NEW DELHI - Ahead of the Indian government's proposed move to repeal a draconian anti-terror legislation, a new report says the law is used to settle personal vendettas, frame children, torture prisoners and systematically target the minority Muslim community. Lashing...
The Select Committee on Intelligence has just issued a report [pdf] highly critical of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of October 2002, which served as the basis for the "Congressional Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces...
President George Bush says that America is safer because of our war against Iraq. I respectfully disagree. For one thing, our "shock and awe" campaign has turned into a show and tell of America's military limitations. We have not been able to defeat the Iraqi...
If Dick Cheney isn't F-you-ing Democrats on the floor of the U.S. Senate, George W. Bush is flipping off teenage boys in East Lampeter, PA, as the Bush-mobile swings through town and the residents come out to greet their sovereign Lord: "The action got started...
In my June 29, 2004, column, "Role Reversal," I pointed out that now it is the Republicans who argue that government can be trusted with any amount of power in the name of the "war on terror." I quoted from Al Gore's speech at Georgetown University Law Center, in...
UNITED NATIONS - Lobbying has shifted into high gear on a resolution to be brought before the UN General Assembly on Friday that will call on Israel to tear down a wall it is building around the West Bank and pay reparations to affected Palestinians. The motion will...
The international goo-goos (Tammany Hall’s old name for the "good government" types) need their humanitarian crise du jour, and the Sudan currently fills the bill. The usual celebrities are wringing their hands and we are all supposed to care, deeply. The realist...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded that the "key assessments" in the National Intelligence Estimate – which was the basis for the "Congressional Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" – were...
According to several military analysts working both inside and outside of government, the Bush administration's oft-repeated claim that militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the direct link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein does not ring true. Zarqawi, a Jordanian...
LONDON - The long-awaited inquiry report into intelligence failures that led Britain to join the invasion of Iraq reveals what went wrong, but stops short of saying who went wrong. The 196-page report by Lord Butler discloses "serious flaws" in intelligence...
