Al Qaeda Is Stronger Than Ever

“We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto,” Pakistan’s Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said.

Six years ago, the United States had a chance to completely dismantle the Al Qaeda terror network and its supporters within the Afghan Taliban government behind a worldwide coalition sympathetic for the 2,754 [...]

Deja Vu All Over Again

With my apologies to Yogi Berra, we have yet another case of history repeating itself at the White House. It is becoming apparent that former White House Counsel and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (along with former White House Counsel and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and others) advocated for lawbreaking, this time in [...]

CIA Destroyed Evidence Of Torture

The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A’s secret detention program, according to current and former government officials.

The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting [...]