War on Terror
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss important stories in Rhode Island this week.
True enough that it’s important to be skeptical of all reports, particularly the most horrific, at a time like this, but still… there is an air around some of those insisting that the story is not yet verified that implies if this story isn’t true, the whole atrocity is not that bad. Psychologically, they seem…
No, not a sequel, but a movie about the inspiring story coming out of Afghanistan about “an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the “Pineapple Express” to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety…” Hollywood used to be able…
This is dreadful. Haunting. Soul shaking. Short video clips tell the story of people attempting to cling to the outside of airplanes to escape Afghanistan after the Biden administration’s inexcusable botching of troop withdrawals. The image immediately brings to mind the people who jumped or fell from the Twin Towers on 9/11/01. That day, and…
John Loughlin discusses events in Afghanistan with author Scott Horton.
Terrorists can claim responsibility for anything bad that happens, especially when they do so anonymously. Still, it’s an unexpected development to see this statement (labeled as “received by email”) on a website that bills itself as “an online news source for revolutionary movements, with information about militant actions, analysis, and features about local struggles from…
A press release from the Middlesex County (MA) District Attorney, via Reuters, has information on everything that’s been confirmed as of 5AM, related to last night’s murder of an MIT police officer and shootout in Watertown, very likely related to the Boston Marathon bombing… Police are investigating a fatal shooting of MIT campus police officer…
NSL court decision — In mid-March, a Federal district court judge in California ruled the use of “national security letters” to be unconstitutional (Wall Street Journal story here). NSL’s are letters issued by the FBI, without prior judicial approval, that require telecommunications companies to provide data to the government. There are two major issues with…
1. The idea of the executive branch of the United States government creating a kill list, or a capture or kill list, is not a question of whether the President can order the Armed Forces to respond to organized threats that cross into the United States. Targeting a foreign facility or foreign forces operationally engaged…
It’s been the cover-up story “relegated” to Fox News and the internet. But perhaps it will change now that we know the Obama Administration refused the CIA military support 3 times during the Benghazi Consulate attack. [A]n urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent…
