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9/11 Eight Years After

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, First Responders, Swiftboating, Liberty, Impeachment, War, 9/11, 9/11 Commission, Security, Torture, September 11, Politics News
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.

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9/11's Dark Heritage

Dan Collins | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Freedom Tower, 9/11 Construction Workers, 9/11 Freedom Tower, Sept. 11, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Sept. 11 Anniversary, 9/11 Commission, World Trade Center, World Trade Center Construction, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Victims, New York News
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.

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

Peter Lance | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Triple Cross, Ali Mohamed, Andy McCarthy, Patrick Fitzgerald, Fatwa, Ali Amiriki, 9/11, Fbi, Day of Terror Trial, 9/11 Commission, Al Qaeda, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
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.

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Why I Support a New 9/11 Investigation

Coleen Rowley | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, 9/11 Commission Report, 9/11 Commission, Law Enforcement Ethics, NYC CAN, NYC CAN Campaign, Politics News
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."

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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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 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Lack of Information Sharing, John Ashcroft, Information Sharing, Ashcroft Blames Clinton, Fisa, Wall in Law Enforcement, Zaccharias Moussaoui, 9/11 Commission, FBI Mistakes, Business News

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. ...

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Spock vs. Rambo

Christine Pelosi | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Truth Commission, Rambo, Guantanamo, 9/11, Spock, 9/11 Commission, Barack Obama, Torture, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Cheney Torture, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

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

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Condi Rice, Msnbc, Harpers, Television Torture, Philip Zelikow, Truth Commission, CIA Torture, 9/11 Commission, Jack Balkin, John Yoo, Sheldon Whitehouse, Moveon Special Prosecutor, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Cenk Uyger, Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, Scott Horton, Waterboarding, Pat Leahy, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Torture, Youtube Politics, Youtube Media, Media News
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.

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Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis Commission, Comission Financial Crisis, 9/11 Commission, Congress, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, Subpeona Power, Politics News

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...

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Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Commission Member, Slade Gorton Obama, Obama Investigation, Slade Gorton, 9/11 Bush, Gorton Investigation, 9/11 Commission, Bush Torture, Torture Memos, Politics News

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...

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Sam Stein

Lawmakers: Congress Will Investigate Torture, Bipartisan Support In Place

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Torture Investigation, Claire McCaskill, Torture Investigation, Mccaskill Congress Investigation, Conyers Investigation, Turth and Reconciliation, 9/11 Commission, Leahy, Patrick Leahy, Obama Torture, John Conyers, Politics News

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

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German History, the Financial Crisis and Democracy in Danger

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: German Hisory, Financia Crisis, German Economy, The Market, Albert Rupprecht, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Economic System, German Parliament Bank Rescue Committee, Democracy, 9/11 Commission, Germany, Bundestag, Finanacial Crisis, World News
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.

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Obama Intel Chief Wants National ID System

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, National Intelligence Estimate, Saudi Arabia, Chas Freeman, National Intelligence Council, 9/11, Obama, 9/11 Commission, China, Chas Freeman Foreign Ties, Politics News
Ashley Rindsberg

Freeman remarked that of 3 major changes to effectively combat terror, one was that "the United States should implement a national identity system, so we better know who is who."

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Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Syria, George Bush, Muslim Brotherhood, United Nations Iran, Gaza, Lebanese Fighting, Obama Secretary of State, President Obama, 9/11 Anniversary, George W. Bush, Fatah, 9/11 Commission, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Peace, Secretary of State Clinton, Concentration Camp, Israel Lebanon War, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Dick Cheney, Palestine Liberation Organization, President Bush Economic Crisis, Iran, Hamas Gaza, Ehud Olmert Scandal, West Bank Israel, Condoleezza Rice, United Nations, Mumbai Terrorism, Dick Cheney Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mubarak Gaza, Bush, Terrorist, United Nations Security Council, Plo, Palestine, United States, Hamas Truce, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Hamas Truce, Osama Bin Laden, Lebanese Government, Mumbai Attacks, Ehud Olmert Rice, Clinton Secretary of State, Warsaw, Sabra, Politics News
Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

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House Dems To Stack Intelligence Committee

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Intelligence Committee, 9/11 Commission, John Boehner, Congressional Research Service Report, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democrats plan to increase their numbers on the House Intelligence Committee, a move that Republicans charge breaks the majority pa...

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Obama, Bush & The War Crimes

Ari Melber | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Torture Commission, Bush, Eric Holder, 9/11, Obama, 9/11 Commission, War Crimes Commission, Barack Obama, Gitmo, Politics News
Ari Melber

Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.

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Worse than 9/11

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Economy, McCain Economy, Economic Crisis, Lehman Brothers, Financial Crisis, 9/11 Commission, Wall Street, Politics News
Kristen Breitweiser

We need a systemic disinfectant and deterrent factor when it comes to Wall Street. An independent investigation with non-partisan, disinterested experts is a damn good start.

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US Still "Dangerously Vulnerable" To WMDs Says New Study Conducted By 9/11 Commission Leaders

AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, Wmd, Wmds, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after the 9/11 attacks, ...

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Chairman Of Homeland Security Committee Endorses Obama

The Swamp | Mike Dorning | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Democratic Primary, Endorsements, Bennie Thompson, Homeland Security, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 9/11 Commission, Obama, Barack Obama Race, 2008 Election, Obama Endorsement, Barack Obama, Politics News

Congressman Bennie Thompson, an African-American Democrat from Mississippi, endorsed Barack Obama in a conference call a few minutes ago. Thompson is...

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