Here's yet another story detailing why outsourcing critical government functions and missions is a disastrous policy. In its report on Afghanistan, CorpWatch - a U.S.-based corporate watchdog - concluded that... [More]
October 1, 2006
More Woodward Excerpts
This time via Newsweek, a sister publication to the Washington Post. The subject? Donald Rumsfeld. Two anecdotes stand out: In March 2006, Rumsfeld invited six of the Pentagon’s regular outside... [More]
October 2, 2006
Bill Frist: War Against Taliban Can Never Be Won. Appeasment Is Our Only Option.
Excuse me? U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic... [More]
A Feeding Frenzy (UPDATED)
You know that meeting Bob Woodward has detailed that supposedly took place in June 2001, the one where Condi supposedly "brushed off" concerns about an imminent attack? You know, the... [More]
October 6, 2006
When Legendary Bluesmen Turn To Terror
First Cat Stevens, now Robert Johnson? 60 Minutes, in collaboration with the National Security News Service, has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists and discovered... [More]
October 8, 2006
AP: NATO Chief Warns of Afghan Tipping Point
God help us: KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO's top commander in Afghanistan said Sunday the country was at a tipping point and warned Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent... [More]
North Korea Conducts Nuke Test
Given how blisteringly brilliant this current president's policies towards North Korea have been, I have no doubt we'll soon be hearing how this is all Clinton's fault: SEOUL, South Korea... [More]
October 9, 2006
'Why Should I Care About North Korea?'
Lades and gents, your president, courtesy of Bob Woodward and The Carpetbagger: George W. pulled Bandar aside. "Bandar, I guess you're the best asshole who knows about the world. Explain... [More]
October 13, 2006
War of the Words: A Five-Part Series
Brilliant. Go. Watch. Now.... [More]
October 19, 2006
Today's Must Read Post
When Glenn Greewald is on, he is really, REALLY on. Today's effort is an extended discussion of the competing goals of securing liberty and establishing security, and it is an... [More]
October 20, 2006
If Ever There Was Proof That The Republican Party Misunderstands Terrorism
The latest add from the GOP: I'll let Atrios provide the reply: The point of terrorism is, as the name suggests, to terrorize. Not simply to kill and destroy, but... [More]
October 25, 2006
In Your Name
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning. Cheney... [More]
'I Think I Owe An Explanation To The American People'
So says your president. Only one problem: he never provided one.... [More]
October 27, 2006
What Osama Bin Laden Wants
Spencer Ackerman reminds us what's at stake. And for the record... his blog is much better now that he's left TNR.... [More]
October 29, 2006
If We're Supposed To Listen To What Our Enemy Says...
Does that mean we can all now agree that Iraq is no longer "the central front in the war on terror?" The conflict in Iraq is drawing fewer foreign fighters... [More]
The 1970's All Over Again?
Think again. Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard, suggests the 1950's make a better parallel. And yes, he even manages a JFK/Obama comparison there at the end. Take a... [More]
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