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 ...

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 pub...

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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 enou...

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 rea...

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...

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 o...

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...

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By Cesca Bob (about the author)     Page 1 of 2 page(s) opednews.com     Permalink For OpEdNews: Cesca Bob – Writer from the Huffington Post Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s public relations apparatus was firing on all cylinders Wednesday morning, with the release of a pr...