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White House aims to calm bickering intel leaders: report
WASHINGTON — The White House has published an internal memo to calm tension between CIA director Leon Panetta and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, who is seeking increased control over covert operations, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The classified order asserts the Central Intelligence Agency’s direct authority over…
White House lashes back at GOP critics over bombing attempt
The White House warned political foes Sunday not to provoke a partisan tug of war over terrorism, with President Barack Obama yet to publicly address the thwarted attack on a US airliner. A political storm erupted over the attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian to bring down a Northwest jet carrying…
Obamas salute US soldiers in Christmas message
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle sent Christmas greetings to Americans and particularly US soldiers serving abroad in a special holiday message. As families gather for the holidays “we wanted to take a moment to send greetings from our family — from me, from Michelle, from Malia…
Dean, Lieberman point to Obama for death of public option
WASHINGTON — A consistent narrative is emerging from various sides of the health care debate: the White House is largely responsible for the removal of the popular public option from the reform legislation. Two key players in the debate — Howard Dean and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) — have essentially…
O’Reilly slams ‘blind ideologue, Kool-Aid drinker’ Laura Ingraham
It was a clash of the partisans on Fox News. When teased by right-wing radio talker Laura Ingraham about his alleged “gushing” over Michelle Obama during the White House Christmas party, Bill O’Reilly was quick to bristle. “Wait a minute,” he said. “I’m going to call you out on this.…
‘Accidental Salahis’ enjoy White House breakfast
A Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Barack Obama and the first lady. It wasn’t a state dinner, but it left the White House once again explaining how people who were not…
Revealed: Bush officials e-mailed bogus rumor blaming Gore for failure to kill Bin Laden
“Missing” Bush White House emails found White House emails retrieved from Bush administration records reveal that top Bush Justice Department officials circulated a memo falsely blaming Al Gore for U.S. failure to get Osama bin Laden. The apocryphal Osama-Al Gore-Oliver North story, already debunked on snopes.com, was forwarded internally to…
Fox White House correspondent tells Twitter critic to take a hike
A believer of evolution might think with so many critics out there — liberal, presidential or otherwise — that Fox News reporters would develop thick skin. But a grammatically challenged Tweet by a user with just two followers managed to unnerve Major Garrett, the Senior White House Correspondent for Fox…
22 million missing Bush-era emails found, set for 2014 release
Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush…
Obama calls Wall Street CEOs ‘fat cat bankers,’ gives himself B+
President Obama told CBS’ Steve Croft that “fat cat bankers” on Wall Street have not shown “a lot of shame” about taking big bonuses an excessive compensation after causing the country’s economic problems. Obama explained why Americans are still upset at Wall Street. “You guys are drawing down $10, $20…
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