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Secret Service Boss: Sorry About the Hookers

Kevin Spak — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:28:42 CDT

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testified on Capitol Hill today, apologizing for the first time for the Colombian prostitution scandal—even as the Senate Homeland Security Committee brought new indiscretions to light. Employees "did some really dumb things," Sullivan said, assuring lawmakers that the behavior "is not representative" of the...

Expect More Secret Service Firings: King

Kevin Spak — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:34:38 CDT

Heads probably haven't finished rolling at the Secret Service over its prostitution scandal, Rep. Peter King said today on Meet the Press, saying he expected "several" members to depart in the "near future." The House Homeland Security chair promised a thorough investigation, and has already sent a letter to the...

Collins: Where Are Women in Secret Service?

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:07:22 CDT

The Secret Service prostitution scandal dominated the talk show air waves today, with a pair of female legislators openly questioning whether more women in the elite guards' ranks could've averted the scandal. "It defies belief that this is just an aberration," Sen. Susan Collins told This Week. "I can't help...

Obama 2012? Some Dems in Congress Won't Say

Matt Cantor — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:37:05 CST

It may not come as a surprise that Joe Lieberman isn’t sure where he stands on President Obama’s reelection bid—but a number of Obama’s fellow Democrats aren’t rushing to support him, either. Instead, they’re refusing to comment or choosing their words carefully, Politico finds. Just a few Blue Dog...

McCain Pushed to Arm Gadhafi, WikiLeaks Reveals

Kevin Spak — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:54:06 CDT

John McCain may be talking tough about Libya these days, but back in 2009 he promised Muatassim Gadhafi—Moammar’s fifth son and his national security adviser—that he’d do what he could to help Libya obtain military supplies, particularly new aircraft, a cable released by WikiLeaks reveals. McCain met with...

Homeland Security Blowing $300M on Sketchy Scanners

Kevin Spak — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:56:33 CDT

Homeland Security plans to buy 400 new radiation detection machines, even though it’s skipped its own internal requirements to test them first, the Government Accountability Office complained in a report today. These Advanced Spectroscopic Portal machines have a checkered past, the Washington Post reports: In January, the National Academy of...

Actually, We Need More Medicare

Matt Cantor — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:58:00 CDT

Joe Lieberman’s proposal to raise Medicare eligibility to age 67 is proof that we’ve really “gone off the rails,” writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times . Really, we should be doing the opposite: extending Medicare, because it “actually saves money—a lot of money—compared with relying on private...

Sen. Levin: Pakistan Has Tough Questions to Answer

Rob Quinn — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:19:00 CDT

Pakistan is going to have to answer some tough questions about whether members of its military and intelligence services knew where Osama bin Laden was, warns Sen. Carl Levin. The Democrat, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested that the security arms of the Pakistani government may have known...

Fox Torqued By Clinton-Gates 'Diss'

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:56:36 CDT

Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates were talking up Libya on the talk show circuit today—except on Fox, and don't you think that host Chris Wallace didn't notice, reports Politico. “Of course we wanted to get the White House view on Libya,” Wallace told his viewers. “However, they chose to...