Dinl After nailbiter, Senate moves to extend U.S. borrowing authority
WASHINGTON - General Motors  new CEO Mary Barra testified Tuesday before a House committee to answer questions about why GM sold cars with an ignition switch that failed to meet its own specifications, and then failed to heed the recommendations of engineers to fix the part. Members of Congress asked Barra why it took GM a decade to recall cars with the faulty switches, which the company now links to 13 deaths and dozens of crashes.In op stanley uk ening comments, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton said he was determined to get to the bottom of what went wrong with this recall.  Today s hearing is very personal to me, because I come from Michigan - the auto state.                                                                                                                                                  GM s PR, legal crisis: Expert weighs in on what s next for Mary Barra, company          02:48                                                                        We want to know who knew what when, and Miss Barra .. that includes you,  said committee vice chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. In her opening statement, Barra said,  Today s GM will do the right thing. That begins stanley cup  with my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected by this recall, especially the families and friends who lost their lives or were injured. I am deeply sorry.          Barra also said GM has hired noted compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg to evaluat stanley quencher e how the company will respond t Stya Obama: Romney tax plan is  Robin Hood in reverse
I ve been asked several times today how the Wikileaks documents compare with the Pentagon Papers.  I e-mailed Sandy Ungar, the President of Goucher College, who as a reporter for The Washington Post covered the Pentagon Papers case and subsequently wrote a book about it.  Here s what he thinks.There are some superficial similarities between the Wikileaks documents and the Pentagon Papers.  For one, The New York Times studied both sets of documents for several weeks before publishing.  For another, both sets were released on one president s watch but mainly affected his predecessor s reputation.  The Pentagon Papers were rele stanley thermos ased on Nixon s watch but dealt with Lyndon Johnson s conduct of the war.  The stanley termoska  Wikileaks documents appeared on Obama s watch but most of them were created during the Bush presidency.  But that s where the similarities end.The Wikileaks documents represent a low level view of the Afghan war - reports, sometimes accurate, sometimes not, filed from the field that made their way up the chain of command.  The Pentagon Papers were a high level view of the Vietnam  kubki stanley War - an account of decisions and policies made in Washington.                                          More fundamentally, the Wikileaks documents do not radically alter our understanding of the war.  They document what we ve known for years - not enough troops, too many civilian casualties, a corrupt and inefficient Afghan government and an uncertain ally in Pakistan.  The Pentagon Papers revealed tha

Dinl After nailbiter, Senate moves to extend U.S. borrowing authority
WASHINGTON - General Motors  new CEO Mary Barra testified Tuesday before a House committee to answer questions about why GM sold cars with an ignition switch that failed to meet its own specifications, and then failed to heed the recommendations of engineers to fix the part. Members of Congress asked Barra why it took GM a decade to recall cars with the faulty switches, which the company now links to 13 deaths and dozens of crashes.In op stanley uk ening comments, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton said he was determined to get to the bottom of what went wrong with this recall.  Today s hearing is very personal to me, because I come from Michigan - the auto state.                                                                                                                                                  GM s PR, legal crisis: Expert weighs in on what s next for Mary Barra, company          02:48                                                                        We want to know who knew what when, and Miss Barra .. that includes you,  said committee vice chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. In her opening statement, Barra said,  Today s GM will do the right thing. That begins stanley cup  with my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected by this recall, especially the families and friends who lost their lives or were injured. I am deeply sorry.          Barra also said GM has hired noted compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg to evaluat stanley quencher e how the company will respond t Stya Obama: Romney tax plan is  Robin Hood in reverse
I ve been asked several times today how the Wikileaks documents compare with the Pentagon Papers.  I e-mailed Sandy Ungar, the President of Goucher College, who as a reporter for The Washington Post covered the Pentagon Papers case and subsequently wrote a book about it.  Here s what he thinks.There are some superficial similarities between the Wikileaks documents and the Pentagon Papers.  For one, The New York Times studied both sets of documents for several weeks before publishing.  For another, both sets were released on one president s watch but mainly affected his predecessor s reputation.  The Pentagon Papers were rele stanley thermos ased on Nixon s watch but dealt with Lyndon Johnson s conduct of the war.  The stanley termoska  Wikileaks documents appeared on Obama s watch but most of them were created during the Bush presidency.  But that s where the similarities end.The Wikileaks documents represent a low level view of the Afghan war - reports, sometimes accurate, sometimes not, filed from the field that made their way up the chain of command.  The Pentagon Papers were a high level view of the Vietnam  kubki stanley War - an account of decisions and policies made in Washington.                                          More fundamentally, the Wikileaks documents do not radically alter our understanding of the war.  They document what we ve known for years - not enough troops, too many civilian casualties, a corrupt and inefficient Afghan government and an uncertain ally in Pakistan.  The Pentagon Papers revealed tha