Former Vice President Dick Cheney is getting a "bum rap" over reports that he ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress, two former U.S. intelligence officials told CNN Monday. According to both officials, any intelligence program of “great sensitivity” is first approved by the White House after a series of meetings
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Report: Domestic surveillance program relied on flawed analysis
The highly controversial no-warrant surveillance program initiated after the September 11 terrorist attacks relied on a "factually flawed" legal analysis inappropriately provided by a single Justice Department official, according to a report to Congress on Friday. The report was compiled by the inspectors general of the nation’s top intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the Justice Department. The report, mandated by Congress, provides fresh context to information previously leaked in press accounts and buttressed by both congressional testimony and books written by former officials involved in the surveillance effort
Foreclosure Prevention: New Program Shows Big Jump
The government finally seems to be making progress in its efforts to stem the foreclosure crisis. Housing and Urban Development officials say lenders extended loan-modification offers to 40,000 borrowers who were struggling to pay their mortgage in the second week of June. That is nearly triple the weekly average of about 15,000 workouts that loan servicers had extended in the prior 10 weeks since the government’s latest foreclosure-prevention plan was announced.
Could your laptop hold the key to beating jet lag?
Jet lag is the bane of the global traveler, but could your laptop hold the cure?
Yes, Virginia, the DTV transition still isn’t over
In less than 24 hours all full-power broadcast TV stations in the U.S. will flip a switch to stop broadcasting their analog TV signals and will only broadcast TV signals in digital. And for millions who are unprepared, it could mean lights out on their favorite TV shows.
My $4,500 Lemon: Taking the Feds Up on Cash For Clunkers
It’s official: our minivan is a toxic asset. The “toxic” part I knew already.
Pilot wanted to be shot down, trooper says
A man who commandeered a training plane in Canada and led U.S. military aircraft on a seven-hour flight across the Midwest told the officers who found him that he’d hoped he would be shot down, a Missouri state trooper said. “It was [attempted] suicide,” said Lt.
Pirates captured after attacking German tanker
Seven suspected pirates are in German custody after they fired on a naval tanker off the coast of Somalia and were pursued by warships, the German military said. Well, researchers are hoping that a potential April Fool’s time bomb — the Conficker.c that is supposed to hit computers on April 1 — turns out to be equally unfounded
Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets Delayed Again
The Administration’s long-awaited plan to save America’s banks is being delayed again, government sources tell Time.
Mexico to raise tariffs on U.S. exports
Mexico has announced plans to raise tariffs on almost 90 U.S. exports, Mexican and U.S.