Covert Ops

Framed by the FBI Framed by the FBI

The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrong...

Jun 20, 2002 / Editorial / James X. Dempsey

Home Security System Home Security System

The timing of George W. Bush's proposal for a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security--hastily unveiled when revelations about FBI lapses were hitting the front pages--smack...

Jun 13, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors

McKinney Redux McKinney Redux

During the long months of post-September 11 presidential invincibility, no member of Congress climbed further out on the what-did-Bush-know-when limb than Representative Cynthia M...

May 23, 2002 / Editorial / John Nichols

As the Press Turns As the Press Turns

Quick, pinch me--am I still living in the same country? Reading and watching the same media? This "Bob Woodward" fellow who co-wrote a tough piece in the May 18 Washington Post...

May 23, 2002 / Editorial / Michael Tomasky

The Warning Game The Warning Game

The question is not the 1970s cliché, What did the President know and when did he know it? The appropriate query is, What did US intelligence know--and what did the Pre...

May 23, 2002 / Editorial / David Corn

September 11 Questions September 11 Questions

George W. Bush, it is true, did not create the FBI's smug, insular, muscle-bound bureaucracy or the CIA's well-known penchant for loopy spy tips and wrongheaded geopolitical analy...

May 23, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors

Knowledge (and Power) Knowledge (and Power)

For Senator Clinton to flourish a copy of the New York Post--the paper that has called her pretty much everything from Satanic to Sapphist--merely because it had the pungent headli...

May 23, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Understanding Ashcroft Understanding Ashcroft

I am beginning to suspect that Nation readers may not fully appreciate the challenges Attorney General John Ashcroft faces. What would you do in his place? Your intelligence agenc...

Apr 18, 2002 / Editorial / David Cole

Lying in State Lying in State

How cool is Jennifer Harbury? She is currently arguing her own case before the Supreme Court, demanding the right to sue the government because, she maintains, its leaders delibe...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Company Man Company Man

"Debacle in Kwangju." Were Washington's cables read as a green light for the 1980 Korean massacre? (1996) "Stiglitz Roars Back" (2001)

Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Tim Shorrock

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