by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 24, 2012 | Monitor
Former Gov. Mitt Romney, left, with President Obama at the first presidential debate, Oct. 3, 2012. Obama has institutionalized a process for killing terrorists with drone strikes that Romney stands to inherit. Photo: Charlie Neibergall / AP It’s a good thing...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
The chaotic aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi contrasts sharply with a leisurely interview one of the top suspects in the attack has given to The New York Times, in the same city. Photo: Wikimedia No one from the FBI has interviewed...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
Would-be Federal Reserve bomber Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, arrested today in Manhattan. Photo: ABC7, via Twitter He tried to detonate the Federal Reserve in lower Manhattan, only his bomb was a dud. He asked a contact over Facebook — who was a secret...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
A cache of weapons used to construct homemade bombs in Afghanistan, November 2010. Photo: ISAF/Flickr The signature insurgent weapon of Iraq and Afghanistan is proving more durable than either war. Every month, outside either the U.S. former warzone or its remaining...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 16, 2012 | Monitor
In an undated photograph, Osama bin Laden watches a video of himself in the Abbottabad compound he would ultimately die in. Photo: U.S. government There was more evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction than there was that a mysterious, tall man...