Iran is prepared to launch attacks using long-range missiles, secret commando units, and terrorist allies planted around the globe in retaliation for any strike on the country's nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence assessments and
Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bo
The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence
"It is my aim and it is my hope that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserve nothing less
Laura Berg, a clinical nurse specialist, wrote a letter to a newspaper criticizing how the administration handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. She urged people to "act forcefully" by bringing criminal charges against top administrati
While the world community scrutinizes Iran's nuclear plans, Latin America's biggest country is weeks away from taking a controversial step and firing up the region's first major uranium enrichment plant. That move will make Brazil the 9th
Dear Mr. Goss, the timing of your recent op-ed in the NY Times interestingly coincides with the upcoming congressional hearing by the House Subcommittee on National Security Whistleblowers. Consistent with the pattern of "preemptive strikes
Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of a new requirement to access their company's datacenter.
Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the policy with the hopes of increasing security in th
J. frowned and turned down the radio. “The last time this happened,” she said, “the area was raided.” The room was suddenly silent and we strained our ears. Nothing. I could hear a generator a couple of streets away, and I also heard the distant bark
Federal investigators have accused a Pennsylvania man of trying to conspire with al-Qaeda to blow up major U.S. oil and gas pipelines and wreck the economy. Attempted to provide material aid to al-Qaeda to disrupt the federal government, to change it
New York city's ports, considered a major target of terrorists, are about to be taken over by a firm based in the United Arab Emirates, a country with financial links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Dubai Ports World is set to complete a $6.8 billion
Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff will announce wide-ranging changes to the nation's embattled disaster-response agency on the heels of a House report blaming government-wide ineptitude for mishandling Hurricane Katrina relief.
Just how close was the relationship between the White House and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff? The Bush Administration again faced questions about those ties after an e-mail Abramoff sent a journalist friend surfaced last week in which Abramoff wr
Nine months before the November midterm elections, the Republican campaign theme is already clear: It's the terrorism, stupid. The Bush White House has not been shy about its political use of an event, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which for a time
Of the 141 programs President Bush wants to cut or eliminate in his 2007 budget are survivors of past Bush hit lists. Of 91 programs proposed for termination, all but 13 have been on the chopping block before. Would save taxpayers 0.02% of the $2.77
The day before
Michelle Kwan withdrew from the Turin Games and almost surely ended any hope of winning an Olympic gold medal, she was still fighting. "Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that e
"The vice-president didn't see him," she told the Associated Press news agency. "He picked out a bird and shot and, my God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.
After a winter that for the most part has been relatively mild, the storm that started late Saturday dropped as much as two feet of snow in some spots of the state. While the storm tapered off by late Sunday, officials warned that the wet weather and
Cartoons published labeled the image of the Prophet Muhammad cause a riot in the world. The offending paper got all the publicity it craved. And I get to make fun of them all.
3 members of Congress have been linked to efforts by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former General Services Administration official to secure leases of government property for Abramoff's clients, according to court filings by federal prosecutors
"Share Across Computers" feature stores Web browsing history, Microsoft Office documents, PDF and text files on Google's servers to allow a user to run remote searches from multiple computers and presents a lucrative target to malicious
President Bush was closely questioned by fellow Republicans on his policy on Iran, health care, immigration and other hot-button issues at a closed meeting meant to rally party members for this year's congressional elections.
Ending subsidised natural gas deliveries to neighbouring countries is justified under certain conditions, World Bank chairman Paul Wolfowitz said at this weekend's G8 finance meeting in Moscow.
The Internet industry needs to create "self-regulatory regimes" and come up with new technologies to battle online dangers such as spyware, said the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Called for "appropriate" law enforcement a
The American general in charge of training the new Iraqi military says the Bush administration's strategy to use those forces to replace departing US soldiers was hobbled from its belated start by poor pre-war planning and insufficient staff and
The airbase at al-Asad is the biggest marine camp in western Anbar province. It is in the midst of the most rebellious region in Iraq. Get "inside the wire" and it resembles a slice of US suburbia rather than the front line in a war zone.
When Representative Heather Wilson broke ranks with President Bush to declare her "serious concerns" about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying. Now they are speaking up and gro
There is considerable disappointment that Bush has not tamed the federal deficit. His immigration plan has divided hard-line conservatives who oppose his guest-worker proposal. Even the administration's policies in the war on terrorism have creat
Their free market principles gone. Their claims to not starting wars discarded. Their boasts of cutting taxes and being spend thrifts abandoned with glee. Ideas of liberty tossed. Bob Barr is one of the last principled conservatives alive.