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William Fisher: The Next Judy Miller?
Monday, 14 November 2005, 1:19 pm | William Fisher
There is an amusing irony in the CIA asking the Justice Department to investigate who leaked to the Washington Post the information that the Agency had set up a covert prison network in Eastern Europe and other countries to hold important terrorism ... More >>
William Fisher: Why One Person Matters
Monday, 14 November 2005, 12:52 am | William Fisher
Ask any non-American to name three leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and chances are they'll stop after one: Martin Luther King. But in fact the movement had many leaders. Malcolm X went from being a street-wise Boston hoodlum ... More >>
William Fisher: The Fox At The Henhouse
Thursday, 22 September 2005, 12:19 am | William Fisher
Either President Bush just doesn't get it, or he just doesn't care, or he thinks the people he serves are all gullible morons. He's appointed his own Homeland Security Advisor, Ms. Frances Townsend, to lead the White House investigation into how the ... More >>
William Fisher: Paying For Katrina
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 12:27 am | William Fisher
Advertising gurus Gerald Rafshoon and Doug Bailey, who were on opposing sides during the Jimmy Carter-Gerald Ford campaign in 1976, have come up with a pretty good alternative to financing Katrina reconstruction with taxpayer money. More >>
Mr. Bush's Legacy: More Than Duct Tape Needed
Monday, 19 September 2005, 1:22 pm | William Fisher
The speech President George W. Bush delivered in New Orleans last evening had the phony ring of a second-term president driven by a single goal: to rebuild what is left of his tattered legacy. More >>
William Fisher: Senate's Kabuki Dance With Roberts
Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:27 am | William Fisher
After three days of hearings on the confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts to be the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States, what the public has learned is that the nominee appears to be as much Talmudic scholar as jurist. More >>
William Fisher: Secure Borders, Open Doors
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 9:57 am | William Fisher
As congress returns to Washington facing what promises to be a rancorous debate on how to protect U.S. borders, a leading immigration think-tank is charging that U.S. visa policies - a key tool in promoting national security - are in danger of ... More >>
William Fisher: Today, Padilla. Tomorrow, Who?
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:47 am | William Fisher
Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina all but drowned out what may well be one of the most consequential court decisions in American history - and one that should focus even more attention on the ideological composition of the Supreme Court. More >>
William Fisher: FBI And DHS Schizophrenia
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:41 am | William Fisher
Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing left 168 people dead, one U.S. national security agency believes the domestic radical right does not pose a substantial threat to Americans while another labels white supremacists as "terrorists" - ... More >>
William Fisher: The Price Of Secrecy
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:39 am | William Fisher
During 2004, the Bush Administration issued more secret court orders, spent $148 creating new classified documents for every $1 spent releasing old ones, invoked the 'state secrets' privilege in court cases more frequently than ever before, and ... More >>
William Fisher: Anyone Listening?
Monday, 29 August 2005, 4:08 pm | William Fisher
On September 11, 2001, a New York City police helicopter hovered above the World Trade Center. Two minutes earlier, the first of the twin towers had collapsed. It would be twenty-one minutes before the second tower was to collapse. More >>
William Fisher: Diplomatic Assurances -- Worthless
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 11:23 am | William Fisher
Countries that rely on 'diplomatic assurances' that other countries won't torture transferred prisoners "are either engaging in wishful thinking or using the assurances as a figleaf to cover their complicity," a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) ... More >>
William Fisher: Jesus And The US Airforce (Again)
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:10 am | William Fisher
A retired Army major general is throwing fuel on the hot issue of religious discrimination at the U.S. Air Force Academy by writing to commanders there to urge their backing a Christian evangelical rally for military personnel sponsored by Rev. Billy Graham's ... More >>
A Win For Science!
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 6:14 pm | William Fisher
At last, there is something nice I can say about John H. Marburger III, President Bush's science advisor. More >>
William Fisher: Big Apple Here I Come
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 2:48 pm | William Fisher
President Bush poked a thumb in the eye of Senate Democrats today by his recess appointment of John Bolton as America’s ambassador to the United Nations – and triggered wholly predictable responses from the foreign policy community. More >>
Truth And Reconciliation In North Carolina
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 12:42 am | William Fisher
"The committee say they want truth and reconciliation, then forget it and move on, it'd have been forgotten 20 years ago if it didn't keep it in the news... you ought to be tryin' to create jobs and get this mess behind and forget it, get people comin' ... More >>
William Fisher: Saudi & Nigeria In The Crosshairs
Sunday, 31 July 2005, 4:23 pm | William Fisher
Human Rights Watch is calling on Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to pardon three jailed advocates of peaceful reform and urging President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria to "show the world that he is serious about pursuing justice," and "ensure that police ... More >>
William Fisher: Karen Hughes Behind The Firewall
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 2:55 pm | William Fisher
One of America's most experienced broadcast experts believes that Karen Hughes - the high-profile Bush confidante nominated to help the State Department do a major makeover of the U.S. public diplomacy - may not be able to lay a glove on one of ... More >>
William Fisher: Bill O'Reilly In Drag
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 2:27 pm | William Fisher
Michelle Malkin, sometimes known as Bill O'Reilly in drag, opened one of her recent syndicated rants with this question: "Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Civil-liberties activists, anti-war organizers, eco-militants and animal-rights operatives are in a fright over ... More >>
William Fisher: A Degree In Public Diplomacy
Monday, 25 July 2005, 12:25 am | William Fisher
As the U.S. faces increasingly negative attitudes around the world, the previously arcane subject of public diplomacy has become a serious issue in the Bush Administration, Congress, universities, think-tanks and with ordinary citizens. More >>
