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Hagel Climbing the Ladder in Obama White House
March 19, 2010 Former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel (R), a senior administration official-in-waiting either later this term or in President Obama's second term (if there is one), is taking another step into Obama's national security team. We're hearing Hagel is in line to co-chair the important President's Intelligence Advisory Board (formerly known as the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board).
Former Attorney General Makes the Mistake of Talking
March 19, 2010In early July, when last we checked in with former attorney general Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales, he had finally landed a job at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. That -- assuming he's not indicted by special prosecutor Nora Dannehy, who's investigating the firing of those U.S. attorneys -- would be the end of his troubles, we figured.
This Summer, the 2008 Election Makes Better Reading Than Fiction
March 19, 2010It's not often that you take a nonfiction book about politics with you on a summer vacation -- unless you're having trouble sleeping. But you should take "The Battle for America 2008," the new, behind-the-scenes look at what happened in the historic presidential election. It's fast-paced and beach-worthy, as good a page-turner as any mystery thriller.
In the Loop: Uighurs Freed From Guantanamo Find Work at Bermuda Golf Course
March 19, 2010Some former Guantanamo detainees are said to have returned to their allegedly terrorist ways. Others, such as four Uighurs released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in June, have landed jobs tending the fairways and greens at Bermuda's Port Royal Golf Course, site of October's PGA Grand Slam of Golf. The island-hopping former detainees began working there last week, after a group of Philippine workers apparently failed to show up for work. (Hmmm . . . )
The Democratic Way to Handle North Korea
March 19, 2010 Deja Kim all over again? It's warming up in Washington, and the president's health-care plan looks like it's headed for a rough time; his popularity in the polls is shaky. The North Koreans are acting out again with their nuclear program and other provocations. So what does the president do? He sends his predecessor Democratic president to see the seriously ailing North Korean leader to work something out.
With a Colleague's Book Due Out, Ex-Bushies Play Out the Ritual of Anxiety
March 19, 2010There's a growing nervousness these days among former Bush White House officials, Pentagon folks and some senators about what, precisely, is in a book coming out in September by Matt Latimer, former speechwriter to George W. Bush, defense secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates, and GOP Sens. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.), the minority leader.
Red Tape, Now With More Clickiness!
March 19, 2010The government keeps trying to make things easier for people. But it's often a matter of one step forward, two steps back. And sometimes there's not even a step forward.
In the Loop: White House Still Seeks Cyber-Chief (One of the Lesser Czars)
March 19, 2010In an East Room speech at the end of May, President Obama declared a new "strategic national asset": the computer networks our country depends on to keep trains running and planes from colliding, to control weapons systems and allow banks to process payments. He also promised to "personally" select a White House cybersecurity coordinator to advise him on all things cyber and to coordinate cyber-policies across the government.
Axelrod Joins a Group of Hardwood Heavies
March 19, 2010 When senior Obama adviser David Axelrod came to Washington late last year, he was thinking of joining a pickup basketball game to keep in shape and socialize a bit on weekends when he couldn't get back to Chicago to see his family.
In the Loop: Potemkin Villages, Afghan Style
March 19, 2010Good news for fans of 18th-century Russian military leader Grigori Potemkin, who supposedly erected fake villages in Crimea to impress his lover, Catherine the Great. You, too, can construct fake villages, and the Marine Corps will pay you to do so.
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