SPB News for Thursday

Michael Jackson "Thriller" film picked for US registry

Rev. Rick Warren Asks for Urgent Donations

Delta Offering Vouchers To Flight 253 Passengers

Madoff Leaves Hospital, Returns To Cell

U.S. Treasury Injects $3.8B More Into GMAC

13 GOP AGs Send Letter Threatening Lawsuit Over Health Care

Chavez Has Good Laugh Over Newsweek's 2010 Predictions

Ron Paul's Son Makes Senate Run Official

AIG's revealing executive emails

Merger Talks Begin; WH In Health Care PR Mode

Napolitano: Our Defenses Must 'Continue To Evolve'
In an op-ed today, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano addressed the attempted attack on Flight 253, and wrote that the Obama administration "is determined to find and fix the vulnerabilities in our systems that allowed this breach to happen."

U.S. Seeks to Boost Yemen For Expanded Al Qaeda Fight The United States is looking at ways to expand military and intelligence cooperation with the government of Yemen to step up a crackdown on al Qaeda [al-Qaeda] militants believed to be behind a failed plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet, American officials said on Wednesday. President Barack Obama has vowed to bring "every element" of U.S. power against those who threaten Americans' safety, but offered no specifics. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to comment on any "military planning," but called a television report that the United States was preparing for possible retaliatory strikes "grossly exaggerated."

Dutch to Use Full-Body Scanners on Flights to U.S. The major international airport of the Netherlands will begin using full-body scanners on passengers flying to the United States to prevent a recurrence of the security breach that allowed a would-be bomber to smuggle explosives onto a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day, the Dutch authorities said Wednesday. At a news conference at The Hague in the Netherlands the Dutch interior minister, Guusje Ter Horst, characterized preparations for the attack as professional but its execution as amateurish, according to The Associated Press.

TSA Looks to Expand Use of Full-Body Scanners at U.S. Airports The Transportation Security Administration is looking to increase the number of full-body scanners at U.S. airports over the next few years, as it reviews security procedures in the wake of the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight last week. The Transportation Security Administration is looking to increase the number of full-body scanners at U.S. airports over the next few years as it reviews security procedures in the wake of the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight last week.

More than 25,000 Additional White House Visitor Records Posted Online
President Obama ordered earlier this year that in December the White House would – for the first time in history – begin posting White House visitor records as provided in our new voluntary disclosure policy. Today we are delivering on that commitment by posting more than 25,000 records created between Sept 16 and Sept 30.
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Polanski Lawyer Says Client Will Face Only One Charge If He Returns to LA -
Demonstrating the same lack of self-esteem as prisoners who beat up child molesters, noisy segments of the American population continue to hyperventilate over Roman Polanski as if the sexual abuse of minors were not already sufficiently condemned by our society.