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Congress Reacts to News of American Death in Israeli Raid With Silence

By | 06.04.10 | 6:00 am

On Thursday, the world learned that one of the activists killed this week by Israeli commandos was a U.S. citizen. On Capitol Hill, the news seemed to raise no eyebrows at all.

Furkan Dogan, a New York-born student living in Turkey, was one of nine activists killed, according More…

Lieberman’s Investigation Into the Fort Hood ‘Terrorist’ Attack

By | 11.20.09 | 10:30 am

Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos has a nice roundup of yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, called and led by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who opened the morning session with an announcement that the shootings of 13 soldiers on the U.S. Army base was a “terrorist” attack as More…