October 5, 2016
Twelve days after 9/11, on September 23, 2001, CIA Islamabad station chief Robert Grenier received a telephone call from his boss, George Tenet. “Listen Bob,” Tenet told him, “we’re meeting tomorrow morning at Camp David to discuss our strategy on Afghanistan. How should we begin?” Over the next three hours, Grenier laid out the U.S. […]
October 5, 2016
Twitter’s vice president of finance, Todd Morgenfield, has left the company to join Pinterest, after just a year in the role.
October 5, 2016
RENO, Nevada — Donald Trump mocked politicians for mispronouncing “Nevada” during a rally here Wednesday night —while he was mispronouncing it himself. In accentuating what he thought to be the correct pronunciation — a tangential riff ad-libbed into a comment about the state’s drug problem — he was actually saying it incorrectly. “Heroin overdoses are […]
October 5, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — Tim Kaine’s own post-debate spin: even his wife thought he was interrupting Mike Pence too much, but he succeeded in embarrassing Donald Trump and maybe sparking some infighting in his campaign. “At some points, I felt like both he and I were debating Donald Trump,” Kaine said. “I can’t imagine that made the […]
October 5, 2016
Hacking threats have prompted 25 states so far to seek out the Obama administration’s help in assessing vulnerabilities and fending off attacks to their voting systems headed into Election Day, a Department of Homeland Security official told POLITICO on Wednesday. DHS won’t name the specific states that have reached out for federal aid — that’s […]
October 5, 2016
Mike Pence’s steady debate performance helped calm the nerves of Republicans feeling anxious about the current presidential campaign — and cemented their view that he remains a national-level candidate if the election goes badly for the GOP in November. The Indiana governor laid out the type of policy portfolio that Republicans seem likely to adopt […]
October 5, 2016
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are at risk of being elbowed out of the news cycle by a powerful hurricane churning toward the Southeast coast and threatening to barrel into two of their most important battlegrounds: Florida and North Carolina. But the Clinton camp is refusing to be completely shut out of the conversation: her […]
October 5, 2016
After last night’s vice-presidential debate, Republicans have looked wistfully at Mike Pence and wondered what could have been. For at least one GOP member of Congress, Pence would be the panacea to his fears about Donald Trump. “Oh yeah in a heartbeat, in a second,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger said in response to a question from […]
October 5, 2016
Anytime a network microphone is live, disinformation can pour into the nation’s living rooms. It poured freely Tuesday night during the vice presidential debate, as Mike Pence repeatedly disinformed viewers about the positions taken and the statements made by his running mate, Donald Trump—at times flatly denying Trump had said things he clearly had said. […]
October 5, 2016
Bill Weld compared the gaffe-prone presidential contender on his ticket, Gary Johnson, to Abraham Lincoln in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. “He kind of — don’t laugh. He kind of reminds me in many ways of Abraham Lincoln, another great truth-teller of his time,” Weld said. He was defending Johnson’s previous blunders, […]