http://www.mail.com/people/25966-john-brennan.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/25966-john-brennan.html http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1856680-reset-familiar-faces-obamas-2nd-term-team.html President Barack Obama is much of the way through completing his second-term Cabinet and top White House staff. For many of those chosen so far, it's been a game of musical chairs. Same faces, new places. He nominated Jack Lew — his chief of staff and earlier his budget director — to be Treasury secretary. To fill the chief-of-staff opening, the presiden... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1856680-reset-familiar-faces-obamas-2nd-term-team.html 2013-01-30T15:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1853334-senate-confirms-kerry-nomination-dept.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton. The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1853334-senate-confirms-kerry-nomination-dept.html 2013-01-29T23:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1845718-obama-picks-foreign-policy-aide-chief-staff.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced Friday that his new chief of staff is longtime trusted aide Denis McDonough, whom the president described as a close friend unafraid to deliver straight talk. McDonough has been a longtime foreign policy adviser to the president and is popular among the White House staff. Obama made the announcement in th... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1845718-obama-picks-foreign-policy-aide-chief-staff.html 2013-01-25T20:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1842432-kerry-tackles-questions-iran-syria-hagel.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state, collected pledges of support Thursday and testified at his confirmation hearing that U.S. foreign policy should be defined by a helping hand as well as military strength. The Massachusetts Democrat discussed Iran, Syria, climate change and a variety of issues with ... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1842432-kerry-tackles-questions-iran-syria-hagel.html 2013-01-25T00:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1843704-reset-john-kerry-breezes-through-hill-hearing.html The Senate confirmation process is a minefield for many presidential nominees. But Sen. John Kerry seemed to navigate those waters safely at his confirmation hearing to be secretary of state. The Massachusetts Democrat was treated gently on Thursday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — even by the same Republicans who relentlessly grilled outgoing ... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1843704-reset-john-kerry-breezes-through-hill-hearing.html 2013-01-24T17:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1834472-time-to-act-obama-declares-taking-oath-2nd-time.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Turning the page on years of war and recession, President Barack Obama summoned a divided nation Monday to act with "passion and dedication" to broaden equality and prosperity at home, nurture democracy around the world and combat global warming as he embarked on a second term before a vast and cheering crowd that spilled down the historic National Mall. ... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1834472-time-to-act-obama-declares-taking-oath-2nd-time.html 2013-01-22T01:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835382-obama-officially-signs-cabinet-nominations.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Minutes after his inauguration speech Monday, President Barack Obama signed documents officially submitting top administration nominations to the Senate. Obama affirmed the nominations of John Brennan to be CIA director, former Sen. Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state and Jack Lew for treasury secr... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1835382-obama-officially-signs-cabinet-nominations.html 2013-01-21T19:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1810600-obama-picks-lew-treasury-fiscal-issues-loom.html WASHINGTON (AP) — For 30 years, Jack Lew has had a hand in some of the biggest economic deals negotiated in Washington. What awaits him if he's confirmed as treasury secretary could far exceed any challenge of the past — a triple-decked potential crisis that will test his experience the moment he opens his office door on the third floor of the Treasury Building ... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1810600-obama-picks-lew-treasury-fiscal-issues-loom.html 2013-01-10T22:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1811574-reset-obama-picks-familiar-faces-2nd-term.html So far, President Barack Obama is not surrounding himself with a team of rivals for his second term but with a team of loyal allies. His selection of White House chief of staff Jack Lew to replace Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary follows the pattern. He's been nominating people who are already well within his comfort zone and likely to actively prom... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1811574-reset-obama-picks-familiar-faces-2nd-term.html 2013-01-10T16:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1808924-reset-foreign-policy-moves-spotlight.html Re-elected American presidents often reset their focus to foreign policy when dealings at home with Congress become too contentious. President Barack Obama is moving the other way in seeking to nail down a domestic legacy. But recent events are working to complicate that goal. Controversies surrounding the president's second-term national security select... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1808924-reset-foreign-policy-moves-spotlight.html 2013-01-09T16:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1806870-us-sees-iran-hostage-photos-ex-fbi-agent.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after a hostage video and photographs of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson raised the possibility that the missing American was being held by terrorists, U.S. officials now see the government of Iran behind the images, intelligence officials told The Associated Press. Levinson, a private investigator, disappeared in 2007 on the... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1806870-us-sees-iran-hostage-photos-ex-fbi-agent.html 2013-01-09T07:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1805788-gop-senator-threatens-delay-cia-nomination.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice of John Brennan to be the next CIA director hit a snag Tuesday as a Republican senator threatened to delay the nomination until the Obama administration provides answers on the deadly assault in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose opposition helped sc... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1805788-gop-senator-threatens-delay-cia-nomination.html 2013-01-08T21:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1805166-obama-digs-fight-hagel-brennan-picks.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon and anti-terrorism chief John Brennan as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hagel and Brennan, in separate Senate confirmation heari... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1805166-obama-digs-fight-hagel-brennan-picks.html 2013-01-08T03:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1804218-reset-obama-gop-drawing-battle-lines.html President Barack Obama is heading toward bruising fights on Capitol Hill on multiple fronts even before second-term Inauguration Day festivities fade. Battle lines are forming in the Senate over his latest national-security team selections and in both chambers over his proposal to raise the government's borrowing limit. And an expected major White House ... