A South Dakota Moderate

Cross posted on KELO Blogs.
It is always entertaining to take an important political story and compare how each wing of the spectrum sees fit to spin it. The latest story to hit the spin zone deals with the just released NIE report that states that the latest evil empire on the Bush Administration’s hit list [...]

First you have people using the recent foiling of the UK bomb plot as an example of how the NSA warrantless monitoring program is needed even though none of the participants were US citizens and none of the monitoring occurred on US soil.
This is why what the NSA does, and the changes Bush made to [...]

9/11 conspiracies are nothing new especially in the fringe but the latest conspiracy theory is really out there and to top it off it’s coming from someone that is tasked with our safety in the skies.
Field McConnell is convinced the 9/11 terrorist attacks are being covered up. The Northwest Airlines pilot from rural Glyndon, Minn., [...]

Our Secretary of State now only needs a bullet proof vest when making a surprise visit to the heavily fortified American controlled Green Zone.

State Department Photo
(h/t KOS)

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In the wake of the Bush Administration’s release yesterday of the synopsis of the classified NIE report, reaction has been swift and as can be expected varied depending on who is doing the reporting.
The Left feels that even the miniscule 3 plus page summary declassified out of the 30 page report backs up the assertion [...]

UPDATED BELOW
A leaked portion of the NIE report that supposedly reports that the Bush invasion of Iraq has actually fueled more terrorism was made public today at the request of President Bush whom has been getting criticism that he attributes to election year politics.
Many have criticised the leak including Bush himself saying that those opposed [...]

For those that think that torture and the foregoing of due process when handling terror suspects is the way we need to proceed, which is exactly what the Bush Administration is pushing for in Congress, should probably talk to former terror suspect and Canadian citizen Maher Arar. He has first hand knowledge of those policies.
Arar, [...]

You can add former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell to the list of those in the GOP that are coming out against King George’s plans to allow torture to be added to the bag of tricks used by the US in their interrogation techniques of suspected terrorists.
“The world is beginning to doubt the moral [...]

Dick Cheney and Josh Bolten where on Capitol Hill yesterday attempting some damage control when they met with members of their own party trying to get them to go along with King George’s plan to prosecute suspected terrorists (a plan that has long since been set in motion). It seems the administration is having a [...]

One economic boom that has been realized due to George Bush’s policies on the war on terror involve the insurance industry and no it doesn’t involve natural disaster responses by FEMA. Legal insurance is the new must have policy for CIA counterterrorism officers that are tasked with carrying out some of Bush’s terror fighting policies.
The [...]

The day that we in the US will never forget happened 5 years ago today. Reflecting back on those 5 years many will write about how their lives have changed and where they were when the planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and a bit later in the field in Pennsylvania but [...]

Back in July it was announced that the CIA had closed the unit known as Alec Station whose sole purpose was to track down Osama Bin Laden. At the time the CIA said the closure reflected the notion that the focus should be more towards regional trends rather than on specific individuals.
It looks like the [...]