Frank Talk about Terrorism, From Ex-Presidents and Current Intelligence Pros
Today, and you can bet for the next few weeks leading up to the November elections, it's going to be about terrorism, thanks toformer President Bill Clinton (No. 3 on today's list of most-blogged-about personalities) and a massive report from U.S. intelligence agencies about the impact of the ongoing U.S. war on terrror on the terrorism movement around the world (today's top news story).
Clinton is making waves for making waves on Fox news with commentator Chris Wallace (No. 5 on the top people list), accusing Wallace of asking former presidents much harder and much more pointed questions about anti-terror activites than are lobbed at current presidents. The one-on-one makes up seven of today's top 10 blog posts. In addition, four of today's most-cited news stories deal with weekend news of U.S. agency reports that find U.S. involvement in Iraq has served to embolden and spread the terrorism movement around the world (the topic of today's most-cited phrases by bloggers). A BlogPulse trend graph plotting "war on terrorism" vs. "war in Iraq" finds that discussions about the two are often one and the same:
Posted by Sue MacDonald at September 25, 2006 11:37 AM
