Archive for December, 2009

President Barack Obama has taken final action on the confirmation of James Santelle as the new U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Obama took the action on Thursday and a brief swearing-in ceremony…

WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched, the Associated Press has learned.

A former senior intelligence official says the man…

HONOLULU (AP) — Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh remained hospitalized in Hawaii Thursday after experiencing chest pains similar to a heart attack, according to the guest host on his nationally syndicated radio show.

Limbaugh was rushed to…

Telegraph View: In coping with the distinguishing features of the past
decade, America and its allies need both to accept the limits of military
power and to assert their own democratic values.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family’s furniture store.

Instead, al-Shihri, who was released in 2007 under the Bush…

HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. security chiefs briefed President Barack Obama on Thursday about missteps in the lead-up to the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing as lawmakers joined the White House in racing to find out what went wrong.

The Senate…

U.S. security chiefs briefed President Barack Obama on Thursday about missteps in the lead-up to the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing as lawmakers joined the White House in racing to find out what went wrong.

The Senate Intelligence Committee…