Nov 29 Watch Third Massive WikiLeaks Disclosure Creates Ripple Worldwide The publication of secret State Department cables by the WikiLeaks website sparked strong reaction from U.S. and foreign governments as candid insights and intelligence were made public. Gwen Ifill reports. Continue watching
Nov 29 Obama's Call for Pay Freeze Stirs Up Debate on Federal Workers President Obama's call to freeze federal workers' pay for two years marks the biggest moment yet in an escalating debate over whether government employees are overpaid and often protected from the worst of economic conditions -- or whether… Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch How Will New WikiLeaks Revelations Affect Diplomatic Candor? Judy Woodruff speaks to former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Hadley about the impact of the release of confidential diplomatic documents by WikiLeaks. Continue watching
Nov 29 Worldwide Reaction to WikiLeaks Document Drop Reaction to U.S. State Department documents released via the website WikiLeaks began seeping out Monday, including a claim of vindication from Israel and a shrug-off from Italy. Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz: "I don't see any damage. Quite… Continue reading
Nov 29 Clinton: U.S. 'Deeply Regrets' WikiLeaks Documents Embarrassment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that the United States "deeply regrets" any disclosure of classified information due to whistle-blower website WikiLeaks' releasing more than 250,000 U.S. State Department cables to media organizations. "There is nothing brave about sabotaging… Continue reading
Nov 29 Digging into Wikileaks' 'CableGate' This weekend's massive Wikileaks document dump contains -- according to Wikileaks -- "251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain." With that in mind, here are a… Continue reading
Nov 29 Citing Deficit, Obama to Freeze Pay for Federal Workers Except Military President Obama on Monday afternoon announced a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal employees but not military personnel, saying the move was needed to help bring the $1.3 trillion budget deficit under control. The White House says the freeze would… Continue reading
Nov 29 Doesn't Social Security Pay For Itself, Since it's Taken Out of My Paycheck? By Elizabeth Shell The following email comes via the PBS Ombudsman: Name: Phyllis Koch Question: I am constantly frustrated as I listen to your interviewers and commentators talk about deficits/budgets/where to cut and always including Social Security. Social Security is always mentioned… Continue reading
Nov 29 The Morning Line: Obama 2.0 Launches As the tryptophan wears off and before the reality of divided government takes hold in January, President Obama enters a week chock full of opportunities to demonstrate how the post-shellacking Obama presidency will present itself. In the four… Continue reading
Nov 29 Doesn't Social Security Pay for Itself, Since It's Taken Out of My Paycheck? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: The following email comes via the PBS Ombudsman: Name: Phyllis Koch Question:… Continue reading