The director of the documentary “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks” talks to CBSNews.com about the U.S. government’s increasingly “aggressive prosecution” of leakers of classified secrets.

Face to Face: Amnesty International’s Michelle Ringuette says she wants to believe that President Obama plans to close Guantanamo Bay prison, but warns it’s “so beyond the point where rhetoric is adequate,” and it’s time to see real steps taking place.

As President Obama outlined a renewed push to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, he was repeatedly interrupted by a protester, Medea Benjamin of advocacy group Code Pink, who accused the president of spurning the rule of law and demanded he immediately close the facility without congressional input. The president chided her for interrupting him but said the issues she raised are “worth paying attention to.”

In broad speech on national security, Obama outlines new policy on drones, Guantanamo

President Obama defended his administration’s recently declassified decision to kill Anwar Awlaki, a U.S. citizen in Yemen who was deemed to be a terrorist, explaining, “When a U.S. citizen goes abroad to wage war against America and is actively plotting to kill U.S. citizens…his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected from a swat team.”

Three and half years ago, Republicans won a Senate special election in the heavily-Democratic Bay State; could it happen again?

The disgraced former congressman makes first campaign stop in NYC mayor’s race; N.Y. Gov. Cuomo expresses his displeasure

The Times’s national security reporting team responded to readers’ questions about drones ahead of President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday.

The Times’s national security reporting team responded to readers’ questions about drones ahead of President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday.

Political news from today’s Times, plus a look at what’s happening in Washington.