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To many observers in the US, 9/11 marked the end of civil action and what might be considered other half-actions in the fight against Islamic terrorists. Yet a Providence lawyer with McIntyre, Tate & Lynch has played a lead role in pursuing a different...
Strange times : List of some of the songs played to detainees by US military interrogators in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to Reprieve: Enter Sandman - Metallica Bodies - Drowning Pool. Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC. Hell's Bells - AC...
A local appearance tomorrow by former Army interrogator Mike Ritz is especially timely given fresh revelations about the Bush administration's support of waterboarding: WASHINGTON - The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA...
Roger Williams University is scheduled to receive a visit at 7 tonight by Tom Trento. Here's how the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island , which is sponsoring his appearance, describes it: This Thursday Tom Trento will be heading to Roger...
The dangerous state of affairs in Afghanistan , which became an afterthought following the invasion of Iraq, is apparently off the radar of mass consciousness. From Rasmussen Reports : Nearly half of Americans (48%) now believe the United States and its...
A prominent Rhode Island Democrat with whom I spoke yesterday expects Barack Obama to win the November election in a blowout. Dan Kennedy , however, writing in the Guardian, is not so sure. Be afraid. It's not just a warning - it's a campaign...
Got $162 billion more for war? No problem. But what about that Osama guy? From today's New York Times : Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden ’s terrorism network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas...
Yes, kids, it's time for another installment of are we the butt of technology's cruel joke? What's worse: that there's a chain e-mail making the rounds, falsely claiming that Al Gore gave Oliver North a hard time when he tried to warn the world about...
We remember how Keven McKenna unsuccessfully challenged the role of Frank J. Williams, chief justice of the RI Supreme Court, in serving on a federal appeals panel concerning US terror detainees. Now, as Eric Tucker of the Providence AP recently reported...
Maureen Dowd went to yesterday's US Senate hearing: It’s hard to follow the narrative of our misadventure in Iraq. We went in to help the Shiites that we betrayed in the first Gulf War shake off their Sunni tormentors. But then, predictably for everyone...
A lot of Americans forget that most of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. So the appearance this afternoon by media bigfoot Karen Elliott House, at Brown's Watson Institute, promises to be interesting: Monday, April 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM Directors...
Early on during the war in Iraq, there was talk of how Americans officers were checking out The Battle of Algiers , a movie about the Algerian insurgency against the French in the 1950s, for clues about the politics of insurgency and counter-insurgency...
As has been reported, Colin Powell took aside President Bush before the US invaded Iraq and told him about the Pottery Barn Rule . In other words, you break it, you own it. We recently looked at some of the impacts of the war: [There's] a tab in the trillions...
Isn't there something a bit striking in how Obama's minister problem has come to a head at the same time as the fifth anniversary of the Iraq? I mean, yes, some of Jeremiah Wright's statements are not the kind of thing to which you want to hitch your...
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