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The height of the Ebola outbreak in Africa, Europe, and the United States also coincided with a period in which the Obama administration came under the heaviest scrutiny over its response to that health crisis. Amid criticism, President Barack Obama rejected calls from lawmakers to impose some travel restrictions on the areas affected by Ebola, but he did say his administration was open to appointing one figure to oversee his government’s response to the crisis. Days later, Obama appointed Ron Klain, a long-time Democratic political operative and veteran of both Bill Clinton and Al Gore’s presidential campaigns, to serve as...

Roberta Rampton, Reuters October 29, 2014 It's not often that a White House official gets mocked on both Saturday Night Live and a major daily newspaper before he makes his first public appearance. But Ron Klain's low-profile first week as President Barack Obama's behind-the-scenes Ebola "czar" has become another attack point for a White House struggling to show it's on top of the crisis. Since starting last Wednesday, Klain has been seen only once, in a photo op on his first day, leaving health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health - and...

The Intelligence Community Goes to War with the Obama Administration Noah Rothman | @noahcrothman 09.10.2015 - 12:30 PM By the middle of his second term in office, the intelligence community was said to be in full revolt against George W. Bush’s administration. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy,” said Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA officer in Europe, in a 2006 interview with “60 Minutes.” He alleged that the White House “chose to ignore” information related to Iraq’s WMD program in the run-up to war that...

Carly Fiorina has taken a hard line against Planned Parenthood as a Republican presidential candidate, but in 2005 she invested in a health care website similar to WebMD that touted abortion benefits and directed users to Planned Parenthood. The Revolution Health Group website assured users abortion is safe and directed them to pro-choice groups including Planned Parenthood for more information, but did not link to any pro-life groups or offer a pro-choice perspective. Fiorina joined RHG as an investor and board member when it was founded in 2005. Her campaign did not respond to requests for comment regarding her knowledge...

The White House just put out the list for President Obama's jobs-focused address this evening. Those who will be in the gallery with first lady Michelle Obama include: — Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric. He's chairman of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. So look for Obama to again stress the importance of technology, research and development. — Steve Case, who co-founded America Online and is, the White House says, "one of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs and philanthropists." He fills the "American can-do/entrepreneurial spirit" slot. — Darline Miller, CEO of Permac Industries, a Minnesota company that makes "precision...

NEW YORK — Another 17 of America's richest people, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and AOL co-founder Steve Case, have promised to give away most of their wealth. At 26, Zuckerberg has put himself on the map not only as one of the world's youngest billionaires, but also as a prominent newcomer to the world of philanthropy. Earlier this year, he pledged $100 million over five years to the Newark, N.J. school system. Now, he's in the company of media titans Carl Icahn, 74, Barry Diller, 68, and others who have joined Giving Pledge, an...

Howard Kurtz issues a rather amazing analysis of John McCain’s ad connecting Franklin Raines to Barack Obama. The Washington Post media analyst calls the basis of the McCain ad a “disputed premise” — despite his own newspaper’s reporting on the Raines-Obama relationship: Analysis: This John McCain ad is based on a disputed premise. There’s no dispute that Obama has no background in economics — but then, neither does McCain, which makes this an odd charge for the Arizona senator to hurl. Fannie Mae did collapse, requiring a government takeover, and Raines, its former chairman, paid $25 million in April to...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Donald Powell, federal coordinator for Gulf Coast rebuilding and New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and FEMA Director David Paulison. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and FEMA Director David Paulison. THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Mike Brown; Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Donald Powell, federal coordinator for Gulf Coast rebuilding;...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steve Case, co-founder of the one-time biggest online service AOL, apologized for the company's merger with media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. in an interview with U.S. journalist Charlie Rose. In an interview broadcast on Friday, Case, who was shoved aside as chairman in 2003 and who left the board entirely in 2005, said, "Yes, I'm sorry I did it," referring to the 2001 merger of Time Warner and AOL. The deal, known as one of the worst corporate mergers in history, destroyed some $200 billion in shareholder value. Last October, Case argued in a Washington Post...

The Talk Shows Sunday, December 18th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Steve Case, co-founder of America Online. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rice; Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Army Maj. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq; Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President...

Steve Case resigns from board to devote more time to his new company, Revolution. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steve Case, the founder of AOL, Monday said he has resigned from the board of Time Warner Inc. ending a painful chapter in the history of the world's largest media company. Case was one of the original architects of the merger of AOL and Time Warner (Research), which helped erase more than $200 billion in shareholder value from the stock. "On behalf of Time Warner's Board of Directors and senior management team, I thank Steve Case for his years of distinguished service...

<p>August 12, 2003 -- AOL Time Warner may drop its embarrassing first name.</p> <p>The boss of the popular online-service provider has asked that the familiar moniker AOL be dropped from the media behemoth's official corporate name - because the scandals surrounding the company are hurting his "consumer brand."</p>

LANSDOWNE, Va - Fed-up shareholders of AOL Time Warner gave Steve Case and his cronies a big thumbs-down yesterday - withholding votes to reelect them to the board at the company's annual meeting here yesterday. While Case and the entire slate of directors were reelected, investors voiced their anger by giving Case's pal, former America Online exec Miles Gilburne, the lowest vote tally - just 65%. Case got 78% of the votes, far less than AOL Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons, who received a near-unanimous backing from shareholders. It was a clear sign that investors place much of the blame...

The board of AOL Time Warner named its chief executive, Richard D. Parsons, to be its chairman this afternoon, succeeding Stephen M. Case, the architect of AOL's acquisition of Time Warner, who submitted his resignation under pressure. Mr. Parsons will take over as chairman in May. He will remain chief executive as well. The move completes the surprising consolidation of Mr. Parsons's power over the company in the last two years since AOL acquired Time Warner. Named co-chief operating officer at the time, Mr. Parsons was largely pushed aside during the merger negotiations and crucial decisions afterwards. But when the...

Steve Case: Swimming With 'Suits' By David Ignatius Steve Case is licking his wounds today, following his resignation announcement Sunday night after two disastrous years as chairman of the merged AOL Time Warner Inc. But the hidden villain of this tale is the idea -- pushed as much by greedy Time Warner execs as by Case -- that profitable "synergies" would be created by merging Time Warner's content and AOL's distribution. Those synergies never hit the bottom line. Shareholders waited in vain for the magic to happen, just as they have waited at other multimedia companies that had big ideas...

Ted Turner, hard of hearing and approaching his 64th birthday, has got his groove back. The billionaire "Mouth of the South," who spent much of last year demoralized and complaining about having been fired, is now looking much more like the corporate rabble-rouser he used to be. "A great leader has two key qualities," Turner said in a speech this month at the University of Rochester in New York. "He knows where he wants to go; he's able to persuade others to go with him." After a year of virtual corporate exile, Turner has figured out the first part and...

The corporate world is now embroiled in two controversies. There's the fraud at Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, and elsewhere; and there's the payment of absurd sums to CEOs. Both developments threaten the free-market system--you're kidding yourself if you don't think that big firms deliberately duping investors, or CEOs awarding themselves hundreds of millions of dollars that should have gone to stockholders, does anything other than erode the reputation of market economics. Both practices also trample important principles of conservative economics, as we'll see in a moment. But the two controversies really aren't separate--they are one and the same. The motive...

President George W. Bush speaks to leaders of technology businesses while AOL Time Warner Chairman Steve Case looks on during the 21st Century High Technology Forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building June 13, 2002. Bush will mark the U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by calling for an aggressive U.S. effort to develop missile defenses against so-called rogue nations and new post-Sept. 11 threats, officials said. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)