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Panel: Problem Schools Hurt Nation’s Security

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s security and economic prosperity are at risk if America’s schools don’t improve, warns a task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein, the...

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Holder Appoints 2 US Attorneys To Lead Leaks Investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. attorneys are taking over separate FBI investigations into leaks of national security information that critics have accused the White House of orchestrating to improve...

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Opinion: Bachmann’s Muslim Brotherhood Concerns In Obama Administration...

Hold it! Don’t drop last week’s controversial headlines regarding U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other GOP House members who said that President Barack Obama’s administration has connections to...

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Opinion: National Security Shouldn’t Get Lost In This Campaign

This month, we lost the 2000th American soldier in Afghanistan. It really has not made headlines. July was the deadliest month this year – we lost 40 sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers...

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Obama Administration Urges Terror Surveillance Renewal

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration maintains it is unable to say how many times one of the government’s most politically sensitive anti-terrorism surveillance programs — which is up for renewal this...

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CBS Local Presidential Forum: Obama/Romney: Appealing To Women Voters!

By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit With this grueling presidential contest heading into the final days, President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov Mitt Romney are getting in touch with their softer side as...

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Opinion: Romney Must Answer Tough Questions On His Questionable Foreign...

Once again, a presidential race hinges on what happens in Florida. For tonight, however, it is not about Florida’s votes. Tonight’s debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, is the third and...

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Robot Wars: The Brave New World

In future wars, will human soldiers be replaced by weapons that think for themselves? Lots of remote control systems are already on the battlefield. Chas Henry, All News 99.1′s national security...

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Cheney: Obama’s Drone Program Is ‘A Good Policy’

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney stated that the Obama administration’s targeting of suspected international terrorists is “a good policy.” Despite major disagreements with...

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Court Lets Stand Obama’s China Wind Farm Ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Friday she can’t overturn President Barack Obama’s decision to revoke a Chinese company’s purchase of four wind farm projects in the vicinity of a U.S. naval...

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Obama Friend Or Foe? McCain Charts His Course

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain is a walking contradiction, antagonizing President Barack Obama over foreign policy one minute, cooperating with the Democrat the next on immigration and...

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Lieberman: Boston Bombings Could Have Been Stopped

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman says failures by national security agencies tainted investigations into the Boston bombing plotters — and says the scheme could have been...

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Kerry Defends US Drone Policy After Pakistan Hit

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is defending U.S. drone strikes after the CIA’s killing of a senior Taliban member. Kerry says the U.S. is at war with al-Qaida and the Taliban, so the...

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McCain, Feinstein Join White House Official In Trip To Guantanamo Bay

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and two leading senators on national security are traveling to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Congressional aides to...

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National Security Spat Continues Between Sen. Paul, Gov. Christie

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul hit back at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the two Republicans’ ongoing spat over national security. Christie last week criticized Paul’s opposition to...

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Schumer: Media Shield Law Has Senate Votes For ‘Covered Journalist’ Protection

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Democrat says there are enough votes in the Senate to pass a bill to protect reporters and the news media from having to reveal confidential sources. Sen. Chuck Schumer says...

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Obama To Propose Ending NSA Phone Sweeps, But Continued Gov’t Access

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House wants the National Security Agency to get out of the business of sweeping up and storing vast amounts of data on Americans’ phone calls. The Obama administration this...

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US Appeals Ruling To Let Lawyers See Secret ‘National Security’ Files

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors say a judge’s decision granting lawyers in a Chicago terrorism case unprecedented access to secret intelligence-court records could jeopardize national security. In an appeal...

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Bill Clinton Calls Edward Snowden ‘An Imperfect Messenger’

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Former President Bill Clinton described Edward Snowden as “sort of an imperfect messenger,” who has raised questions about whether the nation can use technology to protect national...

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Rubio: ‘We Are Less Safe Today Than We Were When Obama Took Office’

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, believes the United States has been less safe while President Barack Obama has been in office. “I think on the issues of national security around the...

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Chuck Todd: Obama ‘On Precipice Of Doing Jimmy Carter-Like Damage To The...

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Chuck Todd warns that President Barack Obama could be on the verge of doing “Jimmy Carter-like damage” to the Democratic Party over his foreign policy. The moderator for NBC’s...

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Holder: Mixed Record On National Security Issues

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder was just months into the job when he announced plans to prosecute the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and other alleged co-conspirators in a New...

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Obama, National Security Team Confer After Paris Attack

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has conferred with his national security team following the terrorist attack on a Paris satirical newspaper that left 12 people dead. White House spokesman Josh...

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