Jonathon Weisman at the WSJ echoes something I have been saying all along: Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan’s Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are stepping up anti-U.S. chatter and threats on their websites. One jihadist site vowed to conduct suicide […]
The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration: Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick […]
Here is what you get from a Bush run government: The FBI was aware for years of “pervasive and growing” fraud in the mortgage industry that eventually contributed to America’s financial meltdown, but did not take definitive action to stop it. “It is clear that we had good intelligence on the mortgage-fraud schemes, the corrupt […]
For years we on the left have been saying that George W. Bush was a valuable asset to al Qaeda. His policies and tone alone provided a great tool for al Qaeda to use when it comes to recruiting. Now the terrorist group is facing a new challenge: With Obama, al-Qaeda faces an entirely new […]
The talk today will be this: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected […]
That seems to be what is being said by Bush’s latest budget cuts: The Bush administration will cut counterterrorism money for police, firefighters and rescue departments next year, but not by as much as it originally proposed. Next month the White House will request $2.2 billion to help states and cities protect against terrorist attacks […]
From the party of “small government” and “fiscal responsibility”: The Homeland Security Department spent more than $90 million to create a network for sharing sensitive anti-terrorism information with state and local governments that it has decided to replace, according to an internal department document. The decision was made late last year but was not announced. […]
Today’s Washington Post: When the FBI asked Congress this spring to provide $3.6 million in the war spending bill for its Gulfstream V jet, it said the money was needed to ensure that the aircraft, packed with state-of-the-art security and communications gear, could continue to fly counterterrorism agents on “crucial missions” into Iraq. Since the […]
But we can hold off on Bush. John Dean said there could very well be grounds for Congress to impeach members of the administration. Bob Fertik at Democrats.com wants to start with Gonzales, but I have my eyes on someone else. Last year Bob Woodward gave us a chilling look into the administration. In his […]
Bush always equates Iraq to the war on terror, even when experts disagree with him. What is sad is how he has done this so much that he seems to have mentally drawn a disconnect from the real war on terror, which is suffering now: More troops and sophisticated equipment are needed to bolster Afghanistan’s […]