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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, "POTUS has been briefed about the developing hostage situation in the Dallas area. He will continue to receive updates from his senior team as the situation develops. Senior members of the national security team are also in touch with federal law enforcement...

A Kurdish general revealed Monday that an informant stole the underwear of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to prove to his credibility U.S. intelligence. Speaking to NBC News, Gen. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces, said his intelligence unit had a source who was privy to the layout of al-Baghdadi’s secret compound near the Turkish border. According to Abdi, the source passed along such details to U.S. Special Ops, who used it to formulate their plans to strike the terror chief’s hideout over the weekend. “The source, whom Abdi described as one of al-Baghdadi’s security advisers, proved to U.S....

Barack Obama was briefed on Hurricane Irene today. Then he went golfing. The Cape Cod Times reported, via Free Republic: After spending the entire day sequestered at his Blue Heron Farm vacation estate President Barack Obama finally emerged this afternoon to take in some golf at Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven. The golf course is a nine-hole course. Along the way to the course, a girl standing with her family by the side of the road in Vineyard Haven held up a sign to the presidential motorcade, “Good luckgolfing,” according to press reports.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA officials briefed at least 68 U.S. lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on enhanced interrogation methods like simulated drowning that were being considered or used against captured al Qaeda members, .. The once-secret CIA papers, obtained in a lawsuit by the conservative legal foundation Judicial Watch, shed new light on which lawmakers knew the details of the controversial interrogation program and when. ... The declassified memos show the program began after the capture of al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian .. In a statement to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence dated April 12, 2007,...

Nancy Pelosi is a demagogue, a liar, and a hypocrite. While that has always been true, it is now a documented fact. Pelosi demonized Bush officials, literally leading the rabid dog pack out for Bush blood. Then it was pointed out that she had been briefed on the waterboardings, as had been documented in a Washington Post article from 2002. And why didn't she raise a complaint then when it would have actually mattered beyond political demagoguery? Finally she was forced to admit that she had in fact received a briefing, but quibbled in a "It depends on what the...

The Bush administration has supplied Congress with intelligence information on Iraq that has yet to be made public, Vice President Dick Cheney revealed yesterday. "We've started the briefing process," Cheney told nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh in a rare radio interview. "I've participated, Condie Rice, George Tenet and others, in briefing members of Congress, oftentimes in classified sessions so we can share intelligence information with them." Cheney predicted that congressional members would find the secret evidence persuasive. "I think what you'll see is a serious effort by the Congress to come to grips with this, hopefully in the next...

I think this is the White House providing the story to MSNBC and the NBC Evening News.Cable channels higlighting it on the hour, no link yet.