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by Josh Kalven
5:38pm
Sat Jul 19, 2008

PI at NRN: Seals Says Dems "Caved" On FISA

During the "Future Leaders" panel at Netroots Nation yesterday, Dan Seals said congressional Democrats "caved" by voting for the recent Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill...

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by Adam Doster
3:54pm
Thu Jun 19, 2008

Kirk Is Scared ... Of Osama's Lawyers

Rep. Mark Kirk covered a lot of ground on WLS' Don Wade and Roma yesterday. In our rush to knock down his false claim on Chinese oil drilling and his major Obama-Osama gaffe, we forgot to highlight his objection to the recent Supreme Court ruling reinstating Habeas Corpus ...

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by Josh Kalven
2:41pm
Wed Jun 18, 2008

Lynn Sweet Watch: What About Clarke?

In her Sun-Times column today, Lynn Sweet reports on the sparring between the Obama and McCain camps yesterday over foreign policy. The piece is headlined: "Obama 'delusional'? McCain, ex-CIA chief doubt Obama's readiness to deal with terrorists." In it, she ...

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by Josh Kalven
3:47pm
Fri Mar 28, 2008

Foster Comments On FISA Vote

After taping his upcoming response to President Bush's Saturday radio address at WBBM's studios in Chicago this morning, Bill Foster took questions from the media, including one from Public Affair's Jeff Berkowitz about proposed reforms of the Foreign Intelligence ...