Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives of over 100 innocent Palestinians. Attempts at covering up the massacre have been dwarfed by grim details by well-respected historians, including some of Israel's own.

Even narratives offered by historians such as Benny Morris - an honest researcher who remained committed to Zionism despite the ghastly history he had himself uncovered - presented a harrowing version of the events that unfolded on that day: "Whole families were riddled with bullets... men, women, and children were mowed down as they emerged from houses; individuals were taken aside and shot. Haganah intelligence reported 'there were piles of dead. Some of the prisoners moved to places of incarceration, including women and children, were murdered viciously by their captors..."

It was the Irgun Zionist militias of Menachem Begin and the Stern Gang (Lehi) lead by Yitzhak Shamir that took credit for the infamy of that day; and both were rewarded generously for their 'heroism'. The once wanted criminals rose to prominence to become Israeli Prime Ministers in later years.

Karl Rove ventured into hostile territory on Tuesday night, delivering a speech repeatedly interrupted by boisterous protesters at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

According to CBS 3, the demonstrations raged both inside the auditorium and out, and Rove had barely begun speaking before people began standing up and shouting Rove down with accusations that his guidance of former President George W. Bush on the Iraq War had led to countless American and Iraqi casualties.

Congressman Jeff Duncan grilled DHS director Janet Napolitano stating in front of the committee with intent, "I am very concerned about this person of interest who was detained at the hospital in Boston. He was scheduled to be deported next week and now I understand he has been acquitted of any wrong doing in Boston. However, he is being deported on national security concerns.... I am assuming he has some link to terror otherwise he would not be deported".

The congressman also questions how DHS is actually removing the man (a possible suspect or witness) from the scene by deporting him. This raises concern amongst some citizens as the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi's trained on US military installations.

The latest executive order (EO) emanating from the White House October 9 now claims the power to freeze all bank accounts and stop any related financial transactions that a "sanctioned person" may own or try to perform - all in the name of "Iran Sanctions."

Titled an "Executive Order from the President regarding Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions..." the order says that if an individual is declared by the president, the secretary of state, or the secretary of the treasury to be a "sanctioned person," he (or she) will be unable to obtain access to his accounts, will be unable to process any loans (or make them), or move them to any other financial institution inside or outside the United States. In other words, his financial resources will have successfully been completely frozen. The EO expands its authority by making him unable to use any third party such as "a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, subgroup or other organization" that might wish to help him or allow him to obtain access to his funds.

And if the individual so "sanctioned" decides that the ruling is unfair, he isn't allowed to sue. In two words, the individual has successfully been robbed blind.

But it's all very legal. The EO says the president has his "vested authority" to issue it, and then references endless previous EOs, including one dating back to 1995 which declared a "state of emergency" (which hasn't been lifted): Executive Order 12957.

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack.

With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty.

The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev's condition, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Tsarnaev was in "serious but stable condition" and "not yet able to communicate yet," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told reporters during an impromptu briefing on Saturday.

Shortly before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen, was apprehended last night, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham advocated on Twitter that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect be denied what most Americans think of as basic rights. "If captured," Graham wrote, I hope [the] Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as [an] enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes." Arguing that "if the Boston suspect has ties to overseas terror organizations he could be treasure trove of information", Graham concluded: "The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to 'remain silent.'"

Once Tsarnaev was arrested, President Obama strongly suggested that he would eventually be tried in court, which presumably means he will at some point have a lawyer (something that Graham, along with John McCain and Liz Cheney, last night opposed). But the Obama DOJ also announced that they intended to question him "extensively" - their word - before reading him his Miranda rights, as Graham advocated in the second and third tweets quoted above. And the DOJ said they intend to question him not just about matters relating to immediate threats to the public safety - are there other bombs set to go off? is there an accomplice on the loose preparing to kill? - but also, again in their words, "to gain critical intelligence".

The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Yet a person familiar with DHS operations said the company that owns the plant, West Fertilizer, did not tell the agency about the potentially explosive fertilizer as it is required to do, leaving one of the principal regulators of ammonium nitrate - which can also be used in bomb making - unaware of any danger there.

Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the DHS when they hold 400 lb (180 kg) or more of the substance. Filings this year with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which weren't shared with DHS, show the plant had 270 tons of it on hand last year.

A U.S. congressman and several safety experts called into question on Friday whether incomplete disclosure or regulatory gridlock may have contributed to the disaster.

When curfew was lifted and the homeowner went out to check on his beloved boat, he spotted blood on the ladder and a 'body' inside. What could have been the end of key part of this story with his death, may have found a new beginning.

We had been praying for a live capture to have some chance of learning what really happened and why there have been so many disturbing aspects to the whole tragedy. Not the least of these is how a major event like this with a fortune being spent on security could allow two kettle bombs to be walked in and planted.

Let us pick up the story from Thursday when the FBI finally released their main suspect photos. This produced an ID on them in seven hours. After seeing their faces on TV and the Internet it was time for the brothers to get out of town. The expected shoot out was inevitable and quite violent Thursday evening.

The owner of a carjacked Mercedes was miraculously released by the brothers thirty minutes afterward, and is the luckiest man to be alive in Boston today. Media reports claim the brothers told the owner they had done the bombing, but he mysteriously was absent from the airwaves today despite his story being an obvious huge audience draw. Hmmmmm, I wonder why?

The MIT police officer shot to death inside of his car was less fortunate. But could his death have been avoided through better police work? And I ask this not to be cruel, but for a good reason.

The internet media was flooded on Monday with the high resolution photos showing many among the finish line crowd wearing large backpacks which could have concealed kettle bombs. The Intel support community was expecting a request of the public to help identify the innocent backpackers to quickly narrow down the perpetrator target list for DHS to concentrate on.

Many felt that this could have shaved a day or two off identifying the brothers, catching them sooner and maybe having two live witnesses to help us dig down to the truth of what happened.

An independent bipartisan task force has concluded that it is "indisputable" the United States engaged in torture and the George W. Bush administration bore responsibility. The 11-member Task Force on Detainee Treatment was convened by The Constitution Project after President Obama chose not to support a national commission to investigate the counterterrorism programs. It was co-chaired by Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman from Arkansas, NRA consultant and undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush.

The report concludes that never before in U.S. history had there been "the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody." While the report focused largely on the Bush administration after 9/11, it also criticizes a lack of transparency under Obama. We speak with Laura Pitter, counterterrorism adviser at Human Rights Watch. [includes rush transcript]

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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

Think twice about what food you bring to the airport.

Jason Cruz was at New York's JFK International Airport last Thursday. He was scheduled to fly from New York to Los Angeles. The flight from New York to LA is a long one, so Cruz understandably grabbed some food before boarding the plane. He went to a local Astoria deli and grabbed his sandwich of choice, which is nicknamed "The Bomb" because of its explosive flavor.

As it turns out, bringing something called "The Bomb" to an airport isn't the best idea.

At the airport, Cruz was talking to his friend Matthew Okumoto while waiting to pass through security. Referring to his sandwich, Cruz turned to his friend and said he wanted to bring "The Bomb" aboard the plane.