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10 questions for John Ashcroft
When the 9/11 commission grills the attorney general Tuesday, here's what they should ask.
By Judd Legum Apr 12, 2004
"We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001"
A former FBI translator told the 9/11 commission that the bureau had detailed information well before Sept. 11, 2001, that terrorists were likely to attack the U.S. with airplanes.
By Eric Boehlert Mar 26, 2004
Outlawing dissent
Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom.
By Michelle Goldberg Feb 11, 2004
Terrorist threat or political hype?
Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
By Paul J. Caffera Aug 19, 2003
Grounding the flying nun
Activists on the left and right -- including a 71-year-old Milwaukee nun and an art dealer who told other passengers that President Bush "is dumb as a rock" -- have long complained they were being hassled by airport security. After months of silence, the federal government says: It's true.
By Dave Lindorff Jul 25, 2003
Bush's 9/11 coverup?
Family members of victims of the terror attacks say the White House has smothered every attempt to get to the bottom of the outrageous intelligence failures that took place on its watch.
By Eric Boehlert Jun 18, 2003
Senate report: FBI still unprepared
A bipartisan report says the agency is still too cautious in dealing with terror suspects -- and has promoted the agents who bungled the Moussaoui case.
By Jake Tapper Mar 3, 2003
Day of the dead
More than 325 women have been murdered in the free-trade boomtown of Ciudad Juarez in the past decade. Faced with government incompetence and corruption, people are rebelling.
By Max Blumenthal Dec 4, 2002
The air industry's worst nightmare
Just days ago, national security executives met secretly with airline CEOs to warn them that al-Qaida may be planning to fire shoulder-launched missiles at commercial jets in the U.S. There's virtually no defense.
By Paul J. Caffera Nov 22, 2002
Sept. 11 and wars of the world
Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them.
By William M. Arkin Oct 11, 2002
Bush hawks commandeer 9/11 hearings
Congress tries to ask why U.S. intelligence failed to predict the attacks, but Wolfowitz and Armitage only want to talk about why we must invade Iraq.
By Anthony York Sep 20, 2002
Congress frustrated by Bush stonewalling
U.S. security agencies had signals years ago that foreshadowed 9/11. But the White House and key intelligence officials don't want to talk about it.
By Anthony York Sep 19, 2002
"The Cell"
Listen to an excerpt from the new book by ABC newscaster John Miller and reporters Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell on why the FBI and CIA failed to stop the 9/11 attacks.
By John Miller Sep 12, 2002
Miss Liberty strikes back
The courts and even some of his allies have turned against John Ashcroft and his attack on civil rights -- and he has only his own bungling and overreaching to blame.
By Bruce Shapiro Sep 11, 2002
Bio-sleuth or crackpot?
Scientist Barbara Hatch Rosenberg has pressed to keep the investigation into last year's anthrax attacks alive. But bio-weapons researcher Steven Hatfill is not amused.
By Anthony York Aug 31, 2002
A conversation with Aukai Collins
The author of "My Jihad" talks about John Walker Lindh, his days with Daniel Pearl's killer and a 9/11 hijacker, and why the FBI had its head in the sand.
By Edward W. Lempinen Jul 17, 2002
The dragnet comes up empty
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, law enforcement agents detained more than 1,000 people, mostly Middle Eastern-born men. Some were held for weeks without an attorney. Some were virtually convicted in the press. But none have been implicated in terrorism.
By Eric Boehlert Jun 19, 2002
Every dial you take
The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
By Jeffrey Benner Jun 18, 2002
Ashcroft's murky motives
Instead of tailing "dirty bomb" suspect Abdullah al Muhajir and following him to other suspects, the federal government arrested him, but then waited a month to announce the bust. Now critics wonder what the Justice Department is really up to.
By Dave Lindorff Jun 12, 2002
Will David Frasca be the FBI fall guy for 9/11?
Director Mueller mostly won over Congress this week. But in mapping the missed signals before the terror attacks, most roads lead to counterterror chief Frasca -- and at least one senator is miffed.
By Anthony York Jun 8, 2002
A mysterious hand blocks FBI reforms
An anonymous Republican senator is using an arcane procedure to block a reform bill. Is the GOP taking revenge for the Dems' rejection of Pickering?
By Eric Boehlert Jun 7, 2002
Dianne Feinstein's bad idea
The war on terrorism is no excuse to start racial profiling.
By Robert Scheer Jun 6, 2002
The dead zone
Reporters wait around in Washington's crypt for something -- anything -- to leak out from closed congressional hearings into 9/11 intelligence failures.
By Anthony York Jun 5, 2002
The FBI's dangerous drug-war obsession
Before Sept. 11, the FBI was too focused on busting pot smokers to see the warning signs of a looming terrorist attack.
By Arianna Huffington Jun 5, 2002
Judging Louis Freeh
The Clinton-era FBI chief was seen as a straight arrow who prepared the bureau for the demands of a new century. Now critics question whether he left the nation vulnerable to attack.
By Eric Boehlert Jun 4, 2002
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