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Obama Sends Message on Technology Human Rights Abuse - Commentary
... will meet for the first time Monday, as President Barack Obama outlines steps aimed at ensuring the US has the “mechanisms and structures” to better prevent and respond to mass atrocities and war crimes, an administration official said Sunday.
Iran's North Korea Connection - Commentary
An anonymous source told South Korea's Yonhap State News agency that a dozen Iranians were there to “observe the missile launch and receive test data from North Korea.” Cooperation between the two rogue states is not exactly a secret.
Why is the White House Suddenly Calling it “ObamaCare”? - Commentary
... last Thursday: With the law still unpopular with many Americans, the White House has concluded that it is virtually impossible to change negative public opinions, particularly if Mr. Obama is front and center, a senior administration official said.
The Left Plans to (Violently) Occupy CPAC - Commentary
... in the hotel where the conference will take place, screaming “fire” during conference activities, “glitter-bombing” participants, cutting electrical power, and barricading entrances to the hotel, according to the source, who requested anonymity.
Obama Signing Statement Means No Iran Oil Embargo - Commentary
While administration officials said in spite of this, Obama still intended to pursue sanctions on the bank, the statement is a clear signal he has no such intentions. The stated motive for Obama's reluctance to try to stop the flow of oil income to the ...
Details Emerge on Student Loans Plan - Commentary
... an estimated 5.8 million people who hold two types of student loans—government-backed loans issued by the private sector under the Federal Family Education Loan program and “direct loans” issued by the government, an administration official said. ...
Obama on Iran: Is it Too Late for a Paper Tiger to Show He Has a Spine? - Commentary
The problem is not that the ideas being mooted by senior administration officials speaking off the record to newspapers like the New York Times about what they'd like to do are ill conceived. The trouble is that they are nearly three years late. ...
DOJ Thinks Allegations Against NewsCorp Are Thin - Commentary
The 9/11 claims were first published by the Mirror, a British tabloid, and they're based on the second-hand account of an anonymous source, who supposedly got the information from an unknown private investigator from New York. Here is my understanding, ...
Gitmo Tip Led to bin Laden - Commentary
11, detainees held by the US told interrogators about a man believed to work as a courier for bin Laden, senior administration officials said. The man was described by detainees as a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and “one of the few Al Qaeda ...