That is the difficult question with which former Attorney General Michael Mukasey grapples in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. Surprisingly, he concludes that the answer is "yes." His evidence for this proposition is a bit scanty. For example, he makes the extremely...
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I don't have too much to add to Greg Sargent's take on the "Jimmy Carter would have given the order" Romney claim, but just to summarize: 1. The mission that.
Well, this is lovely: Because apparently I needed to feel even more uncomfortable about playing Zombie Gunship, what with the resonances between killing zombies and killing insurgents, etc. Anyway, I.
AfPak Channel reports US counter-terrorism officials have revealed some of what they've found in OBL's diary: U.S. counterterrorism officials said yesterday that the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden seized his "meticulous" handwritten diary along with other documents and electronic information, showing...
Leaving aside all legal considerations, a mission that reflected a rational anti-terrorism policy -- at least in a country not in the grip of continual hysteria -- would have aimed.
This ABC News story indicates that the only other people killed in the "firefight" in which OBL was supposedly killed were his son, two "couriers," and a woman who one.
10:17 POTUS will be addressing the nation at 10:30 tonight unexpectedly; no official word on what his announcement is about. 10:34 Latest from Twitter: RT @jacksonjk: House Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. U.S. has the body. 10:50 [SL]: NYT confirms...
I should hope that the absurdity of conservative commentary on Afghanistan is self-evident, but to summarize briefly, the Obama administration is currently under wingnut fire for a) under-resourcing the Afghanistan.
Shorter Ace O. Spades, heterosexual: "The rhetoric of terrorists should always be taken strictly at face value! If Al Qaeda says it's not in their interests for American troops to.
When Twitter began exploding last Sunday night in the run-up to Obama's big speech, one of the first things I did was set the tweet-harvester my husband has invented to start collecting all tweets on the hashtags #OBL and #Bin Laden. My thought was to...
Awesome hypocrisy exposed by the Washington Post FOIA unit! White House photo. The Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, allows citizens to request government documents. It’s not perfect – there’s often.
Via pianomover, this John Ganz response to the inevitable Iraq War apologetics on the 20th anniversary is excellent: One question that should be asked about any war: “What did all.