Feinstein, in Letter About KSM Trial, Suggests Follow-Ups to Christmas Attack Are Possible

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has released a letter she sent to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder asking them to reconsider trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, in Manhattan. Significantly, Feinstein urged Obama and Holder to More…

Rudy Giuliani, Back When He Remembered 9/11

I’m still in shock over former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comment that “we had no domestic attacks under Bush.” Is it possible that he meant to add “after 9/11″ and slipped up? I don’t know — forgetting to mention 9/11 is not a problem he’s had in the More…

Giuliani Says 9/11 Never Happened

When partisanship curdles into the malleability of the truth, you get former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on “Good Morning America”:

“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did – one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on

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Feds Consider Bringing Another High-Level Gitmo Prisoner to Trial in NYC

Federal prosecutors are weighing sending Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan to face a federal court trial in New York, The Associated Press reports, based on an anonymous source.

Khan is one of fewer than two dozen “high-value” detainees at the prison camp, believed to be a senior member of More…

Napolitano Says She Was Not Consulted in Decision to Try KSM in New York City

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano whether Attorney General Eric Holder consulted her before deciding to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators in a federal court in New York.

“No, I was not consulted,” said Napolitano. More…

Sessions Opens DHS Oversight Hearing With Jab at Holder for 9/11 Trials

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just opened this morning’s  hearing that’s supposed to be about oversight of the Department of Homeland Security with a quick jab at Attorney General Eric Holder for his decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged terrorists to the United States More…

VIDEO: Angry New Yorkers Denounce Terror Trials, Demand Holder’s Resignation

A few hundred New Yorkers gathered in a cold and rainy Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the Obama administration’s decision to try the suspected Sept. 11 attackers in a civilian federal court in New York.  Organized by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, speakers ranging More…

Protesters in New York City Rally Against 9/11 Trials, Call for Holder to Resign

NEW YORK — Despite a cold and steady rain, the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition managed to attract a few hundred people to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan today to protest Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged co-conspirators in the Sept. More…

Taking on the Gun Show Loophole

Roughly two-thirds of unlicensed gun show dealers sold weapons to undercover investigators even after those investigators told dealers that they probably wouldn’t pass a background check, according to a report released this week by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The sellers are exploiting an enormous More…

With All the AIG Outrage, Will Anyone Care About This?

It’s a story that also appeared on the front page of The New York Times today, about a staggeringly high number of elevator accidents in public housing complexes in New York City, injuring some 300 residents, employees and visitors since 2001.

From The Times:

A home health aide watched

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