This is such a staggeringly bad idea that it makes Icarus’ decision to head sunward look like a stroke of purest genius. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, [...]
At least “don’t ask; don’t tell” opponents can take solace that they’re not last on the Presidential priority list. That position is reserved for General Stanley McChrystal. Last weekend, McCrystal informed America that his Commander in Chief, who set him in charge of all the forces in that the President called the “central front” in [...]
Another urgent threat to global security is the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism. There, as in the Middle East, we must understand that we cannot deal with our problems in isolation. … Going forward, we must set clear priorities in pursuit [...]
The President has issued his 9/11 proclamation and, as you might expect, it’s not very much. We should remember that something happened today, something the President couldn’t quite describe but that was really sad, then we should do out and do community service. As we pay tribute to loved ones, friends, fellow citizens, and all [...]
Project 2996 came to my attention almost a month ago, thanks to a timely e-mail from my friend Katie Favazza. Everyone who signed up was assigned a name — one of the people murdered by Islamic butchers on September 11, 2001 — and asked to write a tribute about that person. I joined and was [...]
Wow, that’s one big bullet we dodged. RADICAL Islamist al-Shabaab militants linked to al-Qa’ida and based in Somalia plotted to kill US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her trip to Africa last month, it was disclosed yesterday. A planned series of bomb attacks set to take place in Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya, [...]
If you really want the scoop on the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques practiced against would-be terrorists after 9/11 by the Bush administration, you really only need to read four articles. This piece by Jennifer Rubin on the investigation into EITs conducted by the CIA’s Inspector General in 2004 and why the Obama administration has opted to [...]
I really, really hope it’s not true that the ACLU has hired people to take pictures of covert CIA agents and showing them to Gitmo detainees. This isn’t a case of photographers waiting outside Gitmo with huge telephoto lenses like a bunch of UFO hunters outside Area 51. In some cases, the ACLU’s people took [...]
Remember how we were told that if we beat ourselves bloody over perceived violations of the Geneva Conventions, the Islamist butchers who might capture our troops later would suddenly agree to follow them? Well, those people were idiots. KABUL (Reuters) – The U.S. military denounced on Sunday the release of a video showing a soldier [...]
You mean, the Democrats in Congress were politicizing intelligence and almost completely dishonest about it, too? Why…that’s unpossible! In sum, congressional Democrats knew about the program and knew that the dissent of the Justice Department’s senior leadership in 2004 was not about warrantless surveillance. They knew that if they postured that the dissent was about [...]
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