Wizbang: 9/11 Archives

Where's Barbara Olson?

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (19)

Apparently somewhere in "the sea". Or Ohio. Yes, I'm serious. The newest conspiracy theory involves Ted and Barbara Olson, her phone calls to him, and whether or not her plane flew into the Pentagon, or into the Atlantic Ocean (or presumably Ohio). Apparently, Barbara's just fine and is hiding from... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (16 votes cast)

Senate Votes to Grant Legal Immunity to Telecom Companies for Warrantless Surveillance, ACLU defeated -- again

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 12, 2008 · Comments (41)

The Senate voted 67-31 on Tuesday to grant legal immunity to telecom companies to protect them from potentially-vexatious lawsuits in connection with their cooperation with the federal government in the post-9/11 investigation of potential terrorist suspects, designed to help prevent another mass-casualties attack. The vote was a defeat for the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (12 votes cast)

Law & Order Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 11, 2008 · Comments (3)

In this update we've got musings about the upcoming military trials in Gitmo of the 9/11 planners and the Justice Department's charges of espionage against that DOD official. Click the below link to read more.... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Senate Backs Bush on Wiretaps

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 24, 2008 · Comments (13)

The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt by the chamber's liberal wing to weaken the Bush administration's ability to fight the global war against genocidal Islamic terrorists. By a 60-36 vote, Senators defeated a proposal to give the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court increased oversight powers over wiretaps and... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (14 votes cast)

Bill Clinton to Paulbot Truther: "You're nuts."

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 8, 2008 · Comments (6)

Campaigning for Hillary in New Hampshire, via Mike Menoli of NBC: Eventually, Clinton stopped outside a bakery, offered some remarks, and took questions. As he was answering one on Iraq, one of the Paul backers interrupted and shouted that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job, and that the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (20 votes cast)

Ahmadinejad wants to visit Ground Zero

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 19, 2007 · Comments (33)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to visit Ground Zero while he is in New York City next week to address the United Nations - and Mayor Bloomberg may let him! Sarah Garland reports for the New York Sun: In a move that has stunned New York, the Bloomberg administration is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (17 votes cast)

Palestinian Authority celebrates 9/11 - again

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 17, 2007 · Comments (39)

The official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority - yes, that same outfit we are sending millions of taxpayer dollars to support because they are the "moderates" - has once again celebrated the 9/11 attacks in print, according to Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of Palestinian Media Watch: The Palestinian Authority... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (14 votes cast)

Report from Ground Zero, 9/11/07

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 14, 2007 · Comments (12)

Townhall's Mary Katharine Ham visited Ground Zero on Tuesday and talked to New Yorkers about the "Truthers" demonstrating at the site: Her earlier report with photos is here.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (10 votes cast)

Remembering 9-11

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: September 11, 2007 · Comments (18)

Today is the six-year anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in our nation's history, and I honestly had no idea how best to remember it. I could come up with a sappy poem, I could write tearful rememberances. But my mind honestly draws a blank as to how exactly you... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (22 votes cast)

Nothing More Than Feelings...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: September 11, 2007 · Comments (39)

Peter David today asks: Anything I could say about recollections of the day, I've already said in previous years. So this year I'm simply moved to ask... ...anyone feeling safer? I'd have to say no, I don't. I don't FEEL any safer. Nor do I FEEL any more endangered. That's... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (19 votes cast)

"We're Crazier Than You"

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: September 11, 2007 · Comments (21)

Everyone else is talking about the sadness, the loss associated with the 9/11 attacks. The main thing I remember from that day is fear and rage. And this piece written by Laurence Simon (reprinted without his permission, but he's stolen from me enough that I feel I can get away... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (22 votes cast)