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December 2003
The current “orange alert” appears to be more than scaremongering. “Unlike past elevations of the terrorism threat level, the decision to raise the alert to orange this time was unanimous and decisive, because it was based on what senior Bush administration officials described as the most alarming, credible and specific information they had ever seen,” […]
Maybe the U.S. military has been too focused on drones, Army leaders are now saying. During the past two years, “our work has been very ‘unmanned-centric,’” John Davis, chief of advanced aviation design at the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, tells National Defense magazine. “Within the last few months, I think we have been […]
“Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and managers have been placed on paid investigative leave as a result of security problems that surfaced at the lab earlier this month,” Internet Week reports. “The trouble stems from missing storage devices, which may or may not have been properly destroyed. Officials said earlier this month that they can’t […]
The Pakistani government was the Taliban’s best friend. And they sold nuclear weapons technology to Iran and North Korea. So tell me again: why is the Bush administration — so worried about weapons of mass destruction, and so concerned about coddlers of Al-Qaeda — now cozy with Pakistan?
