From everywhere, it seems, many officials and military are expressing their view on the value of the report on torture issued by a Senate committee last week. Opinions differ greatly on how accurate it is. It became obvious very quickly
We thought it couldn’t get much lower. The 6,000-page torture report covering mainly the Iraq and Afghanistan wars during the Bush administration was highly critical of the CIA. But the failure
A congressional committee heard a few more I’m sorrys today from Jonathan Gruber (pictured during the hearing with head down), a health care adviser for the Affordable Care Act, who had said it was Americans’ “stupidity” that helped move the bill through Congress. He also had cited a “lack of transparency” in keeping the public […]
Risky by the Senate and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in particular. She (pictured) led the chamber’s investigation and has pushed for the release. But the big concern is for the welfare of Americans.
On terror, guest Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), pictured, home page) said on this morning’s edition that ISUS’s advance is being slowed and we need to give our policy time. However many currently or previously in the military and some others say
The land down under has a different idea. It doesn’t involve a prohibition on owning guns or anything extreme like that but it seems to us like a common sense idea. Here’s a report from the British newspaper, The Guardian,
A good discussion about Iran’s nuclear threat and al Qaeda’s status today on “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Michael McCall (R-TX) agree that we are preventing larger attacks but
Right now, it’s not tomorrow. At the end of our initial post December third,(http://respectinpolitics.org/2013/12/03/why-should-the-media-report-bomb-scares/), we said we’d have part 2 tomorrow, but what’s a
They have become so common they’re hardly newsworthy. So should they not be publicized? One argument is that the people directly involved, especially perhaps, if it occurs at a school,
CNN host Candy Crowley asked whether we’re safer now than we were a year or two ago. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said, “I don’t think so. I think terrorism is up worldwide. I think statistics indicate that.
MSNBC host, Alex Wagner, extended the terrorism battle to the Muslim “world” on her program today. She could have limited to the small number of radical Islamists who stir up or engage in violence. Here’s what she said on Now with Alex Wagner,
Finger-pointing is well under way. It started almost immediately after a Boston transit officer put handcuffs on the second suspect, who was hiding in a boat. Appearing on
December 14, 2014 by mikes888
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