The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. President George W. Bush's fault. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Bush's fault. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ditto. The failure to capture Osama bin Laden ... in 1998. Bush's fault. Ministers insisted that British secret agents would only be allowed to pass intelligence to the CIA to help it […]
For all of those who think that the United States is holding a bunch of poor, innocent saps who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remember that those are the ones the military and intelligence communities have good reason to suspect they're […]
You know about all those harmless, misunderstood, in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time, "alleged" jihadis that we've got down in Guantanamo Bay? We've released some of the ones that we believed were mistakenly captured. Unfortunately, we've been wrong. As early as 2004, the United States military was discovering that former Gitmo illegal enemy combatants had suckered the smartest intelligence officers […]
The New York Sun calls attention to a little-noticed fact in a recent column by David Ignatius of The Washington Post. "There may be an unlimited supply of explosives in Iraq, but there is not an unlimited supply of people who know how to wire the detonators," Mr. Ignatius reported. "In 2004, CIA operatives in […]
That's really the big question. That's the divide that we have in the nation's political and legal landscape. It's the difference between Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards. It's the difference between the bases of the GOP and Democrat parties. And it's an issue that's dividing the judiciary. You've got judges who say President Bush can't […]
Wow. Just wow. This is today's New York Times front page: Yesterday, the Justice Department announced the arrest of three individuals and the search for a fourth in connection with a plot to destroy jet fuel tanks and fuel pipelines at JFK Airport. That story is not on the front page. Where did the Times […]
Documents found in an Al Qaeda safe house illustrate what torture really is, for those who are confused (e.g. Andrew Sulliivan, Amnesty International). Warning, the pictures are disturbing. A Fox News report yesterday suggested that the reason for the pictures and not simply written instructions may be twofold: First, the Al Qaeda recruits may be […]
But it's a little light on substance. I've just got finished reading the transcript [PDF format] of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I wanted to read the testimony myself because I was suspicious of a New York Times editorial's take on the issue. Needless to say that my […]
Troops in Afghanistan have killed Mullah Dadullah, a brutal terrorist leader. Word is it that Dadullah is having a hot time in the old town tonight.