Page 1 of 44 pages 1 2 3 > Last »
Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen: WikiLeaks release endangers troops, Afghans
Sat, July 31st, 2010 @ 12:33am
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.org
The U.S. military's top officer charged Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in releasing tens of thousands of secret documents, had endangered the lives of American troops and Afghan informants who have assisted U.S. forces.
"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing," Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters. "But the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."
GOP Rep.: Bill to aid 9/11 responders will fail
Fri, July 30th, 2010 @ 11:57pm
Rep. Peter King [R]
"They're afraid of taking a tough vote and as a result of that, they're willing to let cops and firefighters die," King, who supports the bill, said in a telephone interview with AP. "They want to protect their members from having to take a tough vote."
A bill that would pay billions of dollars to people exposed to toxic dust from the World Trade Center will fall short in a House vote, one of its key supporters said Wednesday.
The House is expected Thursday to take up a measure to provide free health care and compensation payments to 9/11 rescue and recovery workers who fell ill after working in the trade center ruins.
U.S. Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican, predicted that the bill would fail, and accused Democrats of perpetrating a "cruel hoax."
Bitter fight on Capitol Hill over Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act
Thu, July 29th, 2010 @ 9:03pm
The scene near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
"They put this up on the suspension calendar knowing it's not going to get a two-thirds vote," King told the Daily News. "It's really morally disgraceful. ... They are letting cops and firefighters die because their members don't have the guts to take a vote."
WASHINGTON - Anger boiled over a risky plan to pass 9/11 legislation on Wednesday, with Republicans accusing Democrats of cowardice and Democrats crying politics.
Democrats will try to pass the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act today - but they're using a special rule that requires a two-thirds vote to pass.
Bloated intelligence apparatus is not too smart
The director of national intelligence should be given more authority to coordinate overlapping agencies, while their budget should be trimmed.
Thu, July 22nd, 2010 @ 3:46pm
James R. Clapper, Obama's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, believes the intelligence leviathan needs to be tamed.
The U.S. is running so many secret programs, James R. Clapper Jr. told the newspaper, that "only one entity in the entire universe" knows what they're all doing, and "that's God." Clapper, in case you don't recognize the name, is not some disgruntled midlevel bureaucrat: He's President Obama's nominee to be director of national intelligence, the man who's now supposed to bring the intelligence leviathan under control.
The U.S. government's intelligence agencies are out of control again.
Not in the old, rogue-elephant sense of covert operatives running private wars.
Not even in the bureaucratic sense of spending money in unauthorized ways or launching programs Congress didn't know about.
This time, the loss of control happened in plain sight, with full approval from on high.
Opposing view on religious freedom: Stop the mosque
Thu, July 22nd, 2010 @ 4:52am
The proposed mosque near the site of the 9/11 mass murder is a continuation of Islam's violent history, which promotes destroying prior cultures and building on the ruins.
The gullible, like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, swallow the lie that this latest memorial to the concept of "convert or die" is different because… well because its chief promoter, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, says it's different.
Page 1 of 44 pages 1 2 3 > Last »
25 Most Recent Stories
07-31-2010Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen: WikiLeaks release endangers troops, Afghans
07-30-2010GOP Rep.: Bill to aid 9/11 responders will fail
07-29-2010Bitter fight on Capitol Hill over Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act
07-22-2010Bloated intelligence apparatus is not too smart
07-22-2010Opposing view on religious freedom: Stop the mosque
07-11-2010The ghosts of 9/11
07-11-2010Holder: Politics Delays 9/11 Trial
07-05-2010Army journalist from Fort Campbell was first killed in combat since 9/11
07-05-2010Docs launch 9/11 cancer probe
07-03-2010Group Donates Ground Zero Flag to 9/11 Museum
06-25-2010Row over plan to build mosque near 9/11 site
06-25-2010Judge approves settlement for 9/11 first responders
06-25-2010More 9/11 Human Remains Found At Ground Zero
06-15-2010Families in 9/11 Financing Case Ask to Have Judge Replaced
06-05-2010Happy Responders Day: NYC Cuts 9/11 Counseling
06-02-2010The 9/11 Mosque’s Peace Charade
06-02-2010Another 9/11 responder death spurs new aid-bill push to help Ground Zero heroes
04-16-2010Mayor Bloomberg to A.G. Holder: Make a decision on 9/11 terror trial already!
03-31-20109/11 Memorial Pools Now Framed in Steel
03-25-2010So, You Still Want to Close Gitmo?
03-20-2010Suffering 9/11 heroes applaud Judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruling to renegotiate settlement
03-16-2010Mount Sinai researchers are the first to identify heart abnormalities in World Trade Center workers
03-16-2010Lawmakers Push For Lifetime Healthcare for 9/11 Responders, Say $657M Settlement Not Enough
03-14-2010Shame on pols for letting 9/11 compensation fund expire - it’s time to treat victims fairly
03-06-2010Closing Guantanamo Bay part of military trial deal for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, four 9/11 thugs
