“When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims.” – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev RETRIBUTION for crimes against Muslims, the note Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left said, according to CBS News. From CBS: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller. [...]
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Bush Legacy and Library in Torture’s Shadow
But there is another building, far from Dallas on land leased from Cuba, that symbolizes Mr. Bush’s legacy in a darker, truer way: the military penal complex at Guantánamo Bay where Mr. Bush imprisoned hundreds of men after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a vast majority guilty of no crime. [New York Times] A LIBRARY [...]
Barbara Bush’s Truth, and the George W. Bush Library
“He’s by far the best qualified man,” Mrs. Bush said, “but no.” “We’ve had enough Bushes,” she said, saying “it’s not just four families, or whatever.” [Associated Press] THE LIBRARY of George W. Bush was dedicated today, with the voice of the former president’s mother Barbara Bush speaking truth to whatever Republican power still exists [...]
George W. Bush Library Opens, Amnesia Ensues
It took less than 4 1/2 years of the Obama presidency for President George W. Bush to mount his comeback. While doing absolutely nothing on his own behalf (he’s been the most silent ex-president in my lifetime), his approval is up to 47 percent according to The Post/ABC poll. That’s up 14 points from his [...]
Detainee Treatment Report: U.S. Tortured Prisoners After 9/11 [VIDEO]
The Constitution Project released their report from the Task Force on Detainee Treatment which concluded that the United States did use torture following the attacks of 9-11. (emphasis added throughout) Findings and Recommendations … #1 U.S. forces, in many instances, used interrogation techniques on detainees that constitute torture. American personnel conducted an even larger number [...]
FBI on Boston Terrorist Attack: “Someone Knows Who Did This” [Video]
Investigators believe the bombs were hidden in black nylon backpacks and housed inside sealable metal pots called pressure cookers. Pressure cooker bombs can help boost the power of relatively small devices by briefly constraining the blast. And when the cookers do explode, they can add large chunks of metal to the shrapnel spray. The IEDs [...]
Chuck Hagel and Dick Cheney Agree on North Korea, with Intelligence Minimal
“We have every capacity to deal with any action North Korea will take to protect this country and the interests of this country and our allies,” Hagel said. – North Korea nears ‘dangerous line,’ Hagel says SECRETARY HAGEL made it clear this week that President Obama is no different than any other American president in [...]
Anne Smedinghoff, Foreign Service Heroine, Slain in Afghanistan
FOREIGN SERVICE officers do unspeakably dangerous work and rarely get noticed unless one of them dies. We found that out when Christopher Stevens was murdered in Benghazi. In Afghanistan recently, a deadly attack took another American life. Anne Smedinghoff was the best of what the United States foreign services offers. From a report today by [...]
Veterans Waiting Longer Under Obama [Video]
PBS INTERVIEWED Secretary Shinseki, who is making no excuses. Of course, Shinseki isn’t at the top of this food chain, President Obama is. Shinseki also noted that Vietnam, as well as Gulf War veterans, and PTSD sufferers, added hundreds of thousands to the claim logs. President Obama is taking the hit and he should. We [...]
Feature — Bailing and Wailing Versus Leaning In, It’s a Global Women’s Issue
So let’s put aside the psychological and cultural barriers to women’s success for a moment, and get real: this is equally about the economics. Don’t just lean in, save up (for the hired help). – The True Cost of Leaning In ANOTHER DAY, another lame case against “having it all.” Never mind that this was [...]
CNN, 10 x 10, and Intel’s “Girl Rising,” a Film of Educational Empowerment
Girl Rising was directed by Academy Award nominee Richard E. Robbins. It was created in collaboration with CNN, Intel, and 10 x 10, an organization devoted to the empowerment of women through education worldwide. The portion on Afghanistan was produced and directed by independent filmmaker Ramaa Mosley. The stories of the individual girls were taken [...]
Pres. Karzai Causes More Trouble Than He’s Worth, This Time for Hagel
President Hamid Karzai leveled particularly harsh accusations against the United States on Sunday, suggesting that the Americans and the Taliban had a common goal in destabilizing his country. The comments cast a shadow on the first visit by Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. [New York Times] THERE’S really nothing nice to say about Pres. Hamid [...]
Obama SOTU Turns Emotional on Gun Safety “Deserve a Vote” Chant [Full Remarks]
“President Obama made clear tonight that he will continue fighting to create jobs, rebuild our economy, and strengthen America’s middle class. All of us should work together to reduce gun violence in our communities and invest in our future – in education, infrastructure, and research. We will need a balanced approach to our budget, one [...]
Andrea Mitchell and the Clinton Interview [Video]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy IT’S THE last time I’ll get to use the Paul Szep graphic of former Secretary Clinton holding up the world, because it’s now Secretary John Kerry. NBC’s grand dame of foreign policy taped her interview with the outgoing secretary as the incoming was [...]
2014 “Zero Option” is Real, Because Obama Beat Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
“The U.S. does not have an inherent objective of ‘X’ number of troops in Afghanistan,” said Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser. “We have an objective of making sure there is no safe haven for al-Qaida in Afghanistan and making sure that the Afghan government has a security force that is sufficient [...]
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