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Obama wants answers after botched terror attack Daily Record Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:14 AM PST HONOLULU (AP) â€" President Barack Obama is demanding answers on why information was never pieced together by the U.S. intelligence community to trigger red flags about an alleged terrorist and possibly prevent his botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner. 'A year of little change for Obama' Aljazeera Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:13 AM PST This past year has not been a successful one for the 44th president of the US. GOP senator says Dems trying to rush TSA nominee FOX 11 Tucson Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:12 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A Republican senator who has been blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration complains that Democrats are trying to rush a vote on the nominee without adequate debate. US considers 'narrow' Iran sanctions Brisbane Times Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:12 AM PST With Iran's crackdown on protesters intensifying, Obama Administration is rethinking approach to planned sanctions against Iran in hopes of focusing them more tightly on the Iranian leadership. Obama moves to declassify federal secrets Daily Record Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:10 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" More than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents could be declassified as the federal government responds to President Barack Obama's order to rethink the way it protects the nation's secrets. US Senators Warn Against Link between Guantanamo and Yemen Pravda Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:09 AM PST Three senior US senators on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to stop transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen until Sanaa can guarantee that they will not return to terroristic activity. The Nuclear Doomsday Clock Still Ticks Scientific American Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:08 AM PST Early last October the Nobel Prize committee announced that it was awarding Barack Obama the Peace Prize for his “vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.” At the same time, in counterpoint to that news, it was reported that the director of India’s 1998 nuclear testing program had called for new tests. That move provoked fears of escalation, in case it motivated Pakistan and China ... America's year of living famously The Age Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST Economic woes and reform resistance dogged Obama, while millions watched the skies and mourned Michael Jackson. Obama moves to vastly curb federal secrets Texarkana Gazette Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:04 AM PST WASHINGTONâ€"President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation’s secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from the public. City Paper Blogs Washington City Paper Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:03 AM PST Good morning, City Deskers. The big news of this otherwise quiet week is that Barack Obama has declared there was a "systemic failure" of U.S. national security because the government had information that, had it been pieced together, could have thwarted Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab 's attempted airliner attack.

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