Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Obama to release 17 Guantanamo detainees before leaving office
So, it doesn’t look like the president will make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo detainee facility during his eight years in office. The New York Times says that he’ll release 17 or 18 more detainees before his term in office ends, but there will still be a few dozen behind bars there. […]
False news and Russian hacking
According to Fox News, the President has announced that his administration will “take action” against “Russian hacking” of the Presidential election. The tough talk from Obama came in an interview scheduled to air on National Public Radio Friday. It followed complaints of Republican lawmakers that federal authorities refuse to brief them on investigations into Russia’s […]
Obama on terrorist attacks
Technically Obama might be correct, in that no “foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland”. There have been terrorist attacks, though. At Little Rock, Ft. Hood, Chattanooga, the Boston Bombing, the San Bernadino massacre, the Orlando “Pulse” attack. There was the Detroit underwear bomber whose bomb misfired, and the […]
White House endorses draft for women
USATODAY reports that the President has endorsed registering women for the draft. A day late and a dollar short; The White House had previously expressed neutrality on the controversy, but took a position in a statement to USA TODAY on Thursday. But the timing of Obama’s support makes it mostly symbolic, coming in the final […]
Congress bucks Obama for higher pay and more troops
Military Times reports that over President Obama’s objections, Congress has authorized a bigger pay raise and increased the numbers of troops for the services; Military personnel would see a 2.1 percent pay raise starting in January and a significant manpower boost within the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps as part of Congress’ annual defense […]
Obama says he can’t pardon Snowden
David sends us a link from ArsTechnica which reports on an Obama statement to the German Newspaper Der Spiegel which questioned him about the chances of Edward Snowden getting a presidential pardon; Obama replied: “I can’t pardon somebody who hasn’t gone before a court and presented themselves, so that’s not something that I would comment […]
John Kerry and smart diplomacy
The New York Times writes about how John Kerry and the Obama Administration were being played like a cheap fiddle by the Syrians, the Russians and the Iranians at the latest talks about ending the Syrian civil war. Mr. Kerry has been hamstrung by Russia’s military operations in Syria and by his inability to persuade […]
The orphaned rescue failure
President Kennedy said of the Bay of Pigs “victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan”. That describes the recent failure of a rescue attempt in Afghanistan last month which we wrote about last week recounting the story from our buddy Susan Katz Keating in AMI Newswire. Today she writes that blame for the […]
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