President Barack Obama held a rare press conference on Friday afternoon in the East Room of the White House, and was treated to all-too-common deference by the White House Press Corps. Only Ed Henry of Fox News asked a question
On Friday, as renewed questions arose regarding American response to Al Qaeda in the Middle East as well as scandals ranging from Benghazi to the National Security Administration’s surveillance of Americans, President Obama held a rare press conference in the
On Friday in a press conference at the White House East Room, Barack Obama responded to a question from NBC’s Chuck Todd about NSA leaker Edward Snowden by saying Snowden was “not a patriot.” Obama said that Snowden had been charged with
On Friday, in a press conference at the White House East Room, President Obama said of Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks, “once the leaks had happened, we’ve seen information coming out in drips and in drabs, sometimes coming out sideways.”
During a press conference at the White House East Room on Friday, reporter Ed Henry asked President Obama about why no one had been caught in relation to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi.
On Friday, in a press conference at the White House East Room, Chuck Todd of NBC News asked whether President Obama could work with Vladimir Putin. Obama responded by saying that Putin “had that kind of slouch, looking like that bored
One way to get a handle on how a film will do at the box office its opening weekend is the Thursday midnight screenings. Early reports show that Elysium made $1.6 million, which Variety called “modest.” This is better than
(AP) Obama to hold pre-vacation news conferenceBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONCaught between domestic gridlock and foreign policy crises, President Barack Obama will hold a news conference Friday before jetting off on his August vacation. The afternoon question-and-answer session with
(AP) Obama to sign student loan dealBy PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressWASHINGTONStudents heading back to college this fall will save thousands in interest charges on their loans after they graduate once President Barack Obama signs into law a rare bipartisan compromise. The
On Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney asserted that the National Security Agency only examines “a very small percentage” of data on the Internet a day after an NSA official revealed that the agency casts a “far wider net”
President Barack Obama rarely makes himself available to the mainstream media. They adore him anyway. At rare press conferences, such as the one scheduled for noon Friday at the White House, they lob softball questions or accept his evasive, meandering
The White House has denied an Egyptian news report claiming Barack Obama agreed to meet with Muslim Brotherhood officials, stating that the President currently has no plans to meet with the controversial Islamic fundamentalist political party. “Egyptian press reports that
Whether it be Benghazi, snooping on reporters, or the IRS and NSA scandals, the White House has dismissed them as “phony scandals”. According to a new Fox poll, Americans do not. Remarkably, even most Democrats know better than to believe
On Wednesday, America’s biggest bank by assets, J.P. Morgan, revealed that it is under federal criminal and civil investigation for actions involving mortgage-backed securities. In May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed J.P. Morgan that its civil division had preliminarily
By JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton is headed back to the White House–just for a day–and Oprah is coming, too. Clinton and Oprah Winfrey will be among 16 people that President Barack Obama will venerate later this year
(AP) Obama to honor Clinton, Oprah with freedom medalBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONFormer President Bill Clinton is headed back to the White House — just for a day — and Oprah is coming, too. Clinton and Oprah Winfrey will be among
The new movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, is more loaded with liberal politics than an Organizing For America fundraising pitch. It’s more loaded with liberalism than an Ivy League gender studies department. More loaded, even, than an
NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd and MSNBC host appeared on “Morning Joe” Thursday and discussed the backlash against the upcoming Hillary Clinton miniseries being produced by NBC’s entertainment division. “There’s nothing we can do about it, and
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign is joining with the Partnership for a Healthier America, the anti-obesity nonprofit organization, and Hip Hop Public Health to produce a 19-track album of hip-hop music designed to be distributed to schools across the nation
In December 1998, while the House debated impeaching President Bill Clinton for alleged perjury relating to his consensual sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, then-Congressman Bob Filner slammed Clinton’s actions as “reckless and indefensible.”
So what made President Barack Obama suddenly talk about housing reform this week? After literally years of ignoring the housing mess and allowing some of the worst perpetrators of securities fraud walk away scot-free, Obama is now starting to talk
President Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to spread his spin on the economy and other matters in an entertainment-heavy venue. He also used his trip to the West Coast, where the show is taped, to
On Wednesday, Eli Lake and Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast reported that the event that triggered the closing of 22 US embassies across the world was an intercepted “conference call between al Qaeda’s senior leaders and representatives of several
(AP) In rebuke, Obama cancels Moscow summit with PutinBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentLOS ANGELESIn a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The decision reflected both U.S. anger over
Although President Obama has been quick to tout national security victories where he can find them, the invigorated al Qaeda he now faces calls into question any overarching successes on the national security front. Between September 12, 2012 and November
