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World and Nation

Obama to nominate new deputy secretary of energy

By David E. Sanger Jul. 9, 2014

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is nominating Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, the National Security Council’s top nuclear proliferation and defense policy official, to be deputy secretary of energy.

World and Nation

White House on defensive over prisoner swap

By Charlie Savage and David E. Sanger Jun. 6, 2014

WASHINGTON — The White House argued on Tuesday that the “unique circumstances” presented by the opportunity to return Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl gave President Barack Obama the authority to lawfully bypass a federal statute requiring the Pentagon to notify Congress a month before he transferred the five Taliban detainees necessary to complete the deal.

World and Nation

Report: Transparency in online data collection needed

By David E. Sanger and Steve Lohr May. 2, 2014

WASHINGTON — The White House, hoping to move the national conversation on privacy beyond data harvesting by intelligence agencies to the practices of companies like Google and Facebook, released a long-anticipated report on Thursday that recommends requiring private companies to release information they gather from their customers online.

World and Nation

U.S. tried to build a social media site in Cuba, failed

By David E. Sanger Apr. 4, 2014

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged Thursday that it had attempted, and failed, to build a Twitter-like social media site in Cuba but insisted that it was part of the Agency for International Development’s effort to encourage political discussions, not a covert program to overthrow the government.

World and Nation

Obama worried about effects of waging cyberwar in Syria

By David E. Sanger Feb. 25, 2014

WASHINGTON — Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured a sophisticated cyberattack on the Syrian military and President Bashar Assad’s command structure.

World and Nation

NSA devises radio pathway into computers isolated from web

By David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker Jan. 15, 2014

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.

World and Nation

As US weighs spying changes, officials want data sweeps to go on

By David E. Sanger Nov. 5, 2013

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has told allies and lawmakers it is considering reining in a variety of National Security Agency practices overseas, including holding White House reviews of the world leaders the agency is monitoring, forging a new accord with Germany for a closer intelligence relationship and minimizing collection on some foreigners.

World and Nation

Accusation of spying on Merkel puts Obama at crossroads

By David E. Sanger and Mark Mazzetti Oct. 25, 2013

WASHINGTON — The angry allegation by the German government that the National Security Agency monitored the cellphone of Chancellor Angela Merkel may force President Barack Obama into making a choice he has avoided for years between continuing the age-old game of spying on America’s friends and undercutting cooperation with important partners in tracking terrorists, managing the global economy and slowing Iran’s nuclear program.

World and Nation

Kerry’s comments on Syria mark a shift over strike

By David E. Sanger Sep. 10, 2013

WASHINGTON — When Secretary of State John Kerry dangled for the first time on Monday actions that President Bashar Assad of Syria could take to avoid a military strike, it seemed an acknowledgment that Congress, America’s allies, and the Russians were all looking for an off-ramp for what a week ago seemed like inevitably military action against Syria.

World and Nation

Iran’s supreme leader rejects direct talks with US

By David E. Sanger Feb. 8, 2013

WASHINGTON — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected any idea of bilateral talks with the United States on Thursday, in a speech in which he seemed to dismiss the views of Iranian officials — including the country’s foreign minister — who had advocated for such negotiations.

News

Obama nominees in step on light footprint

By David E. Sanger Jan. 9, 2013

WASHINGTON — With the selection of a new national security team deeply suspicious of the wisdom of U.S. military interventions around the world, President Barack Obama appears to have ended, at least for the moment, many of the internal administration debates that played out in the Situation Room over the past four years.

World and Nation

Iran said to complete underground nuclear enrichment plant soon

By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad Oct. 26, 2012

WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials from several countries say Iran in recent weeks has virtually completed an underground nuclear enrichment plant, racing ahead despite international pressure and heavy economic sanctions in what experts say may be an effort to give them leverage in any negotiations with the United States and its allies.

World and Nation

Iranian officials offer plan to end nuclear crisis

By David E. Sanger Oct. 5, 2012

WASHINGTON — With harsh economic sanctions contributing to the first major protests in Iran in three years, Iranian officials have begun to describe what they call a “nine-step plan” to defuse the nuclear crisis with the West, by gradually suspending the production of the uranium that would be easiest for them to convert into a nuclear weapon.

World and Nation

Nuclear report on Iran puts Israel in a box

By Jodi Rudoren and David E. Sanger Aug. 31, 2012

JERUSALEM — For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday offered findings validating his long-standing position that while economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation may have hurt Iran, they have failed to slow Tehran’s nuclear program. If anything, the program is speeding up.

World and Nation

Signs found that Iran is speeding up work on nuclear program

By David E. Sanger Aug. 24, 2012

WASHINGTON — International nuclear inspectors will soon report that Iran has installed hundreds of new centrifuges in recent months and may be speeding up production of nuclear fuel while negotiations with the United States and its allies have ground to a near halt, according to diplomats and experts briefed on the findings.

World and Nation

Iran offers inspectors ‘full supervision’ of nuclear program

By David E. Sanger Sep. 6, 2011

WASHINGTON — Iran on Monday made its first counterproposal in two years to ease the confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, offering to allow international inspectors “full supervision” of the country’s nuclear activities for the next five years, but on the condition that the mounting sanctions against Iran are lifted.

World and Nation

Bigger Osama bin Laden raid unit braced for fight with Pakistanis

By David E. Sanger May. 10, 2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.

