By Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy NOW! | Video

Transcript: May 20, 2013 | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: A Pentagon official predicted Thursday the war against al-Qaeda and its affiliates could last up to 20 more years. The comment came during a Senate hearing revisiting the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, enacted by Congress days after the 2001 attacks. At the hearing, Pentagon officials claimed the AUMF gives the president power to wage endless war anywhere on the globe. Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, described the hearing as the most, quote, "astoundingly disturbing" one he had been to since taking office earlier this year. King accused Obama administration of rewriting the Constitution.

Two former U.S. diplomats are coming forward to talk about Benghazi.

They will say that the State Department (Hillary Clinton) engaged in a secret arms deal directly with Al-Qaeda (a deal the CIA rejected as too risky), and that Ambassador Stevens was negotiating the deal.

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Now, if I'm not mistaken, any person who conspires to help known terrorists is subject to lifetime imprisonment at Gitmo with no trial, no lawyer, and no rights.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). "This is an important moment," Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. "You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda. It's an irony you cannot overcome."

No matter what you think of Adam or what he does, he is still a voice for the movement. Not much would make bigger statement than justice prevailing and one of our spokesman getting out of the unjust charges brought against him.

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Photos of American military personnel burying Osama bin Laden will remain classified, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the government in finding that the release of postmortem images of the founder and leader of al-Qaeda could cause “exceptionally grave harm” to Americans.

The conservative-leaning group Judicial Watch had been pressing the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency to release at least a subset of 59 photos of bin Laden after he was killed in a May 2011 raid on his compound in Pakistan.

Who holds the only gun, holds the only bag.