TalkingPointsMemo reports: The big news from the United Nations today? According to Fox News, it was Qaddafi praising President Obama as a “son” of Africa.
President Barack Obama’s plan to scrap a proposed anti-ballistic missile shield in East Europe has given the Washington Post a new hobby horse to ride. In an editorial titled “Missile Strike,” the opinion writers predictably excoriated President Obama’s decision to scrap the shield as a concession to Kremlin hardliners who “implausibly claimed to feel threatened” by U.S. interceptors and radars.
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” reporter John King asked President Obama about the criticism he’s received, mostly from the right, about his policies, and asked if his race had anything to do with it, as suggested by former President Jimmy Carter. “As I’ve said in the past, are they people out there who don’t [...]
On ABC News’ “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked President Obama if it “frustrates” him when some think that people are against his ideas because of his race. “Race is such a volatile issue in this society,” said Obama, who insisted that government’s involvement in health care and other avenues is “probably the biggest driver [...]
US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly struck another decisive blow to the credibility of the Bush administration’s detention policies at Guantánamo by granting the habeas corpus petition of Kuwaiti prisoner Fouad al-Rabia, a 50-year old aeronautical engineer and a father of four who had been accused of fundraising for Osama bin Laden and running a supply depot for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains.
In an interview for Radio 4’s Today program, which was partly filmed and televised on BBC News, Fried gave Jon Manel a largely spin-free account of the problems he faces, some of which have been exacerbated by the US government’s unwillingness — or inability — to resettle some cleared prisoners on the US mainland.
On Monday, one day after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was planning to introduce tribunals for the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, the reason for the specifically-timed leaks that led to the publication of the stories became clear.
FAREED ZAKARIA, Host of CNN’s Global Public Square (GPS): CNN’s Correspondent Michael Ware has just spent a week in the dangerous Afghan city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. He grew a beard, wore Afghan dress, spent time with local warlords, went on night patrols with the Afghan police, all in an effort to [...]
The federal Appeals Court decision to toss a lawsuit claiming contractors tortured detainees in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison is what you’d expect from a tyranny. The new ruling brushes off the charges by 212 Iraqis who said they or their late husbands were abused by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib. The suit charged private security [...]