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1804218-reset-obama-gop-drawing-battle-lines.html 2013-01-07T21:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1805124-obamas-cia-pick-chose-spycraft-priesthood.html WASHINGTON (AP) — John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a recruiting ad for the CIA. Now, after years of poring through intelligence, trekking with Mideast tribesmen and overseeing some of America's most controversial and lethal counterterror missions, he's pursuing a calli... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1805124-obamas-cia-pick-chose-spycraft-priesthood.html 2013-01-07T21:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1804844-hagel-nomination-unnerves-israel.html JERUSALEM (AP) — President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next U.S. secretary of defense is causing jitters in Israel, where some circles view the former Nebraska senator as unsympathetic or even hostile. Hagel's positions on Israel's two most pressing foreign policy issues — Iran's nuclear program and relations with the Palestinians — ap... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1804844-hagel-nomination-unnerves-israel.html 2013-01-07T19:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1803374-obama-taps-hagel-pentagon-brennan-cia.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Republican misgivings, President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him "the leader our troops deserve." He also chose White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. Controversy surrounds both choices, but th... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1803374-obama-taps-hagel-pentagon-brennan-cia.html 2013-01-07T18:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1804426-obama-taps-homeland-security-aide-to-head-cia.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has tapped White House homeland security adviser John Brennan as his nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. Obama on Monday appeared with Brennan in the East Room of the White House to name him as his pick to succeed former CIA chief David Petraeus, who resigned in November after admitting to an affair wi... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1804426-obama-taps-homeland-security-aide-to-head-cia.html 2013-01-07T17:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1800620-obama-round-natl-security-team-week.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama may round out his new national security leadership team next week, with a nomination for defense secretary expected and a pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency possible. Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska is the front-runner for the top Pentagon post. Acting CIA director Michael Morell and Obama ... Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1800620-obama-round-natl-security-team-week.html 2013-01-05T04:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1781670-obama-nominates-kerry-secretary.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, one of Washington's most respected voices on foreign policy, as his next secretary of state. The move is the first in an expected overhaul of Obama's national security team heading into his second term. As the nation's top diplomat, Kerry will not only be tasked wi... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1781670-obama-nominates-kerry-secretary.html 2012-12-21T21:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1781554-rallies-yemen-support-military-shake-up.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis rallied across the country Friday to support a military shake-up this week that limited the powers held by loyalists of the country's ousted leader, including his son. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's measures on Wednesday brought the military's Special Forces and Republican Guard run by ousted leade... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1781554-rallies-yemen-support-military-shake-up.html 2012-12-21T15:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1735174-obama-defense-pick-sooner-than-expected.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama could name his next defense secretary in December, far sooner than expected and perhaps in a high-powered package announcement with his choice for secretary of state, several senior administration officials tell The Associated Press. The personnel moves, coupled with Obama's coming choice for a new leader of the Ce... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1735174-obama-defense-pick-sooner-than-expected.html 2012-11-30T21:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1619700-republicans-hammer-witnesses-libya-attack.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Four weeks before the election, Republicans used a politically charged House hearing to confront State Department officials about security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya and assail the Obama administration's early response to the killing of the ambassador and three other Americans there. GOP lawmakers refused to accept the department's e... Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1619700-republicans-hammer-witnesses-libya-attack.html 2012-10-10T21:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1621022-us-counterterrorism-chief-libya-to-probe-attack.html TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — President Barack Obama's counterterrorism chief has discussed last month's killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya with the country's leaders. John Brennan is in Tripoli as part of the investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month, where Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed along with three other Americans... Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1621022-us-counterterrorism-chief-libya-to-probe-attack.html 2012-10-10T15:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1620802-us-official-meets-with-libyan-president-attack.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the president's chief counterterrorism adviser has met with Libya's president and discussed ways that Libya can better help the United States track down those responsible for the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi last month, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. John Brennan, assistant to the president for home... Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1620802-us-official-meets-with-libyan-president-attack.html 2012-10-10T14:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1553334-draft-order-seeks-to-improve-us-digital-defenses.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is preparing an executive order with new rules to protect U.S. computer systems, after Congress failed earlier this summer to pass a cybersecurity bill. The provisions include voluntary standards for companies, a special council run by the Homeland Security Department and new regulations covering especially vital systems, according ... Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1553334-draft-order-seeks-to-improve-us-digital-defenses.html 2012-09-10T19:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1525726-obamas-juggle-job-fighting-to.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to keep his job as he does his job, President Barack Obama assured the nation Tuesday that his administration was capably ready for a menacing Hurricane Isaac. And then he climbed aboard his helicopter and went searching for votes. Obama's swift pivot illustrated the president's juggle of governing and campaigning — and that neith... Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1525726-obamas-juggle-job-fighting-to.html 2012-08-28T20:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1511910-nypd-muslim-spying-led-to-leads-terror-cases.html NEW YORK (AP) — In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday. The Demographics Unit is at the heart... Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1511910-nypd-muslim-spying-led-to-leads-terror-cases.html 2012-08-21T11:02:00Z