TagsTagsAn Associated Press notification just received on my iPhone: Breaking (4:04PM EDT): Sources: CIA foils Al Qaida bomb plot against US-bound jet near anniversary of bin Laden death. No details available yet... UPDATE at 5/7/12 2:17:29 pm Al Qaeda has apparently upgraded their underwear. The CIA foiled a plot by al-Qaida's affiliate ...
Video (h/t: Gus/simoom.) UPDATE at 5/1/12 5:40:31 pm Here's the speech Obama gave earlier to the troops: Video (h/t: Randall.)
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Mitt Romney is on record saying that he would not enter Pakistan without permission "to kill one man," meaning Osama bin Laden. Obviously, Romney's reflexive opposition to everything Barack Obama says has backfired on him with this one, big time. So today he's trying to walk back that statement, downplay the killing ...
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The White House Correspondents' Association dinner is being streamed live at C-SPAN: 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner. President Obama is now at the podium, apparently sans teleprompters.
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You can tell that President Obama's successful operation to find (and kill) Osama bin Laden really eats at the right wing; the faux arguments from the wingnut blogosphere are getting more and more obtuse and absurd. Of course, they're writing for an audience that doesn't care, as long as they ...
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YouTube Video A new ad from the Obama campaign (featuring Bill Clinton) points out that Mitt Romney is on record saying he would not send troops into Pakistan to "kill one man" -- meaning Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, an ABC News "gotcha" piece on this ad makes no sense at all: FLASHBACK: ...
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If you were to check out only one 9/11 retrospective today, The Atlantic's 9-11 Ten Years Later would be a good one; especially Jeffrey Goldberg's introductory essay: The Real Meaning of 9/11.
Tonight we learn that Pakistan's military is arresting informants who cooperated with the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden. At a closed briefing last week, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Michael J. Morell, the deputy C.I.A. director, to rate Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism ...
Osama bin Laden (or somebody in his compound) apparently liked to get his freak on: Pornography found in bin Laden hideout. The pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with ...
If nothing else, Ron Paul is certainly consistent, if by "consistent" you mean "fanatically dedicated to extreme right wing libertarian ideology:" Ron Paul Says He Wouldn't Have Ordered Bin Laden Raid. In an interview with Iowa radio station WHO, the likely GOP presidential candidate said "things could have been done ...
John McCain has a piece in the Washington Post today, definitively refuting the Republican talking point that torture helped find Osama bin Laden: Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey recently claimed that “the intelligence that led to bin Laden . . . began with a ...
A transcript is here. Video
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Here's an interesting post at Extreme Liberal, making a good case that Bradley Manning's massive leak of classified documents through Wikileaks may have nearly blown the Osama bin Laden operation. This is a perfect demonstration of why I'm utterly opposed to the Wikileaks methodology, which hurts innocent people and opens up ...
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Politifact notes that by hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, President Obama was fulfilling one of his controversial campaign promises: The Obameter: We will kill bin Laden - Promise kept. During the 2008 campaign, then candidate Barack Obama pledged several times that he would act to capture ...
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Video (h/t: reine.de.tout.)
A New York Daily News anti-Obama article is spreading rapidly across the right wing blog echo chamber: Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source. The article by Thomas DeFrank quotes an unnamed "highly placed source" who says President Bush feels Obama is ...
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A few right wing politicians have made graceful statements praising President Obama for the bin Laden operation; John McCain, for example. But if you read right wing blogs, you'll discover a flood of utter denial and mean-spirited refusal to credit Obama. It's an almost universal opinion, which is how things ...
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Was Osama bin Laden's demise plotted at Area 51? Based on Naylor’s reporting, it appears that a handful of special Blackhawks — probably no more than four — indeed originated from the MH-X program, but plans for a large, permanent unit to fly these birds was cancelled “within the last ...
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If you were wondering why the Navy SEAL team reportedly destroyed one of their helicopters when it malfunctioned during the Osama bin Laden operation, this could be the answer: Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts. Before an elite team of U.S. Navy SEALs executed ...
Saudi Arabia announced today that a top Al Qaeda figure has surrendered. In the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, is al Qaeda falling apart? The Saudi Interior Ministry said today that a senior al Qaeda member on Riyadh's most-wanted list named Khaled al-Qahtani called from abroad and turned himself in. "Interior ...
DERPWith finger firmly on the right wing pulse, Sarah Palin shares her alleged thoughts on the decision not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse. Show photo as warning to others seeking America's destruction. No pussy-footing around, no politicking, no drama;it's part of the mission That makes total sense, ...
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