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POLITICS / NEWS Thu Feb 25, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Religion is a growing factor in world affairs, but the U.S. government tends to view it through the lens of counterterrorism. That's the conclusion of a two-year study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Feb 18, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jan 26, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The federal government got a mixed report card Tuesday from a commission that assessed progress toward implementing national security measures in the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jan 8, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- U.S. agencies had the information to potentially disrupt a plot to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day but failed to identify the suspect, a White House review shows... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jan 5, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- United States spies in Afghanistan spend too much time focusing on enemy groups and tactics and not enough on trying to understand Afghanistan's culture, people and networks, the top U.S. military intelligence officer in the country said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Nov 29, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A new Senate panel report blames the Bush administration for failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when he was cornered in Afghanistan in 2001... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Oct 14, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- They're angry and fighting back will full force... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 12, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Health insurance premiums for the typical American family would increase by another $4,000 by 2019 under a key Senate overhaul plan, according to an industry trade group analysis... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Aug 24, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- CIA interrogators threatened an al Qaeda prisoner with a gun and an electric drill to try to scare him into giving up information, according to a report due to be made public today, sources told CNN... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Aug 22, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- While hundreds of thousands of disability claims lay backlogged at the Department of Veterans Affairs, thousands of technology employees at the department received $24 million in bonuses, according to a report from the VA's Office of Inspector General. The report claims a recently retired official improperly approved numerous bonuses and "acted as if she was given a blank checkbook.".. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 11, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The highly controversial no-warrant surveillance program initiated by President George W. Bush began within weeks of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new report to Congress compiled by the inspectors general of the nation's top intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the Justice Department... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Plainclothes investigators sent to test security at federal buildings in four U.S. cities were successful in smuggling bomb components through guard posts at all 10 of the sites they visited, according to a government report... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- New York Gov. David Paterson, who took over the state's top job Monday after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal, has admitted he and his wife Michelle had affairs during a rough patch in their marriage several years ago, a newspaper report.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The campaigns of the leading Democratic candidates seized Monday on an intelligence report showing that Iran had halted its development of nuclear weapons, saying the findings justified their more cautious approach to Tehran. Senator Hillary Rodham Cli.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 2:54pm neoform

Ars Technica -- A new report from the Government Accountability Office (PDF) takes a look at FCC rulemaking procedures from the last five years to see if the agency is following its own guidelines. While the answer is generally yes, the report focuses on one troubling fi.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 8:10am neoform

CNN -- A White House update on progress in Iraq will show meager gains have been made on the 18 benchmarks Congress established for the Iraqi government, said two sources familiar with the report. President Bush will inform Congress on Friday that one of the ben.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Do Americans trust the top U.S. military commander in Iraq to report what's really going on without making the situation sound better than it is? In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll last month, Americans were asked that very question. Fifty-three p.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 9:43am neoform

Reuters -- U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, will likely testify to Congress about progress in the war on September 11 or September 12, the White House said on Monday. White House spokesman Gordon Johndr.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jul 29, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

Washington Post -- A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 12:49pm neoform

CNN -- President Bush took his critics to task Saturday for using the poor marks the Iraqi government received on a progress report this week as reason to argue that the war is lost. Bush acknowledged the Iraqis received "unsatisfactory" marks on eight benchmark.. Read More