Obama Aide Gets Waiver to Investigate Airline Plot
John O. Brennan, the deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism, received an ethics waiver from the White House to investigate the “systemic failures” before the failed airliner bombing on Christmas…
Terror Attempt May Hinder Plans to Close Guantánamo
Lawmakers in both parties are calling on the administration to rethink its approach to shuttering the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Ex-Homeland Security chief head said to abuse public trust by touting body scanners
Since the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government…
GOP attorneys general demand a change in Senate health-care bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Republican attorneys general in 13 states are threatening legal action over a provision in the federal health-care reform bill that would shield Nebraska from the costs of…
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts opts not to ask Congress to raise judicial salaries
In last year's report on the state of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said he was "tired" of beseeching Congress once again to raise judges' salaries…
Bombing reports start trickling in to Obama
The nation's top intelligence officer said Thursday that he will "commend those who did their jobs well and hold accountable those who did not," as President Obama began assessing the…
TSA nominee misled Congress about accessing confidential records
The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws,…
