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Bill Roggio / ThreatsWatch.Org:
Disinformation Operations — Flaws in The Washington Post's article on Information Operations — Monday's Washington Post featured an article written by Jonathan Finer and Doug Struck titled Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War - U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front …
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Who is a journalist? — A Washington Post story about information warfare in Iraq mentions Bill Roggio. The WP article said: … The article occasioned a lot of commentary in the blogosphere. Blogger Scout Prime says "Blogging isn't journalism. I am not a journalist.
Francis Turner / L'Ombre de l'Olivier:FUD and the MSM — The WaPo has hit piece on Bill Roggio which is …
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Gates of Vienna
New York Times:
Unwarranted Complaints — SHORTLY after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush ordered surveillance of international telephone communications by suspected members of Al Qaeda overseas, even if such calls also involved individuals within the United States. This program was adopted …
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Julian Sanchez / Reason:Are You Being Searched? — How NSA's mass eavesdropping …
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New York Times:
Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts — WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
Wall Street Journal:
Pro-War Group Takes to the Airwaves — Move America Forward Ads Aim to Lift — Bush's Approval Rating by Backing WMD Claims — WASHINGTON — The television commercials are attention-grabbing: Newly found Iraqi documents show that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction …
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Seeing the Forest
C.J. Karamargin / Arizona Daily Star:
McCain brings his message to MTV audience — "Let the student decide." With those well-chosen words John McCain summed up his view on the teaching of "intelligent design" along with evolution in public schools. — Even — or perhaps especially — with controversial topics …
Washington Post:
Chalabi Lacks Votes Needed to Win Spot in Iraqi Assembly — BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 — Unexpectedly low support from overseas voters has left Ahmed Chalabi — the returned Iraqi exile once backed by the United States to lead Iraq — facing a shutout from power in this month's vote for the country's …
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Reuters:
Munich mastermind spurns Spielberg's peace appeal — GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics attack in which 11 Israeli athletes died said on Tuesday he had no regrets and that Steven Spielberg's new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation.
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Jason Leopold / rawstory.com:
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say — President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitored private email accounts …
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Robert Fisk / Los Angeles Times:
Telling it like it isn't — I FIRST REALIZED the enormous pressures on American journalists in the Middle East when I went some years ago to say goodbye to a colleague from the Boston Globe. I expressed my sorrow that he was leaving a region where he had obviously enjoyed reporting.
BBC:
'Worst' historical Britons named — Historians have put together a list of the 10 "worst" Britons of the last 1,000 years. — They chose one rogue from each century of the last millennium to compile the list for the BBC History Magazine. — Jack the Ripper, King John and Oswald Mosley …
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:A Challenge To The Blogosphere: 'The Ten Worst Americans' List
Cam Simpson / Chicago Tribune:
U.S. stalls on human trafficking — Pentagon has yet to ban contractors from using forced labor — WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Bush declared that he had "zero tolerance" for trafficking in humans by the government's overseas contractors, and two years ago Congress mandated a similar policy.
Austin Bay Blog:
UPDATED: The Big Story of 2005 — I just finished writing this week's Creators Syndicate column and I've emailed it to my editor. The subject is "the year's big story" — but it's a knuckling curve, so I won't give the title away. — That noted, what ARE the big stories of 2005?
BBC:
Poland postpones Iraq withdrawal — Poland's government says it has taken the "very difficult decision" to extend its military deployment in Iraq until the end of 2006. — The new conservative government's decision reverses the previous leftist administration's plan to pull troops out in early 2006.
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
CIA Probes Renditions of Terror Suspects — WASHINGTON - The CIA's independent watchdog is investigating fewer than 10 cases where terror suspects may have been mistakenly swept away to foreign countries by the spy agency, a figure lower than published reports but enough to raise some concerns.
Colin Brown / Independent:
Bush's envoy sparks another diplomatic incident over war claims — The US ambassador in London has been forced into an embarrassing retreat after his embassy clarified comments he made denying that the United States was involved in removing terrorist suspects to Syria.
