Obama Having Lunch With Amazon's Jeff Bezos
Poll: Jerry Brown Leads Newsom In CA Dem Primary
DEM-CONTROLLED JUDICIARY COMMITTEE RENEWS KEY PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS
Top Tea Partier And Husband Owed IRS $510K
Dean: If I Were A Senator I'd Vote For Opt-Out Public Option — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — One of the most respected progressive voices on health care reform said on Thursday that he could live with and even support a compromise to the public plan that would grant states the right to reject the option entirely.
Father of New York bomb plot suspect is indicted The father of an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting one of the most serious security threats to the United States since the September 11 attacks was indicted on Thursday on charges of lying to the FBI, federal prosecutors said. Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, had previously been charged by prosecutors with lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation when it was investigating his son, Najibullah Zazi, 24.
Pakistani FM: US may know Bin Laden's hideout The United States may know the location of Osama Bin Laden's hideout, says the Pakistan's foreign minister. "US may be aware of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden," Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters in Washington on Tuesday, according to the India-based Sifynews. The United States had recently claimed that the notorious al-Qaeda leader has sought refuge in Pakistan. The US President Barack Obama's Administration has repeatedly claimed that the al-Qaeda and its affiliates live in the rugged western regions of Pakistan on the Afghan border. The United States has used such claims as an excuse to attack the tribal areas in the region using its pilot less, predator drones. The strikes have resulted in massive civilian casualties, something that the Pakistani government and people have strongly opposed.
DoD Lacks Oversight on War Costs Defense auditors have found at least $6 billion in questionable charges generated by sloppy accounting or, worse, contractors trying to bilk the military. Yet, the Pentagon has done a poor job of recovering the money and forcing companies to improve, according to the independent Commission on Wartime Contracting. The panel cites dysfunction among auditors and contract managers, a shortage of personnel and a failure to be more confrontational with contractors who don't measure up.
Detainee's Lawyers to Get Interrogation Tapes A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and ordered the government to provide copies of the tapes to the man's lawyers. Lawyers for the detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, say they think the tapes will show that their client made incriminating statements only because he was tortured. A top Bush administration official, Susan J. Crawford, conceded in January that Qahtani had been subjected to techniques that included sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold. She said at the time that such treatment, which took place in late 2002 and early 2003 at the U.S. military prison in Cuba, placed Qahtani in a "life threatening situation." "We tortured" Qahtani, Crawford said at the time.
Arizona Mothers Storm Kyl's Senate Office, Denounce GOP as Sexist
PHOENIX -- Dozens of local mothers descended on the office of Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona Wednesday to denounce what they say are sexist attitudes ...
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