World and Nation

US flights over nuclear plant gather crucial data

By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad Mar. 18, 2011

WASHINGTON — The first readings from U.S. data-collection flights over the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan show that the worst of the contamination has not spewed beyond the 18-mile range of highest concern established by Japanese authorities, but there is also no indication that another day of frantic efforts to cool nuclear fuel in the reactors and spent fuel pools has yielded any progress, according U.S. government officials.

World and Nation

Leaked cables show a guessing game over North Korea

By David E. Sanger Nov. 30, 2010

WASHINGTON — Over an official lunch in late February, a top South Korean official confidently told the U.S. ambassador, Kathleen Stephens, that North Korea would fall “two to three years” after the death of Kim Jong Il, the country’s ailing leader, Stephens later cabled Washington. A new, younger generation of Chinese leaders “would be comfortable with a reunited Korea controlled by Seoul and anchored to the United States in a benign alliance,” the diplomat predicted.

World and Nation

Obama’s economic view raises hackles of many major US allies

By David E. Sanger Nov. 12, 2010

SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring global economic growth ran into resistance on all fronts Thursday, putting Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.

World and Nation

Obama presses Chinese prime minister to let currency rise

By David E. Sanger Sep. 24, 2010

UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama increased pressure on China on Thursday to immediately revalue its currency, devoting most of a two-hour meeting with China’s prime minister to the issue and sending the message, according to one of his top aides, that if “the Chinese don’t take actions, we have other means of protecting U.S. interests.”

World and Nation

China supports sanctions against Iran’s nuclear activity at summit

By David E. Sanger and Mark Landler Apr. 13, 2010

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama secured a promise from President Hu Jintao of China on Monday to join negotiations on a new package of sanctions against Iran, administration officials said, but Hu made no specific commitment to backing measures that the United States considers severe enough to force a change in direction in Iran’s nuclear program.

World and Nation

Iran Issue Veiled Threats as Nuclear Talks Begin

By David E. Sanger Oct. 20, 2009

Iran opened two days of nuclear talks with the United States, Russia and France on Monday with veiled public threats that it could back away from an agreement to ship more than three-quarters of its stockpile of nuclear fuel out of the country, unless the West acceded to Iranian demands to provide it with new fuel.

World and Nation

Obama Pushes To Update Global Rules on Nuclear Arms

By David E. Sanger Sep. 25, 2009

President Barack Obama moved on Thursday to tighten the noose around Iran, North Korea and other nations that have exploited gaping loopholes in the patchwork of global nuclear regulations.

World and Nation

At Chrysler, Diverse Partners With Many Goals Cooperate

By David E. Sanger May. 1, 2009

Before Chrysler can start building cars that more Americans want to buy, it will have to overcome considerable challenges.

World and Nation

U.S. May Drop Key Condition For Iran Talks

By David E. Sanger Apr. 14, 2009

The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a long-standing American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions.

World and Nation

U.N. Says Iran Enriched More Uranium Than Reported

By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger Feb. 20, 2009

In their first appraisal of Iran’s nuclear program since President Obama took office, atomic inspectors have found that Iran recently understated by a third how much uranium it has enriched, UN officials said Thursday.

World and Nation

Speech Spanned History But Tiptoed Around Bush

By David E. Sanger Jan. 21, 2009

Though couched in indirect terms, Barack Obama’s inaugural address was a stark repudiation of the era of George W. Bush and a vow to drive the United States into “a new age” by reclaiming the values of an older one.

World and Nation

At U.S. Prodding, Switzerland Destroyed Kahn Network Data

By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger Aug. 25, 2008

The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern in May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers suspected of helping smuggle nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.

World and Nation

Shift in Pakistan Could Curtail Attacks on Terrorist Suspects

By Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger Feb. 22, 2008

American officials reached a quiet understanding with Pakistan’s leader last month to intensify secret strikes against suspected terrorists by unmanned aircraft launched inside Pakistan, senior officials in both governments say. But the prospect of changes in Pakistan’s government has the Bush administration worried that the new operations could be curtailed.

World and Nation

Shorts (left)

By David E. Sanger Feb. 15, 2008

The Bush administration has agreed to turn over to international inspectors intelligence data it has collected that it says proves Iran worked on developing a nuclear weapon until a little more than four years ago, according to American and foreign diplomats.

World and Nation

Petraeus, Viewing Gains as Fragile, Is Wary of Pullbacks

By David E. Sanger and David S. Cloud Sep. 7, 2007

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has told President Bush that he wants to maintain heightened troop levels in Iraq well into next year to reduce the risk of military setbacks, but could accept the pullback of an initial brigade beginning in January, according to senior administration and military officials.

World and Nation

Top U.S. Commander Warns Against Hurried Iraq Pullout

By David E. Sanger and David S. Cloud Sep. 11, 2007

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, warned in stark terms against the kind of rapid pullback favored by the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, in a day of testimony that drove home the continuing inability of the Democrats to force a change in strategy in Iraq.

World and Nation

Iran Is Enriching Uranium on Large Scale, Inspectors Say

By David E. Sanger May. 15, 2007

Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency's top officials.

World and Nation

Pentagon Chief Gates Sought Early Guantanamo Shutdown

By Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger Mar. 23, 2007

In his first weeks as defense secretary, Robert M. Gates repeatedly argued that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had become so tainted abroad that legal proceedings at Guantanamo would be viewed as illegitimate, according to senior administration officials. He told President Bush and others that it should be shut down as quickly as possible.

World and Nation

Iran Expands Nuclear Effort In Defiance of United Nations

By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad Feb. 23, 2007

In open defiance of the United Nations, Iran is steadily expanding its efforts to enrich uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Thursday.

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