Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview Wednesday that taxpayers have “gotten their money’s worth” out of the $787 billion stimulus program that Congress passed during the depths of the recession.
He argued that money invested in both private and public-sector initiatives has saved as many as 2 million jobs, and said, “I don’t think [...]
Software and computer companiessuch as Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. aregearing up to fight an Obama administration plan to curboffshore tax avoidance.
The Business Software Alliance, a Washington-based tradegroup that represents technology companies, said it wouldeducate policy makers on how the proposal would hurt U.
Former Vice President Cheney says his successor, Joe Biden, is “dead wrong” about terrorist threats facing the United States. Biden says Cheney is “misinformed.”
Biden struck first, declaring that Cheney’s attacks on Obama’s commitment to fighting al-Qaida ignored the facts.
Highly partisan public skirmishes between President Barack Obama’s White House and Cheney have become standard fare.
Vice President Joe Biden and hispredecessor, Republican Cheney, squared off on the Sundaytelevision talk shows over whether President Barack Obamasadministration is keeping the nation safe from another terroristattack.
Obama is fighting al-Qaeda with a vigor like its neverseen before, Biden said on NBC.
Dueling television interviews Sunday pitted Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. against his predecessor over national security issues.
Cheney criticized the Obama administration for approaching the fight against terrorism as a law enforcement issue, and said he found it strange that Biden was taking credit for Iraq considering he and the president opposed the policies that [...]
Pingponging across the airwaves, Vice President Joe Biden and predecessor Cheney bickered Sunday over terror trials and interrogations, credit for success in Iraq and the long-running effort to contain Iran’s nuclear program.
Highly partisan public skirmishes between the Obama White House and Cheney - the result of the former vice president’s unusual public criticism on [...]
Vice President Joe Biden rejected assertions by Cheney on Sunday that the Obama administration was soft on terrorism and waterboarding should have been an option for the suspect in an attempted Christmas Day airline bombing.
Cheney, a chief architect of former President George W. Bushs counterterrorism policy and a harsh critic of President Barack Obamas [...]
Former Vice President Cheney says he disagreed with the Bush administration’s release of prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center and with the decision to subject terrorists to criminal courts.
Obama administration officials have responded to Republican-led criticism of their handling of terrorism suspects in part by pointing to similar actions by the administration of [...]
The Obama administration appears increasingly unsure what to do with professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after officials indicated they are reconsidering not just where he should go on trial, but whether he should face civilian or military justice.
Trying Mohammed in military court would mark a further political retreat from Holder’s announcement last year [...]
The Obama administration, after weeks of controversy over its proposal to hold a civilian terror trial in New York, gave ground Friday and revived the possibility of using a military tribunal to try professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Trying Mohammed in military court would mark a further political retreat from Holder’s announcement last year [...]
