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Congress -- Where Committee Power Trumps Bioterror Protection

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Nearly four years after a congressionally mandated commission warned that bioterrorism poses the greatest threat to the nation, the form...

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President Obama, End the Saudi Mystery Around 9/11

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.13.2011

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During both the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration, the government has kept information about possible Saudi government help to the hijackers redacted, and the FBI has not disclosed the full extent of its investigations of Saudi involvement in the attacks.

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The BP Oil Spill's Longterm Impact Is Showing

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

The effects of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are still coming to surface. A new report this weekend shows that tourism in Louisiana rema...

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Gulf Oil Spill Presidential Commission Named By Obama

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency chief on the job during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 and a former Florida senat...

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Bob Graham, William Reilly To Lead Presidential Commission On BP Gulf Oil Spill

AP | ERICA WERNER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The White House has tapped former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and ex-EPA Administrator William K. Reilly to lead a presidential commiss...

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Senator Bob Graham Talks BP Oil Spill

Baruch Shemtov | Posted 05.25.2011

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America Needs the GOP to Stop Shirking Responsibility

Jamal Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week the Republicans have decided to ignore the concerns of the millions of Americans that those at the top are protecting each other while the rest of America takes it on the chin.

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Gulf Oil Spill Commission Short On Technical Expertise

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long ...

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Gulf Oil Spill: Obama Gives Oil Spill Commission Orders, Demands Thorough Probe

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama gave the leaders of an independent commission investigating the Gulf oil spill marching orders Tuesday to th...

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Obama Meeting With Oil Spill Panel Chairmen Bob Graham, William K. Reilly

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. — President Barack Obama planned to meet Tuesday with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating BP'...

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President Obama, Give the Spill Investigation the Right Mandate

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

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The continuing crisis in the Gulf has demonstrated beyond any doubt that every aspect of our system of regulating oil exploration is broken. We need a thorough enough review so we can learn how to start over.

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Bob Graham On Cheney: Lincoln Isn't Sleeping Well

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the more respected national security voices in the Democratic Party accused Republican lawmakers of abandoning principles and ignoring their ow...

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Why Weren't H1N1 Vacccines Available for Our Children Before School Started?

Sen. Bob Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether the threat is from naturally occurring disease or bioterrorism, the United States needs to be able to produce vaccines and other medicines faster and less expensively.

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Nominees Emerge For New "Pecora Commission"

Reuters | Karey Wutkowski | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan panel armed with subpoena power to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown is on the brink of being launche...

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Pelosi Confronts That Age-Old Question

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In newsrooms and studios, hearts are a-twitter/The sharks begin circling, they've spotted their prey,/There's sweat on your forehead, there's blood in the water,/They're ready to rip into each word you say.

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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24 and the Tortuous Politics of Torture

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

For Dick Cheney, if there's a 1% chance of a terror plot existing, it should be treated as a certainty. It's one thing when that sort of manipulation is used to entertain, and quite another when it's used to govern.

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Graham: CIA Gave Me False Information About Interrogation Briefings

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In testimony that could bolster Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her during briefings on detainee interrogations, former Senator Bob G...

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Bob Graham: I Was Never Briefed On Waterboarding

The Plumline | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Senator Bob Graham, who received a classified briefing on terror detainees during the same month in the fall of 2002 as Nancy Pelosi, was not b...

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Bob Graham: Bush Criminal Prosecutions Should Be On The Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bob Graham, the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Wednesday that the criminal prosecution of Bush administration officials...

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Graham: Bush-McCain Data Mining Bill A "Subterfuge" (Audio)

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Listen in on the conference call with Sen Bob Graham today as he discusses the Bush-McCain position on increasing Administration authority to conduct warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens.

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Bob Graham: Clinton War Vote Was Anchor Of Her Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Hillary Clinton has every right to continue fighting for the Democratic nomination, says former Sen. Bob Graham, but it is time to put down her g...

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Graham: I Never Wavered In My Belief That The War Was Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...

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Exclusive: Fmr Senator Bob Graham on Clinton, Obama, And Delegates

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Florida Democratic powerhouse Bob Graham declined on Tuesday night to affirm whether or not Sen. Hillary Clinton had switched her position on a DNC pl...

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