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Bush Officials and 9/11: They Had a Plan
Reporter Kurt Eichenwald has new details in the New York Times today about the blindness and inaction of the George W. Bush Administration in the run-up to 9/11. In addition to the well-known Aug. 6 presidential daily brief …
Revisiting a Key Legal Basis for Obama’s Anti-Terrorism Drone Strikes
After I wrote a short piece for last week’s magazine that, among other things, chastised the Obama Administration for not doing more to discuss the pros and cons of its heavy reliance on drone strikes against suspected terrorists, an Administration official groused that I hadn’t credited public comments on the subject by various …
Candidates Change, But Campaigns Remain The Same
The Obama campaign’s first major general election campaign video–released today–makes the case that despite an inherited recession and foreign policy crisis, the President has made the country safer and stronger.
Oops. Wrong guy. Wrong election. But it’s the same message. Here is the online video that Obama actually released today:
Articles of Faith: The Importance of Understanding Religion in a Post-9/11 World
It’s hard to remember now, but in the days immediately following the attacks of 9/11, a spirit of religious unity reigned. Shocked political foes gathered together at the Washington National Cathedral for a prayer service that …
Rupert Murdoch: “Humble” but Not Responsible, Rebuts 9/11 Hacking Charges
Rupert Murdoch, at first exhibiting the air of a slightly confused old man, testified in front of a parliamentary committee in London on Tuesday. He began with a slightly off-cue interruption saying unsolicited that he was happy to be testifying. He followed up with the headline-baiting assertion, again by way of an interruption, that …
Rupert Murdoch and the 9/11 Victims
Everyone needs to slow down with these allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World hacked into the phones of 9/11 victims.
On Wednesday, New York Republican Pete King sent a letter to FBI chief Robert Mueller “to urge that the FBI immediately commence an investigation of News Corporation pertaining to recent media reports” of …
Classic Weiner
The Meaning of 9/12
Over at Tuned In, our colleague Jim Poniewozik has a message for Glenn Beck.
A Temporary Cease Fire
I woke up this morning and did a double take at my blackberry: only 20 new messages today? And then I remembered, it’s 911 and the Alex Conants and Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza’s of the world are taking the day off – at least publicly. No political tv commercials, no spam about what the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s editorial board is …
