Stories tagged with Terrorism
New Yorker’s Jane Mayer details ‘Dark Side’ of the war on terror
By Carol Eisenberg | July 25, 2008 at 9:19am | 2 
For several years, New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has examined facets of the Bush Administration’s war on terror in laser-like detail, from the CIA’s creation of secret “black site” prisons around the world, to its dramatic expansion of presidential powers.
McCain strategist Charlie Black offers clinical assessment of terrorist threat
By Laurie Bennett | June 24, 2008 at 7:20am | 0
Is Charlie Black merely stating the obvious, or is he showing his roots?
Wainstein becomes top homeland security adviser
By Carol Eisenberg | March 21, 2008 at 9:33am | 0
The man named as President George W. Bush’s new homeland security adviser is a veteran prosecutor who helped promote the Administration’s legislation to grant immunity to telecommunications companies who took part in surveillance programs.
Attack ads prompt Democrats to quit think tank
By Laurie Bennett | March 1, 2008 at 4:15pm | 0
The politics surrounding President Bush’s surveillance bill have split the membership of a traditionally neutral think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
The head of the foundation, Clifford May, confirmed for Newsweek that several prominent Democrats had resigned after an affiliated group began running political ads targeting 15 Democratic members of Congress. Those quitting the foundation include Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Eliot Engel and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.
May, former communications director for the Republican National Committee, also heads the new organization, which has a similar name - Defense of Democracies - but a sharper political focus.
