Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Walter Brasch
PART 1
The president of the Associated Press (AP) was spewing venom at the Bush-Cheney administration for having turned the Department of Defense into a propaganda machine.
Americans “expect honest answers about what’s happening to their sons and daughters,” Tom Curley told journalism students and faculty at the University of Kansas. Listing innumerable ways the Pentagon had [...]
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Filed under: News Media, Politics
Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
While none of us know the details, there has been a significant approval of funding for increased covert ops in Iran, according to Seymour Hersh in a story published online last Sundy at the The New Yorker Magazine. The news of the article was reported by MSNBC , outlines Hersh’s article and gets reactions from [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, In The News, Iran, Political News, Politics, Senate, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
My apologies if this got covered last week (I’ve been out of town and still haven’t caught up), but thank you General Wesley Clark for hitting the nail on the head in this op-ed from last week:
“Treating terrorists as combatants is a mistake for two reasons. First, it dignifies criminality by according terrorist killers the [...]
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Filed under: National Security, Politics, Terrorism, Wes Clark
Posted on September 5th, 2006 by Todd Mitchell
Here it comes. Between now and next Monday, expect to be bombarded by the “September 11th: Five Years Later” juggernaut. Time Magazine kicked it off this weekend with their “commemorative issue” entitled “The Nation That Fell To Earth”.
I haven’t read it entirely (nor do I get the title), but the subtitle of the cover story [...]
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Filed under: Politics, Republicans, Terrorism
Posted on August 14th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Salon: What Would Kerry Do?
28 June 2005
From the Salon War Room:
What would Kerry do?
We have a pretty good sense now of what President Bush will say in his prime-time speech on Iraq tonight: The road is long, but there’s progress being made in the training of Iraqi security forces and in the building of a [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on July 21st, 2005 by RonChusid
Democratic Leaders Address the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction; Reid andPelosi Receive Report from National Security Advisory Group
WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ — The failure of action by the Bush Administration to fully protect Americans from the terrorist threat of weapons of mass destruction was addressed today by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on July 20th, 2005 by RonChusid
Democratic Leaders Address the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction; Reid andPelosi Receive Report from National Security Advisory Group
WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ — The failure of action by the Bush Administration to fully protect Americans from the terrorist threat of weapons of mass destruction was addressed today by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and [...]
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Filed under: National Security, Politics
