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President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he is combining White House staffs dealing with international and homeland security, predicting the change will make Americans safer.
Lower oil prices make already unstable U.S. suppliers more volatile. Economic weakness in Mexico empowers drug cartels on the southern border. China faces more domestic unrest, leading to government crackdowns. Increased protectionism stifles recovery at home and abroad, and global perception of America's power is harmed as the nation's economy founders.
President Barack Obama is expanding the membership and reach of his top national security team, in recognition of the increasing role energy, climate and economic issues now play in keeping America safe.
Trillions of dollars in government spending might stabilize the economy, but for now it may have weakened some U.S. security interests abroad and hampered the nation's ability to respond financially to an attack at home.
President Barack Obama said Monday his administration is looking for opportunities to open direct talks with longtime adversary Iran, but that years of mistrust will be hard to overcome.
Senior officials in the Bush administration and members of President-elect Barack Obama's staff teamed up at the White House Tuesday for a rehearsal of how to handle a hypothetical terrorist attack on an American city.
The selection of experienced centrists — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Robert Gates and James L. Jones — to head President-elect Barack Obama's national security team points to the possibility that on Iraq, the incoming commander-in-chief may take a more measured path to ending American military involvement than he described during the presidential campaign.
President-elect Obama has hired former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn to help shepherd his Pentagon transition, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The Bush administration has missed one opportunity after another to improve the nation's security, according to a Democratic congressional report.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allow the terrorist mastermind to become a martyr, but he may be killed if the U.S. government finds him.
Democrat Barack Obama sought advice Wednesday from national security experts who served in Congress and the Clinton administration on how to overhaul U.S. foreign policy if he wins the presidency.
Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term administration — nearly two years before Bush's term ends.
The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday.
Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, a White House hopeful, said Thursday that the al-Qaida terrorist network clearly wants to strike the United States again, perhaps with an attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
Militants killed two people at elementary schools in a mainly Shiite district of Baghdad on Wednesday, the government said. But police in the neighborhood denied any attack occurred.
In the first major foreign policy review since 2002, President Bush said Thursday that Iran may pose the greatest challenge to the United States. He criticized China and Russia for political repression and underscored his administration's strike-first policy against terrorists and other enemies.
The New York Terror Mistrials The decision by Obama to hold public trials for captured terrorists is undoubtedly stupid. On so many levels this decision is simply boneheaded.
The Viruses That Killed at Fort HoodTwo viruses caused the murders, wounds, and suffering at Fort Hood. The first arises from the fact that although a capacity for evil is inherent in human nature, human beings have, as David Brooks recently observed, a "conscious say" regarding the commission of evil acts.
Senate candidate Pagliuca favors restoring draftBOSTON -- Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca says the country should reinstate a military draft so everyone sacrifices for national security.
Obamas National Security Advisor Jim Jones's Secret Trip to Pakistan Only hours before President Obama took off for Asia on Thursday, his national-security adviser landed in Pakistan on an unannounced trip to meet with senior Pakistani officials, a White House official said.
Note: It is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ronald Reagan: 0 Nobel Peace Prizes President Obama: 1 Nobel Peace Prize The Politics Of Healthcare Supersedes The Security Of The Country
Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege... AgainThe Obama administration invoked the controversial "state secrets" privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at risk.
Military experts say failure to address climate change brings national security risksAn island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S. military, disappears as the sea level rises. Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military tensions in South Asia. Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political turmoil in the Middle East.
Thirst for oil poses threat to US national security, says military adviserEven if you believe that Global Warming is a scam and that there is no need to conserve energy, Dennis McGinn, a member of the Military Advisory Board, composed of senior retired admirals and generals, should set you straight.
Former AMD chief identified as leak in Galleon insider trading caseThe far-reaching insider trading scandal now appears to have reached the top ranks of the high-tech industry with reports Tuesday that Hector Ruiz, former CEO and chairman of Sunnyvale chip company Advanced Micro Devices, leaked confidential AMD information to alleged conspirator …
Memory lapse: Politico asks, "What if Bush had done" things he actually did In support of his dubious argument that the press is treating President Obama more favorably than President Bush, Politico's Josh Gerstein falsely suggested that unlike David Axelrod, Karl Rove was never involved in national security meetings.
GOP Lawmakers Dawdle While Muslim 'Intern Spies' May Be Conspiring FurtherFour Republican lawmakers have not submitted a request to the House sergeant at arms to investigate a threat that one of the four described as a terrorist-linked group possibly "running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related offices."
The conservative movement and the Americans of that group have chosen to make Obama their enemy and have taken their eyes off of the ball.
Afghanistan and Pakistan: One In The Same?Is the situation in Afghanistan and the instability in Pakistan really two different issues, or one in the same? The argument by the Obama administration is that the Taliban is a problem of Afghanistan, while al-Qaeda is a worldwide problem centered in Pakistan. As the follow …
Feingold Slams Fellow Democrats For Failure to Rein In Patriot Act AbusesBad news today from the Judiciary Committee. At the beginning of the year, I had high hopes for the Patriot Act reauthorization process. We had just elected a President with a strong civil liberties record in the Senate.
From The Political Commentator (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com) First, This On The Homeland Security Front More signs out of Washington that the President does not, or will not, understand the dangers of the global war on terror, aka overseas contingency operations.
Pak army objects to 'intrusive' US aid bill, says it impacts securityIslamabad: Pakistan's army on Wednesday expressed "serious concern" and reservations over clauses in the whopping $7.5 billion American aid bill, saying it impacted "national security".
In another attempt to bring forth no lose American solutions, I'd like to highlight the initiative by T. Boone Pickens to move forward with new legislation to require all new heavy trucks (such as 18 wheelers) be powered by natural gas. The problem:
From The Political Commentator (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com) If The President Can't Speak To The General, No One Can! "Ideally, it's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command", Jim Jones, National Security Advisor
"People are getting away with murder." 18 yr. FBI Veteran Exec Calls For Investigation/Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds CaseAn 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M.
Seventy years ago in 1939 the world was pretty much in the same situation in which it finds itself today. The Great Depression had devastated economies globally giving rise to conflicting ideologies, not least of which was a strengthening of Communism in the Soviet bloc.
From The Political and Financial Markets Commentator (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com) Appeasement
From The Political and Financial Markets Commentator For The Most Part Undetectable, A New Weapon For The Bad Guys
From The Political and Financial Markets Commentator (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com) Remember The Odd Couple Episode: The Hustler Sure Shot Wilson with a hacking smokers cough: Does my answer matter? Felix Unger: Your life may depend on it!
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