Citing health-care vote, Obama delays trip to Indonesia
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 19th, 2010 4:38 am by HL
Citing health-care vote, Obama delays trip to Indonesia
The T-shirts showing President Obama’s likeness had been printed. The state dinner was being prepared. And millions of Indonesians were ready — finally — to see a U.S. president they claim as their own arrive to a hero’s greeting.
Senators draft plan to rework U.S. immigration policy
Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) announced the building blocks Thursday for a new push in Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, outlining a plan to require U.S. citizens and legal immigrants to obtain a new high-tech Social Security card tied to their fingerprints or other biometric identifiers and to create a system to bring in temporary workers as the U.S. economy demands.
Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies
By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.