Bill Clinton Frees US Reporters From Kim Jong-Il's Clutches [Reporters In Peril]
Bill Clinton went on over to North Korea, met the crazy dictator there, and won: North Korea has pardoned Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee for their slanders and calumnies.

Laura Ling & Euna Lee Return Home To The US, To Their Families: PHOTO
Happy, Happy Day today!! Yesterday we learned that President Bill Clinton made his way to North Korea to meet with their supreme leader Kim Jong-il to orchestrate the pardon and release of two jailed US journalists , Laura Ling and Euna Lee , who were sentenced to 12 years hard labor on trumped up charges of trespassing and have been incarcerated for the past 4 months. Happily we learned late yesterday that President Clinton , Ling and Lee had left North Korea and were already making their way...

Freed journalists home in US after NKorea pardon: PHOTO
Two American journalists jubilantly reunited with family and friends early Wednesday upon returning to the United States with former President Bill Clinton , whose diplomatic trip to North Korea secured their release nearly five months after their arrests. The jet carrying Euna Lee and Laura Ling , reporters for Al Gore 's San Francisco -based Current TV, and Clinton arrived at Burbank 's Bob Hope Airport at dawn. Clinton met with communist leader Kim Jong Il on Tuesday to secure the women's...

Al Gore Welcomes Euna Lee, Lisa Ling Home
Former Vice President Al Gore welcomed home the two American journalists who had been detained in North Korea. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were pardoned by Kim Jong-il on Tuesday after former President Bill Clinton made a surprise trip to the nation to negotiate their release. The journalists were arrested in March while on a reporting trip for Current TV, the media outlet founded by Gore. "It speaks well of our country that when two American citizens are in harm's way that so...

Bill Clinton and Freed Journalists Leave Korea: PHOTO
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and formerly imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have left North Korea and are bound for Los Angeles.

North Korea Pardons Imprisoned Journalists
Good news from North Korea: Imprisoned journalist Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been pardoned by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. That means that

The Wall Street Journal On Clinton's Successful Trip To North Korea: PHOTO
In the wake of Bill Clinton's successful trip to North Korea to secure the release of jailed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, some Republicans couldn't wait to express their hearty congratulations on a job well done: You get the idea. And perhaps realizing that their rightwing brethren were sounding a little harsh about the safe return of two American citizens who had been imprisoned by a branch of the "Axis of Evil," the Wall Street Journal editorial page decided to be a little more...

Laura - Ling 'Thrilled Beyond Words' By Sister's Release: PHOTO
Revered U.S. newswoman Lisa Ling is "thrilled beyond words" following the release of her journalist sister Laura from a detention facility in North Korea. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton persuaded North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to grant Ling and her colleague Euna Lee a special pardon during a trip to North Korea on Tuesday (04Aug09). Ling and Lee spent five months in captivity after reportedly illegally crossing the Chinese border with North Korea, where they were preparing a report about...

Bill Clinton leaves North Korea as journalists are released
Two US reporters held in North Korea's notorious labour camps are to be released following the intervention of former president Bill Clinton.

Steve Bing Flew Bill Clinton To N. Korea
So the former prez could negotiate the release of those two detained U.S. journalists. According to AP, Clinton flew to North Korea on movie producer/director Bing's private jet. Since it's currently illegal for American planes to fly to North Korea, Bing had to iron out details with the U.S. government over several days.

Bill Clinton Used Vast Web of Business Contacts to Secure Journalists' Release
Former president Bill Clinton's central role in the return of two journalists detained by North Korea has once again cast a spotlight on his vast web of financial and political contacts, a network that troubled senators who weighed whether to confirm his wife as secretary of state.

ESPN to Staff Tweeters: Back Away from the Keyboard
ESPN throws a flag on staff Tweeters. August 05 Newspaper Rolls Out After Town Waits 166 Years An Alabama town gets a newspaper after waiting 166 years August 05 (3) At Current TV: Joy, and More Attention The mood was overjoyed Tuesday at the headquarters of Current TV, an upstart cable channel that was thrust into the news this year by the detainment of two of its journalists in North Korea. The two journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were pardoned by the North Korean government Tuesday after...

Freed Journalists Return Home - Pictures: PHOTO
Here is the moving moment when Laura Ling and Euna Lee were reunited with their families at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, CA. Euna Lee and Laura Ling walked off the plane to an emotional reunion with their family members. A crying Lee hugged her 4-year-old daughter and husband as Ling shared an embrace with her husband, parents and sister Lisa Ling. The two journalists had been held prisoner in North Korea since March after reporting from the border of North Korea and China, in June they were...

