Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Congress has warned of an expanded Al Qaida network. Leaders of the House and Senate have asserted that Al Qaida was expanding throughout the Middle East and Europe. They said Al Qaida was planning smaller but sustained strikes on Americans. “There is huge malevolence out there,” Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Congress, amid plans to deliver F-16 fighter-jets, has been debating whether to suspend major U.S. arms shipments to Egypt in wake of its military coup. [ See also: White House did not call Mubarak’s ouster a coup, still backs Muslim Brotherhood ] Congressional sources said key House and Senate committees […]
Wesley Pruden John Boehner thinks there’s too much of Barack Obama in Washington. Most of the Democrats think there’s a surplus of impertinent Republicans. Chris Christie says it’s Congress that turned Washington rancid. Everybody agrees something is rotten on the Potomac. The ladies of the U.S. Senate think they’ve figured it out. It’s that beastly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The story we get repeatedly from the press is that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London because he fears being sent by the British to Sweden to answer sex charges and then eventually being extradited to the U.S. to answer espionage charges here. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid A May 24 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying he’d never had any contact with Bradley Manning and that he had no information indicating that the former Army intelligence analyst was the source of the classified U.S. intelligence information released by WikiLeaks. […]