Monthly Archives: September 2010
Senate Holds Rare Impeachment Hearings of Louisiana Federal Judge
In one of the Senate’s grand hearing rooms last week, 12 senators sitting on a special committee of impeachment convened to deliberate removing a federal judge from the bench, the first such proceeding in more than 20 years. Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte and California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff are serving as the prosecutors.
The Truth Behind UFO Sightings and the U.S. Air Force
Are UFOs a mirage, conjured up by the Air Force to obscure classified flight projects? In part, argues Mark Pilkington, a British journalist and filmmaker who writes about society’s oddities. In Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, he makes a persuasive case that much UFO-logy canon was started or...
North Korean Succession Plans Are Shrouded in Mystery
Living up to its reputation as the world’s most secretive and insular state, North Korea is expected to host a secret congress of the country’s ruling Communist Party this month, the first such conclave since 1966 and one that experts believe is intended to help usher in a successor to dictator Kim Jong Il.
Can the CIA Put a U.S.-Born al Qaeda Figure on its “Kill List”?
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the Obama administration’s alleged inclusion of a radical, Yemen-based cleric on a “kill list” of foreign terrorists. What makes this case particularly salient is that the cleric, al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, is an American citizen. Can the United States target one of its citizens without, at...