The NSA spying story has just gotten worse: WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 – In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to […]
Yesterday amounted to one of the deadliest days in Iraq since the war started. Sadly 11 soldiers are included in the deaths which plagued the country. What is even more troubling is the fact that these soldiers didn’t die in a single attack but rather in spread out attacks throughout the country. 2 Killed by […]
We might have a witness to the wiretapping case. A former National Security Agency official wants to tell Congress about electronic intelligence programs that he asserts were carried out illegally by the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year, stated in letters to the […]
It seems like every time we hear someone say the insurgency is fizzling out then they prove to us they are still alive and well. Last week we heard this claim: Washington — Insurgents in Iraq are showing little capacity to keep up numerous and persistent attacks, a senior U.S. general in Baghdad says. At […]
The RNC released their “white flag” video a couple weeks ago attacking Howard Dean and other Democrats. Now its the DNC’s turn to attack the right and this time they are doing it by proving that Bush has lied in recent speeches. The video shows President Bush telling Americans that Congress had the same access […]
This is not only disturbing, but also teetering on being unconstitutional. The National Security Agency has eavesdropped, without warrants, on as many 500 people inside the United States at any given time since 2002, The New York Times reported Friday. That year, following the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the […]
We now have at least one republican in Senate joining the fight with Democrats to investigate the pre-war intelligence. That Senator is none other than John McCain: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as a leading opponent of the Bush administration’s policy on interrogating detainees in the war on terrorism, wants Senate investigators to […]
Tuesday during the Senate shut down that Harry Reid caused, the Situation Room had James Carville on talking about the leak investigation. During his statements they were discussing the need for the vice-President to come clean on his involvement in the leak. I thought it was interesting when Carville said “we need the President to […]
One question that has haunted people following the Valerie Plame leak case has been “Why was Judith Miller jailed if she did not write an article?” Well further reading into Raw Story’s explosive new report sheds some light on that very question. The group relied heavily on New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who, after […]
From the Associated Press: Reporter finds earlier notes in CIA leak case New York Times reporter Judith Miller discovered notes from an earlier conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and turned them over the prosecutor investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s identity, legal sources said on Friday. Miller’s […]