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 David Axe | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
The guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge tows the lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama to the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer on April 13, 2009. Photo: U.S. Navy On April 8, 2009, four pirates armed with AK-47s clambered up the side of the U.S.-flagged container ship...
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...
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 2, 2012 | Monitor
A picture of the British ambassador’s convoy after it was attacked in Benghazi. Photo: House Oversight Committee They might as well have painted a target on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. During the spring and summer, militants attacked the American diplomatic...
