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Obama Team Stops Another 9/11, Gets Help From Unlikely Source (Najibullah Zazi's Lawyer)

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Terror Plot, Fbi, Najibullah Zazi, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Arthur Folsom, Terrorism, Colorado, Denver, 9/11 Anniversary, New York City-New York, Denver News
Craig Alan Silverman

I don't know Arthur Folsom despite my having practiced law in Denver for 30 years. For three days he held exhaustive meetings with the FBI. That resulted in an arrest for, you guessed it, lying to the FBI.

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FBI, NYPD, Other Law Enforcement Agencies' Failure To Cooperate Complicated Zazi Investigation

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: New York Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Terror Investigation, Muhammed Zazi, NY Terror Raids, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nypd, Afghanistan, Najibullah Zazi, Denver, New York, Fbi, Denver News

NEW YORK — If Najibullah Zazi had any doubts he was a prime suspect in a terror investigation, authorities say, they were quickly erased by a lo...

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Ahmad Afzali, Imam In Terror Probe, Freed On $1.5 Million Bail

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Ahmad Afzali Terror Probe, Ahmad Afzali, Ahmad Wais Afzali, Ahmad Afzali Wais, Ahmad Afzali Bail, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Najibullah Zazi Indictment, Najibullah Zazi Indicted, New York City, Brooklyn, Queens, Najibullah Zazi, Terrorism, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City imam who is charged with lying to investigators in a terrorism investigation has been ordered freed on $1.5 million b...

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Rohrabacher Berates Iraqis: Be More Grateful!

The Nation | Eric Naing | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, Bill Delahunt, Weapons of Mass Destruction, US Troops, United Nations, Arab League, Iraq, Kuwait, Ayad Allawi, Politics News

The House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight met today to discuss issues of sovereignty and stability in Iraq ran...

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Maddow Interviews Tom Ridge About Iraq Intelligence, Hurricane Katrina, Politicized Threat Levels (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Bush, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War Intelligence, Tom Ridge, Ridge, Homeland Security, The Test of Our Times, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Video, Rachel Maddow, Iraq, Wmds, Politics News

***UPDATE*** TPM makes the good point that Maddow got Ridge to contradict what was written on the jacket of his book. After repeatedly denying that p...

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Bill Keller: "Insatiable Desire For Scoops" Fueled Press Failure In Run-Up To Iraq War

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Judy Miller, New York Times, Valerie Plame, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Time Magazine, Bill Keller, Judith Miller, Media News

In the latest installment of TIME's 10 Questions, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller was asked by a reader in Portland, OR what he thought of...

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Confronting Rumsfeld

Jeff Norman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern, Code Pink, Government, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Gop, Politics News
Jeff Norman

Mere willingness to insult Donald Rumsfeld to his face is not a great accomplishment. It trivializes his alleged crimes to showily spew inane jargon.

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Nuclear Proliferation: A Mother's Legacy

Christie Brinkley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Proliferation, Christie Brinkley, Cold War, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, The Cold War, World News
Christie Brinkley

I want to tell my children that I met the people who worked to free us all from the terror of nuclear weapons, the people who decided to change history and save history.

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Success in Iraq? Think Again.

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Ray Odierno, Weapons of Mass Destruction, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Nucler Weapons, Iraq, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Iran, Ryan Crocker, Saddam Hussein, Bush Administration, Condoleezza Rice, Middle East, Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Operation Iraqi Freedom, North Korea, Afghanistran, World News
Rick Horowitz

See, in a world where things aren't connected to other things -- where you get to handle one thing at a time, in a vacuum, at the pace you choose -- maybe you could consider the war in Iraq a success.

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The End is Near: What's Your Personal Apocalypse?

Dan Dubno | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Clinton Global Initiative, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, TED Conference, Pakistan, AQ Khan, Global Warming, Iran Nuclear Weapons, War on Terror, Disarmament, Ufo, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, World News, Israel, World Economic Forum, Natural Disasters, Disaster, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, World News
Dan Dubno

It's always good fun predicting how our world will end. So many of us engage in this sport, I'm hoping we can somehow harness the considerable intellectual energy that goes into this question.

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The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Photography, Wmd, Pentagon, War, Iraq, The Other, Independence, State Department, Journalism, El Salvador, Voices, Iran, Photographs, Conflict, Ethics in Journalism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Ethics, Wartime, Iason Athanasiadis, Orwell, International, Guillermoprieto, Shadid, Bonner, World News
Sandy Tolan

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

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Twisted History: False Claims of Bush's Success on WMD

Joe Cirincione | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Foreign Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, George Bush, Highlights of Accomplishments and Results of the Administration of George W. Bush, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

Rather than making us safer, Bush leaves office with nearly every weapons proliferation problem more dangerous than when he entered. Here are his claims versus the facts.

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New Consensus: Pakistan Is the Hot Spot

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, War on Terror, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

If new reports do not convince the new foreign policy crew that Pakistan deserves first priority in the drive to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on WMDs, nothing will.

