From the category archives:

Terrorism

A pledge from the Democrats

December 24, 2005

Over at Power Line, John asks: Do we have the Democrats’ pledge that under a Democratic administration, the government would not use radiation-detecting equipment to search for dirty bombs? If so, that should make it a lot easier for millions of Americans to cast their votes in the 2008 election. Likewise, I’d like to hear [...]

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NSA Wiretap Program

December 22, 2005

Of the many legal analyses of the NSA’s wiretap program that I’ve read – at least the ones actually written by lawyers – John @ Power Line Blog appears to have the best breakdown of the legality of this program that I’ve seen: There is no mystery about the legality of the NSA intercept program. [...]

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NSA Progam

December 21, 2005

American Future grabs this tidbit from the press briefing earlier this week with the Attorney General & General Hayden, the Deputy Director of National Intelligence and former Director of the National Security Agency: Q Have you identified armed enemy combatants, through this program, in the United States? GENERAL HAYDEN: This program has been successful in [...]

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Speaking of renditions and assassinations

December 21, 2005

Bubblehead writes of Germany’s release of Mohammed Ali Hamadi: I have a new standard by which I’ll measure the success or failure of the current Administration: whether or not this scumbag is still breathing in January 2009. Chapomatic makes pretty much all the points I’d make about the Germans freeing Mohammed Ali Hamadi, murderer of [...]

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Froggy: Eavesdropping on the Cowards

December 20, 2005

I haven’t had the time or the right mindset yet to dig into the legal arguments surrounding the New York Time’s disclosure of the NSA Wiretaps of some US Citizens thought to be connected to Al-Qaeda, but I did enjoy this little tirade from Froggy: So essentially what the liberals are saying is that the [...]

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How Quickly we Forget

December 17, 2005

Former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giulani pens this editorial in the New York Times: It is simply false to claim, as some of its critics do, that this bill does not respond to concerns about civil liberties. The four-year extension of the Patriot Act, as passed by the House, would not only reauthorize the expiring provisions [...]

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Boom! A few less terrorists

December 3, 2005

Looks like the CIA struck and took out a few enemies of the state. How y’all feeling about those safe houses now?

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Froggy writes of the future

December 3, 2005

Froggy has some clear thoughts on the future course of the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and the current political stance of the “loyal” opposition: Contrary to the pleadings of Cindy Sheehan et al, the only way to view our combat losses in Iraq as a waste would be to cut and run before affording [...]

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