Some powerful photos of tense moments yesterday in the White House situation room as the President and his top advisors watched the operation unfold.
House Ethics Committee hires new staff director after four month impasse.
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.
White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan says the administration believes bin Laden had been living in his compound for 5 or 6 years.
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.
Pakistan coming under harsh scrutiny in the wake of the bin Laden compound raid.
Senate Intel Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): Torture did not yield the intelligence that lead U.S. to bin Laden.
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.
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.