The Washington Independent

Posts Tagged terrorist attacks

Giuliani Says 9/11 Never Happened

By | 01.08.10 | 10:35 am

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

More…

The ‘Deboogeymanification’ of Terror Suspects

By | 11.17.09 | 12:22 pm

On his MSNBC morning show today, Dylan Ratigan asked me if I thought the decision to bring the suspected 9/11 co-conspirators to trial in a New York federal court was an attempt to “deboogeymanificate” those notorious terrorists we’ve heard so much about. After all, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed More…

Patriot Act Renewal Debate Kicks Off Over Party Lines

By | 09.23.09 | 6:00 am

Eight years after it was passed, the USA Patriot Act remains among the most controversial pieces of counterterrorism legislation in the so-called “war on terror.” On December 31 of this year, some of its more controversial provisions will expire, forcing Congress to revisit it More…