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Holder's decision on Mohammed trial defended

 

Published 30 hours ago by Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith at Wash Post Obama Administration

Some of the prominent criticisms are exaggerated.

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Holder: 'We need not cower' in face of trials for 9/11 plotters

 

Published 2 days ago by Carrie Johnson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told the Senate on Wednesday morning that the Obama administration "will use every instrument of our national power to bring to justice those responsible for terrorist attacks against our people."

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U.S. to attend conference held by war crimes court

 

Published 4 days ago by Colum Lynch at Wash Post Obama Administration

For the first time in nearly eight years, the United States will participate in a conference with members of the International Criminal Court, a decision that signals growing U.S. support for a war crimes tribunal the Bush administration once ...

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For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena

 

Published 7 days ago by Peter Finn at Wash Post Obama Administration

When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he ...

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Alleged Sept. 11 planner will be tried in New York

 

Published 7 days ago by Peter Finn and Carrie Johnson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators will be tried in Manhattan federal courthouse less than a mile from Ground Zero, the Justice Department announced Friday, the most concrete ...

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Obama announces White House summit to focus on jobs

 

Published 8 days ago by Michael A. Fletcher at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama, grappling with the worst job market in a generation, announced plans Thursday to hold a White House jobs summit in December.

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Results of U.S.-Burma meeting are unclear

 

Published 15 days ago by Tim Johnston at Wash Post Obama Administration

BANGKOK -- After a rare trip by high-level U.S. diplomats to Burma, there is was little indication from either nation Thursday about how the Obama administration's overture of engagement had been received.

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Obama marks election anniversary by talking education at Wisconsin school

 

Published 16 days ago by Scott Wilson at Wash Post Obama Administration

MADISON, WIS. -- President Obama marked the anniversary of his election Wednesday by speaking in unusually personal terms with schoolchildren and educators in a politically friendly state, far from the partisan fray in Washington.

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Karzai win complicates White House strategy for Afghanistan

 

Published 18 days ago by Scott Wilson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's election by default Monday confirms at least a week earlier than expected that the Obama administration will continue for the foreseeable future to have the same mercurial partner in Afghanistan.

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Shared interests define Obama's world

 

Published 19 days ago by Scott Wilson at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama is applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side, constructing appeals to shared interests and attempting to bring the government's conduct in line with its ...

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First lady shows support for veterans in NYC

 

Published 23 days ago by Dave Sheinin at Wash Post Obama Administration

NEW YORK -- At the center of an auditorium in the uppermost reaches of New York City was a throng of people, and at the center of the throng was Michelle Obama -- and on the outskirts of the throng was a ring of cellphones and cameras held high. ...

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Czar trouble

 

Published 29 days ago by Dana Milbank at Wash Post Obama Administration

October revolutions just ain't what they used to be.

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Alan Charles Raul: Revive the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

 

Published 29 days ago by Alan Charles Raul at Wash Post Obama Administration

Obama and Congress appear to have dropped the ball.

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Gibbs lashes out at Cheney over 'dithering' comment

 

Published 29 days ago by Michael D. Shear at Wash Post Obama Administration

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today lashed out at former vice president Dick Cheney, dismissing his criticism of the pace of President Obama's decision-making on Afghanistan.

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In Shift for Obama, U.S. Settles On Modulated Policy for Sudan

 

Published 10/17/2009 by Colum Lynch and Mary Beth Sheridan at Wash Post Obama Administration

After lengthy debate, the Obama administration has settled on a policy toward Sudan that offers a dramatically softer approach than the president had advocated on the campaign trail -- but steers clear of the conciliatory tone advocated by his special ...

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Obama Criticized as Too Cautious, Slow on Judicial Posts

 

Published 10/16/2009 by Michael A. Fletcher at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama has not made significant progress in his plan to infuse federal courts with a new cadre of judges, and liberal activists are beginning to blame his administration for moving too tentatively on what they consider a key priority.

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Obama May Be Met By Frustration in New Orleans Visit

 

Published 10/15/2009 by Michael D. Shear at Wash Post Obama Administration

Even before Air Force One touches down in New Orleans on Thursday afternoon, President Obama is discovering the burdens of rebuilding a city that feels abandoned by the federal government.

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Obama Focuses on Civilian Effort in Afghanistan Strategy Review

 

Published 10/15/2009 by Anne E. Kornblut and Scott Wilson at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama, convening his fifth war council meeting in as many weeks, pressed his senior national security advisers Wednesday on the political situation in Afghanistan and the effort to train the country's security forces, officials said.

