Due to its claimed use in ter­ror­ism, pos­ses­sion of the Casio F91W watch was listed in Com­bat­ant Sta­tus Review Tri­bunal reports and other gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments as a rea­son for these detainees’ con­tin­ued deten­tion. The watch was pop­u­lar all over the Moslem world because it had great prayer alert fea­tures. Among those listed: Abdul­lah Kamel...
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The admis­sion by Direc­tor of National Intel­li­gence Den­nis Blair that the United States intel­li­gence com­mu­nity is autho­rized to assas­si­nate Amer­i­cans work­ing with ter­ror­ists over­seas has raised seri­ous ques­tions of constitutionality. “It’s trou­bling, Keith, because it’s not on the books,” con­sti­tu­tional law pro­fes­sor Jonathan Tur­ley told MSNBC’s Keith Olber­mann on Thursday. via Law pro­fes­sor: Assas­si­nat­ing...
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By Jeff Stein (FP) Now comes John Kiri­akou, again, with a wholly dif­fer­ent story. On the next-​​to-​​last page of a new mem­oir, The Reluc­tant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Ter­ror (writ­ten with Michael Ruby), Kiri­akou now rather off hand­edly admits that he basi­cally made it all up. “What I told Brian...
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