White House Spin May Have Had Unintended Consequences
* Obama adviser touted "inside control" of bomb plot * Leaks forced shutdown of operation By Mark Hosenball ...
* Obama adviser touted "inside control" of bomb plot * Leaks forced shutdown of operation By Mark Hosenball ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 11.15.2011
As former director of the National Security Agency and former director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell is widely portrayed as an authoritativ...
Wajid Ali Syed | Posted 08.13.2011
Even if the U.S. and Pakistan were on the same page on how best to combat terrorism, conflicting and false interpretations of history don't help.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011
It was only a matter of time before someone would emerge from the shadows to proclaim President Bush was responsible for the sudden flowering of revolution and democratic potential across the Middle East.
Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011
What happens when a great nation -- and this is a great nation -- elects a ruler who is not up to the task of being president? The answer is to be found in George W. Bush's memoirs, Decision Points.
James D. Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
Are we really in a "Cyber War?" Are unidentified enemies around the world scheming to bring down Western civilization with a single keystroke? Or is the whole thing overblown paranoia?
Joseph Menn | Posted 05.25.2011
Electronic identity theft is the greatest consumer protection issue of our time, according to the Federal Trade Commission statistics, and the poor suffer disproportionately.
Posted 05.25.2011
After news this morning that Google was hacked and that the Chinese government was possibly behind it, the threat of cyber attacks has become more sal...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes to cyber attacks, the bottom line for the public is increased defense. But again and again, private corporations have demonstrated that they have a very different bottom line in mind.
James Lamond | Posted 05.25.2011
Some of the most important intelligence that we have received from interrogating terrorism suspects was gained by the FBI
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
Move over Levi Johnston, Kathy Griffin is hot for Richard Clarke! The comedienne made a few unsubtle advances at the global terrorism expert on Bill M...
Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011
By abandoning the "war on terrorism" paradigm, President Obama has helped us understand that acts of terrorism will continue in parts of the world, and that we must continue to make such acts as difficult as possible here in the United States.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?
Washington Post | Richard A. Clarke | Posted 05.25.2011
Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call ...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
The slimy bastards of the Bush Administration contributed to the deaths of more Americans at the hands of a foreign power than any President in the history of the United States.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011
Leave it to Comedy Central -- this time Stephen Colbert -- to do the traditional media's job in exposing the fanatical charlatans like Glenn Beck.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
The reporting that Abu Zubaydah wasn't the feared number 3 of Al-Qaeda, was -- or should be -- the last step in removing the scales from the eyes of all but the Cheney retainers.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
In a New York Daily News editorial, former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke harshly criticizes his one-time boss for suggesting he saved Americ...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is John Brennan, who worked "the dark side" with Dick Cheney over at the CIA in contention for running the CIA but Richard Clarke isn't?
US News | Posted 05.25.2011
John Kerry believes that the so-called al Qaeda Halloween videotape released days before the last presidential election in the United States affected ...
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011
Our safety depends on us acting together. And our shared action depends on a basic shared understanding that it is far too soon to claim "never again."
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011
The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain both held conference calls Wednesday afternoon to hammer each other on national security. McCain's mess...
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
This news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret prison on Diego Garcia.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain's chief advisor, Charlie Black, ignited a firestorm with his comments that another terrorist attack on the U.S. would create a "big advant...
Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012