Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed. Why? Perhaps this explains it:...
If so, it's not because he has associated with Bill Ayers.  He did, however, order a terrorist attack on Pakistan that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been conditioned to believe that governments don't commit acts of...
Fellow Brooklynite Javed Iqbal, 45, today plead guilty to broadcasting Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV programming to US customers. The charge is "providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization." Eric brought this news item to my attention and asked if I...
Wait. A man was sentenced to 66 months in prison, most of which he's already served and then when he gets out he stays in forever? Right. The White House-chosen military panel - not a jury - at Camp Justice at occupied Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, issued a split decision...
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald took Keith Olbermann to task for his kneejerk devotion to Barack Obama, manifested shamefully in his 180 on the capitulation of Congress to Bush on telecom immunity and the FISA law. Today, after Olbermann replied, indirectly, on another...
Any given day in Iraq includes a distressingly long list of casualties, but what about the stories behind those incidents? Here's one from today which I thought warranted some expounding on: Under the headline Terrorist hideout destroyed, a military press release...
