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Rolling Stone: General Deployed Psy-Ops Against US Senators
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe U.S. Army ordered a "psychological operations" team to manipulate visiting U.S. senators into pushing for more funding and troops for the war in Afghanistan, according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine. Three-star U.S. general Lt. Gen. William Caldwell is accused of deploying propaganda techniques, which the Army says are intended to "alter the behavior of foreign populations," against visiting U.S. dignitaries to Afghanistan in a potentially illegal, months-long operation to lobby Congress. Caldwell is responsible for the training of Afghan security forces. Gen. David Petraeus, the ...
William Caldwell: 5 Facts on the General at the Center of Rolling Stone's Psy-Ops Story
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsMichael Hastings, the reporter whose "Runaway General" profile of Stanley McChrystal forced him to resign his command in Afghanistan, has another blockbuster in the pages of Rolling Stone. According to a report published Wednesday night, the U.S. military ordered its "psychological operations" unit in Kabul to manipulate visiting political figures into approving additional troops and funding for the war in Afghanistan. The much talked about story lists political figures such as Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Al Franken, D-Minn., and Carl Levin, ...
FCC Net Neutrality Ruling: What Does It Mean for You?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsAre some versions of the Internet more equal than others? The Federal Communications Commission passed its first-ever regulation of the Internet today, in a net neutrality compromise that saw its 3-2 vote split sharply along party lines. The full text of the new regulations will not be published until later this week, but the broad strokes of the deal are now known. There will be two sets of regulations governing the way an Internet service provider is allowed to control your access, depending on whether you are accessing the Net wirelessly or via a landline. Broadband service providers ...
Can Democrats Break Out of the Blame Game on Taxes?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats now have two years to plan and execute their next strategy on taxes. Will they blow it again and blame each other for the mess? Liberals may be outraged by the deal President Obama cut with Republicans, but what the heck did they expect him to do? To my mind, congressional Democrats abdicated their seat at the table the minute they left town in October without having voted on his signature issue: extending Bush-era tax cuts for household income below $250,000 (to help the middle class) and letting them expire on all income above that. With the lower rates for all incomes set to ...
Opinion: 10 Years Later, Our Electoral System Is Still Broken
By not in system - AOL News
(Nov. 10) -- Let's face it -- our electoral system is broken. Not completely. In most instances the system does its job and determines a winner. But if the race is close and the outcome determines who gets political power, the cracks in the structure become painfully clear. This was the real lesson of the 2000 presidential recount crisis in Florida: In close elections, when every vote counts, our electoral machinery is not up to the job. Sadly, this lesson was lost in the controversy ignited by the Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling in Bush v. Gore, in which a five-justice majority ...
Minnesota Governor's Race Could Be Heading for Recount
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailySix days after the election, no winner has been declared in the race for governor of Minnesota, even though the Democratic candidate, Mark Dayton, was leading his Republican opponent, Tom Emmer, by 8,751 votes on Monday. Under Minnesota law, an automatic recount must be conducted at public expense if the margin of victory is less than a half of one percentage point, or in this case about 10,500 votes, according to The Associated Press. But a trailing candidate can choose to waive the recount. About 2.1 million ballots were cast in the election. Emmer's attorney, Tony Trimble, was asked ...
Bush v. Gore: The Disputed Election Fades Into History
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyExactly ten years ago, on November 7, 2000, the presidential election pitting Al Gore against George W. Bush morphed into the legal recount contest ultimately titled Bush v. Gore. The sitting vice president, Gore, won the national popular vote. The former Texas governor, Bush, was awarded the electoral votes of Florida and thus the election. Amid evidence of voter chaos over "butterfly ballots," poll police, and more, Gore challenged the Florida results in court. It took five tortuous weeks, in courtrooms from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach to Washington, and unprecedented intervention by ...
Today in Voter Fraud: Hysteria or Imminent Threat?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- As another election draws near, it's worth asking: Which is the larger problem in America, voter fraud or voter intimidation? On Tuesday, 47 people in Minnesota were charged with voter fraud stemming from the 2008 general election, Minnesota Public Radio reported. That location is significant, as conservative activists have long alleged that Sen. Al Franken was only elected because of voter fraud. Unfortunately for the groups trying to prove that Norm Coleman was the real winner of the contest, initial claims that some 1,250 people had acted to throw the election Franken's way ...
Michele Bachmann, Fending Off Tarryl Clark in Nation's Most Expensive Tea Party
By Andrea Stone - Politics DailyELK RIVER, Minn. -- Some 25 people were on hand at the 6th Congressional District candidates' forum as Tarryl Clark began her pitch. "It's really unfortunate that Congresswoman Bachmann couldn't be here, even though Congress is out of session," the Democratic state senator said as independent candidate Bob Anderson sat mutely at her side. "I am running, frankly, because I think Washington still isn't working for us, and I don't think your congresswoman is either." Two nights earlier, the congresswoman in question, Michele Bachmann, sat before an enthusiastic crowd of 400 conservative ...
The Top 10 Good Men in Politics of 2010: Breaking Down the List
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyWhat do Bernie Sanders, Jeff Flake, Mitch Daniels, Cory Booker, and Al Franken have in common? This is not much of a hint, but that list is comprised, in order, of the following: the only Socialist in Congress, a Tea Party-minded Arizona Republican also in the House of Representatives, the can-do Republican governor from Indiana, the reform-minded African-American mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a formerly foul-mouthed liberal Hollywood comedian-turned-politician who now sits in the U.S. Senate representing a state where the highest compliment is to say that they are truly "Minnesota ...
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