Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 4322 Washington, D.C. 20530-0001 Dear Mr. Fine: I have reviewed the recently released redacted and unclassified version of your department's audit of the FBI's Foreign...
UNITED NATIONS - Nationwide elections in Iraq, scheduled to take place before the end of January 2005, are now jeopardized by two powerful UN staff unions demanding that no UN employees be sent to the violence-ridden country. "Just one staff member is one staff...
Civil liberties and immigrant rights advocates say House Republicans are using legislation based on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations as cover to implement a series of troubling, unrelated reforms condoning torture, limiting immigration and increasing surveillance...
Antiwar.com Bridging the Gap After going through this website, I noticed that I have perceived Americans in a false way. I have wronged Americans with my false perceptions. Now, I am an Egyptian youth who lives in Qatar, and what I hear in the news and see just makes...
How to understand the sudden outbreak of candor among Bush administration officials (or former officials) about Iraq in the past couple of days? In the vice presidential debate on Tuesday evening, Dick Cheney said, "I have not suggested there's a connection...
BANGKOK - The showdown between Burma's military regime and the European Union (EU) at this weekend's meeting of Asian and European leaders has propelled into one that could damage the EU's stature if Rangoon does not blink. As it is, the stakes have never been higher....
I oppose HR 163 in the strongest possible terms. The draft, whether for military purposes or some form of "national service," violates the basic moral principles of individual liberty upon which this country was founded. Furthermore, the military neither...
The idea that John Kerry is some kind of peacenik, who will get us out of Iraq and drive the neocons out of the Temple of Democracy, is a myth that will die a hard death, but die it must. I realize that a lot of my readers have invested their hopes and dreams in the...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - "We are trying our level best to educate Afghan women on the election process. But their men seem determined to prevent them from voting on election day," says electoral officer Shahla Ghaffar Khan. "Many women are also reluctant to...
NEW DELHI - Four years ago, they exuberantly declared they were "natural allies," being two of the world's biggest democracies. Last year, they vowed to pursue their "strategic partnership" and their campaigns against "terror" with full...
