"The list" for the week ending 4/25/2009

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The List" for 4/25/2009

Primetime Obama costing networks millions

In a hearing before the House Foreign Appropriations Middle East Subcommittee, which must approve the allocation, key Democrats questioned the administration's giving money to a Palestinian Authority that would include Hamas

  U.S. Department of State had Texas among list of 16 foreign countries visited by Secretary Hillary Clinton last month, according to Huntington Post

A prominent Armenian organization in the U.S. accused Obama of failing to follow up on his election promise to recognize the genocide of Armenians

Obama and the Democrats in Congress are poised to trample Republican opposition to his health care bill with a controversial legislative tactic known as reconciliation

The Obama administration argues for end of Michigan v Jackson ruling that requires police provide an attorney for a suspect once one has been requested

Report from Financial Stability Oversight Board, more than 250 institutions receiving preliminary approval to receive funds from TARP decided against taking the money

Obama Developing 'Baby Colleges' to Combat Poverty

VIDEO: President declares that "Minority has to be constructive".  Republicans said they lost faith in Bipartisan talk weeks ago. "..a ruse"

Obama: Ideas needed on tightening federal belt. President calls on workers to find ways to improve their agency's budget

The List" for 4/24/2009

Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan

 Obama's Order Not to Rescue Hostage Confirmed by National Security Advisor and Pentagon

Obama formally asked Congress to enact statutory budget controls that would require any new tax cuts or expansion of government benefit programs be fully paid for

Obama's mortgage relief plan is headed for defeat next week in the Senate.

VIDEO: Obama press secretary on Abu Ghraib photos being released "Makes us stronger"

Obama renewed call for government to stop backing private college student loans and replace them with direct financial aid, wants to eliminate Federal Family Education Loan program

US officials: Pentagon plan won't echo Obama no-nukes pledge

Obama's Democratic allies in Congress have agreed to let his signature $400 tax cut for most workers expire after next year

GM gets another $2 billion as deadline approaches

Carrie Prejean, first runner-up to Miss USA, holds the same position on gay marriage as Barack Obama (at least for his 2008 campaign)

Gen. David Petraeus warns: Progress in Iraq is fragile and reversible

U.S. plans to accept several Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo

ABC's Jake Tapper: Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; Former CIA Official Says Former Colleagues 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore'

The List" for 4/23/2009

Los Angeles Times:Obama administration to release Bush-era detainee photos

Obama admin. struggles to quell Democratic demands for probe of harsh Bush administration detainee interrogations , abruptly declares opposition to independent commission

House Apprtns Comm. Chm. Dave Obey throws bucket of cold water on Obama foreign policy agenda: admits doubt about Afghanistan/Pakistan, no to helping IMF

The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule long-standing law that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present

VIDEO: Attorney General Holder Questioned About Interrogation Memos

Attorney General Eric Holder tells Congress he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness

Secr. of State Hillary Clinton cautions Israel that it risks losing Arab support for fighting any threats from Iran if it shuns Palestinian peace talks

New York Times: The Treasury has an "agreement" with the UAW to protect members’ pensions and retiree health care benefits after Chrysler bankruptcy filing

Obama spelled out his positions on issues during campaign, but members of Congress wrote legislation not the president, lobbyists infest the capital as never before

Obama makes 6 flights to make Earth Day speeches. Burns more than 9000 gallons of fuel.

Obama says he sees a glimmer, banks need a trillion more after tests

White House Cyberspace Director Melissa Hathaway announced plans to shift more responsibility for cybersecurity to the White House

Another CIA head? Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of House Intelligence Committee, blasts Obama for releasing Justice Department memos

Obama prosecutions? Members of Congress were briefed on the subject of interrogation techniques more than 30 times since 2002

Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA

Secr. of State Clinton, testifying in Congress, defended right to abortion worldwide and Obama administration's decision to finance family planning overseas

Obama on cover of Time again...13 times this year: Propaganda for the president?

The Obama administration has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit against Iran filed by Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran 30 years ago

The List" for 4/22/2009

Obama plans to leave Iraq even if attacks rise

Obama's Sec.. of State Hillary Clinton Avoids Torture Memo Question By Mocking Cheney -- Rohrbacher Calls Her Out

The day after saying he's open to a "truth commission" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stressed that Obama is neither proposing nor initiating the formation of a truth commission

Obama reverses Bush policy: The FDA will now let 17-year-olds get the 'morning-after' Birth Control pill without a doctor's prescription

Rosa Brooks adviser to undersecretary of defense for policy, "... Bush was "blindly" and "mindlessly" supportive of Israel, ... Obama may be less willing to give Jewish state "blank checks

NATO supreme command may move to France, the concession - possible relocation from the U.S. to France - would significantly undercut American and British power within alliance

CNN: Admiral Blair: Tough interrogations did work, other ways might also have worked also and it hurt our image around the world

Admiral Blair: Congress approved CIA interrogations

Admiral Dennis Blair, Obama's top intelligence official admits value of tough interrogations

Fidel Castro says Obama "misinterpreted" brother Raul's remarks about the U.S., bristled at suggestion Cuba free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to island

Robert Gibbs, Obama’s Press Secretary, Contradicts Obama’s Campaign Statement, now is denying that Obama was a constitutional law professor

Freddie Mac says it knows of no connection between the death and any investigation

Obamacide? David Kellermann, acting CFO of Freddie Mac. was found dead at his home Wednesday morning in an apparent "suicide"

The List" for 4/21/2009 .

