Security Breakdown at the White House? “Security practices at the White House are dangerously inadequate say current and former employees of the security office there, according to a letter sent today from the House Oversight Committee to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, asking that he cooperate with the committee’s investigation into the alleged security lapses. ‘These security officials described a systemic breakdown in security procedures at the White House,’ wrote the chairman of the committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA).” (ABC’s The Blotter)Judge Says Dirty Bomb Case is “Light on Facts” “When Jose Padilla was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago in May 2002, then Attorney General John Ashcroft interrupted his meetings in Moscow to announce that the United States had nabbed a suspected al Qaeda operative who had intended to blow up a radiological device, or ‘dirty bomb,’ in the United States. But when Padilla soon goes to trial, the government could have considerable trouble proving the case and supporting what Ashcroft then billed as a ‘significant step forward in the war on terrorism.'” (US News)
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