Not Scared Yet? Try Connecting These Dots

"Pre-election period … pre-election plot … pre-election threats": these rolled off National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's lips no less than seven times Sunday on CNN's Late Edition as she discussed the likely timing of a terrorist attack. She...

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Indonesian Court Dismissals Threaten Tighter US Ties

The Bush administration could be forced to slow plans to resume relations with the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) after a Jakarta appeals court Saturday dismissed all pending cases against Indonesians indicted for crimes against humanity committed in East Timor five...

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Police State USA

Last week's announcement that the terrorist threat warning level has been raised in parts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., has led to dramatic and unprecedented restrictions on the movements of citizens. Americans wishing to visit the U.S. Capitol must,...

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And So It Goes

Turns out, according to the Washington Post, the information on which the latest terrorist scare is based is two to three years old. It was sold to the American public initially as if it were a brand-new discovery. It seems that the Bush administration is unable to...

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Nodong No Joke?

A year ago some un-named US Government official "reported" that North Korea was working on a new missile that could perhaps be a threat to the US mainland. "We've had hints of this for several years, but it's only within the last year that we've been...

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Bush Outing of Khan and the Faustian Bargain

David Johnston of the New York Times tried to get further details of the Bush administration outing of Pakistani double agent Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan. But he was stonewalled when he called his Bush administration contacts: "American officials contacted on Saturday...

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Who ‘Outed’ Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan?

As the President of the United States and his reelection campaign invoked the specter of another terrorist attack on American soil – implicitly warning against the dangers of switching horses in midstream– other members of his administration were undermining...

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Backtalk, August 8, 2004

2005 Draft?I'm a fan of your site, and I have a boyfriend in the army. He even likes it. I love how you're not anti-troops, but anti-war as all are. I have found something that has scared me, and I thought you could possible ease some of our minds out here about if it...

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