http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/terrorism This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Terrorism en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200812180005 During an interview with President Bush that aired on Fox News' <em>Special Report</em>, Bret Baier asked Bush, "Do you believe that there hasn't been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil in more than seven years because of the policies your administration has implemented?" The question tracked a talking point reportedly contained in a "two-page memo" that the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> reported "presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success" and "mentions none of the episodes that detractors say have marred his presidency." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812180005 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:33:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809250017 KSFO radio hosts Lee Rodgers and Brian Sussman repeated the falsehood that a 1995 memo written by then-deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick prohibited intelligence-sharing between the FBI and the CIA, thereby causing the intelligence failures that led to the 9-11 attacks. In fact, the Gorelick memo merely clarified long-unwritten restrictions on the sharing of information between the FBI's intelligence arm and the Justice Department's criminal division, and had no impact on communications between the FBI and the CIA, Department of Defense, or any other agencies. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809250017 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:14:15 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806240006 On CNN, <em>Washington Times</em> columnist Diana West said that "Senator Obama's made it very clear that he believes terrorism is simply a matter of cops and robbers." Host Lou Dobbs did not challenge West's assertion echoing claims by the McCain campaign that Obama has said are "demonstrably false." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806240006 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:47:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806180001 <em>The Washington Post</em> reported that Sen. Barack Obama's plan for combating terrorism "mixes law enforcement, intelligence and military tools, including the possibility of invading Pakistan to pursue al-Qaeda if the Pakistani government does not cooperate." In fact, Obama did not say he would "invade" Pakistan; he said: "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806180001 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:16:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280001 Bill O'Reilly again misrepresented comments he made in 2005 about a possible terrorist attack on San Francisco, stating on his Fox News show: "I made a joke out of San Francisco. If they didn't want the military, then the next time there was a terror attack, they're on their own." In fact, O'Reilly had said: "[I]f Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280001 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:52:55 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803230002 While discussing whether Sen. John McCain is "smart to make national security the centerpiece of his campaign," Chris Matthews highlighted McCain's recent Middle East trip and said McCain was "showing off his foreign policy credentials." But at no point did Matthews, or any of his guests, point out that, during his trip, McCain made the admittedly false claim that "Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803230002 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:12:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803200007 MSNBC's David Gregory did not challenge Republican strategist Mike Murphy's false claim that "Barack Obama's talked about paratroopers in Islamabad, for heaven's sake." In fact, Obama has stated that "[i]f we have actionable intelligence about high-level Al Qaeda targets in Pakistan's border region, we must act if Pakistan will not or cannot." A <em>Media Matters </em>review found no examples of Obama calling for dropping "paratroopers in Islamabad" or anywhere else in Pakistan. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803200007 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:20:05 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802280014 A <em>Washington Times</em> article distorted Sen. Barack Obama's comments about targeting terrorists in Pakistan, falsely claiming that Obama "urg[ed] the Bush administration to conduct air strikes against terrorist targets in Pakistan without its approval." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802280014 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:25:38 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220007 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, <em>National Review</em>'s Rich Lowry aired a clip of Sen. John McCain falsely asserting that Sen. Barack Obama said he's "going to bomb a country that is a sovereign nation," a distortion of Obama's statement about Pakistan that McCain has repeatedly made. Lowry then echoed McCain by saying that Obama "detailed his willingness to bomb suspected terrorist cells in Pakistan." In fact, Obama said: "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220007 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:59 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110006 During a <em>Fox News Sunday</em> interview with President Bush, Chris Wallace left unchallenged Bush's statement regarding Sen. Barack Obama: "I certainly don't know what he believes in. The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad." But Bush and his administration have made contradictory statements on the question of dealing with Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, the specific issue that Bush purported to know where Obama stands. Wallace also did not note Bush misrepresented Obama's statements regarding Pakistan and engaging in dialogue with Ahmadinejad. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802110006 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:56:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712190007 A December 19 <em>Washington Post</em> article by Dan Eggen referred to captured Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah as a "senior al-Qaeda suspect[ ]." But in an article the previous day, Eggen and Walter Pincus reported on a "dispute between FBI and CIA officials over" Zubaydah's "significance as a terrorism suspect." Eggen did not mention in the December 19 article that Zubaydah's importance and credibility had been questioned by some FBI agents. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712190007 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:05:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711290012 In a recent interview, CNN's Wolf Blitzer did not challenge President Bush when he agreed that "absolutely" he "would authorize U.S. troops to go into Pakistan if [he] had actionable intelligence on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts or other top-ranking Al Qaeda members." When Bush stressed that his position 'hasn't changed," Blitzer did not note that Bush's September 2006 statement -- that he would "[a]bsolutely" order U.S. troops into Pakistan to capture bin Laden -- was inconsistent with a statement he had made five days earlier -- that the United States would not send troops into Pakistan to hunt for bin Laden unless it was "invited" to do so, because Pakistan is a "sovereign nation." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200711290012 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:34:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190006 <em>The</em> <em>New York Times </em>stated that attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey "has repeatedly spoken out to support the administration's claim to broad powers in pursuing terrorist threats, especially in conducting electronic surveillance of terrorism suspects and in imprisoning them before trial." But Mukasey's ruling as a district court judge on the detention of terrorism suspects went beyond what the <em>Times </em>reported. In the case of Jose Padilla, Mukasey ruled that the government had the legal authority to imprison Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested within the United States, <em>without</em> trial. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709190006 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:56:08 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709130007 After reporting on National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's claim that the recently approved law expanding the government's ability to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens contributed to arrests in Germany, <em>The Washington Post</em> and CNN have not subsequently reported that McConnell has since acknowledged that the newly passed law did not factor into the German arrests. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709130007 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:03:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709120009 Among the reasons cited by Charles Krauthammer that Al Qaeda has not and cannot "hit us" is because the Bush administration has waged an "incredibly effective war in Afghanistan" that he said has "expelled Al Qaeda and scattered it, and has kept it off-balance for six years now." In fact, the July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Al Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability" including a "safehaven" in Pakistan. Krauthammer also credited "secret prisons and the interrogation which yielded and interrogated people like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed"; but even supporters of the CIA's interrogation and detention program reportedly acknowledge that much of the information that coercion produces, including information gathered from Mohammed, is unreliable. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200709120009 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:49:30 EST