Paintballing With Hezbollah
Mitchell Prothero is a journalist who has reported from all over the Middle East for several years and is currently based in Lebanon. While there, he has been trying to learn more about Hezbollah, the Shiite military/quasi-governmental/terrorist group based in that...
Pilot Season
Upon hearing the story of the JetBlue captain who went nuts on a flight yesterday and had to be subdued by passengers, I remembered a conversation I had ten years ago with a friend who was (and still is) a pilot for a major commercial airline. He was frustrated with...
Dealing With Death Threats
Michael Moore's new book, "Here Comes Trouble," will be published next week. It's full of two dozen stories from his life, one of which has been excerpted in the British newspaper The Guardian. It's about the death threats that followed Moore's anti-Bush...
Another Interrogator Speaks Up
On "60 Minutes" tonight, Lara Logan interviewed former FBI agent Ali Soufan, one of the bureau's chief interrogators of Al Qaeda suspects and other Islamic extremists after 9/11, who is now telling his story in the book "The Black Banners." Soufan discussed the...
Ronald Kessler “Secrets Of The FBI”
A couple of years ago, I talked to Ronald Kessler about his book, "In The President's Secret Service," in which he was given unprecedented access to the agency and uncovered some disturbing things about cutbacks that could affect presidential security. Kessler was...
Taking On The TSA
While I don't agree with a lot of Sen. Rand Paul's politics, I do admire the stance he's taken against the TSA when it comes to the security facade at airports and, in particular, random invasive patdowns of passengers. Here he is addressing TSA chief John Pistole at...
Tweeting The News
In case you don't follow me on Twitter, here are some of the quickie thoughts I tweeted tonight in the hour after the news of Osama Bin Laden's death at the hands of US special forces in Pakistan: 2 stories yet to be told: details on how the special forces team got...
Missile Math Mistake
I made some simple math mistakes in a previous post, and appreciate Matt Johnson catching my error:As someone who agrees with your general point about the amount we spend on the military industrial complex being outrageously high, I do have to point out that you might...