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Republicans Scoff at Nobel Prize Announcement

 

Published 10/9/2009 by Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama's Republican adversaries reacted with swift disbelief to news that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, with many in the party scoffing that the accolade was hardly justified by a record they described as incomplete at ...

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Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

 

Published 10/9/2009 by Debbi Wilgoren and Scott Wilson at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his work to improve international diplomacy and rid the world of nuclear weapons -- a stunning decision to celebrate a figure virtually unknown in the world before he launched his ...

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Army Officers Criticize Rebuke of Gen. McChrystal

 

Published 10/8/2009 by Ann Scott Tyson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Army officers gathered at a convention in Washington this week said that senior White House officials should not have rebuked Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for saying publicly that a scaled-back war effort would ...

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Targeting the Talkers

 

Published 10/7/2009 by Howard Kurtz at Wash Post Obama Administration

There are no fatter targets for the left than the talk-show titans of the right.

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Afghan Strategy Divides Lawmakers

 

Published 10/7/2009 by Scott Wilson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Congressional leaders left a rare bipartisan meeting with President Obama on Tuesday divided over what strategy the administration should adopt to fight an increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan and how quickly it must do so to protect U.S. forces ...

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Iran, Major Powers Reach Agreement On Series of Points

 

Published 10/2/2009 by Glenn Kessler at Wash Post Obama Administration

GENEVA, Oct. 1 -- The United States and Iran tentatively stepped back from looming confrontation on Thursday, as the Islamic republic reached an agreement with major powers that would greatly reduce Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium and reset ...

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Clearer Rules Urged for Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gender-Related Persecution

 

Published 10/1/2009 by Tara Bahrampour at Wash Post Obama Administration

Women seeking political asylum in the United States based on gender-related persecution can get mired in a legal labyrinth that can leave their cases unresolved for years, according to a report being released Thursday by the Tahirih Justice Center, a ...

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U.S. Diplomat's Visit to Cuba Turned Into Extended Talks

 

Published 9/30/2009 by Mary Beth Sheridan at Wash Post Obama Administration

In an unusual move, Cuban authorities this month invited a State Department official to turn a brief visit to the Communist-ruled island into a six-day stay that included meetings with officials, opposition figures and people from Cuban civil ...

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GOP Senators Drop Out of Panel Inquiry Into CIA Program

 

Published 9/26/2009 by Peter Finn at Wash Post Obama Administration

Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation policies, arguing that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s decision to ...

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Israeli Leader Blasts Ahmadinejad at U.N.

 

Published 9/25/2009 by Colum Lynch at Wash Post Obama Administration

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 -- Brandishing Nazi orders for the extermination of the Jews, Israel's prime minister blasted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday for continuing to deny that the Holocaust occurred and rebuked U.N. delegates who ...

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Voices of Power: Austan Goolsbee, Economic Adviser to President Obama

 

Published 9/24/2009 by washingtonpost.com at Wash Post Obama Administration

LOIS ROMANO: Welcome, Dr. Austan Goolsbee, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and the chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Thanks for joining us.

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Obama Plans Stern Speech to World's Leaders at U.N.

 

Published 9/23/2009 by Michael D. Shear at Wash Post Obama Administration

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23--President Obama plans to deliver a stern speech to the leaders of the world's nations Wednesday morning, challenging them to live up to their responsibilities even as he acknowledges that the United States has also fallen ...

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Prime Minister Urges U.S.-Japanese Cooperation on North Korea

 

Published 9/23/2009 by Glenn Kessler at Wash Post Obama Administration

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 -- Japan's new prime minister called Tuesday for "close coordination" between his country and the United States on policy toward North Korea, a vexing issue that chilled relations between the two allies in the final months of ...

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Biden Says Tighter Regulation of Insurance Industry Is Critical to Health Reform

 

Published 9/22/2009 by Michael A. Fletcher at Wash Post Obama Administration

Vice President Biden added his voice Tuesday to the administration's efforts to reform health care, telling a meeting of state insurance commissioners that tighter regulation of the industry is needed to protect consumers and slow the spiraling cost ...

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Federal Ban on Flavored Cigarettes Takes Effect

 

Published 9/22/2009 by Lyndsey Layton at Wash Post Obama Administration

Federal officials said Tuesday that they hope a ban against cigarettes flavored to taste like sweet foods -- which took effect Tuesday -- will cut down on the number of children and young adults who pick up the smoking habit.

