SPB News for Saturday.

Gov. Sanford Apologizes To His Cabinet

Ruth Madoff forfeits asset claims, left with $2.5 million

Madoff to Forfeit $170 Billion In Assets Ahead of Sentencing

Biden Announces New Advisor On Violence Against Women

Biden At LGBT Fundraiser: We'll 'Put Some Pace On The Ball'

Six young lawyers hired to review documents in Blagojevich case Law.com (sub. rec)
A group of six young Chicago-area lawyers just landed a singular career opportunity: joining the legal defense team of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as pretrial contract lawyers, meaning they're likely to spend the next several months poring over 3.5 million pages of documents turned over by the prosecution.

White House Drafts Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects -- The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. Such an order would embrace claims by former president [sic] George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. Under one White House draft that was being discussed earlier this month, according to administration officials, detainees would be imprisoned at a military facility on U.S. soil but their ongoing detention would be subject to annual presidential review. U.S. citizens would not be held in the system.

Obama administration seeks to quash suit by 9/11 families The Obama administration has intervened to quash a civil suit filed against Saudi Arabia by survivors and family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The suit seeks to hold the Saudi royal family liable, charging that it provided financial and other support to Al Qaeda and was thereby complicit in the hijack bombings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington DC.

Jenny Sanford: I Learned Of Affair In Jan. — Wife Of S.C. Governor Said She Discovered Letter From His Mistress — (AP) South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she discovered her husband's affair in January when she found a letter to the governor from his mistress.

Palin Responds To Sen. Kerry Joke: “Why The Long Face?” — Speaking to a group of servicemen in Kosovo, Gov. Sarah Palin responded to a crack made by Sen. John Kerry earlier this week. Sen. Kerry joked he wished Palin went missing along with Sanford. “He looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad,” she said.

Coleman can tap campaign fundsFEC: Funds can be used to pay for expenses related to 2 campaign lawsuits.