
(CNN) – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is offering the White House a deal: His party's support on closing Guantanamo Bay for a deal to try self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others in military tribunals.
The deal would reverse a plan by the Obama administration to try the suspected terrorists in a civilian court. There is steadfast support on both sides and time for debate is running out. Our Susan Candiotti has the report.
Read more: White House considers military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
(CNN) – A new political ad is asking Attorney General Eric Holder to name DOJ staffers who have represented terror detainees in the past.
Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill say that's a fair question. But on the other side, legal experts and politicos, both Republicans and Democrats, are calling it a witch hunt. Our Jeanne Meserve has the AM Original report.
Washington (CNN) - The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an air traffic controller at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport brought his young child to work and allowed the child to communicate with planes, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
"Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are not controlling air traffic," the FAA said in a statement. "This behavior is not acceptable and does not demonstrate the kind of professionalism expected from all FAA employees."
However, Dave Pascoe, owner of liveatc.com, a Web site where the recording of the air traffic communications is posted, told CNN he believes the incident is "ridiculous" and has been "blown out of proportion."
In the recording, a child can be heard saying "Jet Blue 171, cleared for takeoff."
A man is then heard telling the plane, "Here's what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school."
The pilot chuckles and says, "Wish I could bring my kid to work." The same pilot later tells the child he did an "awesome job."
During the recording, which is dated February 17, the child also speaks to an apparent Air Mexico flight.
The source confirmed the incident to CNN. A second controller who was supposed to be in charge at the time "should be making sure that things like this don't happen," the source said. FULL STORY
(CNN) – 911 calls can show us how lives were saved, and sometimes how they could have been saved. Now, several states are considering laws that would keep the public from hearing the recordings.
Does a caller's right to privacy trump your right to hear it?
Susan Howley, spokesperson for the National Center for Victims of Crime, supports banning the release of the calls. David Cuillier, chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists' Freedom of Information Committee, says releasing emergency calls can do a public service. They debated the issue with us on Monday's American Morning.
A controversial billboard campaign has sparked a debate over abortion and race. The billboards feature a picture of a black infant with the message: "Black children are an endangered species."
Some 80 billboards are now up in the Atlanta area. The groups behind them say abortion clinics target black women and are, in effect, threatening the African-American population.
Catherine Davis is the director of minority outreach at Georgia Right to Life, which co-sponsored the billboards. She and Dr. Artis Cash, founder of Shreveport's chapter of the National Action Network, joined us on Wednesday's American Morning.
The FBI confirms it is now investigating a Pennsylvania student's stunning claim that he was spied on in his own home by school administrators using a remotely-activated webcam.
15-year-old Blake Robbins was one of 2,300 students at Harriton High who took home a school-issued laptop. Now the boy's family claims the school used that laptop to spy on Blake and accuse him of doing drugs.
The school maintains any webcams activated were only done so on laptops that were reported lost, missing or stolen. The Robbins family has filed a civil suit.
To break it all down for us we were joined on Tuesday's American Morning by Paul Callan, a criminal defense attorney and a professor of media law at Seton Hall University.
Read more: FBI probes school spycam allegation

