It's something they teach in journalism schools across the nation, but leave ultimately leave up to the individual's conscience: How far should you go in the pursuit of a story? It's an issue that more commonly crops up when you're dealing with the legal system here in the United States. Case in point: the two […]
I must confess that I read the feature pages of newspapers next to never. I generally stick to the news, sports and opinion pages. However, yesterday I was flipping through the Union-Tribune Web site when I came across this column by the paper's religion reporter Sandi Dolbee. Now, Dolbee has done some solid reporting from […]
Something positive may have come out of the Council On Foreign Relations meeting with Iranian "President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- it looks like the influential group may have come to the conclusion that the head of state of Iran is a madman. According to Maurice R. Greenberg, a holocaust survivor and head of the Nixon Center, […]
The details still aren't clear, but it appears that CIA interrogators can aggressively question terrorist suspects without running afoul of the Geneva Conventions. Andrew McCarthy reports: Early predictions that the President was getting rolled seem to have been greatly exaggerated. And the McCain bloc got its principles validated without disabling the CIA program, which they […]
After the mini-debate we've been having here over tough interrogation techniques and their use against terrorism suspects, I found the timing of this Bill O'Reilly interview with ABC reporter Brian Ross fortuitous. [Follow the link for video.] In the interview, Ross reveals that he has solid evidence from multiple sources that tough interrogation techniques (including […]
The Heritage Foundation's James Jay Carafano has a short primer on the current debate before Congress. For those who are interested, we also have a debate on a post down below on the same issue.
It's a little bizarre that much of the past week's discussion on giving full Geneva Conventions protections to terrorists reminds me of an old Bill Cosby schtick. In his comedy routine, Cosby imagined what it would be like if, during various battles in U.S. history, a referee had been present to do a coin toss. […]
I've often accused -- with good reason -- Democrats (Joe Lieberman excepted) of not being serious when it comes to terrorism and national security. The Democrats' recent "demand" on President Bush to: (1) transitioning the U.S. mission in Iraq to counter-terrorism, training, logistics and force protection; (2) beginning the phased redeployment of U.S. forces from […]
The lede paragraph of an AP story on the terrorist surveillance program: Senate Republicans blocked Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush's domestic wiretapping program Wednesday, endorsing a White House-supported bill that would give the controversial surveillance legal status. It's not domestic, ^%#$(*&! A phone call from San Diego to Phoenix is not intrastate. It's […]