WASHINGTON — It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is fo...
The Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 02.15.2010 | Politics
The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day was read his Miranda rights nine hours af...
Talking Points Memo | Jillian Rayfield | Posted 02.08.2010 | Politics
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) fired back today at the assertion yesterday by John Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, that four Repub...
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 02.08.2010 | World
We're still fighting the war in Afghanistan, and in Iraq. We're paying money we don't have for the local authorities to destroy a Judeo-Christian holy site. So, what would Eckhart Tolle advise us to do?
The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 02.03.2010 | Politics
Yesterday, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate that the alleged underwear bomber, Umar Abdu...
Andrea Prasow | Posted 02.02.2010 | Politics
Mutallab's willingness to warn the US shows how important America's global reputation is to fighting terror; attacks could be thwarted by winning the trust of those who might alert the US of their suspicions.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 02.01.2010 | Home
The decision to advise the accused Christmas Day attacker of his right to remain silent was made after teleconferences involving at least four governm...
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 03.16.2010 | Books
In the community of fewer than 2,000 in which I grew up, the proverbial six degrees of separation melt away. You can't help but play multiple roles in...
Jon Soltz | Posted 01.20.2010 | Politics
Those who actually fought terrorists in war, and know how they operate and think are coming to DC to tell Congress to move without delay on closing the prison at Guantanamo.
New York Times | Posted 03.20.2010 | Home
Mr. Obama this month presented his government's findings on how the plot went undetected. But a detailed review of the episode by The New York Times, ...
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
The fear-mongering and overreaction to the Underpants Bomber has signaled that we're all too willing to succumb to a national panic attack, and to sacrifice our liberties for the illusion of security.
AP | ED WHITE and DAVID RUNK | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
DETROIT — A Nigerian man accused of trying to ignite an explosive on a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas appeared before a judge for the ...
Posted 03.18.2010 | Home
DETROIT (Associated Press) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from hi...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures tha...
Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
While President Obama has already spoken about a number of issues that will appear in today's report on the Christmas bomber, National Security Advise...
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.10.2010 | Home