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Another Word for Propaganda

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics
Robert Scheer

Why aren't film director Kathryn Bigelow's claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Pfc. Bradley Manning? Or, at the very least, being investigated for their role in one of the most damaging leaks of national security information in U.S. history?

11 Secret Documents Americans Deserve to See

David Wallechinsky | Posted 02.09.2013 | Politics
David Wallechinsky

Many documents produced by the U.S. government are confidential and not released to the public for legitimate reasons of national security. Others, however, are kept secret for more questionable reasons.

CIA's 'Vengeful Librarians' Following Millions In Intelligence Effort

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 01.04.2012 | Politics

McLEAN, Va. — In an anonymous industrial park, CIA analysts who jokingly call themselves the "ninja librarians" are mining the mass of informati...

Andrea Stone

John Mica Has No Legal Power Over TSA, But Pushes The Jurisdictional Boundaries

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The powerful chairman of a key congressional committee is expected to release another scathing report on the federal agency that protect...

Andrea Stone

House Bill Would Authorize Czar To Watch Islamist Extremists But Not Other Domestic Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.10.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A House bill set for markup on Wednesday would give protection against civil lawsuits to those who report suspicious activity, designate...

Reflections of a 9/11 Commission Staffer

Kelly Moore | Posted 11.11.2011 | Politics
Kelly Moore

As we lay the flowers and bow our heads, I hope we each reflect on our responsibilities to one another. As the passengers of flight 93 did 10 years ago.

Andrea Stone

9/11 Commissioners: Still Much Work To Do 10 Years After Terror Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.09.2011 | Politics

NEW YORK -- On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Glen Klein, an officer with the New York Police Department's elite Emergency Service Unit, found himself...

How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11 and the Religious Zealots Who Perpetrated It

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2011 | Politics
Robert Scheer

A decade after 9/11 we remain in ignorance as to what drove religious zealots formerly allied with the United States to turn against us, and what was the role of our ally, Saudi Arabia, the country of origin for most of the hijackers and their financing.

9/11 Commission Still Sees Airport Security Gaps

latimes.com | Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau | Posted 10.31.2011 | Travel

Despite the outlay of hundreds of billions of dollars and a vast reorganization of federal agencies since the Sept. 11 attacks, major gaps remain in t...

Tom Ridge: Congress' Inaction For 9/11 First Responders 'A Bloody Outrage'

AOL Government | By Dan Verton | Posted 10.19.2011 | Politics

The nation's first Secretary of Homeland Security said Congress has "failed" America's first responders by not acting on legislation that would dedica...

10 Years Later, NY Responders Communicate Better

AP | By COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.10.2011 | New York

NEW YORK -- On Sept. 11, 2001, as firefighters rushed into the smoldering twin towers, their radios went dead. Police on the scene couldn't hear order...

9/11 Truther Comic Book To Be Released In September

Posted 08.21.2011 | Politics

Image Comics, one of the largest comic book publishers in the United States, is known for series like Spawn, The Walking Dead, and Savage Dragon. Now...

Why We Need a Fair and Public Trial for the Alleged 9/11 Perpetrators

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Scheer

A fair and public trial would reveal the motives and makeup of those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, and yet the very people who claim to be the most militant in combating terrorism have been the most effective in stifling that inquiry.

"Burying" the Truth: Nightline Reporter Channels Bill O'Reilly and Does a Hatchet Job

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Coleen Rowley

In a sad commentary on the currently disintegrating state of "main stream media", I found myself ambushed on Saturday, March 6th, just ten minutes aft...

9/11 Eight Years After

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Christine Pelosi

It was not and is not inevitable that we demonize each other when, quite frankly -- we are not the problem -- the terrorists are.

9/11's Dark Heritage

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Dan Collins

We still haven't quite acknowledged that our leaders never adequately warned the men and women working around the smoldering site that the place where they were flinging themselves into duty was a toxic landmine.

Why I Support a New 9/11 Investigation

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Coleen Rowley

After 9/11, I couldn't help but think about the FBI Ethics curriculum mandate: "We should never sacrifice the truth in order to obtain a desired result or to avoid personal or institutional embarrassment."

Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up

Peter Lance | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Peter Lance

Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.

Marcus Baram

Newly Declassified Report Reveals More Details About Lack Of Pre-9/11 Info-Sharing By FBI, CIA, NSA

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

A newly-declassified report prepared for the 9/11 Commission sheds more light on who was responsible for the lack of information sharing between U.S. ...

Spock vs. Rambo

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Christine Pelosi

Watching President Obama and former Vice President Cheney duel on terror suspects: can Spock replace Rambo in the approach to Gitmo?

Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Ari Melber

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

Sam Stein

Congress Poised To Launch 9/11-Styled Commission On Financial Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Updated Below The House of Representatives came closer to agreement on Monday afternoon on the establishment of a 9/11-styled commission that would b...

Sam Stein

Slade Gorton, 9/11 Commission Member: "It's Not In Our Interest" To Investigate Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Former 9/11 Commission member Slade Gorton said on Thursday that he did not think Congress or the White House would serve the country's interest by se...

Sam Stein

Lawmakers: Congress Will Investigate Torture, Bipartisan Support In Place

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The central debate dominating discussions of a possible investigation into torture by the Bush administration seems to have shifted sharply in the pas...

German History, the Financial Crisis and Democracy in Danger

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Raymond J. Learsy

The Germans can provide us with a frightening cautionary example of where we might be headed during this financial crisis. They have been there, they have done that, and it wasn't pretty.