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Noam Chomsky: Obama Would Have Started Nuclear War To Kill Bin Laden

The act of killing bin Laden could have started a nuclear war says the MIT professor. “We were very close to war with Pakistan, which easily could have turned into a nuclear war, which could have destroyed all of us,” he told Jason Liosatos of Global Peace Radio. “The Obama administration was willing to take [...]

Noam Chomsky: Obama willing to start nuclear war to kill bin Laden

It’s an Obama World… Pakistani Doctor Who Held Find Bin Laden Was Denied Asylum in US

It’s Barack Obama’s Special Way of Saying ‘Thank You!’… The Pakistani doctor who helped the United States find Osama Bin Laden was denied asylum. Now Pashtun Dr. Shakil Afridi could die for helping the US. FOX News reported: The jailed … Continue reading ?

SEAL Auctions Bin Laden Raid Knife for Fallen Friend

A member of the elite team that killed Osama bin Laden donated a knife he carried on the historic raid to a charity auction recently, raising $35,400 for the family of another Navy SEAL who perished in a training accident in March. Mark Owen, the...

Navy SEAL Auctions Knife Used in bin Laden Mission for $35,000

How much would knife collectors pay to own a piece of history? A fair amount, especially if the knife itself is already top-quality. A knife reportedly used in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan recently went for auction,...

In Memoriam

I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to President Obama. It was under his watch that Osama bin Laden, a generally vile human being who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of American civilians, was...

The Story That Led To The Investigation Of The Associated Press

The original story was about how the CIA “foiled an al Qaeda bomb plot” around the time of the death of  bin Laden, and was published May 7, 2012.: The CIA has thwarted a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year [...]

SEAL Team Parents Blame WH for Deaths

Parents of SEAL Team Six members who were killed in a helicopter downing just months after the death of Osama Bin Laden are accusing the White House of potentially contributing to deaths by revealing for political purposes that team – whose very existence was classified... -

Hitting the Movie Lottery

If you wanted to place a hold on Zero Dark Thirty right now, there are approximately 505 people standing in your way of finding out how the CIA took down bin Laden. Bummer, right? Good news! Last week the library beefed … Continue reading ?

Sunday wrap

Who said it? 1. “They’re in the midst of a presidential campaign. The narrative by the Obama campaign is that Bin Laden is dead, the — al-Qaeda is on the run, not to worry about anything. And here comes this … Continue reading ?

Manhunt: Meet the CIA ‘Sisterhood’ That Tracked Bin Laden

Years before Osama bin Laden became a household name, a group of female analysts at the CIA was so determined to find and stop the terror leader that one said she was once counseled by an Agency superior that she was spending “too much time”...

Limbaugh Repeats Discredited Claim That Obama Was "Off The Grid" During Benghazi Attack

From the May 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Previously: Limbaugh Claims Obama "Killing Bin Laden And Running Around Bragging About It" Led To Attack In Benghazi Fox's Crowley Revisits Debunked Myth That Obama, Clinton Were "Unaccounted For" During Benghazi Attack Fox's Krauthammer Resurrects Myth That Obama Was Absent During Benghazi Attack

Late Night Open Thread

Watching Manhunt on HBO, a documentary of all the women who spent decades working on finding and killing bin Laden. None of them looked like Jessica Chastain. Every single fucking one of them was a better actor. Also too, I went to the bar to get a chicken sandwich to go and some young co-ed [...]

Disney Wants Trademark On Dia De Los Muertos To Sell You Fruit Snacks

So, hey, remember that one time that Disney thought it'd be a pretty sweet idea to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden by applying for trademarks on Seal Team 6's name so they could apparently sell snow globes? Pretty much everyone...Show More Summary

Raymond Barrett: The War on Terror Is Over...But Osama Bin Laden Won.

Committing atrocities is one thing, but institutionalizing them with the full imprimatur of the US government is another, and a more definitive way to ensure Bin Laden enjoys a posthumous victory.

Obama defends approach to determining if Syria used chemical arms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his deliberate approach to determining whether Syria used chemical weapons and pointed to the fates of Osama bin Laden and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as evidence that "we typically fo...

Obama: Bin Laden, Gadhafi show I’m serious about Syria

President Barack Obama defiantly defended his handling of Syria’s civil war on Tuesday, warning that Iraq showed the danger of acting on “perceived” evidence of weapons of mass destruction. And for those who doubt his determination to see Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad ousted from power, Obama bluntly pointed to the fate of Osama bin Laden and [...]

While Past Administrations Have Achieved Release of Political Prisoners, Afridi Remains Imprisoned

With the Obama administration currently doing little to free Dr. Shakil Afridi, the source who helped American forces find and target Osama Bin Laden, it is obvious that their concerns lie elsewhere. Past administrations have achieved freedom for American-allied political prisoners elsewhere in the world. Show More Summary

Declassified Memo Shows ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers Played Role of Willing Propagandists for CIA

Filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated film, Zero Dark Thirty, which dramatized the hunt for Osama bin Laden that ended in his execution, were known to have communicated with the CIA multiple times during production. Now, according to...Show More Summary

It's almost like Reince Priebus is swiftboating Gabriel Gomez. Almost.

The Markey campaign's YouTube video shows Gomez side-by-side with an anti-Obama swiftboating video. Gomez had appeared on MSNBC to defend the video, which included images of bin Laden and the president. Put out a statement on Ed Markey's shameful attack ad where he juxtaposed a pic of Bin Laden with Gomez. Show More Summary