Selective Outrage by Ben Johnson In his critique of our book Party of Defeat Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff rises to a pitch of moral outrage over our lack of concern for the alleged torture of terrorist Ibn Shaykh al-Libi. This focus is typical of critics of the war who ignore the massive leaks of classified information about America’s national security and domestic counterterrorism … [Read more...]
Exchange with Michael Isikoff, Part III
September 25, 2008 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Exchanges, Foreign policy, FrontPage Magazine, Hatred of the Military, Homeland Security, Iraq, Islam, Media bias, War on Terror Tagged With: Abu Zubaydeh, al-Qaeda, CIA, CounterPunch, Dan Rather, David Corn, Democracy Rising, Egypt, George Tenet, Hubris (book), Ibn Shaykh al-Libi, International Committee of the Red Cross, Kevin Zeese, Koran, Koran desecration, Mary Mapes, Michael Isikoff, Michael Scheuer, Newsweek, Omar Nasir, Party of Defeat, rendition, Robert Novak, Silberman-Robb Commission, Slate, The American Prospect, The New Republic, torture, Valerie Plame
Valerie Plame’s Laughable Lawsuit
July 14, 2006 By Ben Johnson
Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame – who claims she “risked her life for her country” – filed suit on Thursday against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, charging them with violating their First and Fifth Amendment rights; endangering their children’s lives; making them targets of terrorist attacks; ending her CIA career; ruining other financial opportunities; … [Read more...]
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Joseph Wilson’s Amazing Left-Wing Dreamland
July 22, 2005 By Ben Johnson
AS THE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS SPIDERWEB OF LIES SPUN BY former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV unravels, the media have gone out of their way to question the credibility of…Karl Rove. Despite Rove’s demonstrable non-leak of Valerie Plame’s non-secret identity, the dogs continue to gather, hungry for a second term scandal, while the Wilsons’ blatant self-promotion erodes whatever basis they … [Read more...]
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Pontiff of Freedom
April 4, 2005 By Ben Johnson
When Gerald Ford famously stumbled, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” in 1976, he could have had the work of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla in mind. The former president meant to indicate the people of the Warsaw Pact did not embrace the atheistic Soviet leadership – a fact, the CIA noted, that sprung from the peoples’ abiding religious faith. Pope John Paul II did more … [Read more...]
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Farewell, Chairman Bill
July 5, 2004 By Ben Johnson
I am proud to say this article was read by William F. Buckley Jr. personally. Upon reading it, he sent a very kind personal letter to me, which remains one of my most cherished possessions. This article was excerpted in the August 9, 2004, hard copy issue of National Review. An edited online version may be seen here, although in the print copy, mine was the first article excerpted.... -- … [Read more...]
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“Charitable” Foundations: ATMs for the Left
March 2, 2004 By Ben Johnson
One of the unlamented developments of this election year is the Democratic Party’s retreat to the Left. Although the media claim the party's voters have learned their lesson by settling for the “electable” John F. Kerry, a cursory examination of the Democrats shows they remain animated by anti-Bush furor. The party rank-and-file may have decided they prefer the sing-song cadences of … [Read more...]
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The Plame Affair
November 7, 2003 By Ben Johnson
THE PARTISAN CONTROVERSY over the outing of Valerie Plame, the once-covert CIA analyst and wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, seems destined to go unresolved. Although the actions of two senior administration officials may be felonious, a city that lives on leaked information seems unlikely to produce the identity of either official involved in the leak. However, the real story in this affair is … [Read more...]
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