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President Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition and has taken steps to assert more aggressive U.S. leadership among allies and partners seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, according to senior administration officials. The officials said they are moving toward the shipment of arms but emphasized that they are still pursuing political negotiation. To that end, the administration has launched an effort to convince Russian President [...] The Pentagon has in recent days stepped up planning for potential military intervention in the Syrian civil war, specifically because of growing evidence the regime may have used chemical weapons, CNN has learned. “There is intensified planning in the works as more precise information comes in on the Syrian regime’s potential use of chemical weapons and the body of evidence grows,” a senior administration official said. http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/29/pentagon-steps-up-planning-for-potential-military-intervention-in-syria/ Syria crisis: PM Halqi survives Damascus [...] Security officers order staff, media to clear Boston courthouse http://news.yahoo.com/security-officers-order-staff-media-clear-boston-courthouse-191248734–sector.html Boston Police Department: No arrest made in bomb investigation No arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon bombings, the Boston police department said on its Twitter account Wednesday. The statement contradicts an earlier report from CNN, which said an arrest had been made, citing a source. CNN has updated its report, saying two senior administration officials and another federal official have since [...] Bernie Becker President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in IRAs and other retirement accounts. The proposal would save around $9 billion over a decade, a senior administration official said, while also bringing more fairness to the tax code. The senior administration official said that wealthy taxpayers can currently “accumulate many millions of dollars in these [...] Terence P. Jeffrey On Feb. 12, about two years after the U.S. government first militarily intervened in Libya to advance the cause of Libyan revolutionaries and five months after Libyan terrorists murdered Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans in that country, the post-revolutionary Libyan government arrested a U.S. citizen for allegedly “proselytizing” Christianity in Benghazi. As of today, according to both a senior administration official and a [...] The Hill The White House is poised to release a cybersecurity executive order on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told The Hill. The highly anticipated directive from President Obama is expected to be released at a briefing Wednesday morning at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where senior administration officials will provide an update about cybersecurity policy. [...] The executive order would establish a voluntary program where companies operating critical [...] from NYT: WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of theimmigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week. Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive bill, the officials said, resisting efforts by some Republicans to break the [...] WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week. Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive bill, the officials said, resisting efforts by some Republicans to [...] Pakistani Taliban militants executed 21 policemen who were captured in attacks on their posts late last week, government officials said today. The men, who were kidnapped on Friday in attacks on three checkpoints near the city of Peshawar, were lined up before being shot one-by-one, officials said. One man was badly wounded but survived the shootings and another is said to have escaped. ‘They were tied up and blindfolded,’ Naveed Anwar, a senior [...] President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus. Although Kerry is thought to covet the job of secretary of state, senior administration officials familiar with transition planning said that nomination will almost certainly go to Susan E. Rice, the [...] Intelligence officials: Iran has nearly finished a nuclear enrichment plant The installation of the last centrifuges at Fordo represents a milestone for the Iranians that the Obama administration hoped to avoid. In September 2009, Mr. Obama, along with the leaders of Britain and France, revealed the existence of the site, in an effort to galvanize international efforts to stop Iran’s program. His top national security aides predicted that the public exposure [...] Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC The assault on the American consulate in Libya consisted of two separate attacks that forced the Americans from the consulate and then besieged them in a second building in a gunbattle that lasted four and half hours, according to a detailed timeline from a [...] Senior officials in the Obama Administration sent a message to Tehran in the past few days, according to which the U.S. does not intend to join Israel’s side if it decides to attack the Iranian nuclear installations on its own http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159563#.UESSdkXyaCM US to Iran: In case of Israeli strike, don’t fire on our bases http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-to-iran-in-case-of-israeli-strike-dont-fire-on-our-bases/ The United States has no intention of joining in a preemptive Israeli strike on Iran and expects the Islamic [...] Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and the ranking GOP member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants answers about whether Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other senior Justice Department officials misused FBI aircraft, hindering the agency’s investigations and ignoring a White House order to cut travel costs. Like a few senior administration officials with high-profile roles, Mr. Holder is required for security reasons to use government aircraft when he travels. [...] Using Google Translate: Opposition sources speaking to Zaman, the last two days about the identity of persons killed and taken prisoner gives an overview of the dramatic. That the vast majority of them Iranian nationals, some of them say that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards came identities. ”Now we are fighting with Iran formally”! http://zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=1321503 Stymied at U.N., U.S. Refines Plan to Remove Assad “You’ll notice in the last couple of months, the opposition has been strengthened,” [...] By JENNIFER EPSTEIN and DONOVAN SLACK | 7/11/12 6:29 PM EDT President Obama had a “productive” and “enthusiastic” meeting with Democratic leaders from the House and Senate on Wednesday, a senior administration official said. Neither the official nor the members in the room — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — revealed any major developments from the afternoon session, just that it was another chance for a discussion of legislative priorities including the president’s call [...] WASHINGTON — With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000. Mr. Obama plans to make his announcement in the Rose Garden on Monday, senior administration officials said. The ceremony comes as Congress returns from its Independence Day recess, and as both parties and their presidential [...] The United States has moved new forces into the Gulf to keep strategic waterways open and strike deep within Iran in the event of a regional military escalation, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The Times cited senior officials as saying the quiet build-up was aimed at reassuring Israel that Washington is serious about addressing Iran’s nuclear program and keeping the Straits of Hormuz — a key oil choke point — [...] Karen DeYoung A Russian ship carrying attack helicopters to the Syrian government turned back toward home Tuesday after its London-based insurance carrier canceled coverage, following a warning from the British government that the delivery would violate European Union sanctions. U.S. and British officials said the ship, which had reached the North Sea near Scotland, appeared to be returning to its home port on the Baltic Sea. The Obama administration declined [...] Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last year “U.S. officials” said drones in Pakistan killed about 30 civilians in just a yearlong stretch under Obama. Both claims can’t be true. A centerpiece of President Obama’s national security strategy, drones strikes in Pakistan are credited by the administration with crippling Al Qaeda but [...] via the hill: The Obama administration announced Friday it will stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age. The politically charged decision comes as Obama faces a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney, with Hispanic voters in swing states seen as a key bloc. The change in policy could allow as many as 800,000 immigrants who came to the United States illegally not only to remain in [...] By opening an investigation into the leaks of classified information, the Obama White House appears to be entering the kind of perilous Fill-In-The-Blank-Gate terrain that has eventually engulfed most administrations in the modern era. The pattern: an initial investigation launched to relieve mounting political pressure snowballs into a much larger scandal, leaving a trail of broken careers in its wake. And the beginnings of that pattern are in place: Attorney General Eric [...] WASHINGTON – Under pressure to take action on rising gasoline prices, President Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal supervision of oil markets, increase penalties for market manipulation and empower regulators to increase the amount of money energy traders are required to put behind their transactions. The White House plan, which Obama was to unveil Tuesday, is more likely to draw sharp election-year distinctions with Republicans than have an immediate effect on [...] |
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