In the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a panel of foreign policy experts hosted by the New America Foundation shared thoughts on the mistakes made by the military and Bush administration in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Via Kevin Drum, the Toronto Star reports that Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen captured in 2002 by U.S. officials and sent to Syria for a year’s worth of torture, has lost his appeal for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Center for Constitutional Rights’s Maria LaHood More…
John Brennan has a tough rhetorical job ahead of him Wednesday morning. Speaking to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brennan, President Obama’s most influential terrorism and intelligence adviser, will attempt to reconcile the harder edges of Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan and his enthusiastic embrace of drone-enabled assassinations of More…
On the surface, the two accidents couldn’t have been more different. The first occurred in the rugged mountains of Appalachia; the second was more than a thousand miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. One was miles underground; the other thousands of feet underwater. One happened in pursuit of coal; More…
One of the things Charles “Cully” Stimson remembers about the interview that cost him his job is just how run down he was when it happened. His January 11, 2007 sit-down with Federal News Radio, said Stimson, was one of 40 interviews he’d More…
If last week’s call by Chinese military officials to dump U.S. Treasury bonds over the recent agreement to sell arms to Taiwan seemed haphazardly designed to strike fear into the hearts of U.S. government officials and strangely timed, you were probably right. It turns out that, in fact, More…
To the Obama administration’s pattern of sticking up for itself on its counterterrorism record, add this:
None of about 48 Guantanamo Bay detainees released or transferred elsewhere by the Obama administration has participated or been suspected of participating in subsequent “recidivist” activity, compared with 20 percent of about
The obvious thorn in the side of Republicans — who’ve made a habit of blasting the deficit spending of the Democratic majority under President Obama — is that the GOP majority under President George W. Bush never once balanced its annual budgets. As a result, the national debt More…
A Survey USA poll has Tim Griffin, the former U.S. attorney from Arkansas who resigned over the 2007 scandal over the politicization of appointments, up by 16 points over Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.). The reason for Snyder’s trouble is, no surprise, the unpopularity of health care reform legislation More…
It’s a testament to Jon Stewart’s extraordinary abilities to speak sensibly in an age of insanity that we expect him to skewer knaves like John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel torture advocate, who appeared on “The Daily Show” last night. Stewart has a great command of the facts More…
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