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Even as the Department of Justice Inspector General released a report this week criticizing the politicization of the department, the FBI on Tuesday raided the homes of a Republican election official and several of her associates in Mesa County, Colo., in connection with a dispute about efforts to preserve 2020 election files. In collaboration with state and county law enforcement, the FBI raided the homes of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, and two others. The FBI operations targeting skeptics of the 2020 election results follow the bureau's raids...

In 2007, Senator Barack Obama made remarks about the War Powers Act and the war in Iraq. He blamed Congress for giving the president the power to wage war that he later abused. “The American people weren’t just failed by a president, they were failed by much of Washington. By a media that too often reported spin instead of facts… And, most of all by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that voted to give the president the power to wage war that he uses to this day. Without that vote, there would be no war.” But that was back...

MEXICO CITY — It had been an elaborate farewell to one of Mexico's fallen heroes. Ensign Melquisedet Angulo, a special forces sailor killed last week during the government's most successful raid on a top drug lord in years, received a stirring public tribute in which the secretary of the navy presented his mother with the flag that covered her son's casket. Then, the next day, only hours after the grieving family had finished burying him in his hometown, gunmen burst into the family's house and sprayed the rooms with gunfire, killing his mother and three other relatives, officials said Tuesday.

Al-Zarqawi death prompts attack warning By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer 44 minutes ago Al-Qaida in Iraq vowed Sunday to carry out "major attacks," insisting in a Web statement that it was still powerful after the death of leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The statement did not name a successor to al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike Wednesday. But it said the group's leadership "renews its allegiance" to Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden "will see things that will bring joy to his heart," it said, vowing "to prepare major attacks that will shake the enemy like an earthquake and...

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Korean Internet Users Divided on Response to Hostage Slaying Related Articles - Kim Sun-il Executed by Captors in Iraq - Hostage Executed as Soon as Gov't Rejected Iraq Deployment Demands - An Unpardonable Act of Barbarism - Korea Reaffirms Decision to Send Troops to Iraq - Int'l Governments Condemn Beheading of Korean Hostage - Foreign Media React to Killing of S. Korean Hostage - Booby Traps Installed Around Kim’s Body - Kim Sun-il Possibly Abducted on May 31 Korean Internet users are split between those wanting to take reprisals for the killing of Kim Sun-il in Iraq and those...

“LET PRIVATEERS TROLL FOR BIN LADEN -- HON. RON PAUL (Extensions of Remarks - December 04, 2001) “HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, December 4, 2001 “. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I recommend my colleagues read the attached article ``Let Privateers Troll for Bin Laden'' by Larry Sechrest, a research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and a professor of economics at Sul Ross State University. Professor Sechrest documents the role privateers played in the war against pirates who plagued America in the early days of the Republic. These privateers often operated with letters...

The seeds of 9/11 thrived under the Taliban's regime of repression, reprisal and death KABUL - The road that led to Sept. 11 began on Sarak Darulaman, the long, broad avenue that leads to the ruined King's Palace in the west of the city. Here, within sight of the base camp for the 1,900 Canadian troops now in Afghanistan, lies a rusted-out, shattered bulk container, perforated with holes from bullet and cannon fire. None of the locals will go near the twisted wreckage, or any of the dozens of similarly wrecked containers scattered around the city: They know the story....