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NSA leaker Ed Snowden claimed to have broken both of his legs while training for Special Forces. "In 2003, he enlisted in the US army and began a training program to join the Special Forces. Invoking the same principles that he now cites to justify his leaks, he said: "I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression"." That is simply not true as the statement from the Special Warfare Center & School below clearly points out. "Snowden was never a student at...

GOOGLE recently announced a new feature: "Undo Send." It holds e-mail for 5 seconds - time for a sender to reconsider and be spared the kind of embarrassment that ensnared top aides to Governor Patrick this week. But even the brightest minds at Google couldn't have saved the Patrick administration from the way it mishandled the Marian Walsh matter. The West Roxbury senator withdrew yesterday from the high-paying job the administration had engineered for her, saying, correctly, that a "tsunami" of public criticism had swamped her appointment to the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority. At every level - substantively...

Healey tuition remarks draw outrage She takes a swipe at undocumented By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff | November 2, 2005 Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey set off a firestorm of protest yesterday when she suggested that children of undocumented immigrants who cannot get in-state tuition rates at Massachusetts' public colleges should ''go to private schools" instead. ''Let them go to private schools if they want to," Healey said on WRKO radio. Moments later, she repeated: ''Let them go to private schools."

AG is hoping to boost measure in the House By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff | November 1, 2005 Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said yesterday he will lobby Massachusetts legislators this week to pass a bill allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition, saying that ''all kids who graduate from Massachusetts high schools should be treated equally."