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Report: Leaked British papers dispute Iraq war claims

USA Today - 38 minutes ago

Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war, a newspaper says.

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Fed Under Fire As Public Anger Mounts
CommonDreams.org - Sun Nov 22, 6:46 pm ET
by Tom Raum WASHINGTON - Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag. Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say. The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is always fair game for criticism and second-guessing, usually over interest rate actions. But this year the criticism is much ...
BCS hires former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer's PR firm to boost image
ESPN - Sat Nov 21, 7:02 pm ET
Ari Fleischer Communications, a sports public relations firm headed by the former press secretary for President George W. Bush, has been hired by BCS officials to help remodel the tattered image of college football's postseason system.
Government abandons Bush investment advice rule
Asbury Park Press - 2 hours 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — The federal government has decided to abandon a Bush administration plan that would have permitted mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to offer investment advice to 401(k) customers.
Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
Newsday - Sun Nov 22, 2:38 pm ET
How global warming accelerated since '97 Kyoto pact: 'We are in more trouble than we thought'
Army Policies Re-Examined After Ft. Hood Shooting
NPR - Sat Nov 21, 5:53 pm ET
Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a series of investigations in every military branch this week to examine the process used to identify potentially violent troops. Military officials are still puzzled over the shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured. They're trying to figure out how alleged shooter Nidal Hasan might have slipped through the cracks, and whether ...
The almanac
UPI - Sun Nov 22, 3:33 am ET
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009.
Suspects in Dallas plot, Fort Hood shootings were on FBI's radar, but only one was taken down
Dallas Morning News - Sun Nov 22, 1:58 am ET
Both Hosam "Sam" Smadi and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan attracted attention from federal agents long before their high-profile arrests. But the two Texas cases, just six weeks apart, resulted in spectacularly different outcomes - one in the prevention of a large-scale terrorist attack in Dallas, the other in a deadly shooting rampage of soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood.
Setting Afghan exit date defeatist: defense panel
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 3:58 pm ET
Despite fierce public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts on Saturday decried calls for setting an exit date they say would embolden the Taliban.
The Madness Returns
consortiumnews.com - Sun Nov 22, 4:24 pm ET
The hoopla over former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s memoir is the latest sign that the madness, which has dominated American political life for most of the last three decades, has returned – and may be on its way to a political restoration in 2010 and beyond.
Morris activates Medical Reserve Corps
Daily Record - Sun Nov 22, 3:50 pm ET
Their faces go by in a blur, mostly because the children receiving H1N1 flu shots are more focused on the needles than who's injecting them. But for Morris County Medical Reserve Corps members, it's fine. The volunteers don't lend their time for personal recognition.
Obama health drive faces critical vote
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 3:20 pm ET
President Barack Obama's signature drive to remake US health care strode closer to clearing a key Senate hurdle Saturday as the last two wavering Democrats agreed to vote to formally start debate on the bill.
A Veterans Day like few others
Westminster Community Times - 1 hour 47 minutes ago
When President Obama greeted Fort Hood soldiers on the day he spoke at a memorial service there last week, an active-duty member of the organization Iraq Veterans Against the War, slipped him a letter calling for “full mental healthcare for all soldiers serving in the Army.”
What's Obama's trade policy? So far, there isn't much of one, some analysts say
Boston Herald - Sun Nov 22, 11:04 am ET
WASHINGTON - During his first 10 months in office, as global trade contracted sharply, President Barack Obama avoided pursuing free-trade pacts and limited his public moves...
Tiny Local Airports Land Big Federal Dollars
The Kentucky Post - Sun Nov 22, 3:20 pm ET
WEST UNION, Ohio -- This year more than a billion dollars of your tax money is going to US airports where not a single airliner flies. They're called general aviation airports, and a Federal program awards big grants to some that can go an entire day without seeing a single flight.
U. of Nebraska Defeats Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research
New York Times - Sat Nov 21, 2:43 pm ET
The effort had been seen by opponents as a possible new front in the national debate over the matter.
Report: Leaked UK Documents Detail Iraq War Chaos
CommonDreams.org - 2 hours 37 minutes ago
by David Stringer LONDON - Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday. Britain's Sunday Telegraph published details of private statements made by senior British military figures claiming ...
The Fall of Greg Craig
Time Magazine - Sat Nov 21, 1:10 pm ET
How Obama's lawyer sparked a battle royal when he tried to keep some of the President's campaign promises in the war on terrorism
Three Key Lessons from Obama's China Tour
Time.com via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 1:05 pm ET
What we learned from the American President's journey through the Middle Kingdom
Gates: Canada's Afghanistan role key
UPI - Sat Nov 21, 12:50 pm ET
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Canada's contributions to the war against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are a key to success, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says.
Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts
Denver Post - Sun Nov 22, 3:28 am ET
The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute terrorism suspects vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee.