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This subcategory contains 84 links Read what it said Armed Forces Journal article by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling. ARMY LT. COL. PAUL YINGLING is deputy commander, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment. He has served two tours in Iraq, another in Bosnia and a fourth in Operation Desert Storm. He holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago. Lies told by ABC's Path to 9/11 Tom Shales The Purpose of the Afghan War September 21, 2009 Author: Robert McMahon, Council on Foreign Relations "The war on terror has sparked a vigorous debate over how many of our civil liberties, if any, should be sacrificed to keep the public safe from terrorist attack. The conflict between civil liberties and national security has come up before in American history — most notably in the Alien and Sedition Acts at the end of the eighteenth century, President Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War, and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Join moderator Richard Menaker (Menaker & Herrmann LLP) as he discusses this issue with panelists Alan Brinkley (Columbia University), Joanne Freeman (Yale University), Thomas Kean (Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and former Governor of New Jersey), and Mark Neely (Pennsylvania State University)." Information about the excellent series on terrorism and war. Image of the US Eagle showing anger because of the destruction of the World Trade Center. by Debora MacKenzie in New Scientist | 19:00 24 October 01 FBI and CIA Suspect Domestic Extremists. Officials Doubt Any Links to Bin Laden . By Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff Writers, Saturday, October 27, 2001; Page A01 by Patrick D. Reagan 11,400 pages of U.S. government documents covering the activities Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Great resource. The briefing book that the Archive published today includes 50 year old documents that CIA had impounded at NARA but which have already been published in the State Department's historical series, Foreign Relations of the United States, or have been declassified elsewhere. These documents concern such innocuous matters as the State Department's map and foreign periodicals procurement programs on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community or the State Department's open source intelligence research efforts during 1948. Michele Swenson. 'Christian Persecution': Corrupted Language, Degraded Civic Discourse and Subversion of Democracy by Michele Swenson Cheney opposed removing Saddam Hussein because it would lead to trouble in the Middle East. Economists say immigration, legal or illegal, doesn't hurt American workers. May 13, 2010 IN THIS week's Economist/YouGov poll we asked our usual questions about issues like the economy. We also asked a number of questions about the tea-party movement and what my colleague has called "the GOP id". First the highlights from the issues section, then the juicier bits (which you'll want to stick around for): The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Department of Justice History News Network How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know Hunting Bin Laden is a PBS frontline report. The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in partnership with national and Gulf Coast area partners. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. False Pretenses Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. By Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith Seattle Times story about WMD before the war In February 2002, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence agreed to conduct a Joint Inquiry into the activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community in connection with the terrorist attacks perpetrated against our nation on September 11, 2001. This report (available as both S. Rept. 107-351 and H. Rept. 107-792) consists of 832 pages that presents the joint inquiry’s findings and conclusions, an accompanying narrative, and a series of recommendations. John McCain Vietnam War POW CIA & Department of Defense Files At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the US Army Foreign Military Studies Office has created this portal to provide the general public with access to unclassified documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The US Government has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translations, when available. Users who come across documents they feel are inappropriately released may contact the responsible officers at docex@center.osis.gov. The ODNI press release and public affairs contact information is available at http://www.odni.gov/ September 13, 2002 TIME magazine article by Tony Karon State Rankings -- Statistical Abstract of the United States A photo of two Palestinian women in East Jerusalem weeping at a memorial to the persons killed in the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11, 2001. Secret Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries" between "information operations" abroad and at home but provides no actual limits as long as US doesn't "target" Americans Very important site from the National Security Archives. In this edited transcript of an October 19 public conversation sponsored by The Nation Institute at the New York Ethical Culture Society, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discuss how the CIA manipulated and sabotaged the work of UN departments to achieve a hidden foreign policy agenda in the Middle East. The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them. Avalon Project The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives. "The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives." The horrific September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon brought all of us here at the Archive feelings of rage at the hijackers, grief for the thousands who were murdered, and also determination that we will contribute to finding the best ways for America to respond. The Archive’s mission is to put on the record the primary source documentation that can enrich the policy debate, improve journalism, educate policymakers, and ensure that we don’t reinvent the wheel or repeat the mistakes of the past. by the Pew Hispanic Center The most up-to-date compilation of statistics on the Latino population in the United States is based on the Pew Hispanic Center’s tabulations of the 2005 American Community Survey. The statistical portrait includes 32 tables on the social, economic and housing characteristics of Hispanics and other demographic groups, with comparisons to the 2000 Census. Comparative data of 1916, 1967, and 2006 Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. She was previously a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and a research fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Bush and his trillion+ dollar budgets. Includes justification to launch the Iraq War Lots of Ex’s Live in Texas by D’Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center. October 15, 2009 Lots of Ex’s Live in Texas by D’Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center. October 15, 2009 Basic source by David Morris in Congressional Connection Poll In this podcast, the History Guys take a closer look at the Tea Party Movement, and ask what, if anything, 2010 has in common with 1773. They also consider what the history of American populism portends for the Tea Party’s future. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 55. Edited by Jeffrey Richelson and Michael L. Evans. September 21, 2001 Links to the Taliban, Christian terrorists, Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, the IRA, the KKK, etc. Bomber's Confessions Point to Explosives Hidden in Toothpaste Tube that Brought Down Civilian Airliner in 1976. Former CIA Agent Posada Goes to Trial May 11 Kerry vs. Bush Definitions and myth debunking Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War In "The Torture Question", FRONTLINE traces the history of how decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 -- including an internal administration battle over the Geneva Conventions -- led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Iraq. "The WTO History Project is largely and primarily a response to the momentous protests that took place on November 29-December 3, 1999 in Seattle during the WTO Ministerial meetings. Those of us involved with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (HBCLS) believe it is the responsibility of the major research-oriented labor studies program and major research university in the region to document such a transformative but local events in a way that will make them useful and accessible to scholars present and future." The U.S. Central Command's war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006, according to the Command's PowerPoint briefing slides, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive Documents Describe Use of Satellites in Support of Civil Agencies. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 229. Edited by Jeffrey Richelson. Posted - September 14, 2007 Freecopy of “Up From Zero”, a documentary film that pays tribute to the brave men and women of the New York City building trades who put themselves on the line on September 11, 2001 – and for nine months afterward – to reclaim Ground Zero. CNN Special, 2001 Excellent links to a variety of opinions and news including about September 11, 2001. In the months before March 2003, protesters around the world were joined by heads of state, U.N. officials, and religious leaders speaking out against the invasion. They labeled it a "war of aggression." But while these events were unfolding, Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer holding the rank of Major in the U.S. Marine Corps, was warning Americans that they were being manipulated. From 1991 to 1998, he led the U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq. He was the world's foremost expert on Saddam Hussein's weapons program. Ritter's team was able to determine the true status of the weapons program in Iraq, which was essentially inoperative and posed no immediate threat either to America or Iraq's neighbors. In his speech before a Los Angeles audience, Ritter gives his analysis of the real reasons for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Gulf Oil Spill, 2010 |
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