Osama bin Laden

Benghazi: The Obama spin continues

2013-05-12 05:00:00

"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...

Sanford and Hicks go to Congress, The CIA goes to Hollywood and CNN stays put

2013-05-08 07:10:00

Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House (or at least that's where we hear he's going). Welcome to your trends report for Monday, May 8, 2013. Sanford will head to Capitol Hill after facing off against Elizabeth...

Torture helped get bin Laden?

2013-02-07 03:00:00

"Zero Dark Thirty," the film about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, got a fresh infusion of buzz over the weekend when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed again that enhanced interrogation techniques aided the effort to find...

CIA deception threatens global effort to eradicate polio

2013-01-07 03:00:00

The news that the Central Intelligence Agency had been running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan first surfaced in 2011 and quickly ignited fears that the covert operation could compromise the global campaign to eradicate polio. Late last month, a...

CIA's outrageous fake vaccination plot

2013-01-11 05:15:00

The CIA is probably smug and triumphant about its duplicitous vaccination drive in Abbotabad, a mission hatched to catch and kill Osama bin Laden ("A tainted polio program," Jan. 7). As a doctor, I cringe to think of this unscrupulous use of medicine...

'Seal Team Six' celebrates Obama, suffers sins of docudrama

2012-11-05 10:20:00

There is no TV genre more problematic than docudrama. And Sunday's premiere of "SEAL Team Six," which claims to be the true, inside story of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, is as problematic as they come. The core issues all grow from the...

A kinder, gentler Romney

2012-10-23 14:45:00

It's a safe bet that President Barack Obama misses the old Mitt Romney — the one who described himself as "severely conservative." In their first debate in Denver, Mr. Romney outflanked the president by assuming the role of Moderate Mitt, a sweet-...

U.S. stronger, safer under Obama

2012-10-24 13:00:00

Four years ago, Osama bin Laden was at large, the U.S. and world economies were in free-fall, America was bogged down in two wars, and the Bush Administration had lost friends — governments as well as ordinary people — for America around the...

Ehrlich is wrong on U.S. policy in the Middle East

2012-10-16 06:00:00

Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column ("The Obama doctrine: Passivity where leadership is needed," Oct. 14) continues to present a flawed ideological position on the Middle East when a heterodox view is in order. We entered the Middle East and North...

Libya crisis the latest chapter in Obama's foreign policy follies

2012-10-04 00:00:00

We're now entering the fourth week of the "CSI: Benghazi" hostage crisis. That's how long an FBI forensic team has been trying to gain access in Libya to what the State Department still calls a crime scene -- the Obamaadministration's preferred term for...

Obama missteps facilitated Libyan attack

2012-09-24 04:30:00

After a week of President Barack Obama's typical lying fashion, his administration finally admitted that the terrorist assault on the American consulate in Benghazi and the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens was a preplanned operation by anti-...

There's a connection between school shootings and America's culture of violence

2012-09-14 05:15:00

There is a connection between the disheartening events of Baltimore County students bringing weapons to school and the violence we see overseas ("School safety promised," Sept. 12). We are the richest, most powerful nation in the world. We are also the...

Supporters of a hardline pro-Taliban party carry an image of Osama Bin Laden on May 2, 2011, to protest his death by U.S. Special Forces in a ground operation in Pakistan's hill station of Abbottabad.

2012-12-18 16:24:00

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's burial at sea followed Muslim custom, internal Navy e-mails say.

2012-11-22 09:06:02

Demonstrators carry a poster of Osama Bin Laden during a protest condemning a U.S. produced movie insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad in Tahrir Square September 14, 2012. The poster reads: "May God have mercy on the soul of Sheikh Osama Bin Laden. Wait for more hurtful reactions from us."

2012-09-14 11:40:00