This photo — splashed all over newspaper front pages yesterday — was posed.
'There isn't time to feel guilty about ordering a Bloody Mary at 10 in the morning while you are flying on a targeted plane watching the World Trade Center collapse in front of your eyes.'
The words of CBS News associate producer Kia Baskerville. Ahead of President Obama’s Thursday visit to Ground Zero, read her account of September 11, along with accounts of Joe Biden, Ari Fleischer and others.
Why Didn't the Head of the House's Homeland Security Panel Answer His Phone Last Night?
Because Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., was at a nightclub. Watching a kickboxing match.
PHOTO OF THE DAY: New York City firefighter Aaron Clark looks on from atop a firetruck as people celebrate in Times Square after the death of accused 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was announced by President Obama on Sunday night. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Remember Lifehouse? They had the top single in 2001. This and nine other facets of life back in 2001.
The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden
Thanks all for sharing this wonderful piece by our Marc Ambinder. If you haven’t already read, do so now!
DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story — generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That’s the code.
That cameraman could not have been happy with last night’s hockey game.
Except for some TV crews & Geraldo and a guy with a flag, last nights crowds outside WH are gone.
— Mark Knoller, CBS News