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Insurers Criticize Administration 'Gag Order'

 

Published 9/22/2009 by David S. Hilzenrath at Wash Post Obama Administration

The federal government has ordered health insurers to stop telling Medicare beneficiaries that proposed health reform legislation could hurt seniors and jeopardize their benefits.

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U.S. and Iran Question Each Other's Seriousness as Nuclear Talks Approach

 

Published 9/22/2009 by Glenn Kessler and Thomas Erdbrink at Wash Post Obama Administration

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 -- Diplomats from the United States and Iran will cross paths this week at the U.N. General Assembly, but the gulf between the two nations is likely to be evident. Officials and analysts offer little hope that much will change ...

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Changes in Afghanistan, Washington May Require Shift in U.S. War Strategy

 

Published 9/21/2009 by Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karen DeYoung at Wash Post Obama Administration

From his headquarters in Kabul, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal sees one clear path to achieve President Obama's core goal of preventing al-Qaeda from reestablishing havens in Afghanistan: "Success," he writes in his assessment, "demands a comprehensive ...

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Shelving of Missile Defense Reflected Military's Concerns

 

Published 9/21/2009 by R. Jeffrey Smith at Wash Post Obama Administration

Call it another revolt of the generals. More than 13 years ago, the nation's military leaders told civilian defense officials they wanted to limit spending on missile defenses and to emphasize the protection of forces deployed overseas over defense of ...

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In Broadcast Blitz, Obama Calls for 'Civil' Tone on Health Care

 

Published 9/21/2009 by Ceci Connolly and Michael D. Shear at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama sought to blanket the airwaves with an impassioned defense of his health-care reform effort Sunday during back-to-back broadcasts of taped interviews on five morning news programs.

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The Secretary, in Her Own Words

 

Published 9/19/2009 by Post at Wash Post Obama Administration

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her first eight months on the job:

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A Team Player Who Stands Apart

 

Published 9/19/2009 by Glenn Kessler at Wash Post Obama Administration

With the exception of former senator Edmund S. Muskie's brief turn as secretary of state at the end of the Carter administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first politician in the job in six decades -- the rest have hailed from the fields of ...

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Gates to Boost ‘Enablers' to Meet Security Needs in Afghanistan

 

Published 9/18/2009 by Ann Scott Tyson at Wash Post Obama Administration

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he has ordered the deployment of as many as 3,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to meet what the top commander there has described as pressing security needs.

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SEC Proposes Ban on Flash Orders

 

Published 9/18/2009 by Zachary A. Goldfarb at Wash Post Obama Administration

Federal regulators turned their attention on Thursday to the fast-paced and sometimes-opaque electronic trading systems that dominate financial markets, proposing to ban a type of trading that critics contend gives hedge funds and other financial ...

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ACORN to Review Incidents

 

Published 9/17/2009 by Darryl Fears at Wash Post Obama Administration

Amid a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the political divide, the community organizing group known as ACORN announced Wednesday that it would launch an independent review into "the indefensible action of a handful of our employees" who were ...

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Obama Says Decision on Troop Levels in Afghanistan Will Not Be Rushed

 

Published 9/16/2009 by Karen DeYoung and Paul Kane at Wash Post Obama Administration

President Obama made clear Wednesday that he is in no hurry to make a decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan and that he will resist any attempt to rush him until he has "absolute clarity about what the strategy is going to be."

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Lawmakers' Intense Debate on Hot-Button Issues Shows No Signs of Easing

 

Published 9/16/2009 by Joel Achenbach at Wash Post Obama Administration

The raw emotions of American politics found full-throated voice Tuesday in and around the Capitol. At any given moment, someone was expressing outrage -- or counter-outrage.

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White House Seeks Renewal of Surveillance Laws, Perhaps With Tweaks

 

Published 9/15/2009 by Carrie Johnson and Ellen Nakashima at Wash Post Obama Administration

The Obama administration has for the first time set out its views on the controversial Patriot Act, telling lawmakers this week that legal approval of government surveillance methods scheduled to expire in December should be renewed, but leaving room ...

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White House Proposes New Fuel Efficiency Standards for Cars, Trucks

 

Published 9/15/2009 by David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin at Wash Post Obama Administration

The Obama administration on Tuesday formally proposed new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, a move which would mark the first time the federal government has ever set limits on greenhouse-gas pollution.

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