Politics

U.S. Officials Seeing New Home-Grown Terror Cells

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 This is according to Scott Redd, director of the National Counterterrorism Center. These groups of Islamic radicals are made up of disaffected men in their teens and 20s who draw moral inspiration from Al Qaeda and use the Internet to organize and plan potential attacks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rove Won’t Be Charged in Leak Case

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 That's the word from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and Rove's lawyer. This comes after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations between the two sides. Bush called Fitzgerald's conduct throughout the proceeding "dignified." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to supposed victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Sounds like FEMA did a "heckuva job." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tom Friedman: What Does Being Right Have to Do With It?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 N.Y. Times columnist Tom Friedman, speaking on CNN, doesn't seem to see the problem in his having been spectacularly wrong on almost every major Iraq-related issue for the past four years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who Knows Bush’s Mind Best?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 According to Time magazine, it's not Karl Rove, but 26-year-old Blake Gottesman, who became the president's gopher-in-chief (body man) after dating Bush's daughter Jenna in high school. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gore at 68% in Straw Poll

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 The former veep trounced potential candidates for the 2008 race in an unscientific DailyKos poll. The closest runner-up, Russ Feingold, pulled a mere 15%. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hillary Clinton Booed by Liberal Crowd

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 The senator from New York starts to see the downside of never finding an issue she couldn't straddle. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: DeLays Mission Continues

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 14, 2006 From the tone of his farewell address last week, you'd think Tom DeLay was being carried out of Congress on the shoulders of his colleagues, rather than slithering out of office with his tail between his legs. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.S. Disavows Guantanamo Suicide Comment

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2006 The Bush administration distanced itself from a remark by a senior State Department official who called the suicide of three detainees at the Cuba detention center a public relations move. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Buzzflash: Why Not Just Put Zarqawi’s Head on a Pike?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2006 The editors at Buzzflash argue that in displaying the picture of Zarqawi's dead, bloated face the way it did, the Bush administration is once again displaying the same kind of sophomoric bravado ("Bring 'em on") that it used to its great detriment in the past Read Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen's account of the life, death and intellectual underpinnings of Zarqawi Also: Buzzflash just won two Project Uncensored awards for contributor columns about U civilian detention camps and "net neutrality". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Marine’s Lawyer: Haditha Killings Were Lawful

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2006 A lawyer for a Marine involved in the Haditha massacre said his client had followed military rules of engagement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Military: Gitmo Suicides Acts of ‘Warfare’

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2006 The commander of the Guantanamo detention center said the three detainees who killed themselves were "committed" and had carried out "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us." Rights groups, however, said the men were driven by despair. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )