There have been innumerable references in the wake of the death of Osama Bin Laden to Barack Obama’s 2007 assertion that he would go into Pakistan to kill the al-Qaeda leader with or without Islamabad’s permission.
What most have forgotten is that the saber-rattling threat was crafted specifically to counter a dovish gaffe.
Anyone who thought Barack Obama’s post-Bin Laden national security swat would diminish opposition to closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay received bad news today.
Obama had a great run of news last week, between the death of Osama Bin Laden and an uptick in economic and employment indicators. But administration officials have a wary eye on Greece, where riots and a general strike are fueling market fears of another debt crisis like the one this time last year that the White House blames in part …
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara got a major win in his crusade against insider trading today with the conviction of hedge fund honcho Raj Rajaratnam on 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud. Rajaratnam enriched himself to the tune of $50 million by getting tips from insiders about impending market-moving deals and acting on …
When the history of the American financial system’s near-death experience in 2008 is written, FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair, who officially announced her July 8 departure yesterday, will feature prominently.
A few weeks ago, the National Institute for Money in State Politics published a report showing a marked spike last fall in campaign contributions to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller by lawyers and law firms that represent big …
A CIA task force is scrambling to exploit intelligence from the computers, thumb drives and other electronic media taken at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, racing against the clock as what remains …
A little over a week ago, Ben Bernanke gave his first press conference and stuck to his guns over inflation fears, saying he believed high prices for oil and food were “transitory.”
Inflation hawks howled that Bernanke was ignoring the pressures from the commodity markets, where prices have soared. Bernanke should raise interest rates …
More Bush administration officials associated with the program of compliance-inducing “enhanced interrogation techniques” are coming out of the woodwork to claim a measure of credit for Osama bin Laden’s death.
A former head of counterterrorism at the CIA, who was investigated last year by the Justice Department for the destruction of videos showing senior al-Qaeda officials being interrogated, says the harsh questioning of terrorism …
In his first interview since commanding the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, CIA chief Leon Panetta tells TIME that U.S. officials feared that Pakistan could have undermined the operation by leaking word to its targets. Long …
As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death moves from exhilarating novelty to accepted reality, one group in the U.S. government will emerge as key to the win: the Central Intelligence Agency. From the earliest identification of a …
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Nearly 10 years after he launched the deadliest domestic attack in U.S. history, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces. Late Sunday evening, President Barack Obama addressed …
