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Obama plans second Oval Office address
The Swampby Mike Memoli and Peter Nicholas President Obama will mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq August 31 with a prime-time address from the Oval Office, the White House confirmed today. It would be the president's second address......Tags: Water Pollution, Disasters and Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Barack Obama
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Kathleen Sebelius sworn in, goes to work
The Swampby Mark Silva After the Senate confirmed the last of President Barack Obama's Cabinet appointees today, the president immediately swore in Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the Oval Office this evening. Then he sent her to work:.......Tags: Politics, Health, George Washington, Rahm Emanuel, Diseases and Illnesses
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Nets still plan to break ground in Brooklyn this decade
WatchdogEn route to the Mets game Wednesday, I took a detour to the Sports Business Journal's Sports Facilities & Franchises '09 conference on Lexington Avenue. There was a session involving several New York-area new-building execs. Our John Jeansonne wrote here....Tags: Brooklyn Nets, New York Mets
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Obama's Ramadan dinner, UN talks soon
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama will host a dinner at the White House this evening celebrating Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar in which observants fast from dawn until sunset each day. The president,......Tags: Health, Politics, Swine Flu, White House, Mahmoud Abbas
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Obama: 'Avatar,' between intel briefings
The Swampby Alana Semuels and Mark Silva HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama got a briefing this morning from his homeland security advisor, John Brennan, about the government's terrorism watchlist -- a review that the president ordered after the attempted...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Family, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Trips and Vacations, Christmas
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CIA: Obama intel advisor withdraws name
Spin CycleJohn Brennan, a former top aide to CIA director George Tenet and an intelligence advisor to Obama, has withdrawn from consideration for CIA director or another top intel post because of criticism of his positions on coercive interrogation and......Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, White House
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Obama, GOP: 'Common purpose... faith'
The Swampby Mark Silva With President Barack Obama today identifying a branch of al Qaeda and vowing that all responsible for the attempted attack on a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day will be held accountable, the president also is calling on......Tags: Politics, Mitch McConnell, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yemen, Armed Forces
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'Back to school:' First family home
The Swampby Mark Silva We're struck, at the start of this new decade, with the image of a first family returning from the holidays and getting ready for the winter run of school. For all that's going through the political minds......Tags: Politics, Family, Education, Armed Forces, Christmas
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Obama: Intel failed 'to connect the dots'
The Swampby Christi Parsons President Barack Obama today cited "unacceptable" failures in the American intelligence system that allowed an accused terrorist to board a U.S.-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, and promised changes to avert future...Tags: Politics, Air Transportation Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yemen, White House
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Obama assembling security team today
The Swampby Mark Silva Much was made of the war councils which President Barack Obama assembled in the months leading to the announcement of a strategy for a new way forward in Afghanistan. The president made a public address with his......Tags: Politics, Dick Durbin, National Government, Government, Central Intelligence Agency
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U.S. Intel: Failure overshadows success?
The Swampby Mark Silva Is it the intelligence community's long string of successes that make its most notable recent failure look so bad? "If you look back over the course of the last year, and, frankly, over the course of the......Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, David Coleman Headley, Christmas, Government, National Government
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Obama's top CIA pick demurs
The Swampby Frank James John Brennan, the long-time intelligence official who advised President-elect Barack Obama during the presidential campaign has asked that his name not be considered for the job as Central Intelligence Agency director. Evidently, liberal...Tags: Politics, Abusive Behavior, Espionage and Intelligence, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Social Issues
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