IN ALL the ramped up rhetoric over Syria, the question is not just what should Obama do about it, but also how much support does he have in the American public to launch military action? Eli Lake has a post up today that will give you pause. A recent New York Times/CBS poll presents real [...]
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Charged with Using Weapon of Mass Destruction *Updated*
UPDATE: Rachel Maddow offered reporting from Pete Williams of NBC News from the transcript of the interview of Tsarnaev, which happened after he was read his rights and began cooperating. Tsarnaev told authorities that there was no foreign involvement; that he and his brother learned to build the bombs came through the Internet; and that [...]
Dennis Rodman Meets with Kim Jong Un, But State Dept. Won’t Debrief
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | Technology News | Celebrity News “There is nobody at the CIA who can tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman, and that in itself is scary,” Ganyard said. [ABC News] IT’S BEYOND weird that Dennis Rodman is [...]
News Desk: U.S., China and Japan Condemn North Korea Nuclear Test
North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, drawing condemnation from around the world, including from its only major ally, China, which summoned the North Korean ambassador to protest. [Reuters] IT’S BEING described as having “greater explosive force” than the 2006 and 2009 tests, according to Reuters. China’s [...]
Top Story — The Incredible Shrinking Stature of John McCain
“One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. .. Our mission has failed…” – William F. Buckley “You’re on the wrong side of it, and your refusal to answer whether you were right or wrong on it is going to have an impact on my judgment on whether to vote for your [...]
News Desk: Follow Up to Report on Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Use
THE REPORT originally came from Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin, who wrote that a “compelling case” included evidence that Bashar al-Assad had deployed chemical weapons in his fight with rebels. FP has obtained the text of the original cable. A snippet from Rogin: “CSO officers spoke with three contacts, including a former Chief of Staff of [...]
News Desk: “Compelling Case” Syria’s Assad has Used Chemical Weapons
THE EXCLUSIVE report is from Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy: A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month, The Cable has learned. United States diplomats in Turkey conducted a previously undisclosed, intensive investigation into claims that Syrian President [...]
Romney Stumbles on National Security, Collides with Reagan, Bill Kristol, and Scooter Libby
THE POLITICAL MALPRACTICE of the Romney campaign continues at breathtaking speed. The political incompetence is mounting on multiple fronts, so you’ll have to game up to keep up. We had the Anglo-Saxon weirdness, but then today Bill Kristol calls Mitt Romney out on his veracity in suggesting that Ronald Reagan went short on national security [...]
North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader’ is Dead
The North kept news of the death of its leader secret for roughly two days, perhaps a sign that the leadership was struggling to position itself for what many believe could be a particularly perilous transition. Kim Jong-il’s death came after a long illness, dating to 2008, that American intelligence agencies believed involved some form [...]
New York Times: Pakistan Arrests CIA Bin Laden Informants
With friends like these… Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army [...]
Too Late, But Maybe Obama Will Hear Them Now
That dynamic, coupled with the GOP’s post-midterm swagger, emboldened leaders to insist that the president reschedule Thursday’s much-anticipated meeting until after Thanksgiving to accommodate their schedule, not his. The first post-election meeting between Obama and congressional leaders, billed by Obama as the fundamental first step in the post-election reconciliation process, will now take place Nov. [...]
Palin Puts Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran Back in the News
Sarah Palin has started quite a conversation. Riffing off of a Daniel Pipes column, though it was actually a mis-read of Patrick J. Buchanan’s article at Townhall, Palin on Iran has had its desired outcome. Now, I’ve already written about this, including Dick Cheney’s shot at Sarah, but Palin’s Iran comments have brought a lot [...]
Who Started the Iranian Badge Story?
(cross-posted at firedoglake) UPDATE: Amir Taheri has been pressured to release a statement. Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun. As far as my article is concerned I stand by it. The law has been passed by [...]
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More on the Debunked Iranian Badge Story
Matthew Yglesias, filling in for Josh Marshall, asked a good question this morning: Did somebody hire Benador to push this story? As I chronicled when the story broke last week, Amir Taheri is associated with Benador Associates, which is filled with neocons that have acted as the propaganda wing of the Bush administration's preemptive war [...]
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Has Bush’s Iran War Propaganda Begun?
UPDATE II: Thanks to Juan Cole, who is an expert on Middle Eastern matters, for linking to this post. It helps people understand that on this side at least, we're after the truth and not just pumping up war propaganda, which seems all the wingnut war-o-sphere is all about (see note below for more). NOTE: [...]
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