UNITED NATIONS - Lobbying has shifted into high gear on a resolution to be brought before the UN General Assembly on Friday that will call on Israel to tear down a wall it is building around the West Bank and pay reparations to affected Palestinians. The motion will...
The international goo-goos (Tammany Hall’s old name for the "good government" types) need their humanitarian crise du jour, and the Sudan currently fills the bill. The usual celebrities are wringing their hands and we are all supposed to care, deeply. The realist...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded that the "key assessments" in the National Intelligence Estimate – which was the basis for the "Congressional Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" – were...
According to several military analysts working both inside and outside of government, the Bush administration's oft-repeated claim that militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the direct link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein does not ring true. Zarqawi, a Jordanian...
LONDON - The long-awaited inquiry report into intelligence failures that led Britain to join the invasion of Iraq reveals what went wrong, but stops short of saying who went wrong. The 196-page report by Lord Butler discloses "serious flaws" in intelligence...
Some observers believe that with the departure of George Tenet as CIA director, along with critical reports from both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the 9/11 commission (surely the House Intelligence Committee cannot be too far behind) regarding massive...
This week's decision by the U.S. State Department to cut up to $18 million in aid to its staunchest anti-terrorism ally in Central Asia is being welcomed by human rights activists, who called the move long overdue. The slap at the government of President Islam...
Key intelligence used to justify war with Iraq has now been shown to be unreliable, concludes Lord Butler in the British government's report about the misinformation that caused a pointless war. Nevertheless, says Lord Butler, there is no one to blame for the...
TORONTO - In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a world where powerful and secretive authorities – "Big Brother" – scrutinize the intimate details of citizens' personal lives. That fiction may be closer to reality than most people think. Earlier this...
Members of the book industry and civil liberties advocates are scratching their heads over why House Republican leaders decided to bully their way out of passing a bipartisan piece of legislation intended to secure the rights of due process and privacy of library...
