Fallout the so-called “war on terror” — Telecommunications companies achieved immunity from lawsuits in the latest Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act revision.

Homeland Security is implementing a program within the department for all employees to watch each other carefully for signs of being spies or terrorists.

Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Do not replace the current administration — or Democratic members of Congress — with another set of inept Republicans

Today in Congress, to prevent the Bush administration from making recess appointments, there was only a pro forma session of the Senate scheduled. But things are bubbling beneath the surface,

The world is watching as two very different kinds of competitions, violent and non-violent. In violent competition, also known as war, each side tries to kill its opponents.

The year 2008 has all the potential to be a blowout in the realm of politics. One of the signs in the increase in the involvement of women.

The Middle East can be a very dangerous place for fact-finders. Fortunately for us, investigative journalists persist in trying to ascertain what is actually happening in the region.

CONSPIRACY THEORY — A Cuil search on “conspiracy theory” returned 2,076,650 results, so the very idea is a big deal in the blogosphere.

Happy Birthday, dear Barack. Senator Barack Obama turns 47 today. He took the initiative and gave a major energy speech in Lansing Michigan. With the following Memeorandum headline, Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet set my blog’s energy agenda for today: “Energy fueling Monday’s agenda. Obama, 47 today, acts, McCain reacts.” To quote:
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Today’s post wraps up those from my “Classic” series on Mark Sageman’s “Leaderless Jihad.” Sageman, an ex CIA agent and forensic psychiatrist, has researched the radical groups of Islamist jihadis.

We will begin to get more involved and excited as we watch the conventions and the opinion polls. But right now, we have passed into the predictable — negative campaigning, which often works, according to the experts.

Today’s big Intelligence Story — on the revision of Executive Order 1233 — gets even bigger. It turns out that Congress got by-passed with the revisions and they were hurt and surprised. We are not a bit surprised.

. . . in Iraq differs, depending on with whom you are having the discussion. The original goal of the neocons was quite clear. They were intent on establishing a democracy as a foothold somewhere in the Middle East.

STS-125 — The next NASA shuttle mission is scheduled for 11 days in space beginning October 8, 2008. This mission to service the Hubble telescope is on track to be able to meet its scheduled launch date.

Today’s post wraps up those from my “Classic” series on Mark Sageman’s “Leaderless Jihad.” Sageman, an ex CIA agent and forensic psychiatrist, has researched the radical groups of Islamist jihadis. He first published on the subject in 2004, with “Understanding Terror Networks.” He presented his most recent theories in late 2007, in “Leaderless Jihad,” which he discussed at the New America Foundation on 2/20/08. My first four posts about Sageman’s work are linked below.*