Senate report strikes heart of Iraq war

After hundreds of American soldiers have died and billions of U.S. dollars have been spent, a Senate panel is saying...

“Key Assertions Leading to War Were Wrong”

The Central Intelligence Agency greatly overestimated the danger presented by deadly unconventional weapons in Iraq because of runaway assumptions that...

Israel points finger at Iran over Nukes

Israel has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog that Iran’s atomic program is a front for developing nuclear weapons that...

US ‘distorted Saddam intelligence’

Spy chiefs were today facing accusations of “worldwide intelligence failures” over the case for war in Iraq. A damning report...

Security comes from neighbors, not nuclear weapons

The Israeli nuclear weapons program is clouded in deliberate mystery through a policy they term “strategic ambiguity.” The Israelis neither...

Blair says WMD may never be found

Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted that biological and chemical weapons, which he once insisted Saddam Hussein had primed for use, may never be found. In parliamentary testimony on Tuesday, the prime minister also insisted he had exerted real influence over Washington's approach to post-war Iraq and defended his close ties with President George W. Bush.

Line by line analysis of the “inaccuracies” in Bush’s speech

It's a little old, but with the release of "Fahrenheit 9/11," this is kind of interesting to read....

Supreme Court blocks Internet porn law

A divided U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to let the government enforce the latest version of a criminal law requiring...

Get-out policy in Iraq

Yesterday Paul Bremer, the chief administrator of Iraq for the past 14 months, signed over political control of the country...

Terror Detainees Win Right to U.S. Courts

The Supreme Court delivered a mixed verdict Monday on the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies, ruling that the U.S. government has the power to hold American citizens and foreign nationals without charges or trial, but that detainees can challenge their treatment in U.S. courts.
The administration had sought a more clear-cut endorsement of its policies than it got. The White House had claimed broad authority to seize and hold potential terrorists or their protectors for as long as the president saw fit - and without interference from judges or lawyers.