Has Obama Found Secret to Beat Romney?

WASHINGTON (AP) — There have been 143 security breaches or attempted breaches at facilities secured by the Secret Service in the last 10 years, according to a lengthy House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report critical of the agency released early Thursday.

Washington (AFP) - A homeless US army veteran who jumped a fence and ran into the White House with a knife had more than 800 rounds of ammunition in his car, a court heard on Monday.

Two U.S. Secret Service officers are under investigation and have been removed from President Barack Obama’s detail following allegations of misconduct, according to The Washington Post. The allegations do not appear to involve a direct breach of Obama’s security, but rather sexually-related misconduct, recalling previous scandals that have cast a spotlight on the service and its traditionally male-dominated culture.

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service sent three agents home from the Netherlands just before President Barack Obama’s arrival after one agent was found inebriated in an Amsterdam hotel. The three agents were benched Sunday for “disciplinary reasons,” said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan, declining to elaborate. Donovan said the incident was prior to Obama’s arrival Monday in the country and did not compromise the president’s security in any way.

Just when we thought the absurdity that marks every single day of Obama's reign could not possibly be surpassed, we learned that 4 hours (3 hours and 47 minutes to be precise) after the US president vowed to sign a new law banning bulk data collection by the NSA (named, for purely grotesque reasons, the "USA Freedom Act"), the Obama administration asked the secret Fisa surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six m

WASHINGTON — The White House Thursday defended its review of allegations that a volunteer with the president’s advance team spent a night with a prostitute in Colombia during preparations for a 2012 summit. A White House spokesman, Eric Schultz, said that former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler reviewed the events in “an impressive, thoughtful and thorough way” and found no wrongdoing by the volunteer. She “looked at these allegations and found there was nothing to them,” he said.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais / FilePresident Barack Obama pets the family dog Bo, a Portuguese water dog, outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washi