January 6, 2009 - Barack Obama's picks for the intelligence community signal clear desire to end all forms of torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques." Potential CIA director Leon Panetta wrote, during the Bush Adminstration...
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January 6, 2009 - Former congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta has been tapped by Barack Obama to head up the Central Intelligence Agency. The appointment has divided Democrats, because while Panetta is respected for his managerial, foreign policy and budgetary experience, he doesn't exactly have th...
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November 21, 2008 - Convicted Al Qaeda terrorist Zia Ul Haq took an eight day comedy class in a British prison. The twenty-nine year old Haq is serving an 18 year sentence for his part in a 2004 plot set off a dirty bombs in London. British authorities stopped the course mid-way...
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October 22, 2008 - Finally, a bit of good news for John McCain. While Barack Obama outnumbers McCain in press endorsements by more than 3-to-1, the Republican candidate has just received public support from what is perhaps one of the world's most well-known and influential organizations...
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August 18, 2008 - Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf resigned today. Although Musharraf was able to dodge several assassination attempts during his nine years in office, he decided not to try to survive impeachment charges. The country's information minister, Sherry Rehman, said or his resignation, "It i...
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August 6, 2008 - In what may be the least surprising news since "the sun rose this morning," a Bush appointed military court found Salim Hamdan guilty of providing material support to terrorists, proving on...
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July 20, 2008 - Both John McCain and Barack Obama have been turning their foreign policy focus toward the war in Afghanistan, and the Pentagon is even considering sending in more troops, but one question remains...
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June 24, 2008 - There are those who should be apologizing to us on a daily basis, but they seem to believe that being in this administration means never having to say, "I'm sorry," choosing, instead, to later distance themselves from their hideous actions and profit by writing a...
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June 20, 2008 - A Senate hearing investigating the origins of harsh torture methods in Iraq and Afghanistan found that in 2002, when officers at Guantanamo consulted with the top lawyer from the CIA's Counterterrorist Center ab...
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April 3, 2008 - The CIA has announced that al-Qaeda has begun recruiting 'Western'-looking terrorists to counter the apparently productive measure of racial profiling. To help t...
April 2, 2008 - CIA Chief Michael Hayden told NBC Television this past Sunday that al Qaeda is now recruiting and training operatives who "look western," so that they can enter the U.S. undetected to conduct terrorist activit...
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March 24, 2008 - While the U.S. Armed Forces are falling short of enlistment goals and the CIA and FBI continue to struggle with their attempts to infiltrate al-Qaeda, the bad guys seem to be doing ju...
February 27, 2008 - John McCain shouts out his newly-departed conservative pal, William F. Buckley Jr. with a stylish little bon mot...