Authorization For Libyan War Set To Expire Next Week, Don’t Expect Anyone To Do Anything About It
The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.
The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.
Not surprisingly, having ordered a successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden is being highlighted on President Obama’s re-election tour.
The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.
Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?
Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.
Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?
One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.
In a move sure to satisfy Deathers as much as a contemporaneous newspaper story satisfied Birthers, al Qaeda has released a statement confirming that Osama bin Laden is dead.
The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.
The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu
Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.
Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.
There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.
There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.
The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.
Joe Biden: During several months of planning for the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, ” as many as 16 members of Congress that were briefed on it, not a single solitary thing leaked.”
The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.
The myth that the U.S. armed and trained Osama bin Laden in the early 80’s is rearing its ugly head again.
Americans are rallying around the President in the wake of the mission against bin Laden, but it’s likely to be short-lived.
Gary Weddle, a schoolteacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, has cut his beard after waiting almost ten years for Osama bin Laden to be killed.
Osama bin Laden is dead, but he’s succeeded in changing America for the worse.
Rush Limbaugh heaps praise on President Obama for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The impact of the death of Osama bin Laden on the domestic politics is likely to be minimal at best.
Bin Laden spent the last half-decade in a compound where his only contact with the outside world was a few couriers.
How exactly was the most wanted man in the world able to hide in this house without anyone in Pakistan knowing about it?