SPB News for Tuesday

Nielsen: Nearly 25M Watched Obama Interview Sunday

Treasury Pays $34B To 21 Banks In Second Bailout Wave

SEC Charges Mark Cuban In Insider Trading Case

Huckabee lashes out at Romney

For opening shot of GOP's 2012 primary, Huckabee throws a hook.

More Focus on the Family layoffs

Cutbacks come weeks after group pumped over $500k into CA's Prop. 8.

Franken asks for absentee ballot count

Latin America: New agenda for Obama

Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama's Intelligence Transition Team (Democracy Now!) John Brennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials under George Tenet, are leading Barack Obama’s review of intelligence agencies and helping make recommendations to the new administration. Brennan has supported warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition, and Miscik was involved with the politicized intelligence alleging weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the war on Iraq.

Chertoff: We're Closing that Boarding-Pass Loophole By Ryan Singel There’s a hole in airline security big enough to get Osama bin Laden himself onto a domestic flight, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff acknowledges, but that’s no reason to ditch watch lists or ID checks at the airport, he says. Chertoff told Threat Level in an interview last week that the government was aware of, and patching, the so-called boarding-pass loophole, which just came back into the public eye after a recent Atlantic magazine story where a reporter got though security using a fake boarding pass.

Several presidents of private colleges earn more than $1 million A dozen presidents of private colleges earned more than $1 million in compensation during the 2006-07 year, including Northwestern University chief Henry Bienen, who was the second-highest paid college executive in the nation. The annual survey of presidential pay released Monday by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that 89 private college presidents took home more than $500,000 in annual compensation, more than double those who did five years earlier.

Goldman Targeted by Investor Complaints of Naked Short-Selling --Investors: Goldman is acting against its clients by trying to profit at their expense. Investors in the $591 billion high- yield, high-risk loan market are accusing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. of naked short selling to profit from record price declines. At least two fund managers complained verbally to officials of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, saying they believe Goldman helped drive down prices by using the technique, according to people with knowledge of the objections.