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Bin Laden's New Weapon of Mass Destruction

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bin Laden, Banking Crisis, Afghanistan, Mortgage Relief, Recession, Subprime Mortgages, War on Terror, Terrorism, Financial Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Afghanistan is the central front in the war on terror. But perhaps we'd be wiser to leave bin Laden in his cave, abandon the wrong-headed misnomer of a "war on terror," and give up attempting to build a new democracy on the other side of the world.

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Washington Times: Bush & Cheney Secretly Decent Human Beings

David Quigg | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Iraq War, Laura Bush, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Washington Times, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Iraq, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Veterans, Holiday Season Commentary, Politics News
David Quigg

Monday's Washington Times offers a little taste of the brain poison we'd be forced to choke down every day from every newspaper if the government actually did control the media.

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Chris Matthews Eviscerates Neocon Frank Gaffney: "4,000 People Are Dead Because Of The Way You Feel" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.16.2009 | Media

Read More: David Corn, Video, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Frank Gaffney, Hardball, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, Media News

Chris Matthews revisited the decision to go to war with Iraq Tuesday night on "Hardball," hosting neocon hawk Frank Gaffney and Mother Jones' David Co...

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Right-Wing Fear Machine

Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Security, Missile Defense, North Korea, Iran Missiles, Barack Obama, Politics of Fear, Fearmongering, Right Wing Think Tanks, Right Wing, Right Wing Pundits, Video, Politics News
Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.)

2008-12-15-radiological.jpgThis video comes courtesy of the unabashed hawks at the right-wing Heritage Foundation. Watch it for yourself, but you might want to put the kids to bed first.

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Bush's Interview wtih Charlie Gibson Marks the Start of His Effort to Revise History

Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Charlie Gibson, Justice Department, 9/11 Attacks, Clinton Administration, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Scott Pelley, Bush Administration, Politicization, Barack Obama, 60 Minutes, George W. Bush, George Tenet, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Deregulation, Fox News, Joe Lieberman, Hurricane Katrina, ABC News, Bush Presidency, George Bush, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The colossal failures of the Bush administration should be what is remembered about Bush's eight years in office, not some feeble attempt to show what a principled guy he was.

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My Uncensored Interview with Deepak Chopra

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Militants, India, War on Terror, Islamic Extremists, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Media, Wall Street Journal, Mumbai Hotel Shootings, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Saudi Arabia, Mumbai Deaths, American Muslims, Deepak Chopra, Muslims, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Mumbai Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, Pakistan, The View, Mumbai, Shock and Awe, Mujahideen, Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Patriot Act, Patriotism, Islamic Radicalism, Cnn, Mumbai Attacks, Deepak Chopra Mumbai, Anti-Muslim Bias, Iraq, World News
Michelle Haimoff

I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.

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Sam Stein

Rove: We Wouldn't Have Invaded Iraq If We Knew The Truth About WMDs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Interview, Rove Bush, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Karl Rove, Bush Iraq, Kristol Rove, Bill Kristol, Iraq Invasion, Rove Iraq, Politics News

In what was a remarkable admission that contradicted - to a large extent - the past statements from his onetime boss, former Bush strategist Karl Rove...

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Throwing Out the Bathwater, but Keeping the Baby

Emma Belcher | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, Proliferation Security Initiative, Global Security, Security, Wmds, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Emma Belcher

Despite squandering widespread global sympathy and much-needed support for U.S. foreign policy since 9/11, the Bush administration's Proliferation Security Initiative has been a foreign-policy coup.

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The Dalai Lama Sends Message to White House

Steven Crandell | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dalai Lama, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Non-Proliferation Treaty, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Peace, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Proliferation, Politics News
Steven Crandell

If US policy changes, the goal of nuclear weapons abolition becomes possible. Therefore, it makes sense to use education to spur public pressure for such a change in US policy

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Iraq War Architect Doug Feith: "What We Found In Iraq Was A Serious WMD Threat"

Think Progress | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wmd and Bush Administration, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Douglas Feith, Politics News

Yesterday, Iraq War architect Douglas Feith spoke to the National Press Club to promote his book, "War and Decision," and its revisionist description ...

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Britain Releases Iraq WMD Dossier Draft

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq WMD, Warwire, Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Britain WMD, War in Iraq, Politics News

LONDON — An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a key claim about weapons of mass destruction that...

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U.S. Wants Iran To "Confess" To Past Nuke Program

Associated Press | George Jahn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Warwire, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iran NIE, Condoleezza Rice, National Intelligence Estimate, War With Iran, Iran National Intelligence Estimate Nuclear Weapons Program, Bush Iran NIE, Iran, Iran National Intelligence Estimate, Iaea, Nie Iran Report, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

Iran must "confess" to running a past nuclear weapons program or its claims of cooperating with a U.N. investigation will not be credible, the chief U...

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