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Colbert on NSA snooping: We must find the courage ‘to stay scared sh-tless’
Stephen Colbert found himself agreeing with President Barack Obama on Tuesday in welcoming a discussion over the National Security Agency’s (NSA) gathering of phone and internet usage records — in fact, he said, it was well worth having that discussion when it was reported in May 2006. “Folks, the fact…
FBI’s Patriot Act records requests skyrocket 1,000% under Obama: report
The FBI’s use of a controversial Patriot Act provision to demand business records has skyrocketed more than 1,000 percent under President Barack Obama versus his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, according to a report by NBC News. The so-called business records provision of the Patriot Act, titled Section 215, is…
Seeking momentum, Obama to address immigration reform Tuesday
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will try to boost momentum for a sweeping bill to reform the immigration system on Tuesday with remarks that highlight the proposed law’s economic and national security benefits, a White House official said. Obama, who won re-election last year thanks in…
Obama administration agrees to end age restrictions for emergency contraception
The Obama administration will comply with a judge’s order to allow women and girls of any age to purchase emergency contraception, ending its efforts to restrict the drug’s availability. The reversal on the politically sensitive issue means that anyone, including young girls, will soon be able to purchase the popular…
Keith Ellison smacks down George Will with his own words from 2006 on NSA spying
When conservative columnist George Will suggested on Sunday that a recent National Security Agency (NSA) scandal was made worse because President Barack Obama could not be trusted, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) was ready with column Will had written in 2006 to make the point that it was not just an…
Hard issues on table at Obama, Xi ‘informal’ summit
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, launched straight into discussing thorny issues at an informal summit and may delve deeper when they meet again on Saturday. The two-day talks at a desert retreat near Palm Springs, California, was meant to be…
White House chief of staff tours Guantanamo
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough toured Guantanamo Bay with two top senators to follow up on President Barack Obama’s renewed vow to close the war on terror facility. The visit to the prison — where most of the 166 remaining detainees are on a hunger strike unprecedented in…
Gunman kills four in Santa Monica, shot dead by police
By Dana Feldman SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) – A gunman dressed in black killed four people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he was shot dead by police in a community college library, law enforcement officials said. Five other people…
Julian Assange: U.S. rule of law suffering ‘calamitous collapse’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday that the US justice system was suffering from a “calamitous collapse in the rule of law”, as Washington reeled from the sensational exposure of vast spy agency surveillance programmes. Speaking in an interview with AFP at Ecuador’s London embassy, where he has been holed…
Obama to send envoy to Guantanamo Bay to consider closure
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s chief of staff and two leading senators will travel to the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Friday to consider how to meet Obama’s vow to move detainees and close the facility, a White House spokeswoman said. Obama’s chief of staff,…
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