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• Twitter Recovers From High-Profile Cyber Attack; An Upswing In Attacks?

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter went offline for at least two hours this morning due to a cyber attack, a high-profile target in what may be a wave of recent attacks. As of 9 a.m., the company said its site was back up but that it was "continuing to defend against and recover...

  Tags: Twitter, Attack, Security, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Facebook, Joseph Tartakoff, Washington Post Co., Yahoo! Inc.

• ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, THE

  - 2006-10-01

  PREFACE In March 2006, we published an essay entitled "The Israel Lobby" in The London Review of Books (Vol. 28, No. 6, March 23, 2006). At the suggestion of several well-respected scholars who had read earlier drafts, we also posted a slightly longer and documented version of the article on...

  Tags: Arab, Ariel, ATTACK, Bush, Church, Democracy, Guardian, Iran, Iraq, Iron, Israel, Kaplan, Lewis, Libby, Lobby, lobby, M., Mitchell, New York Times Co., NYU, Paul, president, Richard, Robert, Saddam, STUDIES, Syria, Terror, Tom, Tony, U.S., Wall, Washington Post Co.

• Blog: Some in pro-war right map a Haditha response: Attack

  - 2006-06-02

  This is an excerpted and edited portion of Inquirer political analyst Dick Polman's blog. To read more from Polman, go to http://go.philly.com/polman . The conservatives who defend the Iraq war are clearly rattled by the increasingly credible allegations that some U.S. Marines killed 24 innocent Iraqi civilians, including women...

  Tags: attack, blog, Blogging, INTERNET, Iraq, MARKETING, Washington Post Co.

• How Chechnya became a breeding ground for terror.(political aspects)

  - 2005-06-22

  On September 1, 2004, a group of Chechen terrorists took hostage and two days later murdered at least 335 schoolchildren and parents in Beslan, a town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. The atrocity focused world attention on Chechnya. The Russian government used the event...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, attack, Georgia, Government, Islamist, London, Moscow, Russia, SECURITY, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Department of State, Washington Post Co.

• New Ad Calls Out Bush for Gross Distortions in Health Care Attacks (2/ 2)

  - 2004-10-13

  WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Kerry-Edwards campaign Wednesday announced the new ad "Leading." The 30-second television spot points out the false claims and gross distortions in the president's health care attacks, noting that costs have skyrocketed under the wrong choices of George W. Bush (part 2 of 2)....

  Tags: advertisement, attack, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, HMO, Kerry, patient, SOFTWARE, Washington Post Co.

• Reports Debunk Documents Rather Used to Attack Bush

  - 2004-09-20

  As HUMAN EVENTS goes to press, most of the world has accepted the fact that CBS used forged documents to impugn President Bush's credibility on a September 8 "60 Minutes 11" broadcast. But anchorman Dan Rather and his producers are still standing by their story and the apparently forged documents."Everything...

  Tags: attack, Bush, CBS Corp., typewriter, Washington Post Co.

• Leak could work according to 'Plan'

  - 2004-04-19

  Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who directed U.S. attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, has often said no battle plan survives "first contact with the enemy." Franks' dictum applies to the public relations strategy for Washington Post editor Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack . When the Associated Press scooped the...

  Tags: Associated Press, Attack, INTERNET, Iraq, MARKETING, Simon & Schuster Inc., Washington Post Co.

• The war power and its limits.

  - 2003-09-01

  President Bush defined the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as "acts of war." His response was to promulgate policies, domestic and foreign, geared to protect against any future attacks against the United States. He urged swift passage of legislation that delegated vast new powers to the executive branch through the...

  Tags: administration, attack, Authorization, Bush, Government, Iraq, Lane, Palmer, president, strategy, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Congress, Washington Post Co., White House

• Post, times highlight government's war efforts

  - 2003-01-01

  This study examined the coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by The New York Times and The Washington Post in the four weeks following the attacks. The researcher found that the newspapers highlighted efforts to retaliate against terrorists and to prepare for the war against terrorism.Terrorist acts such as the...

  Tags: attack, Bush, Government, media, New York Times Co., terrorism, U.S., Washington Post Co.

• IRAQ: 'AL-THAWRA' ATTACKS U.S. PRESS.(Brief Article)

  - 2002-11-25

  "Al-Thawra" on 14 November criticized "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" for singing "the same tune of threats and aggressiveness" as the administration. "They have also published scenarios, plans, preparations, and whatever their tendentious minds can imagine," "Al-Thawra" said, referring to reports of...

  Tags: administration, attack, MARKETING, New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.