Copyright 2010 Judith Miller Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:40:01 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Judith Miller :: Writings http://www.judithmiller.com judymillerfreespeech@yahoo.com (Judith Miller) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.judithmiller.com/7037/against-all-odds-in-iraq-and-hollywood Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST Yesterday was a good day for Iraq, and for imitation Iraq, or Hollywood. For both the Green Zone and the Red Carpet, the odds were defied, the critics upended. In Iraq, over 70 percent of Iraqis eligible to vote turned out – compared to a 63 percent... http://www.judithmiller.com/7016/saudi-bloggers-censorship Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST For Ahmed Al-Omran, a 25-year-old Saudi blogger, this has been a particularly frustrating week. To begin with, an ultra-conservative cleric issued a fatwa concluding that people who oppose segregating Saudi men and women should be killed. Then Al-Omran... http://www.judithmiller.com/6967/dubai-assassination-tango Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST During the heat of this past summer in Dubai, when the beaches were too hot for sunbathing and the city hummed with air conditioners working overtime, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior member of Hamas, the militant Islamic group that controls Gaza, quietly... http://www.judithmiller.com/6949/us-military-afghanistan-lessons-learned Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Who says you can't teach an old, well, older dog new tricks? The U.S. military seems to have mastered a few, or at least learned a few lessons from previous encounters in Afghanistan and Iraq. So, too, have the Taliban, but so far, it seems to be doing... http://www.judithmiller.com/6938/gitmo-prisoner-rehabilitated-in-saudi-arabia Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — To American officers at Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Zaid Salem Zuhair was inmate No. 669 — a hardcore, veteran Muslim terrorist suspected of having killed an American in Bosnia. But here in Saudi Arabia, he is a "beneficiary," a former... http://www.judithmiller.com/6929/herzliya-diary Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST February 4, 2010, 7:35 a.m.: Israelis are a tough audience. They expected Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu to make a major policy announcement last night, in keeping with what has become a kind of tradition on the final night of the annual four-day... http://www.judithmiller.com/6868/stopping-spread-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST A bipartisan, independent commission on stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction says that the Obama administration has failed in its first year in office to do enough to prevent a germ weapons attack on America or to respond quickly and... http://www.judithmiller.com/6861/mr-president-tackle-terror Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST It was terrorism, stupid. And yes, the economy too. Polls showed that a majority of Americans who rejected Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley – who? – for Scott Brown, including voters in the deceptively bluer-than-blue state of Massachusetts,... http://www.judithmiller.com/6839/a-bridge-too-far Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned Wednesday that putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects on trial for terrorism in New York would place an unbearable financial and security burden on a city whose policing resources... http://www.judithmiller.com/6770/teen-bomber-recruited-by-al-qaeda-yemen Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST DUBAI — Counter-terrorism authorities are said to be hunting for a 16-year-old boy from northern Yemen suspected of having been recruited by Al Qaeda to be a homicide bomber at one of five foreign targets in the southern port city of Aden, according to... http://www.judithmiller.com/6765/obama-near-miss Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST The botched Christmas Day bombing seems to have taught the Obama administration—if only belatedly—that when you're in a hole, stop digging. Team Obama's response to the incident aptly demonstrated why the president was correct to describe his... http://www.judithmiller.com/6755/tsa-withdraws-subpoenas-against-journalists Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST The Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration has withdrawn subpoenas ordering two journalists to turn over all documents and e-mails related to how they obtained TSA security regulations that temporarily restricted... http://www.judithmiller.com/6749/dhs-subpoenas-journalists-leaked-airline-security Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Transportation Security Administration, sent federal agents to the homes of two journalists and served them with subpoenas on Tuesday night to try to identify the source of a leak about aviation... http://www.judithmiller.com/6756/five-favorite-and-unfavorite-things-in-2009 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST The FAB FIVE 1) The protests in Iran: The long awaited counterrevolution has not yet occurred, but the preconditions for it did.-- Turbans off to the brave men and women who have continued to flock to the streets, defying death and prison, to protest the... http://www.judithmiller.com/6741/tsa-regulations-too-stupid-for-america Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST If you're flying overseas soon, or even thinking of flying and don't have time to watch the late night talk shows, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, visit the TSA Web site for comic relief. The TSA, an acronym that appears to stand for "Too Stupid for...