By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Even as the FBI hails as a major success story its breakup of an alleged plot by “radical Islamists” to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., federal authorities acknowledge that the case has underscored a troubling vulnerability in the domestic war on terror. They say the FBI, despite an…
American Chronicle Questions for Candidates David Swanson May 14, 2007 If, like General Electric and Fox News, ordinary citizens were permitted to ask questions of candidates for U.S. President, these are a few of the questions I think they might ask: If you are elected president, which of the new presidential powers assumed by the…
Washington Post Voter-Fraud Complaints by GOP Drove Dismissals By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, May 14, 2007; A04 Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove…
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys for alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla spent months battling over issues ranging from torture allegations to the meaning of “jihad.” They pored over classified material and Arabic translations and traveled overseas to interview witnesses. On Monday, the two sides were poised to start opening…
