Category: News

Unasked questions. IN ITS TOUGH QUESTIONING of Richard Clarke and Condoleezza Rice, the 9/11 commission has already shown itself to be more resolute than some skeptics predicted. Many Americans now realize that multiple warnings of an Al Qaeda attack on American soil crossed the desks of Bush administration officials in the months leading up to… Continue reading Unasked questions

Burning Tanks. The front page of today's Boston Globe has a picture of an American tank, burning in an Iraqi street. Tanks don't get killed by fanatic children who just grabbed a rifle or a bottle. What's going on here? The press seems adrift, unsure what script we're in. We thought we were in Fighting… Continue reading Burning Tanks

Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says. President Bush was told on Aug. 6, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the U.S. and wanted to hijack airplanes. By Eric Lichtblau and David E. Sanger. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry. A patent for a type of browser cookie? This and other dubious patents have led the software industry to declare that the U.S. patent system is broken and needs to be repaired. But no quick fix is in sight. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News]

GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]

An important article…. An important article in the Sunday New York Times presents a long, detailed and I would say generally mixed picture of the Bush administration's handling of mounting threats of a major terrorist attack during the spring and summer of 2001. The article makes clear that the quickening pace of threat warnings was far… Continue reading An important article…

U.S. Could've Stopped 9/11 Attacks, Panel Chief Says. The chairman of the commission investigating the attacks said that even as the White House sought to dispel the notion that the attacks were avoidable. By Kirk Semple. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Time Records Often Altered, Job Experts Say. Experts on compensation say that the illegal doctoring of hourly employees' time records is far more prevalent than most Americans believe. By Steven Greenhouse. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Like, umm an information superhighway?. “That's what broadband technology is. It means we'll open the highways of knowledge — new highways of knowledge.” — President George W. Bush, March 26, 2004 You'd think he would at least give Al Gore credit for the metaphor. Bush's call in the speech for universal broadband by 2007 has… Continue reading Like, umm an information superhighway?

Why not just shut down the whole damn Eastern seaboard?.  I'm sorry, but this and this are just crap. Voters in Boston and New York City should remember the elected officials who brought the conventions and traffic disasters to town when they go to the polls this November.  [Q Daily News]