Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 21st, 2009 5:35 am by HL
Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric
In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources briefed…
Storm of criticism said to buoy Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has been a lightning rod for the Obama administration even longer than he’s formally held his position. This week, the storm clouds returned.
Health bill opponents make most of mammogram advisory
As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average…
Prison holds promise for job-strapped town
CHICAGO — On the edge of a cornfield 150 miles from Chicago lies a prison, all but vacant, that could become the new Guantanamo.
Senate ethics committee admonishes Burris
Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his appointment last December to the body.
