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Pulitzer-winner, ex-CIA analyst, FBI whistleblower among those arrested outside White House
As President Barack Obama was unveiling a new report on progress of the war in Afghanistan, a lineup of high-profile dissenters joined in an act of civil disobedience that ended with about 135 demonstrators being arrested outside the White House Thursday afternoon. The number of arrestees came by way of…
Railing against failure of 9/11 health bill, Fox News analyst doesn’t mention Republicans
Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. is mad. He’s mad that Congress did not pass health benefits for 9/11 first responders. But he’s not mad enough to explain why. The bill was opposed almost exclusively by Republicans, who demanded Democrats first pass tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. In…
Exclusive: ‘The Fourth Estate is dead,’ former CIA analyst declares
‘The Empire’ is ‘being threatened by a slingshot in the form of a computer’ Traditional lines of communication between the people and the press have fallen into such disrepair in America that a whole new approach is necessary to challenge the military-industrial-governmental complex, according to a former CIA analyst sympathetic…
NPR fires Juan Williams over anti-Muslim comments on Fox News
Public radio NPR News has fired a longtime analyst with a history of appearing on Fox News Channel over comments he made about Muslims earlier this week. The news was first broken by NPR’s David Folkenflik on Twitter, and then detailed by the same reporter on NPR’s website: NPR News…
Apple shares slide on iPhone problems
NEW YORK  Apple shares were down sharply on Tuesday after Consumer Reports panned the new iPhone because of reception problems and rumors swirled about a possible recall. Shares in the California gadget maker were trading 3.13 percent lower at 249.22 dollars at noon (1600 GMT) on Wall Street. Apple’s…
Fox legal analyst: Bush should have been indicted
Fox News’ senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network. In a interview with Ralph Nader on C-SPAN’s Book TV to promote his book Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew Napolitano said that President George W. Bush and Vice…
Russia-US spy swap appears to be in motion
The largest Russia-U.S. spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be in motion Thursday, with a Russian convicted of spying for the United States reportedly plucked from a Moscow prison and flown to Vienna. Defense lawyers in the U.S. say they hoped for an immediate resolution for their 10…
Fox legal analyst predicts McChrystal will be fired
Update: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs won’t say if McChrystal’s job is safe. He added that he’ll have more to say after President Obama meets with the general. More at this link. Fox News Senior Judicial analyst told hosts Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade that he expects Gen. Stanley McChrystal…
Feds arrest analyst who allegedly exposed US Army killing of civilians
Website that exposed video says Washington Post withheld video of attack for over a year and didn’t release to public Federal officials have arrested a 22-year-old intelligence analyst whom they accuse of leaking classified materials to the web site Wikileaks.org, which released video showing the US military killing innocent civilians…
Israeli raid ‘puts Obama stuck between a rock and a hard place’
WASHINGTON – The Obama team was caught Wednesday between a rock and a hard place as it tried to navigate between key allies Israel and Turkey following an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish ship, analysts said. U.S.-Turkish ties have already come under strain over Ankara’s diplomacy with Iran and…
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