Somebody ought to tell President George Bush something he obviously doesn't know. He keeps talking about wanting democracy in the Middle East and reform in general as an antidote to extremism. What apparently his staff members have not told him, probably because they...
Come payday a crew of us head toward Chengdu's Computer City and stroll past a riot of electronics and dance groups touting their goods to techno beats. Underemployed and bored locals gather with migrant workers and stare at the computers and dancers. We continue on...
How are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan going? Perhaps the best way to answer that question is to look at what is happening in Saudi Arabia. Until about a year ago, Saudi Arabia was one of the safest countries on earth. Crime was rare, and everyone, including...
JERUSALEM - The security wall Israel is building around Jerusalem is raising concerns among Palestinians about their future and where they belong. The wall is firming up Israeli control in areas it occupied after the 1967 war. Up until then Israel had more or less...
There is certainly some justification for being less than completely satisfied, as Elaine Cassel certainly is, with the Supreme Court's decisions this week on people detained without trial or access to friends, family or lawyers by the Bush administration, notably...
The cliché about bad news – "it never rains but it pours" – was in full view the week of June 20. And the forecast is for more of the same for the foreseeable future. The proverbial torrents in question were the documents and statistics made public by the...
BAGHDAD - On what was to have been the day of the handover of sovereignty back to the Iraqi government, another symbolic handover took place. The U.S. army formally transferred Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein to the legal custody of the new government. "I know...
Page one and page two But How Could She Have Been Hired? CD: Why was she allowed to stay, and keep her security clearance? Were they trying to protect someone higher up? SE: I don't know. Is it possible? Yes. But I just don't know. But at the unclassified meeting...
Page one Incompetence, Corruption and Cover-ups: The Kevin Taskasen Affair CD: In your October 25 2002 interview with 60 Minutes, "Lost in Translation," you charged the FBI with incompetence and greed – and also of allowing infiltration by foreign intelligence...
