With juicy nuggets from the new Bob Woodward book on President Obama starting to emerge , the official White House reaction so far is: It's just fine.
22/09/2010 07:19 PM
President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
22/09/2010 01:11 AM
The FBI improperly investigated some left-leaning U.S. advocacy groups after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department said Monday, citing cases in which agents put activists on terrorist watch lists even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience.
20/09/2010 11:51 PM
Sarah Shourd, one of three American hikers jailed for more than a year in Iran, returned to the United States on Sunday, saying she was "one-third free" and appealed to Iran to release her fiancé and another American friend.
19/09/2010 07:33 PM
With the sticks and stones thrown at federal employees in recent months, verbally and sometimes with lethal force, it's refreshing when ordinary workers are honored for extraordinary accomplishments that really are routine parts of their jobs.
16/09/2010 01:00 AM
Saying it is "time to turn the page" on one of the most divisive chapters in American history, President Obama declared the U.S. war in Iraq over Tuesday night, telling the nation that he was fulfilling his campaign pledge to stop a war he had opposed from the start.
01/09/2010 12:45 AM
In the federal government, there are inside people and outside people, those who work in the bowels of the bureaucracy and others who seek out the media glare.
31/08/2010 10:56 PM
A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a series of investigations into unauthorized government leaks to news organizations under the Obama administration.
28/08/2010 12:55 AM
A long-standing battle between the FBI and the ATF over who controls investigations of bombings is a serious problem that has caused law enforcement delays and duplication of effort, according to a top Justice Department official who is trying to resolve the dispute.
26/08/2010 07:29 PM
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008.
25/08/2010 12:16 AM
Three $100 million air base expansions in southern and northern Afghanistan illustrate Pentagon plans to continue building multimillion-dollar facilities in that country to support increased U.S. military operations well into the future.
23/08/2010 01:00 AM
When Rose Gottemoeller began negotiating the new nuclear treaty with Moscow, the U.S. diplomat got questions on the usual topics: missile defense, warheads, inspections.
22/08/2010 01:00 AM
