Saturday, October 6, 2007 NEW* BUSH AND LAURA BUSH in Camp David: At 9 AMTHE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart The White House via Marine One for Camp David. [WH Week Ahead]
Sunday, October 7, 2007 NEW* BUSH in Emmitsburg, MD: At 10:00 AM THE PRESIDENT makes Remarks at National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service in Maryland. [WH Week Ahead]
Monday, October 8, 2007 NEW* BUSH in Washington, DC: At 1:00 PM THE PRESIDENT returns to the White House via Marine One. [WH Week Ahead]
DEBKAfile’s military sources report the package, discussed by US Pentagon and Israel defense ministry officials, aims at replenishing the seriously depleted Israel Air Force stocks of missiles, bombs and fuel to their level prior to the 2006 Lebanon war, ready for any potential war contingency.
"This country does not torture," White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters. "It is a policy of the United States that we do not torture and we do not."
The revelations in today's NYTimes story details how Steven G. Bradbury in the Office of Legal Counsel and Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General secretly and illegally endorsed "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) is demanding copies of two classified opinions from the Department of Justice -- memos that authorized use of a combination of brutal interrogation techniques to gather intelligence, according to the New York Times.
In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk.
Free speech in the United States is on the decline, and Canada isn’t far off as the pressure for increased integration between the two countries mounts
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Members of the Milwaukee Police Department now have a new beat to find criminals: social Web sites like MySpace and Facebook.
Disabled men entered onto terrorism database indefinitely after detention and questioning
'I discovered some things I don’t like and I made some enemies because of it.' Then she said, in her light-hearted way, 'If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated"...
A group of European politicians and intellectuals have started a new think tank aimed at pushing EU capitals to creating a "more coherent and vigorous" foreign affairs policy in an attempt to make Europe a stronger player on the global stage.
As promised, George W. Bush has vetoed a highly popular bipartisan bill that would provide health care for uninsured low-income American children.
United Nations — Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign sure to last years and to pit them against a determined American foe, the National Rifle Association.
The federal Real ID Act doesn’t have many friends these days. Eighteen states have passed legislation rejecting the law, Congress has refusedto put any money into implementing it, and just this week New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announced he, not the Feds, would determine New York’s drivers license policy, with officials in his administration indicating the state might opt out of the Real ID program altogether.
Retired CIA spymaster Charles "Charlie" Allen has reappeared as chief intelligence officer within the Department of Homeland Security and is deploying intelligence officers to newly created Fusion Centers (FCs) throughout the U.S. By the end of 2008, they will be operating in all 50 states.
It isn’t “Radical Islam” that is attacking the very fabric of our society, it’s the people running our government, our media, and the people in the shadows that run the corporations and the banks, along with the so-called “think tanks” that make policy.
After all, we assumed that because we were American citizens, we were protected by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. No longer. With the passage and subsequent “refinements” of The Patriot Act, with the abolition of habeas corpus, with the Military Commissions Act, with recent executive orders unchallenged by the Congress, we have lost these protections.
A Chinese company with ties to Beijing's military and past links to Saddam Hussein's army in Iraq and the Taliban will gain access to U.S. defense-network technology under a proposed merger, Pentagon officials say.
European, Asian and Canadian companies are taking advantage of the weaker dollar to buy their U.S. counterparts at a record pace, increasing investment in the United States but also raising fears about a potential loss of jobs and autonomy.
“Because the defendant’s plea was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and because the conviction is supported by the evidence … the Defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea is denied,” Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter wrote.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government, not Blackwater USA, will handle security for FBI agents in Iraq while they investigate whether the private security firm acted properly in an incident that killed 11 Iraqis, the FBI said on Thursday.
Jon Stewart presents a brief historical film on the roots of America’s favorite private mercenary force.
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As the school year gets under way, public schools around the nation are under siege from Religious Right pressure groups determined to turn them into instruments of evangelism.
Here’s a tip: If you’re a State Representative about to lecture high school kids on, well, anything, and you’re planning on using a Powerpoint deck on your thumb drive, it’s probably a good idea to delete all the porn off of it, as some computers will automatically play back images as a slideshow. Just so you know.