As you’ve seen in our feature section over the course of the day we’ve been chronicling in some detail how the administration’s narrative of events in the bin Laden raid story have changed over the course of the last 36 hours. The wife human shield story has now been dropped. And contrary to the first accounts, bin Laden himself seems to have been unarmed. But I think we’ve gotten into comical exaggeration territory when the Atlantic refers to this as somehow comparable to the collapse of the Jessica Lynch story back in 2003. Read More
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is apparently considering a run for Congress from … Washington State, where he once famously encountered a UFO at Shirley MacLaine’s house.
In a stunning turn of events, more Americans approve of President Obama’s job performance now than before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Senate Intel Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): Torture did not yield the intelligence that lead U.S. to bin Laden.
Pakistan coming under harsh scrutiny in the wake of the bin Laden compound raid.
Did key intelligence in finding bin Laden come from torture? Apparently not. But that’s not stopping people from claiming it did.
As a more general matter it’s important to recognize that torture could easily have produced the key information. It just seems not to have in this case. You can be doctrinaire in opposing torture without being doctrinaire in assuming that it can’t produce any good intelligence, which would be foolish.
White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan says the administration believes bin Laden had been living in his compound for 5 or 6 years.
The White House is backing off today’s account from Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan’s which suggested that bin Laden had used one of wives as a human shield in the final moments of his life.
House Ethics Committee hires new staff director after four month impasse.