The September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), ostensibly a vehicle for the U.S. to go after the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC., turns out to have been a whole hell of a lot more than that nearly 12 years on. That simple joint resolution has been stretched very thin during the War on Terror.
The Boston Police Department has announced — via Twitter – that three more suspects have been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case. “Details to follow….”
By Peter Hart | FAIR | April 29, 2013
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman doesn’t understand how on earth the Boston bombers could rationalize their act of violence–and believes that some aspects of Muslim culture must answer for it.
Senator Rand Paul has generated a firestorm over his apparent flip-flop on drones used by the US government to kill American citizens on US soil.
Last month, Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor was the most sweeping denunciation of the Obama administration’s liberal use of drone warfare ever in Washington.
The bomb attack on innocent civilians and subsequent shooting of two law enforcement officials was a reprehensible act of terrorism, but the saturation media coverage and resulting societal frenzy is unwarranted and actually harmful. Apparently, the lone surviving terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told the FBI, before receiving notice of his Miranda rights, that he and his [...]
As I said, right here, on this blog. If the fingers are pointed at Russia regarding the explosion in Boston...... Don’t be surprised.Tuesday April 16/13 in the post titled :Bombs at the Boston Marathon: Bomb sniffing dogs present pre-race.If you had not read what I had suspected then, let me rehash here and now
