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A startling e-mail from the White House:

“Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden is at Christiana Medical Center undergoing treatment at present. He is alert and awake, and communicating with his parents and his wife, who are with him. We will provide more details as they become available.”

Here is coverage from our sister paper, The Wilmington News Journal.

Beau Biden had considered a run for the Senate this year, ..read more

Rudy Giuliani: Obama Administration’s ‘Political Correctness’ Led To ‘Missed Signals’ On Terrorism (VIDEO)

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani sharply criticized the Obama administration on Sunday for reading suspected terrorist Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights, saying that the suspect should have been declared an “enemy combatant.”

The one-time presidential candidate also took on the White House for pursuing what he called a “policy of political correctness.”

“I would not have given him Miranda warnings after a couple of hours of questioning,” Giuliani said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I would have declared him an enemy combatant. ..read more

Obama To Address Christmas Bomber Report

WASHINGTON — The public is getting its clearest look at the government missteps that allowed a suspected terrorist to slip through post-Sept. 11 security and threaten lives on American soil.

The White House on Thursday planned to make public a declassified account of the near-catastrophe on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, and President Barack Obama was to address the nation about its findings and recommendations. Obama was also to reveal new steps intended to thwart terrorist attacks, as he promised ..read more

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Obama to address report on botched terror attack

WASHINGTON (AP) – The public is getting its clearest look at the government missteps that allowed a suspected terrorist to slip through post-Sept. 11 security and threaten lives on American soil. The White House on Thursday planned to make public a declassified account of the near catastrophe on Christmas Day, and President Barack Obama was to address the nation about its findings and recommendations. Obama was also to reveal new steps intended to ..read more

Chris Dodd Retiring From Senate; Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Will Run (The Huffington Post)

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EAST HADDAM, Conn. — Christopher Dodd vowed just days ago that he was staying in the race for re-election to the Senate, but he announced Wednesday that he would not seek a sixth term and revealed the private soul-searching that led to his decision to end a four-decade career in Congress.

Dodd, speaking outside his home in East Haddam, said he will retire after his current term.

“I ..read more

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Grim Obama says terror attack ‘dots’ not connected

WASHINGTON (AP) – A grim-faced President Barack Obama declared Tuesday there was a deep failure of national intelligence in the botched Christmas Day airliner terror attack over Detroit, telling the nation the government had enough information to thwart potential disaster but could not “connect those dots.” Speaking after a blunt meeting with his security team, Obama said there had been even more “red flags” than had already been acknowledged: that an al-Qaida affiliate ..read more

Joe Biden: Why America Needs Trains

One of the Capitol Hill newspapers estimated that I’ve taken more than 7,000 round trips on Amtrak over the course of my career. But the one I made on Jan. 17, 2009 was a bit different. When I got there, there were 8,000 people standing in the freezing cold. And I wasn’t racing to reach the 7:46 a.m. Metroliner (later, the Acela) that I had taken thousands of times before.

I was meeting up with the train ..read more

Mitchell Bard: After the Underwear Bomber, Republicans Have Shown Their True Color: Weakness

Remember when Republicans portrayed themselves as tough guys? The party of John Wayne? Hard to picture now, right? Ever since an Islamic fundamentalist tried to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Republicans have, as Steve Benen eloquently put it, engaged in a “collective display of pants-wetting.”

The naked politicization of the attempted attack has been both shameful and hypocritical. (Can you imagine what these same Republicans, from Dick Cheney to members of Congress, would have done if Democrats criticized ..read more

Michael Brenner: Obama Will Not Strike Iran

Talk of air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities is rife. Washington atmospherics suggest that the dogs of war soon will be unleashed. So, too, does the ominous background music. A series of reports speak darkly of this weapons program or that; the tentative agreement on the disposition of low enriched uranium has crumbled; the Israelis bluster; the airways and op ed pages brim with Cassandra warnings that the only answer to the intolerable prospect of a nuclear ..read more

US overhauls terror watchlists (AFP via Yahoo! News)

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has overhauled its terror watchlists after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner which has led President Barack Obama to order a widespread review of security measures.

Obama, who has denounced “systemic” intelligence failures in the bombing attempt, was scheduled to meet on Tuesday with US intelligence chiefs to discuss the attempt by a Nigerian man to bring down the US-bound jet.

An administration official told AFP the president would unveil an “initial series of reforms” ..read more