After Brief Uptick, Obama Approval Slips to 47%
washington - New low follows slight increase after announcement of Afghanistan policy PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama's presidential job approval rating is 47% in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update, a new low for his administration to date. His approval rating has been below 50% for much of the time since mid-November, but briefly rose to 52% last week after he announced his new Afghanistan policy. November-December 2009 Trend: Presidential Job Approval for Barack Obama Any slight bump in support Obama received coincident with his new Afghanistan policy proved to be very short-lived, as his approval rating returned to below the majority level by the weekend, and slipped further to 47% in Dec. 4-6 polling. Afghanistan is just one of many high-profile issues with whi...    Continue

Fed chairman: Audit could impair US financial stab
USSA - ~Fed chairman: Audit could impair US financial stability~ The head of the US central bank said Saturday he was "concerned" by some congressional proposals aimed at regulating the US financi...    Continue

Rumsfeld decision let Bin Laden escape: Senate rep
WASHINGTON (AFP) – - ~Rumsfeld decision let Bin Laden escape: Senate report~ Osama bin Laden was "within the grasp" of US forces in late 2001 but escaped because then-defense secretary Donald Rum...    Continue

CIA admits destroying interrogation tapes
USSA - The CIA has admitted destroying video recordings of the interrogation of terrorist suspects. The US intelligence agency said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of undercover CI...    Continue

Internet Soon to be 'Full,' Gov Solution: More tax
USSA - "Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, a...    Continue

Ed Brown delivered to federal prison in Ohio
New Hampshire - A convicted New Hampshire tax evader is now at his new home -- a federal prison in Ohio. Stephen Monier, the U.S. Marshal for New Hampshire, says Ed Brown of Plainfield arrived earl...    Continue

A Fed panic and a bailout of US bank by world
USSA - Manias, panics, and crashes are the consequence of an economic environment that cultivates cupidity, chicanery, and rapaciousness rather than a devout belief in the Golden Rule." --Peter L. Ber...    Continue

Feds probe Blackwater links to arms smuggling
BAGHDAD - - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and e...    Continue

'Virtual fence' in Arizona remains unworkable
TUCSON - 'Virtual fence' in Arizona remains unworkable because of glitch - Because of a continuing software glitch, the first high-tech "virtual fence" at the nation's borders remains unused, three m...    Continue

Defense, DHS fail audits
Washington,DC - Disorganized records leave big-budget agencies vulnerable to waste, fraud Ten years after Congress ordered federal agencies to have outside auditors review their books, neither t...    Continue