911

Eric Holder: NYC Terror Plot Was One Of Most Serious Since 9/11

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York


WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the alleged terror plot disrupted in New York was "one of the most serious in the United ...

The Rise And Fall Of New York: A Tragedy In 3 Acts

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.03.2009 | New York


Nelson Montana

I still love this town. But it saddens me to see how far it's fallen. Can the rest of the country be far behind?

If "We the People" Can't Agree on "Our" President, Is there Any Hope for Us?

Christine Pelosi | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


Christine Pelosi

A ratings chase and a revenue chase combine to coarsen the debate. This is our new reality -- and some days it looks so ugly one could reasonably turn away from civic life. But we don't.

Bernie Kerik Trial: No Talk Of 9/11 Allowed By Ex-Police Commissioner's Defense

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 09.29.2009 | New York


WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The terror attack on the World Trade Center, which made New York City's police commissioner a national figure, cannot be br...

Najibullah Zazi To Be Arraigned On Weapons Of Mass Destruction Charges

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — As a suspected al-Qaida operative pleaded not guilty Tuesday to plotting a bomb attack in New York, the city's police commissioner pr...

Najibullah Zazi: Terror Suspect Was 'The Donut Guy'

nytimes.com | MICHAEL WILSON | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York


For years, he was a fixture in Lower Manhattan, as regular as the sunrise. Every morning, Najibullah Zazi would be there on Stone Street with his past...

NYC Terror Attack Apparently Was Planned For September 11

AP | IVAN MORENO and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York


DENVER — An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off a...

Abdallah Higazy: FBI Pays Wrongly Detained 9/11 Egyptian Man $250,000

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — The FBI paid $250,000 this week to an Egyptian man detained when a pilot's aviation radio was found after the Sept. 11 attacks in his...

Thousands Have Illnesses Related To 9/11 Attacks

AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A city task force on medical problems linked to the collapse of the World Trade Center says tens of thousands of New Yorkers have sou...

Patriot Act Changes: Congress Weighs Extension, Changes

L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics


Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...

9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media


Linda Milazzo

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

"Immeasurable Courage and Uncommon Valor"-- Sgt. First Class Jared C. Monti

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


Paul Rieckhoff

Last Thursday, we were reminded of what true courage, sacrifice, and heroism is all about.

Frank Rich: Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice A Day

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media


Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic ter...

HAL -- The Cockpit Serial Killer

John T. Halliday | Posted 11.16.2009 | World


John T. Halliday

Let's shift the balance of power in the cockpit back to humans. As MIT's R. John Hansman explains, "Less is more." Dumb cockpit computers down; let pilots be pilots

U.S. Spy Strategy Released; Intel Chief Dennis Blair Comments On 9/11

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would not have happened had U.S. intelligence agencies been organized then the way they are now, the top U...

Poll: Support For Afghan War At All-Time Low

CNN Politics | Paul Steinhauser | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey r...

Katrina's Lessons Are as Important as 9/11's

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Casey Gane-McCalla

While the media covered a lot of the 9/11 memorials, concerts and memories, it seemed as if the legacy of Katrina got very little attention.

9/11: Never Again?

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Michael Brenner

Let's drop the childish game of scaring ourselves with the likes of high school drop-out Jose Padilla and similarly I.Q. challenged riff-raff. In doing so, we are behaving like kids who conjure monsters.

Kennedy Memoir Excerpt Blasts Bush Admin. For Iraq War

Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


We've obtained an exclusive excerpt from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's autobiography "True Compass" -- which goes on sale today -- in which the Massachu...

New Osama Bin Laden Tape: Obama Reportedly Called "Powerless" By Al-Qaida Leader

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to ...

Glenn Beck's Crazy 9/12 Tea Party Had Nothing to do With 9/11

Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media


Rachel Sklar

Beck wants this country to return to the values it held on 9/12/2001. As someone who was in New York on 9/11 (and 9/12) I remember those values being terror and a profound grief.

Bloomers and Birthers

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living


Jayne Lyn Stahl

As a child, religions seemed to me a way of separating people, and in the aftermath of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it doesn't look a whole lot different to me now.

Joe Wilson and the 9/12 March: The Week That Decency Died?

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


John R. Bohrer

The 9/12 protests are extensions of the 'sore loser' rallies, and they're one hundred percent partisan. That is why their attempts to wrap themselves in the tragedy of 9/11 is so wrong.

White Whine

Kate Clinton | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy


Kate Clinton

Republicans treat President Obama as if he were a substitute teacher and they are just waiting for the real deal to come back in the room.