Terrorism in the Obama Age
By Jesse Singal - Jan 26th, 2009 at 11:22 amThe Washington Post ran an interesting article yesterday about Al Qaeda’s attempts to incite jihad in a post-Bush world. The group is having some trouble:…
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Hot Potato
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pmI know, I know–Bush has been doing the whole whitewashing-his-legacy thing ever since Nov. 5. Still, just when you think he’s come up with the…
Your Word For Me Is Fusion, but Is Real Change An Illusion?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmObviously, the big Obama event today was his press conference on his health care team and the Blagojevich scandal, but he also has this on…
Gallows Hill and Andersonville*
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 8th, 2008 at 2:15 pmIf, like me, you’ve been less than impressed by President-elect Obama’s national security selections, take heart: it could always get worse. According to US News…
Overparsing
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 4th, 2008 at 10:32 amI guess Robert Dreyfuss was really fresh out of inspiration for a blog post, because his analysis of Obama’s measured, perfectly innocuous response to the…
Was Minority Report Not Released in Israel?
By L. Russell Allen - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 amI hate airport security. Everyone hates airport security. This is not breaking news. Waiting in line for 20 minutes just to be the lucky one…
We Still Aren’t Focusing on WMDs
By Jesse Singal - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 amFrom The Washington Post:
The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a…
Endgame in Sight?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, the AP reports:
President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline…
More on Obama and Waziristan
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pmOver at Duck of Minerva, Rodger Payne responded to my post on the credulousness with which we’ve accepted the idea that the situation in Waziristan…
The Expanded Democratic Majority’s Inauspicious Start
By Ned Resnikoff - Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmYou knew it was coming. And today, it finally happened: Senate Democrats gave Joe Lieberman the delicate little slap on the wrist that we had…
Are We Sure Waziristan Has Much to Do With National Security?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amJuan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
Pentagon advisory group says cuts are “essential”
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pmThe Pentagon’s "Defense Business Board" pushing President-Elect Obama to consider cutting some of the Pentagon’s more wasteful programs:
A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
The Bioterrorism Bogeyman
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 31st, 2008 at 11:16 amAfter 9/11–particularly after the anthrax attacks–there was quite a bit of chatter about the danger “bioterrorism” posed to the United States. The gist of it…
Terror Via Tweets
By Jesse Singal - Oct 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pmGizmodo has an interesting post, via Danger Room, on the scary possibility of terrorists using Twitter as an organizing tool. If we were serious about…
