Video: Obama Reviews Terror Reports
President Obama will review federal reports on numerous security lapses which led to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s near-successful U.S. terror attempt. Chip Reid reports.
Gore: Carbon Polluters Like Big Tobacco
Former Vice President Discusses His Ongoing Climate Change Crusade
Video: Top News Stories of 2009
People Magazine’s David Caplan and The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz spoke to Harry Smith and Debbye Turner Bell about the top news stories of 2009 from President Obama’s inauguration to H1N1.
Missed signals cleared way for suspect
To understand how the suspect in the botched terror attack was able to board a plane, you have to understand how the counterterrorism system that President Obama says failed is supposed to work.
Obama to Get Report on Abdulmutallab
Preliminary Findings to be Given to President on Attempted Bombing of U.S. Plane on Christmas
Obama lauds CIA employees slain in Afghanistan
The president, in a letter to employees of the CIA, says the seven people killed in a bomb attack were ‘part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens.’
With flags flying at half-staff outside CIA headquarters for seven members of the intelligence service killed in a suicide bomb attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan, President Obama today addressed the staff by letter on “a sad occasion in the history of the CIA and our country.”
Afghan panel says U.S. strike killed 8 schoolboys
NATO initally reported that the casualties were nine adult insurgents. It says the incident is still being investigated.
An Afghan presidential delegation looking into reports that up to 10 civilians were accidentally killed by U.S. troops earlier this week said today that it had so far confirmed at least eight deaths — all schoolboys ages 12 to 17.
Poll: Obama not most popular in WH
President Obama may be the most popular man in his administration, but according to a new national poll, he’s not the most popular person.
Former Indonesian president Wahid dies
Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, who briefly ruled during the nation’s first tumultuous years of democracy and sought peace in far-flung secessionist provinces, died today. He was 69.
Ahmadinejad: Protests are ‘theater play’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad likened the latest anti-government protests to “a theater play by the Zionists and the Americans,” the state-run news agency said.
