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...seems like everyone is listening to what Dr. Gawande has to say...from the Obama Administration, to the editors at the New Yorker, to all of the readers of his books,” Heath said. She added that “that is why we thought it would be perfect for Dr. Gawande to speak...
...Obama administration, in an order signed in January by Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton, decided to lift the ban on Habib and a number of other scholars who were excluded for similar “national security reasons.” Since receiving his visa in mid-March and making his first return trip to the U.S., Habib has now spoken several times about his allegedly being barred from the country for political reasons...
...issued a statement quoting him saying that his desire to serve "has been obstructed by political ideology." To be sure, the poisonous atmosphere on Capitol Hill has made it necessary for any candidate to be bulletproof in order to withstand partisan scrutiny. But it's clear that, despite the Obama Administration's reputation for scrubbing its candidates before nominating them, there appears to have been poor vetting in both these cases. "In this politically toxic environment, it only takes one thing to derail a nomination," says Richard Cooper, a former Department of Homeland Security official. "But there were...
...Obama Administration now has to start over, for a third time, and there is concern it will be months before another TSA nominee can be found and vetted. The vacancy could be both a security problem for the nation and a political problem for the Obama Administration. Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp., says a TSA without a confirmed leader hurts in two ways: it's bad for front-line morale, and it means there will be no bold policy proposals coming from the agency. "TSA can continue to tread water while it awaits a leader," says...
...well as the expectations for a response," he told TIME. "We have been late in learning this within certain ecclesiastical quarters. Yes, there are problems with some of the [news] reports, but we shouldn't see it as a conspiracy or part of some calculated attack." (See pictures of Obama meeting Pope Benedict...