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Signs of jihadists next door

WASHINGTON -- The latest warning signs of a potential homegrown Muslim jihadist? Loves to kill -- and loves playing paintball and rafting. That was the warning from a top-ranking NYPD official yesterday, who cited that kind of group activity as a ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Nidal Malik Hasan

Tragic kin's heat on Holder

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder faced tough questions during a Senate hearing yesterday, but the toughest of all came after the lawmakers filed out of the room. Alice Hoagland, whose son, Mark Bingham, was killed in the 9/11 hijacking of ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eric Holder,  U.S. Senate

Holder: NYC trial for 9/11 suspects right decision

WASHINGTON — A defiant Attorney General Eric Holder told senators today that it was a "tough call" — but the right decision — to put 9/11 suspects on trial in New York. "I’m not scared of what [terror mastermind] Khalid Sheik Mohammed has to say at ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Senate Judiciary Committee,  Eric Holder,  Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Republican Party,  Jon Kyl

Hill up for coffee talk with Palin

A coffee summit may be brewing. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday that she would like to chat with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin over a cup of joe, just as the one-time GOP vice-presidential candidate suggested in her book. "Why, ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party

Health bill is in trouble

Not so fast. President Obama's victory dance yesterday for the House-passed health-care bill came as Senate foes -- mainly Republicans with one key Democrat moderate -- pronounced the measure mortally wounded, if not outright DOA. Speaking from the ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Joe Lieberman

Charlie could catch a break

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles Rangel is likely to be cleared on one of a half-dozen ethics charges, it was reported yesterday. Rangel and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus may be exonerated of allegations of rule violations stemming ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Charles Rangel,  Congressional Black Caucus

Senate Dem concedes liberal dose sickens voters

WASHINGTON -- Some moderate Democrats said yesterday they hope Tuesday's defeats in New Jersey and Virginia will show party leaders that their health-care legislation and other liberal priorities could ultimately shrink their ranks and erode their ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Mike McMahon

Dropout GOP pol: Vote Dem

WASHINGTON -- Just a day after abruptly withdrawing from an upstate congressional election, Republican state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava yesterday threw her support behind the Democrat in the race and asked her supporters to help defeat Conservative ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Dede Scozzafava,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Bill Owens,  White House

Tax-woe GOPer dares Rangel

WASHINGTON -- A Republican congressman yesterday called on embattled Rep. Charles Rangel to release his tax returns to prove that he had not shorted Uncle Sam at the same time that he failed to disclose as much as $1 million in assets. Rep. John Carter, ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Charles Rangel,  John Carter,  U.S. Republican Party

O's Afghan 'ploy'

WASHINGTON -- A senior Republican senator said yesterday that President Obama's critics are increasingly suspicious that he is playing politics with troop levels in Afghanistan. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said on CNN's "State of the Union" that there is ...

From DAPHNE RETTER, New York Post,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Orrin Hatch

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