The recent debate among Republican contenders for the presidency concentrated on issues of foreign policy and national security. Among the questions posed to the candidates was their positions on torture and waterboarding. The responses were clear and, from some, disappointing. Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Gingrich Daughter: Setting The Record Straight
By Jackie Gingrich Cushman
My father, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, has been in politics as long as I can remember.
And as long as I can remember, media coverage about him has contained misstatements of facts. The vast majority are simple mistakes that are easily corrected, understood and rewoven into an ongoing storyline.
Not so simple: U.S. spy agency trying to go mobile
Troy Lange knows that just mentioning cellphones is enough to give security officers heartburn at the National Security Agency.
Lange, as the NSA’s mobility mission manager, is developing a smartphone that he wants to bring inside the super-secret U.S. spy agency to access classified information and apps while on the move. He wants it to work as easily as any of the smartphones those that are so ubiquitous in the outside world. Continue reading
Goodbye al Qaeda’s Rose
Comedian Martin Short says “Goodbye” to Osama bin Laden.
Slandering American Law Enforcement
In a scathing screed attacking American law enforcement, New York millionaire Howard Rich tries to paint a picture of massive Gestapo-like tactics on a nationwide scale by chronicling a few extraordinary and unfortunate events.
