I caught Georgetown Law Professor Jonathan Turley on Fox News last night and it reminded me of something that I'd meant to write about a couple of weeks ago. When the New York Times broke the NSA surveillance story, Turley went on some Fox News program -- I don't remember which one -- and offered […]
Apparently hate-America-first loony liberals are taking their cue from the New York Times editorial page and demanding "proof" that the disclosure of the NSA surveillance program has hurt national security. As I noted earlier this week, the "proof" will likely arrive the next time we fail to stop an attack. Once again, Powerline has an […]
Yesterday the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress, released a report [PDF format] that argues that the NSA surveillance program is not as "well-grounded" legally as the president and his lawyers argue. While the CRS is nonpartisan -- that is, neither Democrat nor Republican -- it still has an unmentioned bias that […]
Lawyer Scott Johnson over at Powerlineblog.com has an interesting analysis of the law on the New York Times disclosure of the NSA's surveillance program. Johnson makes the case that Times reporters, editors and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., violated federal law in publishing the story and could be prosecuted. Is the New York Times a law […]
Tuesday's New York Times is reporting that in the wake of 9/11 attacks the government has finally come to its senses and is monitoring groups that publicly advocate violence and terrorism. Of course, that's not the way the Times characterizes it. Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering […]
I got an e-mail earlier this week from a reader about a CNN article that was a basically a rewrite of this article from National Journal. The Powerline guys quickly ripped the revisionist-history hit-job and their readers made the key points succinctly. Readers Malcolm Jones and John Steele add a more basic point. Jones writes: […]
The guys over at Powerline have received an e-mail from MSNBC's Chris Matthews regarding the reports about Matthews' comments that terrorists aren't "evil," but "misunderstood." Matthews claims that his statements were taken out of context and the report does not accurately describe his take on terrorists. In short, he now knows what it feels like […]
MSNBC show host Chris Matthews spoke at the University of Toronto and revealed to everyone the amoral world in which he lives. "The period between 9/11 and Iraq was not a good time for America. There wasn't a robust discussion of what we were doing," Matthews said. "If we stop trying to figure out the […]
Let me just point out, once again, that Joseph Wilson is a liar. I'd also like to point out that the mainstream media doesn't seem to give an iota about its own credibility.
Check out William Shawcross' op-ed piece in today's Los Angeles Times. It's hard to think of a more graphic illustration of the horror the U.S.-led coalition is fighting in Iraq than the mass murder on Sept. 26, in which terrorists disguised as policemen (a New York Times headline called these butchers "fighters") burst into a […]