LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We would never presume that it would be slam-dunk. We will work very hard on this case to prosecute it, just like we would any other case.”
District Attorney Carol Chambers, on the case against James Holmes, who is accused of opening fire at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, killing 12 and wounding 58 Article, 1A
Senator says leaks from White House
WASHINGTON - The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information.
“I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a World Affairs Council forum.
The California lawmaker said she was certain that President Barack Obama, who receives a daily intelligence briefing, isn’t disclosing secret information, but she was uncertain about others at the White House. “I don’t believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it,” she said.
Republicans have criticized the disclosures, arguing that members of the Obama administration were intentionally leaking classified material to enhance the president’s reputation in an election year.
Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two attorneys to lead the investigation into who leaked information about U.S. involvement in cyber-attacks on Iran and about an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound airliner.
Vilsack: Farm-bill drought aid a must
DES MOINES, Iowa - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack pushed Monday for Congress to act on a farm bill that would reinstate expired disaster assistance programs for farmers experiencing the worst drought in nearly seven decades.
Programs authorized in the 2008 farm bill have expired and won’t be renewed unless the House approves a bill passed by the Senate. Vilsack pushed the House to consider the bill, which has passed out of its Agriculture Committee, before its August vacation.
“There is nothing more important to rural America and nothing more important to producers, farmers and ranchers in this country than action on this bill,” Vilsack said.
Mom of girl, 10, takes polygraph
IOWA CITY, Iowa - After submitting to a second polygraph test, the mother of one of two missing Iowa cousins said Monday that the results should prove that she had nothing to do with their disappearance and allow investigators to focus their attention elsewhere.
Misty Cook-Morrissey said a state agent asked during Monday’s polygraph whether she had anything to do with the abduction of her daughter Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and niece, Elizabeth Collins, 8.
She said she was asked whether she knows where they are and if she could take investigators to them. She said she answered “no” to those questions.
“It went well,” she said.
“They can rule me out of their book and move on to something else.”
The girls have been missing since they went for a bike ride July 13 in Evansdale, where their bikes were found near a lake.
Black Hawk County Chief Deputy Rick Abben said investigators are getting better cooperation from her and her husband than last week.
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