According to US Secret Service’s secret report from 2003, the White House security has been breached 91 times since 1980 by autograph hounds, publicity seekers, unstable personalities and others.
The document, the most complete accounting of recent Secret Service security breakdowns, includes officers mistakenly admitting to the White House grounds a family in a minivan, a man believed to be a delivery driver, and a woman previously known to agents after she had falsely claimed a …

A couple from Virginia crashed on Tuesday the White House state dinner, the Secret Service that is supposed to protect the President of the United States, are investigating, how the uninvited people could breach security at what’s supposed to be the most guarded place on Earth.
The Secret Service are now investigating their own security procedures after determining that the socialite couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into the White House dinner …

The White House and military officials are leaning toward sending more than 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan, Fox News reports.
Officials said that US President Barack Obama will not announce his decision until after he returns from his upcoming trip to Asia and stressed that no final decision has been made, even in private.
But the plan under serious consideration would split the difference between troop requests made by General Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama held a private meeting on yesterday, during which the two discussed Iran’s nuclear ambitions as well as stalled Middle East peace talks, and Obama reaffirmed America’s “strong commitment” to Israel’s security.
“The President reaffirmed our strong commitment to Israel’s security, and discussed security cooperation on a range of issues,” said a statement issued by the White House after the one hour and forty minute closed-door session …

After a brief “war”, waged by the administration of US President Barack Obama against the representative of American free media, the Fox News channel, the network confirmed that Fox News’ executive Michael Clemente met with Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday.
There were no details given about the meeting.
The war started because Fox News refused to act like a poodle for the White House – as other mainstream media have behaved – and the Obama administration …

During his first nine months in office, US President Barack Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings, the Washington Times reports.
High-dollar fundraisers have been promised access to senior White House officials in exchange for pledges to donate $30,400 personally or to bundle $300,000 in contributions ahead of the 2010 midterm elections, according to …

The website of the White House has been converted to open source and is now based on Drupal content management system.
Although the website looks the same, the back-end is totally different and the existence of a large open source software community developing and supporting the code makes it more secure, the Inquirer reports.
The portal says that the fact that the normally paranoid US government has shifted such a high-profile website to open source is a …

Since the Nobel Peace Prize is worth about $1.4 (£899,000) and it’s a “Foreign Official Gift”, the money has to be retained by the US Government, New Majority reports.
“The Nobel Committee has created a pretty little problem for White House counsel Greg Craig this morning,” the website says. “The value of the gift is $1.4 million. Technically, it’s a “Foreign Official Gift,” so it has to be retained by the US government.”
The website says that …

US President Barack Obama is prepared to accept a role for the Taliban in Afghanistan’s political future in a major shift of policy towards the Islamic radicals who are attacking US and British troops, the Daily Telegraph reports.
As he assesses a request from his top commander in Afghanistan to dispatch another 40,000 troops to fight the Taliban, he is also “inclined” to send only as many as needed to keep al-Qaeda at bay.
There is believed …

US President Barack Obama told Congressional leaders yesterday that he would not substantially reduce American forces in Afghanistan or shift the mission to just hunting terrorists there, but he indicated that he remained undecided about the major troop buildup proposed by his commanding general, The New York Times reports.
Meeting with leaders from both parties at the White House, Obama seemed to be searching for some sort of middle ground, saying he wanted to “dispense with …

US President Barack Obama bowed to Chinese pressure and snubbed the Dalai Lama as he prepares for a Sino-US summit in Beijing next month, The Times reports.
Tibet’s spiritual leader arrived in Washington yesterday on his first visit since Obama’s inauguration. For the first time since 1991 he will not be received at the White House. The Dalai Lama will eventually meet Obama, but not until the President returns from the Beijing meeting.
American officials have insisted …

US President George W. Bush’s former speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals that Bush considered his successor Barack Obama unfit for the White House and predicted that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be a disaster for the GOP, Newsmax reports.
“After one of Obama’s blistering speeches against the administration, the president had a very human reaction: he was ticked off,” Latimer writes in his forthcoming book, “Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor”. “He came in one day …

The Obama administration said on Tuesday that the families of two reporters imprisoned in North Korea had asked former President Bill Clinton to travel to Pyongyang to seek the women’s release, the AP reports.
A senior administration official said the families were joined in the request by former Vice President Al Gore.
The official said the former president’s mission did not include any discussions about issues beyond the release of Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, both journalists …

Former US First Lady Jackie Kennedy had a passionate four-year affair with Bobby Kennedy, the brother of her late husband, according to a new book.
The Telegraph reports that Jackie was so in love with Bobby, that when he was shot during his presidential campaign in 1968 it was her – not his wife Ethel – who instructed doctors to turn off his life support machine.
Ethel was aware of the affair but chose to ignore it, …

It was indeed a shock yesterday to learn that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has announced her resignation. No reason for the resignation, 18 months before it’s due, was given, and the only thing former running mate of John McCain said was that she was free to pursue “a higher calling”.
Palin posted this message on her Facebook page, and her spokesman confirmed the message was authentic.
She also said that she was “now looking ahead and how …

Washington Post writes that Barack Obama’s staff found computers with “six-year-old” Microsoft software in White House, although they’re used to Apple machinery and software:
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers …