
Ahmadinejad: Iran Is Not Violating IAEA Rules
Arab Leaders Push Obama To Present Mideast Peace Outline
Arab Leaders Push Obama To Present Mideast Peace Outline
Clinton welcomes Iran offer
State Secretary: Iran's decision to allow IAEA inspections 'welcome.'
Will the media ever report about how low in the polling Republicans have sunk? — We constantly are seeing polling down from the major news services that follow President Obama's approval ratings and it is an important stat to keep track of, but can you tell me what the media is not covering?
Guantanamo prison not likely to close in January, officials say — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is unlikely to close by the Obama administration's deadline of January 2010, two senior administration officials said late Friday.
Guantanamo prison not likely to close in January, officials say — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is unlikely to close by the Obama administration's deadline of January 2010, two senior administration officials said late Friday.
Bush's wiretapping goes to court in S.F. --Lawyer cited candidate Obama's declaration in 2007 that "warrantless surveillance of American citizens in defiance of (the 1978 law) is unlawful and unconstitutional." After years of wrangling over legal procedures, the lawyer for a defunct Islamic charity laid out his case Wednesday that former President [sic] George W. Bush's secret wiretapping program was illegal - an argument that an Obama administration attorney refused to discuss. "May the president of the United States break the law in the name of national security? ... We're asking this court to say, 'no,' " Jon Eisenberg, lawyer for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, told a federal judge in San Francisco. Neither the president's constitutional powers as commander in chief nor Congress' authorization to use military force against terrorists after Sept. 11, 2001, entitled Bush to override a 1978 law requiring court approval for electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists, Eisenberg argued.
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