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Guards suspended over White House gatecrashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:06:54 +0000

The US Secret Service has suspended three guards for the "aberration" that allowed Tareq and Michaele Salahi to gatecrash President Barack Obama's first state dinner at the White House. >

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TARP Cash Targeted in Jobs Push

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:35:12 +0000

Democrats began to hash out how to pay jobless benefits and other incentives to stem unemployment as the White House held a jobs summit.

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White House gatecrashers Tareq and Michaele Salah threatened with subpoenas

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:21:31 +0000

The White House gatecrashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi have been threatened with subpoenas over their refusal to testify on Capitol Hill about their antics at President Obama's first state dinner last week. >

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Politics this week

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:55:31 +0000

Barack Obama unveiled his long-awaited decision on troop levels in Afghanistan. An extra 30,000 American soldiers will be deployed to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban. This is a lower number than requested by General Stanley McChrystal, the commander on the ground, but Mr Obama called on other countries to make up some of the difference. He set a tentative date of mid-2011 to start pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. See article Mr Obama invited businessmen, economists and unions to the White House for a summit on jobs. The Democrats are considering another package to tackle unemployment. See article ... >

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Turkey and the West: Testy Erdogan

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:55:30 +0000

Claims that Turkey is drifting away from the West seem exaggerated WHEN Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meets Barack Obama in the White House next week, he will insist on his country’s Western credentials. He will be greeted with a request for more troops to back the American surge in Afghanistan. Turkey, which has NATO’s second-biggest army, has 1,700 soldiers on Afghan soil and Turkish generals have led allied forces there. Yet Mr Erdogan’s mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party dislikes American calls to fight fellow Muslims in Afghanistan. Turkey has opted to train Afghan security forces and build roads and schools instead. Mr Erdogan will spurn demands for combat troops. His Western critics may seize on this as confirmation of Turkey’s supposed drift away from the West under seven years of AK rule. Mr Erdogan’s cosiness with Iran and Sudan, plus his salvoes against Israel, feed claims that he is an Islamist firebrand at heart. His ...

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Obama White House changes policies to block future gate-crashers - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:51:54 +0000

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Accused gate crashers insist they were invited to White House -

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:51:47 +0000

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Accused gatecrashers insist they were invited to White House -

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:51:46 +0000

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White House gatecrashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi insist they were invited

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:48:24 +0000

The Virginia couple who breezed into last week’s Washington state dinner without an invitation said today that they were “shocked and devastated” at having been branded White House party crashers. >

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BofA Trims Pay for 2 Top Execs

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:46:12 +0000

Bank of America amended the salaries of two senior executives after a review by the White House pay czar.

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White House: State dinner crashers met Obama - USATODAY.com

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:51:38 +0000

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Today at the White House: Leftovers and a Christmas tree - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:21:37 +0000

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White House partycrashers: how they did it

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:02:33 +0000

Nicholas Allan will know what Michaele and Tareq Salahi are going through as they wait for a knock on the door from the Secret Service after crashing a state dinner at the White House. As Britain's foremost gatecrasher, he once got a visit from MI5 after a bungled attempt to get into one of Her Majesty's garden parties. >

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White House state dinner gate-crashed by reality TV wannabes

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:48:51 +0000

For sheer brazen chutzpah it will take some beating. >

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AT&T Takes On The White House On Net Neutrality

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:06:57 +0000

Now they’ve done it. The White House has gone and made AT&T (T) mad. As the Washington Post reports today , a war of words has broken out between Ma Bell and the Obama Administration over recent remarks by White House deputy chief technology officer Andrew McLaughlin , who said the issues of free speech and network neutrality are “intrinsically linked.” In a blog post earlier this week , the Post quoted McLaughlin comparing AT&T’s opposition to net neutrality to China’s censorship of Internet content. “If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it,” he said. Clearly, AT&T does not want to be compared to the Chinese government. The Post quotes AT&T chief lobbyist Jim Cicconi as responding that it is “ill-considered and inflammatory” to compare censorship in China with the practices of American ISPs. “It is deeply disturbing when someone in a position ...

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White House Weighs Jobs, Deficit

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:55:58 +0000

The White House is lukewarm about proposals by Democrats to introduce legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit.

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White House Weighs Jobs, Deficit

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:05:56 +0000

The White House is lukewarm about proposals by Democrats to introduce legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit.

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