(2006-09-29) — According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 89 percent of Democrats believe it’s more likely that they will personally be subjected to NSA wiretaps and CIA waterboarding, than it is that Islamic terrorists will attempt another attack on U.S. soil.
Entries from September 2006
Poll: Dems Fear Torture, Wiretaps More Than Terrorists
by Scott Ott · 139 Comments
Tags: Law · Politics · U.S. News
Pelosi Slams Clinton Failure to Protect Detainees
by Scott Ott · 44 Comments
(2006-09-28) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, today criticized former President Bill Clinton for what she called “his failure to connect the dots and do more to protect terrorist detainee rights before 9/11.”
Tags: U.S. News
Clinton: Conspiracy Theorists Out to Get Me
by Scott Ott · 198 Comments
(2006-09-26) — The morning after Fox News aired reporter Chris Wallace’s interview with a feisty Bill Clinton, the former president today said, “Right-wing, neocon conspiracy theorists are out to get me.”
Tags: Global News · Politics · U.S. News
Intel Report: Fighting Terrorists Creates Terrorists
by Scott Ott · 84 Comments
(2006-09-25) — A newly-leaked top-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) from April 2006 reveals that America’s 16 spy agencies have finally discovered that terrorists are created by attempts to defeat terrorists.
Tags: Global News · U.S. News
Experts: Bin Laden Death Might Explain U.N. Sulfur Smell
by Scott Ott · 49 Comments
(2006-09-23) — United Nations authorities are probing a possible link between reports that al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden died recently and the peculiar sulfur smell which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he detected while speaking to the U.N. General Assembly this week.
Tags: Global News
GOP Funds Ahmadinejad-Chavez Speaking Tour
by Scott Ott · 146 Comments
(2006-09-21) — The Republican National Committee (RNC) today offered to fund a coast-to-coast U.S. speaking tour featuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Tags: Global News · Politics
Sorry Pope Considers Sainthood for Muhammad
by Scott Ott · 155 Comments
(2006-09-18) — A day after violent riots spurred Pope Benedict XVI to apologize for implying that Islam has brought more evil to the world, the Pontiff today agreed to consider a petition to add the name of Islam’s founder to the pantheon of Roman Catholic saints.
Tags: Global News · Theology