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Pakistani Taliban Directed Times Square Bomb Attempt, Officials Say
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTop Obama administration officials Sunday said that the Pakistani Taliban, which had claimed credit for the failed attempt by Faisal Shahzad to set off a car bomb in New York's crowded Times Square on May 1, did in fact that mastermind the plot. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking on ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet the Press, said, "We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack." "We know that they helped facilitate it," Holder said. "We know that they probably helped finance it. And that he (Shahzad) was working at their direction." Holder also ...
What Surprised Brennan, Napolitano In Wake of Flight 253 Attack
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySome of the most significant findings in the White House review released Thursday of intelligence failures that could have prevented a Christmas terrorist attack on Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253 had to do with the strength of al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula and the willingness of the group to send out a solo operator to destroy a plane. ...
Top Obama Aide Defends Use of Criminal Trial for Would-Be Plane Bomber
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's top counterterrorism adviser today defended the administration's decision to put the Nigerian man who tried to bomb a Detroit-bomb airplane on trial in a criminal court rather than charge charge him as an enemy combatant given his ties to an al Qaeda group based in Yemen. ...
Obama Connection to Passport Breach
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyCNN reports that the Chief Executive of a company contracted to the State Department to perform consular, visa, and passport processing work is an adviser to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign. John Brennan is an adviser to Sen. Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues. The CEO of Analysis Corp., a McLean, Virginia, based contractor, is a former CIA official and director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Of the three contract employees believed to have accessed the passport files of the three presidential candidates, one worked for Analysis Corp., and two others were ...
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