Adviser Says Obama's First 100 Days Most Productive Since FDR

Kansas oil and gas producers blast Obama tax plan

Where's Obama? Russia moves troops closer to Georgia's capital

GM ‘Likely’ to Build in China as U.S. Factories Close

Napolitano, U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security wrongly suggests the 9/11 terrorists came from Canada

Kansas Gov. Sebilius wins appoval from Senate panel to become Obama's secr. of Health and Human Services- after she told senators that she received almost $40,000 connected to abortion doctor Tiller -- not $12,450 as she originally reported

VIDEO Obama's Tim Geithner testifies at hearing: "I've never actually been in banking...I've spent my entire life in public service"

CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles

Obama tells King Abdullah of Jordan Israel and the PA “cannot talk forever" ,demands both sides show “goodwill.” The Netanyahu gov. leaders are “going to have to solidify their position."

Air Force chief of staff Schwartz accused by service's senior leaders of betraying service's requirements process by siding with def. secr. Gates in terminating key air power programs without rigorous analysis

VIDEO: Obama spokesperson Gibbs Pressed On Torture Prosecutions: "What Changed?"

VIDEOS: Did Obama change stance on prosecuting Bush officials after Cheney's public remarks? Before and after vids..

Obama refused to close the door on prosecuting authors of Bush-era legal rationales for terror suspect interrogations, after offering immunity to CIA operatives involved

As senator, Obama led charge to pass bill allowing black farmers to seek discrimination claims against Agriculture Department. Now he wants the budget-busting lawsuits to go away

Israeli Politician Ya'acov "Ketzele" Katz sends letter to Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins after Emanuel's reported verbal exchange between Emanuel and an unidentified American Jewish leader

Obama adviser David Axelrod: Obama's trips to Europe, Turkey and Latin America have made anti-American sentiment uncool,"created a new receptivity" to U.S. interests

The List" for 4/20/2009

Obama administration will make about $500 million available to Chrysler through the end of this month, and up to $5 billion through May to help General Motors Corp restructure

Treasury Department's internal watchdog, General Neil Barofsky, issued his quarterly report to Congress on TARP.  Components of the $700 billion TARP pose "significant" risks for fraud.  Treasury Department "adamantly continues to refuse" to require banks to report on how they have used bailout funds.

VIDEO: Obama demands closure of Guantanamo and restoration of Habeas Corpus

Obama Habeas Corpus Hypocracy?  Close Gitmo, but not Bagram

Obama balks at another campaign promise: Doesn’t Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks

President Beefcake? D.C. magazine to feature shirtless Obama on cover

Chavez's gift to Obama is a Latin leftist's bible

Obama Monday asked Congress to back expansion of an IMF emergency fund by 500 billion dollars in move designed to expand reach to big emerging market nations

Key Obama Climate Change Exchange Being Swayed by Top U.N. Officials... Five members of the Chicago Climate Exchange advisory board are present or former top-ranking U.N. officials -- one received $1 million from convicted South Korean lobbyist in the Oil for Food scandal.

More VIDEO of Obama at the CIA: Vows to "protect identities", Jokes- watches Cable News shows, "We're on the better side of history

VIDEO: Team Obama Releases Names Of Waterboarded Terrorists

Napolitano regrets "politization" of vets report", says vets need Obama's programs to combat 'extremism'

Peeks into the first family's life are anything but spontaneous. They are part of a White House political strategy.

Obama lawyers are refusing to accept findings of inter-agency committee that Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo are too dangerous to release inside U.S.

After compromising intelligence agencies with release of memos to public, Obama to visit CIA to "reassure staff"

VIDEO: Obama talks with reporters on cutting 100 million after spending more than a $787 billion on stimulus

VIDEO: AP, Tapper Confront Obama Admin Over $100 Million

thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6

Obama plans to convene his Cabinet for the first time today, where he will order members to identify a combined $100 million in budget cuts over the next 90 days

Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano: crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil

The List" for 4/19/2009

Obama official: Strong banks allowed to repay bail-out funds received from US government but only if it passes a test to determine whether it is in the "national economic intererest"

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans: information reportedly submitted to Washington, “at the level of National Security Branch, information was to “...office of the Directorate of Intelligence

Equity Shares: Obama officials say they can stretch what's left of $700 billion financial bailout by converting government’s existing loans to nation’s 19 biggest banks into common stock

Obama's DHS head Napolitano: Veterans are Targets of Right-Wing Extremist Recruiters

VIDEO:  Senior Obama adviser David Axelrod on CBS News' Face the Nation where he described the "Tea Party" movement as "unhealthy"

Obama's senior advisor Axelrod says Tea Party anger is "misdirected"

Obama said that he "strengthens our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States

Obama Defends Reaching Out to Chávez

VIDEO: Obama at closing press conference of Summit of the Americas where he defends his "friendly gestures" back and forth with Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez

Obama to turn his attention to high credit-card rates, giving a potential boost to congressional efforts to put limits on the industry

Elena Kagan, the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer has little courtroom experience

Obama administration officials: Some big banks will need more bailout bucks

The Obama administration reacts against criticism that it undermined national security by releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos over objections of some former CIA chiefs

VIDEO: Michael Hayden, Former CIA Director slams the Obama administration over memo releases

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