Peter King
The former IRA Terrorist supporter, Peter King is holding his fourth hearing on “Muslim-American Radicalization,” this time focusing on the “military.” Expect it to be an Islamophobiapalooza.
Rep. King’s fourth Muslim-American radicalization hearing to focus on military
By Jordy Yager
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is hoping his panel’s hearing on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans within the U.S. military will reveal how the armed services can...Read Full Story
By Jordy Yager
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is hoping his panel’s hearing on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans within the U.S. military will reveal how the armed services can better protect itself against homegrown attacks.
Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) is holding a joint hearing on Wednesday, along with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), as the next stage in his series of efforts to address the...Read Full Story
WIRED ‘s Spencer Ackerman broke a story yesterday on the anti-Muslim training materials the FBI used to train intelligence units. According to the FBI, the agency has pulled the training . The FBI on Thursday said it had stopped a training session that called the Prophet Muhammad a “cult leader,” said mainstream Muslims were likely to support violent extremism and described the Islamic principal of charity as a “funding mechanism for combat.” The content of the training session set off a wave...Read Full Story
Joe Lieberman
Lieberman: Obama’s concern with offending Muslims is hurting the war effort
By Jordy Yager - 09/01/11 02:03 PM ET
The Obama administration’s fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Thursday in a speech blasting the president’s new counterterrorism strategy.
Lieberman said that Obama’s strategy, which was released in June, “was ultimately a big disappointment,” and while it successfully identified the core of...Read Full Story
Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins
by Ryan J. Reilly
Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) aren’t messing around when it comes to stopping federal dollars from flowing to anti-Muslim terrorism training. In a letter to Obama on Tuesday, the duo said that if the administration can’t develop criteria to keep bigoted information out of counter-terrorism training , they’ll “consider drafting a legislative mandate or even imposing standards by statute.”
“An initial review by our...Read Full Story
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent) has called on the United States to provide medical aid, training and arms to the 'brave Syrian freedom fighters.'Let's go to the videotape.I'm all in favor of giving them medical aid, but not the rest. As far as I can tell, the Syrian 'freedom fighters' are not a whole lot better than Assad himself.
CROWLEY: Joining me here in Washington, White House Chief of Staff, Jacob Lew. Thanks for joining us.
LEW: Good to be with you.
CROWLEY: Just want to start what has roiled certainly some in the Catholic community, I know has really set the White House off in trying to get things situated, and that is this idea that Catholic universities, Catholic hospitals, should have to pay for contraception for its employees as part of its health care plan...
Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said Sunday that the United States should provide medical aid, training and arms to those ... “I think it is time to give them help. Medical help first and then I’d give them training, I’d give them communications ...
There's no question that some people in Washington would very much like for the U.S. to have a policy towards Iran whose endgame is war or externally-induced regime change. And they have a long-term strategy to bring this about, which is to ...
It's the biggest country in the Arab world," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. "But on the other hand, we can't just sit back when Americans get charged and potentially incarcerated for what are trumped up charges, ridiculous," said Lieberman ...
Joe Lieberman, (born February 24, 1942), is a politician from Connecticut. In 2000, he became the first Jewish person to appear on a major party's presidential ballot when he was chosen as Al Gore's running mate. Joe Lieberman has become a controversial figure as his allegiance to the Democratic party grew increasingly less substantial during...more
Joe Lieberman, (born February 24, 1942), is a politician from Connecticut. In 2000, he became the first Jewish person to appear on a major party's presidential ballot when he was chosen as Al Gore's running mate. Joe Lieberman has become a controversial figure as his allegiance to the Democratic party grew increasingly less substantial during the years President George W. Bush was in office.
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24 , 1942 ) is a United States Senator from Connecticut . Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was ...
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. carbon-capping bill aimed at curbing climate change died on Friday in the Senate but its supporters looked to the next president to enact a global warming law as early as 2009. The bill aimed to cut total U.S ...