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In January, when most of Attorney General Eric Holder's friends and enemies turned against his plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, one man stood by him. And he was a good friend to have. At a Situation Room session on...
For the past year, Holder and Obama have been navigating one of the more difficult constitutional relationships in American government. On the one hand, the Attorney General is appointed by the President; on the other, he must remain politically independent of the White House. Holder, who as Deputy Attorney General...
It's not just the size of the debt that causes anxiety; it's whom we owe it to. Foreign governments, to which we are already beholden for the bulk of our energy, own a quarter of our debt. Now the U.S. government can't function without their aid? It...
One reason may be that Web-based personal-health records like the ones being compiled on Google Health don't appear to be covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which requires that health care providers and health plans protect patient confidentiality. The federal government is in the...
Protesters clashed with police upon Mexican President Felipe Calderón's arrival in Ciudad Juárez on March 16, three days after three people linked to the U.S. consulate were slain. The high-profile murders are the latest to rack Mexico's most violent city, where an estimated 4,500...