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• The report notes that Abdulmutallab's name was misspelled in one of the government databases, leading the State Department to falsely believe that he lacked a valid U.S. visa. The report does not make clear how this misspelling occurred.
Obama issued a series of corrective measures Thursday for agencies across the government, including instructions for the intelligence community to review its procedures, for the State Department to review its handling of visas and for White House staffers to continue their investigations into systemic failures. In the coming weeks and...
The U.S. Defense Department's approval of a new arms package to Taiwan on Wednesday was the best new year's gift that President Ma Ying-jeou could ask for. Ma's new year started with an embarrassing diplomatic crisis this week over U.S. beef imports. Lawmakers from Ma's...
Still, the U.S. Defense Department's face-saving gift on Wednesday is surely a comfort to Ma, whose popularity was down to 33% in December 2009, after local elections where Ma's party lost ground. Despite objections from China about selling arms to Taiwan, the U.S. awarded Lockheed Martin Corp...
The exodus of journalists and media activists from Sri Lanka has been partly due to the failure of the murder investigation to make any progress. Soon after the shooting, police recovered the mobile phone used by Wickrematunge that had gone missing after he was taken to the hospital. Since then...