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Oct. 20, 2010— -- When you're President of the United States, you can lose a vote, you can lose popular support, and you can lose a round of golf. But you're never, ever supposed to lose the biscuit. That's what they call the card the president is meant to keep close at hand, bearing the codes that he has to have in order to launch a nuclear attack. And for several months during the Clinton administration, a former top military officer says they lost the biscuit. Watch "World News with Diane Sawyer" for more on this story tonight on ABC....

FBI Dealing With its Lost Laptop Problem By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews February 13, 2007, 2:54 PM Although the FBI still seems to suffer from a problem of losing laptops, a new report indicates that the agency is getting better in keeping track of its equipment. During a 44-month period, the company either reported as lost or stolen 160 laptops. This is a marked decrease from the initial study in 2002, which found the agency lost some 317 units in a 28-month period from October 1999 through January 2002. However, even with the improvement come concerns of data loss. As many...

Humanity may split into an elite and an underclass, says Dr Curry Human species 'may split in two' Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology. People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added. The descendants of the genetic...

A group of leading American historians today sent the following letter to Mr. Robert Iger of ABC. Stressing the significance of the "traumatic" events of 9/11, the signers of this letter are calling on Mr. Iger to stand up for responsible media treatments of such important historical moments and withdraw the program from circulation. The growing list of signatories will be updated at openlettertoabc.blogspot.com. The text of the letter follows. Dear Robert Iger: We write as professional historians, who are deeply concerned by the continuing reports about ABC's scheduled broadcast of "The Path to 9/11." These reports document that this...

Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctionsby John in DC - 9/07/2006 06:02:00 PM This letter was sent today by the entire Democratic leadership of the US Senate. This letter is such a major shot across the bow of Disney, it's not even funny. It is FILLED with veiled threats, both legal and legislative, against Disney. US Senators don't make threats like this, especially the entire Democratic leadership en masse, unless they mean it. Disney is in serious trouble. Read it, then read my analysis of it below:September 7, 2006 Mr. Robert A. Iger President and...

LOS ANGELES - Former President Bill Clinton praised President Bush on Saturday for supporting reforms that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to seek citizenship but said the debate in Congress is being fomented by Republicans who want to divide America. "I'm proud of him for doing it and I thanked him for doing it," he said of Bush during a "Cafe con Clinton" breakfast speech to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights advocacy group. Clinton said Bush's roots in Texas — which has one of the nation's largest Hispanic...

WASHINGTON (XFN-ASIA) - Fannie Mae's federal regulator said Tuesday the company's executives and board of directors were to blame for the accounting scandal that rocked the big mortgage company, and said the firm must pay a $400 million fine. A harsh and stinging 348-page report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said senior management manipulated accounting at the giant company, that Fannie 'stonewalled' government investigators and that Fannie should further probe employees associated with the accounting scandal. The long-awaited report says Fannie employees manipulated earnings to trigger bonuses for management from 1998 to 2004. 'The image of Fannie...

Who is Mary McCarthy? Well, as of this morning (Saturday) most of the big media don't care. They're fixated with the weather and gas prices — and anything else that will divert the public's attention from the stunning revelation that a Sandy Berger crony has apparently been leaking top-secret information from her high post at the CIA. The media will continue to downplay this story as they cover-up their own role in exposing our nation's secrets, including the supposed existence of CIA prisons in Europe. She'll be called a "whistleblower" and praised as some kind of patriot (a patriot, in...

Book: Laura Bush vs. Hillary ClintonA new book by best-selling author Ronald Kessler – "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait" – has Hillary Clinton supporters hopping mad as it strips off the veneer of Sen. Clinton's image as first lady. Kessler's book hadn't even hit bookstores – it's released Tuesday – when the pro-Clinton magazine Vanity Fair did a pre-emptive strike on the book – attacking it as a "valentine" to Mrs. Bush with what VF claimed were "fluffball quotes" and "dubious factoids." Clinton allies have reason to be angry with Kessler. His White House tell-all paints an extremely unflattering portrait...

HOLLYWOOD - OK, so it's not 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but still, when you step into the replicated Oval Office on the set of "Commander in Chief," you can't help but feel, well, a little presidential. "Where's the red phone? I want to start a nuclear war," blurts a playfully demented TV critic as he plops into the blue leather chair behind an ornate mahogany desk. Um, OK ... so there's one guy I won't be voting for in 2008. Recently, some journalists were allowed to check out the massive soundstage during television's annual winter press tour, and the how-cool-is-this factor...

<p>In discussing the U.S. presidential election as it looks today, six months before November, let's leave aside the issue of Iraq.</p> <p>This approach isn't as dumb as it sounds.</p> <p>To be sure, some of my colleagues in the pontificating community argue that the entire election will turn on how the public perceives the Iraq war -- a view confirmed this weekend by our Pontificator-in-Chief, Tim Russert, who devoted the majority of his ``Meet the Press'' interview with Senator John Kerry to Iraq.</p>

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER - BILL CLINTON: NEXT U.N. CHIEF? Report: Former president eyed to replace Kofi AnnanWorldNetDaily.com February 19, 2003 Has former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail again? That's the word according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist who reports a "major international move" is afoot to help install the ex-CEO of the most powerful nation as the CEO of the most powerful world body – the United Nations. Sunday's "Dateline D.C." column, which the paper says is written by a Washington-based British journalist and political observer, named no names but cited reports that Clinton had already lined...