The measure already passed the Senate by a 97-0 vote and wouldn’t take much time to pass on the House floor either: House Republicans say they have no plans to follow the Senate in passing a resolution honoring the military mission that killed Osama bin Laden. The decision by GOP leaders follows new rules they […]
The Wikileaks document dump is bringing some in the Senate to action: Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill Thursday aimed at stopping WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants. Ensign accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his “cronies” of […]
With the arrest of a Pakistani born, U.S. citizen in connection with the failed car bombing on Times Square, the Republican members of Congress are starting to show that they have absolutely no respect for the Constitution of this land: The morning after the arrest of 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad at John F. Kennedy airport on […]
Andrew Sullivan raises a great point by asking that very question. The right is in a frenzy over the article I posted earlier about the released Gitmo detainee that was involved in the U.S. embassy attack in Yemen. What they are trying to do is create a strawman here. If our prisons are so at […]
Here we go: HOMELAND SECURITY ISSUES STATEMENT ON POTENTIAL OBAMA THREAT — 1030 AM ET — Statement from a Department of Homeland Security spokesman: “The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (including the USSS) and the intelligence community are coordinating with other law enforcement authorities to investigate and analyze recently received information about a potential […]
And we finally get Phase 2 of the Iraqi pre-war intelligence report. This is the phase Republicans held up in 2004, because “it would effect the outcome of the presidential election”. Would it? Hell yes it would. Here are some of the key findings: * Statements and implications by the President and Secretary of State […]
Officials are looking at keeping the next Iraq assessment a “secret”: A new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq is scheduled to be completed this month, according to U.S. intelligence officials. But leaders of the intelligence community have not decided whether to make its key judgments public, a step that caused an uproar when key judgments […]
Watching Bush’s press conference and it’s obvious he is on edge, but still he lies like crazy. Yesterday we found out he has been lying to this country and the world about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He is saying that this changes nothing in his assertions because they had a program. Catch that – they […]
Because he doesn’t get what he wants: President Bush said Friday that Congress must stay in session until it approves legislation modernizing a U.S. law governing eavesdropping on foreigners. “So far the Democrats in Congress have not drafted a bill I can sign,” Bush said at FBI headquarters, where he was meeting with counterterror and […]
After all the debate, arguments, investigations by foreign countries and other crap caused by the report of secret CIA prisons, it turns out that we do in fact have them and Bush admits it: President George W. Bush acknowledged on Wednesday the CIA has run a secret detention program for terrorism suspects overseas and said […]