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Dick Cheney's charges that the country is less safe because of the way Barack Obama has handled national security matters don't hold water, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday. "To suggest that somehow we have become much less safer because of the actions of the administration, I don't think that's borne out by the facts," Powell said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

Some Democrats had dubbed the possibility of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing last year as a "dream ticket," though the notion that the two once-bitter primary rivals would team up always seemed far-fetched.

The Obama administration forgot the first rule in a crisis: Never send Vice President Joe Biden to calm people's fears.

The Obama Administration has selected Gil Kerlikowske as its new Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday.