I’ve read some wacky conspiracy theories suggested by “progressive” opponents of the Dubai ports deal, but I think what I read at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Stakeholder blog last night takes the cake. The post titled Oy, linked to a New York Post (that’s Rupert Murdoch’s shmatte) story, QAEDA CLAIM: WE ‘INFILTRATED’ [...]
Read full post...The NSA spy scandal just seems to get bigger and messier with each passing day. Thanks to Slate for pointing me to today’s [Los Angeles Times->http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-spy25dec25,0,1480152,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines], which suggests the likelihood that NSA spy satellites are pointed at the United States allowing NSA to intercept virtually all domestic telecommunications traffic. While the story’s authors [...]
Read full post...I think George Bush has spoken to the American people more in the past three days than in his entire presidency. A mark of true desperation. I’m guessing that their polling is showing that they’re taking an awful hit–and not just in the obvious Democratic strongholds, but perhaps in their own strongholds.
“I am [...]
Yossi Beilin recently wrote an interesting column in the Forward in which he called for the immediate release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison. Barghouti is perhaps the most celebrated and popular Palestinian leader today and his acclaim among his people only increases with each passing day he spends behind bars. A bit [...]
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All my heart and sympathy go out to Israelis who’ve suffered yet another terror attack yesterday in Netanya at the hands of Islamic Jihad. This time four Israelis and the bomber were killed. An absolutely heroic security guard pinned the bomber to a wall while two police officers (one of them [...]
Goss: master of the obvious (source: CNN)
This headline from CNN:
CIA Chief Defends Agency Over bin Laden Hunt
Goss: ‘We know more than we can say’
Or less…
Later in the story, Goss has this illuminating explanation for why the agency’s having so much trouble finding Al Qaeda’s leaders:
[They] haven’t been found “primarily because they don’t want [...]
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