A senior U.S. military official Monday credited President Obama for having a prominent role in pushing and shaping the plan to get Osama bin Laden. “In the final weeks and really months of this, his personal interest and …
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CIA Chief: Pakistan Would Have Jeopardized bin Laden Operation
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 …
Moment of Triumph: ‘Visual on Geronimo’
The people who gathered Sunday in the Situation Room know all about high-pressure situations. But this was something else. For 40 minutes, the President and his senior aides could do nothing but watch the video screens and listen …
Bank of America Lawyer, Consultant Gave Foreclosure Probe Chief $15,000
Iowa’s Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller is known for taking on big business. Elected to eight four-year terms, he led a multi-state anti-trust case against Microsoft in 2001 and filed a suit against 79 drug companies in …
The House GOP Freshmen: Pragmatists in Wolves’ Clothing?
They are the single most powerful group in Washington right now and no one inside the Beltway knows much about them. Which is why CNN’s Brianna Keilar and I sat down yesterday evening in the Congressional Visitor’s Center with four House Republican freshmen for an in depth conversation about what they really want and what lines they just …
Boehner & McConnell’s Secret Plan to Avert a Shutdown
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been working behind the scenes to draft a two-week stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown that would include $4 billion in immediate cuts, according to House and Senate GOP aides.
The House would move first – the Rules Committee could meet as early as …
Morning Must Reads: Back to Work
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–President Obama, on his way back to Washington from Hawaii, says he expects congressional Republicans to work with him.
–A flurry of reports suggest Bill Daley, former commerce secretary and current J.P. Morgan bigwig, is a finalist to join the White House as chief of staff. Daley is definitely a …
Dems Pull Ahead in Cali; Murkowski and Miller are Neck-and-Neck
CNN/TIME/ORC has a new poll of four states out today. Here’s a link to my story. Short version:
Alaska:
Senate: Lisa Murkowski’s becoming a real threat to Joe Miller in polls — but that doesn’t mean these people know how to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I come Nov. 2. Governor: GOP incumbent Sean Parnell is winning.
California:
Senate & …
Blago Goes on the Daily Show
If you like the kind of comedy that makes you cringe as you’re watching someone train wreck their life, then this is the show for you. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich hit the Daily Show last night. Here’s the interview.
Part 1:
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And Part 2:
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