The US security failure is not at airports, but rather with an overseas intelligence agency doing a shoddy job at gathering information. The president did not name the agency, but I will: it's the CIA.
With the war heating up in Afghanistan, it is not surprising that attacks on journalists appear to be accelerating.
Engdahl: US-China strategy driving Afghan war, but no real long-range thinking in place. ...
NOW on PBS has released an amazing preview of its powerful program "Targeting the Taliban" (airing January 8, check local listings), which features r...
With President Obama's order to inject more troops into Afghanistan, tension has risen among the ordinary Afghans in the countryside. With more troops come more insurgents.
Tthe decision to charge Obaidullah is particularly dispiriting, as he is so clearly a peripheral character of such insignificance that putting him up for a war crimes trial risks ridicule.
In the time it takes to read this article, Illinois taxpayers will spend another $69,000 to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's $13,800 per minute.
While it is obvious that the CIA needs to work on how it recruits its assets, the agency should also take into consideration the amateurish approach that Al Qaeda took in the double-agent situation.
I believe James Cameron simply has brought a pre-existing consciousness to the mainstream of orthodox life through a brilliant exercise of film-making.
The administration must continue providing intelligence and counterterrorism aid to the Yemeni government while pushing forward with the use of "smart power" to directly appeal to its people.
Right now, the President may appear to have a meager stack of chips in front of him, but it's because his entire bankroll is in the pot. And as it turns out, he's holding a couple of aces.
Rory Stewart just turned 37. He is not now in government; he has never even stood for election. And he's going to become prime minister of Great Britain.
Keith Olbermann invited Arianna onto his first show back after the holidays to discuss the way terrorism has become a political football. Following Ri...
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
If you hold a passport from countries considered to be "state sponsors of terrorism" or "countries of interest," don't plan on making your connecting flight to your final destination inside the USA.
In view of Cheney's willfully inaccurate partisan attacks, he deserves to now be held accountable for the Yemeni Al Qaeda terror sanctuary he helped populate.
When the Obamas departed for their Hawaiian holiday the traveling press was told "not to anticipate any possible announcements or news-making events." Wasn't this just asking for trouble?
Here's the reason that the U.S.'s Big Army strategy in Afghanistan is misguided: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Let's pause a moment as the New Year begins and take stock of ourselves as what we truly are: the preeminent war-making machine on planet Earth. Let's consider just what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010.
A friend of mine (who shall go unnamed) recently harvested about a half a pound of quality marijuana from his backyard. He grew it from some seeds he ...
"This will be a great decade," said Bill Maher at midnight on New Year's Eve as we were toasting the arrival of 2010 at a friend's party. Then, with a wry grin, he added "...for China." We laughed but I was immediately reminded of a fascinating article by Michael Wines I'd just read in the New York Times. It lays out how China is spending billions of dollars in Afghanistan securing raw materials for its voracious economy while America is spending hundreds of billions in Afghanistan fighting an unnecessary war of choice... even as the fight against terrorism has moved on. So China is mining copper and coal in Afghanistan -- and earning tremendous goodwill -- and we are squandering our young, our treasure, and any goodwill we had. Meanwhile, 1,700 miles away, al-Qaeda is training terrorists in Yemen to attack America.
