The US military in 2008 shut down a website set up by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to expose terror plots, angering both parties, who saw the site as a vital intelligence tool, the Washington Post reported Friday. Despite objections from the Central Intelligence Agency, US military computer experts dismantled the online forum after commanders raised [...] […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – A proposed 657-million-dollar health settlement for some 10,000 people who worked at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks was too low and must be renegotiated, a judge ruled Friday. "In my judgment, this settlement is not enough," federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in New York after hearing two hours of [...] […]
WASHINGTON -- A senior US senator urged Attorney General Eric Holder Friday to create a task force to investigate possible criminal conduct behind the collapse of Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers. "I am deeply concerned about the facts that have come to light regarding the demise of Lehman Brothers and the accounting manipulation that contributed to [. […]
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende on Friday dismissed an ex-US general's "disgraceful" claim that Dutch soldiers failed to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as their ranks included openly gay troops. "A disgraceful statement," Balkenende told a weekly press conference in The Hague of the comments by John Sheehan, a retired forme […]
UPDATE AT BOTTOM: GOP pushed 'hoax' memo on to reporters before it was verified: report Second update: Rep. Anthony Weiner rips GOP on House floor for 'producing fake memos' The Democratic leadership in Washington, DC, has accused Republicans of circulating a "hoax" Democrat memo promising to revisit the health care issue after […]
Two GOP congressmen say most Republicans on the Hill now believe the Iraq war was a mistake, and "more than half the Republican caucus" believes the way in which the US entered the Afghanistan war was also a mistake. Reps. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA) made the comments at a discussion panel at the [...] […]
Most Democrats say they support a public option, but we probably won't know for sure as they're unlikely to cast a vote on it. The last hope for an up-or-down vote on the provision in the current bill faded on Friday, when one of its most outspoken backers scrapped his plans to force a motion on [...] […]
On a recent radio show, Glenn Beck called for people to leave churches that advocate for social justice. The Fox News host has said that social justice is just a code word for Nazism and Communism. Stephen Colbert agrees. "When I think of Hitler and Stalin, I think social justice," he joked Thursday night. Between his [...] […]
Update: Freedom Alliance responds to allegations Fox News commentator Sean Hannity is routinely mocked by the left for his conservative positions, but now he has become the target of far more serious accusations from a fellow-conservative. Columnist and blogger Debbie Schlussel claimed on Friday that Hannity is profiting from a charity that raises money for […]
It's distressingly lonely at the top for RNC chairman Michael Steele. Even his GOP colleagues agree he's doing more harm than good to their cause, according to a National Journal survey released online Thursday. A whopping 71 percent of the 104 Republican insiders polled deem Steele a "liability" to the party, while only [...] […]