How Bill's Trip Came About
It is hard to imagine a stronger signal of Bill Clinton's celebrity status than North Korea's explicit demand that they would release the two jailed American journalists provided he come visit. Back-door dealings for their release began sometime in the spring, when the U.S. started pressing the North Koreans via the Swedish ambassador. Eventually, the prisoners' families were allowed to regularly speak with them on the phone. During a conversation in mid-July, the North Koreans conveyed their...

BILL'S H'WOOD BLOCKBUSTER
WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's triumphant return from North Korea with two rescued US journalists had Hollywood written all over it -- from the Burbank airport to the big-time producer who...

White House OK'd Clinton mission only with caution - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – The White House approved Bill Clinton 's high-stakes rescue mission only with caution, intent that North Korea not benefit on the world stage. Yet officials now suggest it could mark a fresh start with the volatile regime. The freeing of two Americans on the former president's trip came with no strings attached, the Obama administration insisted Wednesday, and any move to break a stalemate over the reclusive dictatorship's nuclear weapons will have to come from Pyongyang....

Bolton Decries Release Of Euna Lee And Laura Ling
Euna Lee and Laura Ling are safe at home and in the warm embrace of loved ones and it's hard to feel bad about this. But, since Bill Clinton has a hand in their release, someone's got to step up and naysay the effort, and predictably, that task has fallen to former UN ambassador and noted rage-walrus John Bolton , who says the "Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama." Of course, holding Lee and Ling as...

Kim Jong Platform Shoes (Photo!)
Kim Jong Platform Shoes - Now that Bill Clinton has met with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il, successfully convincing him to release US reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, we can all talk about Kim Jong's platform shoes. Kim Jong Il, an insecure leader who feels the need to puff his hair up in order to appear taller and less unintimidating, wears platform shoes. In case you didn't know it already (We've known this for a while, folks), Kim Jong is insecure and needs to wear shoes that add up to 6...

US journalists return home from North Korea with Bill Clinton
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two US journalists freed after 140 days in captivity in North Korea, have returned home with Bill Clinton to a tearful reunion with their families in Los Angeles.

Bill Clinton went to N. Korea and laid his mack down: VIDEO
Embedded video from CNN Video The second black President couldn’t get it done, so they had to call up the O.G. How gangsta is that? Yo, there is nobody else in the United States government (that isn’t military) that coulda got those journalists any smoother. It so reminds me of the Jaime Foxx stand up when he was jokin about Bill talkin to Osama:

VP DEBATE SPECIAL: Bill Clinton Makes the Case For Joe Biden
Clinton says there’s no better VP choice to help repair our relationships around the world than Joe Biden. It’s hard to argue with Bill on that one.

Obama Bores His Way to Victory
Disagreements over Tuesday night's debate winner seem to be of degree, not of kind, with Obama crowned the victor. The debate was mostly a snooze, but Obama delivered another cool performance, while McCain’s cornpone humor mostly fell flat. Blogger Alex Massie calls it "a no-score draw … And so, because of that, Obama, leading in the polls, won." The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait raves, "I have never seen a stronger performance than the one Obama gave tonight." After being criticized in p

Lisa Ling on Sister Laura: Shes 'Really Anxious' to Eat Fresh Food: PHOTO
TV journalist Lisa Ling , along with the husband of her newly freed sister Laura Ling , spoke candidly Wednesday about the condition of the journalists on their first day back home from North Korea. Lisa Ling described her sister as being "exhausted," revealing what she's looking forward to: "She said she's really, really anxious to eat fresh fruit and fresh food. She was telling us how there were rocks in her rice…she's just anxious to eat fresh food. I know that there will be a sushi...

Euna Lee & Laura Ling Home & Healthy: PHOTO
-Photo by Getty Images- Such wonderful news for the two U.S. journalists who were finally released from N. Korean captivity earlier this week. Euna Lee and Laura Ling returned home Wednesday, where they shared a tearful reunion with their families. The women, who were held against their will for over four months and sentenced to 12 years hard labor , are in remarkably good shape . "[Laura] seems like she's in pretty good physical health so we're very happy about...

North Korean Detainees Released!!!: PHOTO
Hooray!!! Laura Ling and Euna Lee , the American journalists detained in North Korean, have finally been pardoned by leader Kim Jong Il. The release was announced during a visit by Bill Clinton , who traveled to Pyongyang hoping to secure the freedom of both reporters. The journalists were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for illegal entry into North Korea and engaging in "hostile acts." Lee has a 4-year-old daughter and husband at home whereas Ling is also married and sister to...