A recent Salon article exploring the “surprisingly warm” relationship between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Muslim community leans on the Republican presidential candidate’s ties to the Aga Khan, religious leader of the Ismailis — a sect of Shia Islam — as evidence he is well-connected to at least More…
In the search for answers for Friday’s bombing of government offices and shooting at a political summer camp in Oslo, Norway, that killed more than 80 people, reporters are digging into the background of Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian man being charged for the massacre.
The latest FEC filings from American Crossroads continue to tell a similar story: the nonprofit political spending group is funded almost entirely by billionaires. Salon did the math yesterday and calculated that in August the group took in approximately $2.6 million in total, and that a full $2.4 million More…
Andrew Breitbart, who’s been absolutely unbowed by the James O’Keefe controversy — quickly turning the story into one of media malpractice against conservatives — is promising a fight against this Salon story on James O’Keefe’s past embrace of in-your-face political extremism.
The Wall Street Journal, Pat Buchanan and others are already condemning the Obama administration for treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a civilian criminal rather than an illegal warrior to whom we can presumably do whatever we please. We are in “a war,” The Journal More…
Much as Barack Obama may deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the climate toward international diplomacy and recognizing the value in cooperating with the rest of the world, the prize seems more about congratulating the United States for breaking with the Bush go-it-alone attitude than for any More…
Writing about the role Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan played in the Bush counterterror surveillance program, Marcy Wheeler, blogging for Glenn Greenwald at Salon today, argues that as NSA adviser, rather than CIA director (a position Brennan was nominated for, but Glenn helped torpedo the nomination by More…
One of the many unanswered questions about the current financial crisis is why there haven’t been more criminal investigations into what happened, including the highly suspect actions of the rating agencies, the banks, and mortgage brokers. At Salon, economist Simon Johnson and author and former investment banker More…
The Weekly Standard and Greg Sargent are both reporting that the House Democratic leadership is boldly (my characterization, not the Standard’s) standing up to the White House and the Senate, which last week passed an amendment to the appropriations bill that would allow Obama to keep More…
Carrie Johnson in The Washington Post today picks up on a problem we’ve been writing about at TWI for months now: when it comes to information about crimes committed by the previous administration, President Obama isn’t following through on his big commitments to “open government.”
“Civil liberties advocates are More…
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