See Actual Notes From Rumsfeld-9/11 Meeting

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2006 CBS reported in Sept. 2002 that the secretary of defense was pushing to invade Iraq barely five hours after 9/11. A blogger uses the Freedom of Information Act to publish the handwritten notes by a Defense Dept. staffer that gave rise to that story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Sr. Condemns ‘Ugly’ Politics at King’s Funeral, Defends Son

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2006 The former president criticizes "political shots" taken at his son by former President Jimmy Carter and the Rev Joseph Lowery during the Coretta Scott King funeral last week Bush defends the administration's domestic spying program, tritely invoking 9/11 as a blanket justification for trampling constitutional freedoms Story | Listen Interview . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Andrew Sullivan on the Cartoon Furor

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2006 Sullivan, whose NY Times Magazine essay on the connection between Islam and 9/11 was perhaps the best ever mainstream treatment on the subject, now takes on the Islamic cartoon controversy | essayAlso, a German journalist talks about his mixed feelings about running the cartoons in his paperwashingtonpostcom/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601258html?referrer=emailarticle" title="Op-ed">Op-Ed . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N.Y. Times Calls Spy Program Patently Illegal

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2006 The Gray Lady, in an editorial, eviscerates Bush's defense of his spying program, point by point. | editorial Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 18, 2006 With Al Qaeda and the Taliban on the rise in a country we supposedly "liberated," Bush is cynically hoping Afghanistan will once again recede from the global stage into unseen anarchy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Al Qaeda, Taliban on Rise in Afghanistan: Report

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2006 Remember the "other" country we liberated? The Independent reports that it's going back to hell in a handbasket. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush’s Spy Program Predated 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Jan 16, 2006 The NSA began its data-mining activities early in 2001. This disclosure contradicts the president's claim about the program being a product of his post-9/11 "smoke 'em out" mind-set. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NSA Launches Internal Probe Into Spy Program

Staff / Truthdig Jan 11, 2006 Members of Congress question whether the agency can investigate itself | story Meanwhile, a dream team of 14 legal scholars and ex-gov't officials write a memo to the DOJ calling the NSA program illegalhuffingtonpostcom/geoffrey-r-stone/why-the-nsa-surveillance-_b_13522html" title="story">story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush on Bin Laden’s Satellite Phone: Wrong Again

Jon Wiener / Truthdig Jan 11, 2006 Bush rolled out an old canard about Bin Laden and the media rolled over. An inside look at the sticking power of a falsehood. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Sudan Emerges as Hub for Nuke Parts

Staff / Truthdig Jan 6, 2006 Investigators name the country as a conduit for weapons equipment. | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sounding Off on Bush’s Spy Program

Blair Golson / Truthdig Jan 3, 2006 An intense debate has been raging on Op-Ed pages and in the blogosphere over the legality of President Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program. What follows is a roundup of some of the most influential, talked-about and linked-to analyses. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )